tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364944872011-04-21T17:15:10.165-04:00Life approaching 30 for a husband, father, chiropractor, transplanted suburbanite and mediafile in T.O.Blogstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909766253755710650noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36494487.post-78821873179693854782008-07-18T11:41:00.001-04:002008-07-18T11:58:18.658-04:00

Ever since my daughter was 4 months old, I have spent my Wednesday mornings out of my office and with her for the morning while my wife (who runs a psychotherapy practice from our house) saw clients. For a dad who loves his work, but hates leaving my kids every morning, these Wednesday mornings became the highlight of my week. Whether it was the Zoo, Science Center, The Museum, a farm tucked

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My calves hurt. No, that doesn't really do this justice.My calves hurt, like they've never hurt before. Like someone took a screwdriver, fixed a piano, and then dropped that piano on my calves.Day 3 was lower body weights, which went really well. I had my new stopwatch (which also controls my ipod remotely- although it kind of reminds me of the 30 Rock episode where someone says that "The

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Well I have to thank my patient Theresa for introducing me to the Body For Life Challenge.Having gained more weight after the birth of child number 2, and putting myself last behind my family and all my practice members- the time came to make a change.So far, there are 4 people in my office who are participating in this program, and I couldn't be more excited.My goal is to lose 25 pounds of fat,

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Bob dylan said that the way we treat the planet is a reflection of the way we treat ourselves, and it is with this paraphrased quote in mind that I reflect about Earth Hour on Saturday evening.With great media hype, many of us turned our lights off for one hour (in my case from 8-9pm). I took that opportunity, while rocking my infant son to sleep, to reflect on what the hour meant to me, and

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Having spent the whole weekend at Lifefest, which is a wonderful show, I reflected on the vast amount of pseudo-green that was being sold to the 30,000 women in attendance.When working a trade show like that for 3 days, the reality is that your breaks and snacks tend to be the samples that are being given out by the food vendors.While the good people from Florida Grapefruit were there giving out

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While food can be positive in one dietary sense, it isn't necessarily positive in the healthy way.This weekend, we had a booth at the wonderful Lifefest show down at the Metro Convention Centre, here in Toronto.One of the major sponsors of the show, Shoppers Drug Mart, had a new organic line of products called NATIVA. Their slogan was "Good for you, good for the environment".So what products

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Like I needed a reason to like this guy anymore.Now, not only can I count myself amongst "Deadheads for Obama", but I can also call myself a chiro for obama too!My man Barack even has a policy regarding promotion of chiropractic as part of his health platform.Below are selections from the Obama statement on chiropractic, released around the Iowa caucus. I've also bolded some parts that I find

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Upon waking in the middle of the night, I found myself watching the Epic movie Ghandi.While his story is well known, and I'd see this exceptional film before, I found myself struck profoundly by his ability to touch so many so deeply. Leadership, I've heard it said is the ability to inspire others, and Ghandi had a gift that has been seen rarely in time.His ability to bring about an end to

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I'd like to take the opportunity to answer some common questions that I get asked. So with much fanfare, let me present part one in the series of Common questions chiropractors get asked. Please feel free to submit any questions of your own.Question 1) Why would someone want to have an adjustment (for those skeptics saying: I feel fine)Well, do you want to be healthy, or just not sick? If

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Is it my birthday in January? Nope, but this just makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.This is just great news all around, and a great article to see in both the popular press and peer-reviewed journals.A study conducted through the University of Toronto and the University Health Network found that the risk of a stroke following a chiropractic visit is no higher than a visit to a family

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Really? Is this a good idea?I saw yesterday on an all news channel, that the "FDA has determined that meat and dairy from cloned animals is safe".Well thank god! Where can I get some?In all seriousness, I was shocked at how ho-hum the anchor was who read this. Especially since every person or parent in my office I've told to about it, or every person who mentioned it to me was shocked and

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As I was looking for a picture of Markiska to put on my previous posting, I came upon some more stuff she's doing with the Dairy Council. And let me say that I have absolutely nothing against this woman....I just couldn't disagree more with her.Here's the press-style release that I found on a few websites:"LAW + ORDER: SVU star MARISKA HARGITAY is showing off new baby AUGUST in a new Got Milk?

