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The stuff we eat has a great impact on our wellness, this is true for health foods, but it’s also true for junk foods and unhealthy beverages that are more engineered for taste and creating lifelong loyalty than providing any sort of nutritional value. Below, Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center goes over a few…

Sleep is an important part of wellness, an opportunity for your body to rest, recharge and cleanse itself from the toxins of daily life. When we don’t get enough sleep we can reduce our overall effectiveness. Lack of sleep can affect your jobs, our ability to drive, not to mention reduce our quality of life…

When it comes to recovering after a workout or a strenuous week of work and exercise, it’s important to remember that we don’t necessarily have to be immobile on our “day’s off.” Athletes insist that one cannot overtrain, but one can under-recover. Active recovery is a fairly new concept but is something that active people…

When we hit the gym and engage in extracurricular activities, somehow the back, spine, and the entire core area of the body can get ignored. Have you ever seen a bicyclist with really built legs, but they seem a little soft around the midsection? It’s because that cyclist hasn’t been engaging their core as much…

Have you ever heard the expression “you’re only as healthy as your spine”? Chances are you have not, but it’s a popular phrase used in the chiropractic community. The truth is, your spine has a lot to say when it comes to the mind/body connection. When your spine is out of whack, so is your…

Massage therapy has a whole slew of health benefits, some you might be fully aware of, others you might not be so privvy to, and that’s okay, because Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center is here to break down a few of the benefits that massage therapy brings to our patients. Below we discuss a…

At Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center, we like to make suggestions to our patients about how they can live more active, healthy lifestyles outside of their chiropractic care visits with us. A big part of that is not only maintaining a healthy diet and rigorous exercise routine, but it also means engaging in the…

Time to break out of your winter slump! We sit a lot more during winter. And sitting is habit forming- whether you like it or not, the more time you spend motionless, the more your muscles are training to stay habitually contracted. In short, the more you sit, the more likely you are to keep…

The importance of shoulder mobility Shoulders are indispensable; we use them for all tasks great and small, before we even reach the gym. This article will highlight the importance of maintaining both shoulder stability and mobility: the stronger your shoulders are, the more you can do; the more mobile your shoulders are, the more you…

2.5 hours of exercise a week?! Where can you find that kind of time? In the back of your head you know you need to be getting at least 2.5 hours of exercise a week. Let’s break it down: 2.5 hours becomes 150 minutes; you begin to realize that you can hit this goal 2 minutes…