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Page 12 Minority & Small Business Week Dentures Worth Smiling About! • Professional Services • Affordable Prices • Over 20 years experience • Full & Partial Dentures • Natural Appearance Full Service Lab • Accepting Oregon Health Plan Melanie Block, L.D. D enturist 503-230-0207 200 NE 20th Ave., Suite 100 Portland OR 97232 Free parking Dr. Billy R. Flowers (above center) and his skilled sta ff are ready to help those in need. THE SPINA COLUMN TM An ongoing senes of questions and answers about Amenca’s natural healing profession Part 1. CHIROPRACTIC: For the best in natural healing, hearing is believin g . 0 : How did Chiropractic care pain and reposition the vertebra. come about? Dr. Palmer placed hi m on a table and : Spinal manipulations have pushed down on his back, perform been practiced for over 2,500 ing a spinal manipulation or “ad years. Hippocrates, the “Father justment.” He performed this ad of Medicine,” advised: “look well justment three days in a row. By the to the spine for the cause of dis third day, not only had the patient’s ease.” But modem Chiropractic back pain disappeared, his hearing came of age back in 1895. In reappeared. Today’sChiropractors Davenport, Iowa, a patient came know that the central nervous sys to Dr. D.D. Palmer complaining of tem (housed within the body’s spi back pain. This patient had also nal column) provides the energy, been nearly deaf since suffering a which governs all bodily functions. back injury 17 years earlier. Dr. Palmer noticed a bump on the patient’s back, which he sus pected was related to a dislocated vertebra. To relieve the patient’s Fostering Healthy Habits For Your Health As our children and grandchil dren go back to school, it’s a re minder of all that has changed since they departed for summer vacation. They face new classes, new books, new teachers and likely even new friends. But the back-to-school season is also a great time to introduce new habits. While the lazy days of sum mer may inspire barbeques and vis its to the ice cream truck, fall is a great time to foster healthy habits in our young ones’ everyday lives. Few A m erican s w ould be shocked to learn that our country is the most obese in the world. Ac cording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one- By making sure that the spinal column is in correct alignment. Chiropractors eliminate any pos sible interference, which would prevent the central nervous sys tem from keeping the body func tioning the way nature, intended. To find out how Chiropractic might be able to help you or for answers to any questions you might have about your health, please feel free to call us at the phone number shown below. Flowers' Chiropractic Office 2124 NE Hancock, Portland Oregon97212 Phone: (5 0 3 ) 2 8 7 -5 5 0 4 by September 21. 2011 L akky L ucas third of American adults are obese. While this statis tic is troubling, more concerning is take at home, such as cutting out the effect the obesity epidemic is sodas and other sugary drinks, to having on our children. Approxi reduce empty calories and sugar mately 17 percent of children and intake. Similarly, pay attention to adolescents aged 2-19 years - 12.5 the amount of exercise your chil million - are obese. W hat’s more, dren are receiving. Try to limit the this number has almost tripled since number of hours they spend in front 1980. of the TV, and instead, encourage Childhood obesity means a lot them to play outside and enjoy the more than a larger soccer uniform. crisp autumn air. The condition can lead to serious Unfortunately, obesity has al health complications. Obese chil ready led to further health complica dren are more likely to have high tions for some, and diet and exercise blood pressure, high cholesterol and may not be enough. In such cases, respiratory conditions like asthma. it’s important to effectively treat Obese children and adolescents also those health issues. Rest assured have a greater risk of social and that our nation ’ s biopharmaceutical psychological problems, such as researchers are hard at work every bullying and poor self-esteem, which day to develop new treatments for can last into adulthood. children with diabetes, hyperten Obese children, like obese adults, sion, high cholesterol and other dis are at a higher risk for diabetes as eases linked to obesity. well, and unfortunately, African The revolutionary drug treat Americans are at an even higher risk ments our biopharmaceutical indus than their white counterparts. 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