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I'm watching my beloved television, when a commercial comes on with that delightful actress, Mariska Hargitay (of Law & order fame) talking about the obesity crisis in this country. How as a mother she feels we must do something about it.How did she suggest we curb the rampant obesity?Encourage your child to exercise- Great! Eat as a family- great! (I should also point out that at this point my

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I was asked to blog on the issue of chiropractic safety, as many wonder about it.Let me say this first. As someone who went through four years of Chiropractic education, and 3 years in practice, I believe now more than ever that from a practitioners perspective it is the single biggest non-issue I face.What do I mean by that? Well, the likelihood of having a serious complication from a

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I tend to write as things irritate me...it's a great motivator that gets me writing. Chiropractic is not just a modality, it's a way of life. So when we talk about being subluxation-free, it doesn't just mean spinal alignment causing nerve interference, it means addressing the physical, chemical and emotional subluxations in our lives. This means that the unsubluxated familiy tends towards

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Well, I've found my latest example of junk food that disguises itself as healthy food. The commercials for Kellogg’s All Bran Snack Bites humorously shows a guy at work telling people that his Snack bites taste great right before each of them does a "spit take" of astonishment in his face.Then the announcer sums it all up for us...."All Bran Snack Bites taste great"......like we should all be

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I was golfing with my father the MD last week, and we started with some shop-talk.Well, he commented at the bonuses he'd gotten from the government (Here in Ontario the government pays for basic sick-care). Curious, I asked him to elaborate, and discovered that MDs are being given financial bonuses for performing services such as Paps, flu shots, and routine immunizations to name a few. While I

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Have you noticed that the stuff they sell in the first half of the drug stores gives you the diseases that you need to get drugs from the back half of the store? In Ontario, they used to sell cigarettes in pharmacies, until they were moved into convenience stores. Is junk food any less dangerous or damaging than cigarettes? Isn’t food most people’s biggest addiction?

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Like so many people who grew up in the 70s and 80s, some of my fondest and strongest memories of childhood surround watching Sesame Street. I trust it. Its’ safe.So how crazy is it that a show which preaches eating healthy food now being sponsored by McDonalds!Not only that, you (or your kids) are forced to watch the ads, as they start the show off with a 30 second clip with Muppets before

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Is the food you eat healthy because of what it has or because of what it doesn’t? Some of the most famous diets have advertised being “low fat” or more recently “low carb”. Health by absence in these cases suggests that carbs or fat are bad, and that food that doesn’t have these nutrients is by default healthyLikewise, when you think about your own health level, do you measure it by the

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I was recently on an elevator that had a TV screen broadcasting the daily news and goings on in the world. One story, which caught my eye, was that Krispy Kreme donuts were blaming the low-carb diet fad on it slumping sales over the past few years. Here’s my question….. On what diet are donuts included? Were these people not eating at Krispy Kreme because of the high carb-count? I bet if

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I’ve been thinking of this term for a while to describe the trend of things that are marketed suggesting health but in fact are not healthy.Trans fats are the most recent and perhaps widespread example, but marketing companies have been working for years to keep eating food that we don’t need and which we never get tired of eating. What are the green things that these pseudo green products are

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Well, after a mere 8 months away, the time has come to get on that blogging horse (sounds sort of like a Mad libs).I have been blogging on another site, about health, and I've gotten to really liking it.So having now passed the novelty stage, and actually created a (little bit of a) habit, I want to keep the perverbial ball rolling as they say.So here goes.This blog will serve not only as a place

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I find myself wishing I had Mastercraft brand things. I love Canadian Tire!I've never been involved with a corporation before, as I've always gone down the science path, and then went into private practice. But I will say that it feels really cool to see CanTire (that's what we call it) trucks or stores all over. I feel like somehow I'm in some small way responsible for that. It's cool.

