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August 31, 2009
Hi ,
The most common complaint I hear from patients regarding their medical doctor is that no matter how many complaints they may have, if their lab tests are normal, the doctor does nothing. We know that something is wrong when we feel bad. That is the whole point to bad feelings - to tell us that something is wrong. Usually it is not that the doctor is unsympathetic. It is simply that he either does not know what to do or that what is wrong is not bad enough to warrant using something as dangerous as the drugs or invasive procedures to try to fix the problem. Medicine is a big problem - big solution system. It is there to save your life if you are in a life-threatening situation.
Medicine was never designed to provide health, only to avert death and disability. Personally I am glad that they are there to do that. But if I am looking for health I look in different directions. I don't wait until death or disabilities are at my door. I take health-promoting actions.
Our body is extremely sensitive to tiny imbalances and acts to correct or compensate immediately. If you are extremely aware, you can feel your body making many of these tiny adjustments. Unfortunately we are trained from birth in this culture to ignore our body signals. They are not convenient. It begins with being told not to cry and continues with liberal doses of the powerful dissociative drug, sugar. If that does not work then a whole army of psychoactive drugs and pain killers is offered to us to get us to shut up until the lab tests get bad enough to initiate action. Is it any wonder that we accept the doctor telling us nothing is wrong when we feel bad? It is just one more parent telling us not to be a crybaby. By the time we are adults we have to be on the verge of death before we notice our body telling us something is wrong. This does not promote health.
Staying healthy is inconvenient. Staying healthy requires both work and sacrifice. Most people ignore the gradual decline in their health until the ill health becomes more inconvenient than doing something about it. Even then they will simply seek out more powerful ways to block the body signals of ill health rather than do the work and make the sacrifices necessary to rebuild their health. Even in my own life it is a constant battle between my head agendas and my health needs. Do I go to the gym or write this article for the newsletter this morning? Oops, the article won. Or yesterday at the State Fair - do I eat the free ice cream that is being given away knowing there are healthier choices (I ate the ice cream)? What about my son's birthday party later this afternoon - barbecue ribs and potato salad? Choices.
Life happens. We have to live life fully to become complete as people. Social needs and work needs will get in the way of our health needs. That is just the way it is. How do we compensate for this reality to keep ourselves as healthy as possible for as long as possible? We do things that specifically support our health. We have a health action plan.
If our lifestyle produces unbalanced muscle tension, we get our spine and joints adjusted and our muscles massaged regularly. If our diet is atrocious we take digestive enzymes and probiotics to support our gut, and vitamins and other nutrients to compensate for what we are missing in our diet. If we eat too much we go on diets and cleanses to bring our physiology back into line. We are too stressed at home and work so we get regular emotional support and guidance. We sit around too much so we do special exercises to maintain our muscle tone and coordination. Our brain is on overload with too much stuff so we use energetic medicine and spiritual disciplines to rebalance and re-center us.
The fuller our life is with our head agendas, the more compensatory and supportive activities we have to include in our life to be able to keep going strong.
For myself that means getting adjusted every week, a massage every couple weeks, daily vitamins, digestive aids, and specialty nutrients, regular spiritual exercises as well as physical exercise, monthly cleanses, and regular attention on my emotional learning processes. Since I don't make the best decisions all the time for my perfect health, I do a lot of health building actions to compensate. Aging only increases the need for regular health supporting activities.
How often do you need health action? One measure is how many medications and feeling dissociative drugs are you on? This includes painkillers, sugar, alcohol, tobacco, anything that changes how you feel. The more you have to use things to feel ok, the greater your need for supportive action. In my view, everyone needs a good body tune-up/adjustment every month or two. Everyone needs some fundamental nutritional support based on his or her specific needs. Most people need digestive support and cleansing, and everyone needs regular exercise. Are you taking care of yourself?
Good Journey,
David
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Health Challenge #15
Eat Protein for Breakfast
Your body has certain natural cycles built into it. One of these is the digestive cycle. Its ability to digest protein is strongest in the morning and early afternoon. For this reason
your largest protein containing meals should be breakfast and lunch. Just what kind of protein and how much will depend upon your individual constitution. Protein may mean yogurt, a protein smoothie, eggs, or even steak. If you like to start the morning with fruit then it should be a snack eaten 20 to 30 minutes before the protein meal. Fruit interferes with the protein digestion and moves through the stomach very rapidly so eat it first. Very complex carb foods like vegetables combine well with protein, but cereals do not. About the only cereal ever to consider in the morning is slow cooked oats with your protein.
Protein stimulates your brain making you more awake. Most of us prefer to be awake in the morning. Carbohydrates slow us down and make us sleepy. They are the worst foods to eat in the morning. Completely avoid breakfast carb foods like pastries, cereals, doughnuts, and other surgary foods. Most people can't tolerate them any time, and those that can would do best only using them late in the day. Avoid heavy protein meals late in the day as they interfere with good sleep. The end of the day is better for your light protein and vegetable meal or your low glycemic pasta or legume based meal.
