Four Possible Signs Your Baby Should Be Seen By A Chiropractor

Four Possible Signs Your Baby Should Be Seen By A Chiropractor

10 Things You Can Do To Help Our Planet Without Sacrificing Your Current Lifestyle

Happy Earth Day!  Here are 10 things you can do to help our planet without sacrificing your current lifestyle! By Dr. Nicole Rothman www.DrNicole.com

1. For any product you use, make it a non-toxic one and choose brands that use recycled materials for their packaging. Everything we spray, wash or clean with gets into our air, water and soil. You're going to buy laundry detergent, body wash and cleaning supplies, might as well choose greener ones. 
2. Bring your own bags when you go shopping - especially food shopping. Most of these reusable bags cost about $1. Most of mine I have gotten free from various companies promoting themselves. Put them right back in your trunk so you always have them for the next time you go shopping.If you forget and get plastic bags in the store, make sure to recycle them.  Next time you go shopping bring them with you and drop them off to be recycled, most stores have a drop-off right near their entrance.
3. Recycle and reuse anything you possibly can! Most communities make it easy for us and even provide free recycling bins. Make it a rule in your home and kids love helping with this. Reuse glass bottles and jars for food storage instead of plasticware. No need to throw these away! They can even be used as a flower vase! Don't throw things away that can be donated to a local charity. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Get creative.
4. Water your plants with leftover water from cooking or unfinished cups of water. Find small ways to conserve water in your home. The water you save can really add up! Many studies show it is actually healthier to shower every other day rather than every day.  This conserves tons of water a year.  Make sure to wash the body parts that release toxins daily - you know which ones they are - underarms, groin...
5. Don't litter.  We would think everyone knew this by now but people constantly throw garbage out of their car windows, including gum.  There is a fast food restaurant near our office and I am shocked to see people actually leaving their garbage right in our parking lot. Try your best to leave things in their natural state (not just the beach - even parking lots should be unlittered!)
6. Make your own water instead of buying bottles of water.  Get reusable glass or BPA free plastic water bottles and fill them daily with your own water system. www.water-revolution.com/drnicolewater for great ways to make your own water in you home - making your own water save tons of money too and is healthier than any water you can buy in a bottle. Water bottles are a major problem for our landfills. Please recycle them if you do use them.
7. Purchase from companies that care about sustainable practices. If you were to choose between 2 types of chips for example, pick the one who grows all of their food sustainably and that truly cares about human health. Sustainable farming matters and so does buying food in it's most natural state- not man-made.  So GMOs are a bigtime NO. Organic is best for you and our planet too! Pick local if you can familiarize yourself with the local farm that you are getting your produce from. Sustainable farming practice are gentler to the earth. Supporting those companies is a great way to help our planet.
8. Stop wearing perfume!  Perfume contains synthetic chemicals and is toxic to you and everyone you come into contact with.  It is a pollutant to our planet. Switch to essential oils.  There are great businesses that will even mix your own custom scent just for you! This may be a bit of a lifestyle change if you are used to dousing yourself everyday but worth the switch.  Perfumes are known to disrupt your hormones, have been connected to headaches and even cancer. Just like second hand smoke from a cigarette, you impact our air quality and also affect the people around you.
9. Choose a non-toxic mulch for your yard. Buy ones made without chemicals and dyes. Earth friendly eucalyptus mulch even wards off bugs naturally.
10.  Pick plants for your home that do well in your region's environment and therefore require less water and care.  Here in florida, orchid and bromeliads and great for beautifying and never need to be watered because they live off the humidity in the air. Most of them come in a lovely planter so you don't even need to plant them! I like to tie them to my palm trees.  Once they attach themselves to the tree you can remove the twine. Plants create oxygen for us and help replenish our ozone layer. Plant as many as you can!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!
Dr Nicole Rothman
Rothman Family Chiropractic
399 B Winchester Park Blvd
Boynton Beach, FL 33436

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Healthy Halloween - The Challenge

Halloween is an annual celebration traditionally held on October 31st. Halloween has religious roots but generally has become accepted as a fun holiday with both kids and adults celebrating by wearing costumes, attending parties and most importantly, by trick-or-treating.  

Trick-or-treating was made popular many years ago, with the earliest national news documentation in the United States being in the 1940s.  Traditionally, after the sun has set, children dress up in costumes and go door to door in their community collecting treats from their friendly neighbors. Popular treats given to trick-or-treaters consisted of fruits and even sweet treats such as sucking candies. These days kids are bombarded with sugar all year round. The sneakiest way it gets into them is by high fructose corn syrup.