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My iPod is on the fritz. That stupid flashing file on the screen. Why has god forsaken me? To whom should I repent? Why!!??You said it Darth.My good friend Elroy is suffering in the same way I am, only he seems to actually have lost his entire library. his buddy shared this wisdom in an email that I thought I'd share with the masses here on my blog..."in fact, when it comes to music the

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Good news!I was named the new on-site chiropractor at the Canadian Tire head office at Yonge & Eglinton!I'm starting in a few weeks, and am really excited to start making a difference inside a company with so many employees.This means I'll be out of my office on Mondays seeing patients down at Cantire (that's what I get to call it now).On the office front, the hunt has officially begun for my new

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Continuing on with my purchase of ZooTV, I picked up Roger Waters’ Wall live in Berlin.ExcellenteTheatrical rock is lots of fun. What’s especially cool is the size and scope of this concert. It’s gigantic. The stage is 600 feet long, which is really long, and they had huge inflatable puppets. Plus they stopped taking tickets past 250,000 people – which is a big crowd!Plus the spectacle of the

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One of the original intentions of this blog was to comment on health issues as well as my own inane ramblings.Well there are a few things I just heard about that I wanted to wade into.First, on the good side Great Britain has announced that they’ll be banning junk food commercials during children’s programming. This is a great step forward.On the down sided I was watching some Saturday Morning

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Tourism continues!!Zoo day for Daddy and the little bear.We jumped in the car and headed to scarberia. Lots of walking today for papa bear. Plus I left the bugaboo (name brand strollers only people) at home and slinged it up for the day. lots and lots of walking. Mental note.We made visited the Americas pavilion and animals first, and had a great experience with the polar bears. It went into

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Saturday mornings I've started playing the role of tourist in Toronto. That's Daddy & Munchkin time!Last week we went to the science centre, and this week we went to the Museum. The whole week I was looking forward to the time, and we had such a blast!For a 16 month-old, the science centre gets my vote overall, but there were some things she really liked.For 17 bucks, you get a whole morning,

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Yesterday was Bob Day!!For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, it was the Bob Dylan concert at the ACC here in Toronto.This was Bob show number 8 or 9 for me, and it was a good one. I need to get out to more concerts. They're so much fun. Somthing about 20,000 people cheering and singing that gets me going.Bob played Tangled up in Blue, which is an alltime classic but which I

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Wow! what a busy week this has been.As I mentioned in an earlier post (haven't quite figured out the link thing), I got U2's Zoo TV DVD, and it rocks! As a friend would say, Cheaty Recommends!Well this got me thinking of other great music DVDs, so I thought I'd put together a list.1) The Last Waltz - The Band et al- Highlights: It makes no difference, Further on up the road, Caravan.2) Rattle

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A friend and I were talking about all the things we each had on the go, and the level of importance of those projects. We laughed at how much higher the stakes get as you get older. You start off juggling a couple of balls, and then a third, and then the bowling balls, and then the flaming ones and then chainsaws, and then sharks with laser beams attached to their heads.I also had the pleasure

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Perhaps no question has been as powerfull nor deep as this one from Homer.Likewise, why am I Roy Halliday? Is there a coincedence that they call him doctor? No, because he and I exist as the same person in alternate universes. Complicated? Yes. Tricky? You said it.... But it exists as the only plausible solution.Bear witness to what evolution has created! Perhaps we’ve started a trend?

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So tomorrow is a big day for he who moves strong. I've got an interview at Canadian Tire. No, I'm not giving up chiropractic to work in the seasonal department, but am applying to be their in-house chiropractor for the head office. I'm preparing for the big interview and am feeling great. I'll try to use the word "Mastercraft" as often as possible. Should probably keep the profanity to a

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So I was spending time on the phone today speaking with Catholic Schools about doing health and wellness workshops. Education is a big part of what I do as a Chiropractor, and there are lots of Catholic Schools around my office.Perhaps I suffer from the Woody Allen syndrome of Jewish Paranoia (a la Annie Hall)- Did you eat? no Jew? not did you but jew! Jew eat? Now while I got two different

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Well, it has happened. I am officially now the guy in that commercial as he suddenly realizes that hi is in fact older than he thought of himself....(subliminal ly-buy life insurance, get a jaguar, call your mother with our long distance carrier). My CDs are now in boxes in my kitchen. Diaper boxes, lest us miss an opportunity for extreme fittingness. They are to be displayed on a shelf, when

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Well the information super highway is now a super-DUPER highway, as I have merged into traffic.I've been taking driving lessons in parking lots and side streets, but now it's time for the main event.Welcome all, (or just you in your underwear in Seattle to what will be a fun, entertaining, educational and empowering experience.I look forward to this blog continuing in the future on the

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