by admin on February 25, 2010
If losing weight has been on your list of New Years resolutions for as long as you can remember, you can finally cross it off your list next year with the new and exciting products we are now offering at San Francisco Chiropractic.
Carrying extra weight creates havoc to your health in several ways. It’s been said that five pounds of fat requires an extra mile of blood vessels to supply, increasing blood pressure, placing more stress to your heart and accelerating its wear and tear. So you can imagine what being 20 pounds overweight can do.
Extra weight can also lead to lower back pain, hip pain, knee pain, and foot pain. As much as chiropractic can do to help you stay flexible, it cannot fix back and joint pain if the back and joints have to support 20-50 extra pounds every day. You’ve got to lose the weight if you want the pain and stiffness to go away for good.
One of the reasons people find it difficult to lose weight is toxin build up in the gut and tissues. Toxins refer to environmental chemicals we absorb over our lifetime, whether through breathing, eating, drinking, and skin contact. Examples include aerosol sprays, copier toner, carpet fumes, benzene at the gas pump, artificial preservatives and colorings in our food. Some of these environmental toxins get deposited in our fat cells and interfere with normal fat metabolism.
Nutritional cleansing is a logical step in reversing this life-damaging process. The program offered at our clinic is the Isagenix 30 Day Cleanse, doctor supervised. Isagenix is a leading brand in nutritional cleansing, detoxification and weight loss. The strategy involved a combination of meal replacements; specially formulated whey-based protein shakes, an aloe vera based cleanse solution and natural fat burning accelerator supplements. The great thing about this program is that it is very regimented (routine is easy to follow), the products themselves taste great, and the effects are noticed as early as 4-5 days after starting to program.
I’m very excited to offer nutritional cleansing at my clinic as it will serve as a wholistic approach to reducing the effects of chronic pain and encouraging healthy living.
If you or someone you know is in need of losing weight, call me at (415) 627-9077 and we can schedule an in-office consultation.
Dan Perez, DC
by admin on February 23, 2010
Do you know that butter is good for you, and that you shouldn’t be eating margarine?
The word has been out for some time now that margarine has the dreaded “trans-fats” which have been implicated in heart disease and free-radical damage, and have become one of the “radioactive” food ingredients mentioned in the media, along with high fructose corn syrup. It is now common to see the phrase “No Trans Fats” on various food labeling. Some schools have outright banned foods containing trans fats.
But some people haven’t gotten the word, and continue to eat margarine fearing the rich, saturated fats of butter. But here’s the thing: butter is good for you, especially if it comes from grass fed cows. You can recognize butter from grass fed cows by its deep, yellow color. Regular butter (grain or hay fed dairy cows) is more closer to a white color.
Butter is rich in short and medium chain fatty acids, including even small amounts of lauric acid. It is rich in antioxidants as well, in the form of beta carotene, vitamin E, and selenium. It is one of the best sources of vitamin A. Because living grass is richer in vitamins E, A, and beta-carotene than stored hay or standard dairy diets, butter from dairy cows grazing on fresh pasture is also richer in these important nutrients. The naturally golden color of grass-fed butter is a clear indication of its superior nutritional value. (Searles, SK et al, “Vitamin E, Vitamin A, and Carotene Contents of Alberta Butter.” Journal of Diary Science, 53(2) 150–154.)
Another benefit of grass fed butter is that it has a more favorable Omega 6 to Omega 3 fatty acid ratio. The standard American diet is too heavy on the Omega 6 fatty acids, which come primarily from food fried in vegetable (corn) oil and consuming grain-fed meat (chicken, beef, pork). High ratios of Omega 6 to Omega 3 can lead to heart disease.
Lastly, grass fed butter is high in conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Research and anecdotal evidence shows that CLA can act as a deterrent for tumor growth, and can reduce body fat in people who are overweight.
So yes, go on ahead and load up on that rich, tasty butter. The butter I personally buy for my family is Kerry Gold Irish butter, and can be found at your nearest Whole Foods grocery store.
Dan Perez, DC
San Francisco Chiropractor
