Category Archives: Health and Wellness

Through video games, we can all shoot the game-winning shot or lead a SEAL team into enemy territory, seemingly without risk of injury or death. But hours of screen time and excited gameplay are not without their physical consequences. Gaming injuries from overuse or sedentary lifestyle are increasing exponentially as a whopping 66 percent ofContinue reading “Chiropractic Provides a 1UP for Gaming Injuries”

I don’t know a room where a houseplant doesn’t improve its general ambiance. Some, like my cousin, take their fondness for indoor plants arguably too far, condensing limited shelf space near-weekly with newly adopted potted greens and flowers. Studies going back to the mid-20th century have revealed good news for anyone as houseplant-obsessed as myContinue reading “Why You Need an Indoor Houseplant Friend”

If you are like me, a popping from the wrist is an hourly occurrence. In my case, I can trace the popping directly back to a wrist injury when I was younger. However, oftentimes there is no specific cause for the popping sound in someone’s wrist. If it happens enough, one may wonder about anyContinue reading “The Annoying Wrist Pop and How Chiropractic Treats It”

Your brain fog, daily mood swings, and that hard-to-lose extra weight may be a result of your glucose intake. Low glycemic diets seek to resolve these problems by ridding the body of high-glycemic ingredients, such as complex carbohydrates and sugar, to reduce blood sugar fluctuations. Many popular diets like the Atkins, ketogenic, paleo, and manyContinue reading “Health Benefits of a Low Glycemic Diet”

Lips, next to our eyes and nose, are the most noticeable feature of our faces. This past year, with mouths covered in public, many have neglected vital lip care maintenance. As we move out of a mask-wearing society, however, lips (and lip health) are going to once again become increasingly important to our overall appearance.Continue reading “Stop Paying Lip Service to Lip Health”

Air pollution exposes people to particulate matter that includes black carbon, nitrogen oxides, ozone, and sulfur dioxide, which are known to cause a range of deadly diseases. This is extremely concerning considering that 9 out of 10 people are breathing unhealthy air worldwide according to the Environmental Defense Fund. A few tips can partly mitigateContinue reading “Tips to Stay Healthy in Polluted Air”

A steaming cup of tea can be the perfect, lightly caffeinated start to any morning. While all non-herbal tea is made from the same plant, not all tea produces the same effects. Differences in processing determines whether tea leaves become green, black, or oolong teas. Green tea is one of the most beneficial tea stylesContinue reading “The Top 3 Health Benefits of Green Tea”

As a periodic asthma sufferer, I understand the desperation and fear that comes with not being able to breathe fully. Even in non-emergency asthmatic times, our breath influences much about our lives from our immune system strength to our metabolism and stress levels. The inability to take a full, deep breath may be influencing muchContinue reading “Free Your Breath from Asthma With Chiropractic”

Of all the diseases that come with age, the scariest have got to be ones involving the brain or nervous system. Scarier still, many of these neural diseases seemingly appear without warning and are progressive in nature. By the time symptoms have appeared, the diseases have often reached a point of mental and physical degression.Continue reading “Parkinson’s Disease Finds a Treatment in Chiropractic”

An often-overlooked complication of following a strict fitness routine is going on dates without betraying the discipline of your new healthy self. Greasy popcorn-filled movies or heavy sophisticated dinners may sound intimidating enough to avoid dates altogether. However, there are healthy dating alternatives that don’t include forced fitness or fatty foods.        Continue reading “10 Healthy Date Alternatives”