According to Cancer.org, after only 8 hours of your last cigarette, the oxygen levels in your blood increase. After 12 hours, your carbon monoxide blood levels drop to normal. After 2 days of not smoking, you’ll have heightened senses of smell and taste. 3 days later, your bronchial tubes relax and breathing may feel less labored than before. During the first 9 months smoke free, your shortness of breath will improve, and the tiny cilia hairs in your lungs will regain function, allowing your body to clean your lungs. After 1 full year, your risk of heart disease is about half compared with a smoker. After 15 years of being smoke-free, your risk of a heart attack falls to the same as someone who has never smoked.
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Stress and Lower Back Pain
Health statistics have shown that 80% of the population will experience lower back pain at some point in their life. Often this is re-occurring and at times may be debilitating. Many factors lead to lower back pain, but the most common one is emotional stress. In most cases, lower back pain occurs during or after a stressful event or emotional stress. It is important to note that all emotions are physical and that lower back pain is telling you to change something in your life. If the spinal system is flexible and well adjusted, lower back pain due to stress is usually eliminated.
What is Medication Non-Adherence?
Medication non-adherence is when a patient doesn’t take a medication, either willfully or inadvertently, as prescribed by their healthcare provider. Studies have shown that 50% of Canadians do not take their prescription medications exactly as prescribed. The reasons for this vary from a lack of information, to being afraid to take medication or believing it doesn’t work, to an inability to follow instructions that may be too complex. Each year, medication non-adherence results in many hospital admissions. Your pharmacist can help provide you with the information you need to make the right decisions about when and how to take your medications.
Acupuncture & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a physiological disorder that can result from being exposed to a traumatic event. The disorder results in several different symptoms including anxiety, irritability, insomnia and flashbacks. A recent study into the efficacy of acupuncture as an adjunctive treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has shown promising results. Acupuncture for PTSD is administered by stimulating specific acupuncture points in the ears. These points are responsible for controlling particular brain areas that help control nervous functioning as well as mitigate stress levels. Many soldiers who have been victims of PTSD after violent wars are being treated with acupuncture to provide successful results. The acupuncture treatment also saw secondary benefits for those treated, such as a decrease in depression and pain.
Meet Your Practitioner
Meet Julie Rajkumar. Julie is passionate about helping others unlock and transform themselves through overcoming and healing pain, negative patterns, programming, belief systems, challenges, judgement, fear, suffering and deep-rooted blocks. When these blocks are in alignment, you will be living a life of purpose, joy, good health, love and abundance. Julie uses the principles and holistic methods in Forensic Healing modality, bringing in a unique approach using the science along with her natural intuitive gifts and a lifetime of learning and training. Julie’s Forensic Healing practice provides treatments for many genetic and hereditary conditions, physical illnesses, chronic pain, negative thought patterns, depression and trauma, and soul healing and personal empowerment.
Clean Eating Recipe: Green Bananas
GREEN BANANAS:
Into a blender mix:
1 heaping tablespoon (20 gr) of Enerex Botanicals PURE GREEN ENERGY. Fatigue-Zapping Pure Energy Power.
500 ml of unsweetened Coconut milk.
1 fresh Banana.
1 Tbl of Hemp Seed Oil or crushed hemp seed.
1 cup of ice.
Blend and enjoy.
Clean Eating Recipe: Winter Fruit Salad
Fruit salads aren’t just for warmer weather. Enjoy this delicious raw winter salad, chock-full of health benefits! Ingredients: 1 Tbsp. lemon juice, 3 apples cut into 1-inch cubes, 1/8 tsp. cinnamon, 1 cup red grapes (seedless), 1 tsp. maple syrup, 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds, 1/2 cup almond yogurt, 1/2 cup raw shredded pumpkin. Directions: Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for 15 minutes to set. Serve and enjoy!
Book Club
Hack Your Anxiety: How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do. What if anxiety is not a monster to be tamed, but a resource to be tapped? In this revolutionary book, Dr. Alicia Clark recognizes anxiety as the unsung hero in the path to success and happiness. It can become the motivating force that will lead to a better you, and The Anxiety Advantage aims to restore anxiety to its rightful place as a positive resource. Reclaim your anxiety as a powerful energy source, ad bring yourself peace, growth and success.
Let Hybrids take you further!
Hybrids are built with next generation quality. They run well in the cold, which is so important if you’re living in a Winnipeg winter. They also heat up better than electric cars to keep you and your family toasty warm on the chilly days ahead. And you’ll be able to enjoy a peaceful ride in the quiet interior. They also have better fuel efficiency than many cars before it.
Overall Hybrids offer more for less and with Christmas approaching, who doesn’t want to save a couple bucks?
Benefits of a Removable Partial Denture
A removable partial denture (RPD) replaces one or more missing teeth. Your denturist will personally design an RPD to help limit movement (tipping and migrating) of your natural teeth. The design will also provide even contact between teeth to allow for better grinding/chewing of your food for easier digestion. Metal partials are preferred, as they are structurally superior, thinner, and more hygienic than an acrylic partial. By replacing any missing natural teeth with an RPD, a natural appearance and speech clarity is restored, along with the ability to chew more efficiently.
Best Care for Your Needs
When do you need emergency care vs. outpatient care in a clinic or a house call?
Many patients end up in emergency frustrated by the wait. The main reasons are that there are many other people who are also very sick, or your symptoms and condition are not necessarily considered emergent. When your condition is not emergent, you will generally wait a very long time in order to see a doctor.
Try looking for care in the best setting that will serve your needs – walk-in, family doctor, emergency, or house call.