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Whale Watch:
Unbelievable - since the wedding I have gained 24 pounds in 34 days. I would not have thought this was possible but the scale does not lie. In terms of eating extra calories I might have believed 3 or 4 pounds. I have to assume this is amazing proof of the power of allergy, stress, and inflammation reactions.
David
Announcing a new service at Fair Oaks Healing Arts
FOHAC Healthy Lifestyle Support Services
Wouldn't it be great if you had someone to hand walk you through the transition to a healthy lifestyle? Well that someone is Gypsy. She can help you figure out how to fit the Health Lifestyle into your schedule to establish a routine that works for you! She will assess your weekly schedule to find where you are "leaking" time and find a way to fit Health into your schedule with tips on:
1. How to minimize your efforts in weekly food prep work.
2. Grab and go storage ideas
3. Action plans and goal setting for gradual lifestyle changes.
She also wants to set up and facilitate an online email support group for FOHAC where participants can:
A. Share their challenges and successes
B. Share recipes, online resources, time saving tips, etc.
C. Receive weekly affirmations or tappings
D. Receive action plan reminders
E. Organize potlucks for healthy eating
F. Create a Green Fast support group for cleansing together
G. Receiving videos on strength training, balance exercises, etc
H. Receive calendar updates for local health related demos/activities
I. Organize a monthly river walk
She visualizes offering weekly reminder calls to keep you on task.
Each person would need to fill out a detailed questionnaire about his or her diet and lifestyle / routines / habits. Participants get one 10-15 minute complimentary face to face meeting with Gypsy to set up a lifestyle system. Ongoing support will be offered via email or phone.
Here is a really cool service she is considering. For a fee she will pick up your weekly produce at the Farmer's Market and bring it to FOHAC for pickup on Monday or Tuesday (possibly even home delivery for an additional fee if you live in the area). The produce would have to be paid in advance for her to be able to do this. She is even offering to prep the produce (such as leafy greens) for use during the week and can help you transform your veggies/dairy for maximum health benefits through lacto-fermentation.
Wow, what a resource! Contact Gypsy at the office on Monday or Tuesday to get started... call - 966-4714
Ouestions - if you have questions of a health or growth nature we could discuss in this newsletter, or if you have comments or ideas about a future newsletter focus please email me at:
david@fairoakshealth.com
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On the Wire
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Heart group draws hard line on sugar intake
The American Heart Association has finally publicly acknowledged that sugar is a chief cause of heart disease and suggests limiting your sugar intake to 6 teaspoons a day for women and 8 for men. This poses a major challenge to the soft drink industry as this really means no more drinking soft drinks. Their response was naturally that sugar is fine for you because all you have to do is increase your exercise to compensate. Good idea. Lets install treadmills in all the McDonalds and require everyone work out for 40 minutes before allowing them to buy a soda!
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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edible Flowers
I was thinking last week what a waste of space, water, effort, and energy my front lawn is. Why not use it for growing food? I mentioned this to a couple patients and they agreed, but told me that it is illegal to grow a vegetable garden in your front lawn. I am already pushing it by having 9 fruit trees planted in front (mostly citrus). So I started thinking what about planting edible flowers! I knew some flowers were edible and no one would fault a front lawn filled with flowers. Well, I had no idea just how many flowers were edible...check this out.
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"
~ Henry Ford
Waterbird
Now this looks like just plain fun. It is a video of a self powered water ski - how to assemble it and how to ride it. Imagine flying over water on a thin blade just by hopping up and down.
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. " ~Alexander Graham Bell
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About Dr. DeLapp
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Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.
Fair Oaks Healing
& Arts Center
Staff
Dr David DeLapp DC
Chiropractor
Ellen Flowers FGM
Spiritual Life Coach
Energetic Nutritionist
Health Care Coordinator
Susan Richardson
Office Manager
Front Desk
Gypsy Andrews
Metabolic Nutritionist
Lifestyle Support Person
Front Desk
Cucumber Feta Salad
Here is another delicious way to help you eat your 2-3 pounds of vegetables each day. We invented this for my son's birthday last week. It went great with the ribs I slow cooked overnight till the meat fell off the bones.
1 thinly sliced long English
Seedless Cucumber
2 medium, peeled, ripe
Tomatoes - chopped
3 oz julienned Rosemary
Ham slices
3 oz crumbled Feta cheese
2 Green Onions chopped
1/2 Cup Pecans
Dressing:
1/2 cup Rice Vinegar
2 Tbs Fish Sauce
2 Tsp Dr Daves Sugar
substitute
1 Tbs Basalmic vinegar
2 minced Garlic cloves
Place all the ingredients, except the onions and pecans, in a bowl and lightly toss. Sprinkle onions and pecans over top and serve.
Susan McDonald
Somatic Therapies
Catherine Cummings
Jin Shin Jitsu
Penelope Amadali
Cell Regeneration
Brenda Gustin
Craniosacral & Yoga
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