According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, since 1950, corn sweeteners in our diets have multiplied by eight times! That is, we get eight times more corn sweetener in our diet today than we did sixty years ago. But why?

HFCS is cheap to make and easy to use.  While sugarcane requires a hot climate to grow in, corn can be grown almost anywhere and we have tons of it here in the US, it is also subsidized by our government. HFCS’s liquid form also makes it cheaper to transport, since it can be piped into trucks with less loss than granular sugar. That liquid state also makes HFCS easier to blend with other ingredients than sugar and acts as a preservative as well as a sweetener. 

Most brands of soda sold in the U. S. contain HFCS. It’s also a common ingredient of cereals, candies, crackers, and ice cream. Even healthy-seeming whole wheat breads sometimes contain the sweetener. Ketchup contain HFCS, barbeque sauce, canned fruits and even some canned soups. You will also find it in salad dressings, frozen dinners, pizza and more. It literally is everywhere!

So when Halloween first became popular, giving candy out was a special occasion. Nowadays the average person in the US is consuming 60-70 POUNDS of sugar per year and close to 50 lbs of high fructose corn syrup per year! We also have the highest rate of cancer, heart disease, diabetes in adults and obesity in both adults and children than ever before in the history of the United States. Ask yourself the question..does our country appear to be getting healthier or sicker? Most would say sicker.  

High fructose corn syrup and sugar are known to cause obesity, diabetes, cancer, inflammation, learning problems, sleep problems and tooth decay...so why are we still eating it.  The even bigger question is why are we letting our kids eat it and why are we glorifying it with every holiday that comes along??

Some companies have come out with organic lollipops and treats.  They are better - no artificial colors, flavors, preservatives and no HFCS.  But each pop still contains 17 g  of refined inflammatory sugar! Yes it's better, but what else can we do?

Each year since I can remember I have limited my kids to 10 pieces of Halloween candy. After going around the neighborhood, they dump all their candy onto the floor and start the tedious process of choosing the 10 pieces.  They usually eat 2 or 3 and feel crummy so they put it away. They forget all about it and a week later I toss it! You can also use the "Switch Witch" idea that I was given by one of my practice members.  After the kids pick their 10 pieces, when they go to bed at night the Switch Witch comes and takes the rest of the candy and leaves a book, puzzle or toy behind in exchange!

This year I really changed gears. In the past I had given out pretzels and other alternative snacks, even those organic candies. This time I decided to ditch the food altogether and instead gave out glow bracelets to all the kids as they came around for their treats.  Only 2 teens scoffed at the lack of candy but overall the kids were really happy about their glowing gift and the parents were totally grateful. One less candy! So if that's what we really want and that's what makes us happy as parents (because we know what's best for our kids), isn't it time we share out knowledge with our kids and teach them the value in healthier choices? It all begins in the home and it all starts with you. Have no fear, the Wellness Warrior is here!

My ongoing frustration...This year I went on a mission to try to make some changes in Halloween in my community.  As a holistic wellness expert and chiropractor, I regularly teach people how to eat healthier so I didn't think this would be such a difficult task. First, I held a workshop in my office during the lunch hour to teach parents how to have a healthier Halloween and how to teach their kids to make better choices on the holiday and all year long. 3 speakers were lined up, a pediatric dentist, a family wellness coach and myself. The entire office was decorated and a table was set up for people to bring their kids with them to color pumpkins. I advertised to my own practice members and all over Facebook, created events in the local paper's website. A total of 2 people showed up! (A mother and her son). The mother was extremely impressed with the wealth of information she received from the 3 professionals,and her little boy learned some cool stuff too.  She also could not understand why more parents didn't show up. Yesterday we had a healthy Halloween party in the office which was also promoted everywhere, natural foods, fresh fruits and veggies, kids activities and glow bracelets... About 35% of my practice is children - not one came in for their adjustment! It was bizarre! Don't people want a safe and healthy environment where their kids can learn to choose something healthy, or does everyone just continue to follow the herd of parents who just let their kids go sugar crazy on Halloween? Don't people want new strategies to create better health or are they still going by the old paradigm of waiting for a crisis to hit before make necessary changes to have better health. They are already celebrating at school, you know they are going to trick or treat in the neighborhood, but why not show them there is a better way? Health is our #1 asset. We must start teaching them now. Sugar and HFCS are everywhere and they are toxic poisons that causes disease.  So after the trick or treating ended last night, the kids had their friends over. I whipped out a veggie tray for them to snack on. They were so happy they forgot about their candy and went to town on the fresh veggies. Success! 

Be brave, Dr. Nicole