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The answer to this questions is "in ALL likelihood, NOT".

The World Health Organization report points to the modern diet as the cause of approximately 70% of all chonic disease (diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc).

BOYD, M.D. & KRONNER, Ph.D.  "The human genetic constitution has changed relatively little since the appearance.....of Homo sapiens about 40,000 years ago.  Even the developement of agriculture 10,000 years ago has apparently had minimal influence on our genes."

"Developements such as the Industrial Revolution, agribusiness and modern food processing techniques have occurred  to recently to allow for any evolutionary effect at all".

"The nutritional needs of today's humans arose through a multinmillion year evolutionary process...especially since the Industrial Evolution, genetic adaptation has been unable to keep up"

The western diet is killing us; not the supposed "genetic problem".  "Medicine and pharmaceutical companies are trying to convince society that disease is a genetic problem when it is CLEARLY a lifestyle problem."  CORDAIN, L.  Author of The Paleo Diet. 

• Anything Grain or Dairy is BAD...argue it all you want, but it is still bad.  If it is broken down by bacteria (yogurt or cheese) it is much easier for the human digestive tract to ingest.  Whole grain only means that IT is not as bad for you as processed grain.
• EFA:  Essential Fatty Acids.  Essential means we NEED these; our body cannot make these and we must aquire these from our diet.  Problem is, we get WAY TOO MUCH of Omega 6 Fatty Acids (vegetable derived FA's) and not enough Omega 3 (Fish oil and Flax seed oil).  The perfect 1:1 ratio is no longer present.  The average American is 12:1.  Those who have a 15:1 ratio, or greater will likely suffer from a chronic disease. YOU MUST SUPPLEMENT WITH FISH OIL.  Human populations lived near water and fish was a regular part of the diet.
•  Do not kid yourself.....Soy is not good for you.
• Buy organic. 
• Sugar is not bad, but we ingest way too much....WAY TOO MUCH. 
• Our diet and antibiotics are destroying our body's normal bacterial flora.  These bacteria help to digest many foods that our bodies cannot digest.  These bacteria also assist the immune system.
• Meat is not the enemy, but agribusiness meat is loaded with Omega 6 Fatty Acids, where grass fed meat has a much better Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio.....4:1.
• Farm raised fish are mostly fed grain based foods (cheap).....Wild, cold water fish are the best fish to consume.
• Corn is Crap.  Instead of subsidizing Organic Farms...not corn growers.
• Read the book:  "Milk:  The Deadly Poison".  I love dairy (ice cream)....but I have cut down SIGNIFICANTLY.   Stay tuned for more................................
   

“The average number of prescriptions [drugs] per person, annually, in 1993 was seven.

The average number of prescriptions [drugs] per person, annually, in 2000 was eleven.

[The average number of prescriptions drugs per person], annually, in 2004 was twelve.

The total number of annual prescriptions [drugs] in the United States now stands at about 3 billion.

The cost per year is about $180 billion, headed to an estimated $414 billion by 2011.

Pretty soon, you are talking real money.”

Generation Rx

How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies

Greg Critser

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and the only thought I have at the moment is, "new research study just out....deemed an excellent study; coffee prevents cancer, more specifically prostrate cancer.....

Many people think stressed-out, achy-back grown-ups are the only people who seek out chiropractic care. But the fastest growing group of patients for Dr. Dolly Garnecki is kids. In fact, about two million children went to a chiropractor last year alone.

"It's not scary. It's just like you feel a lot more relaxed,” said 12-year-old Pau Park.

Park, a youth soccer player, is a patient at Spinal Health and Wellness, one of a handful of clinics in Charlottesville that offers specialized pediatric treatments. His mother, Kyung Lee, fully supports the treatment.

“We feel that the chiropractic health care is really great for their immune system and just keeps everything in line,” she said.

Lee believes an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure so much that she also takes her other son, who's only 8 years old, to the clinic.

Dr. Garnecki says starting at infancy, out bodies go through a series of micro-traumas called Postural Distortion. All the little bumps along the way begin to add up over the years.

“From birth things like falling down as a kid – who doesn't fall down – to falling off your bike to minor fender benders. Over time, once you are in your twenties or thirties and that's never been checked or worked on, suddenly it just accumulates,” she explained.

Abdominal bracing can be easily taught to patients. Clinicians should have their patients explore the functional range of the lumbar spine and and find the neutral spine posture that includes a slight lordosis (the normal curve in lower back). While maintaining a neutral spine, the patient tenses muscles in 360* around the lower lumbar spine while continuing to breathe naturally. The muscles involved in this co-contraction include the transverse abdominis, internal and external obliques, rectus abdominis, quadratus lumborum, erector spinae, and multifidi. In addition, the patient should practice abdominal bracing in a variety of positions. Abdominal bracing should be maintained while adding basic core-stabilizing exercises such as the bird dog, side-bridge and curl-up. According to McGill, et al., abdominal bracing emphasizes locking the rib cage to the pelvis in order to eliminate spine twisting or torsion by transforming the involved muscles into isometric stabilizers.