Chiropractic: Back Pain Facts & Statistics

Although chiropractors care for more than just back pain, many patients visit chiropractors looking for relief from this pervasive condition.  In fact, 31 million Americans experience low-back pain at any given time.

A few interesting facts about back pain:

• One-half of all working Americans admit to having back pain symptoms each year.
• Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work.  In fact, back pain is the second most common reason for visits to the doctor’s office, outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections.
• Most cases of back pain are mechanical or non-organic—meaning they are not caused by serious conditions, such as inflammatory arthritis, infection, fracture or cancer.
• Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on back pain—and that’s just for the more easily identified costs.
• Experts estimate that as many as 80% of the population will experience a back problem at some time in our lives.

What Causes Back Pain?

The back is a complicated structure of bones, joints, ligaments and muscles. You can sprain ligaments, strain muscles, rupture disks, and irritate joints, all of which can lead to back pain. While sports injuries  or accidents can cause back pain, sometimes the simplest of movements—for example, picking up a pencil from the floor— can have painful results. In addition,arthritis , poor posture, obesity, and psychological stress can cause or complicate back pain. Back pain can also directly result from disease of the internal organs, such as kidney stones, kidney infections, blood clots, or 

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Northville: Dietary Fiber Summary

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There are many types of Fiber below is a brief summary on dietary fiber and the body. 

Fiber and heart disease: Studies suggests that fiber can lower risk of heart disease if you ate 23 grams of fiber for women and 29 grams of fiber for men. But they really want to know if it was the fiber or the whole grain that affected the risk of lowering heart disease.Soluble fiber and insoluble fiber are both found in fruits and vegetables. The majority of grains like wheat, are insoluble. Insoluble fiber is not broken down by digestive enzymes or by bacteria in the gut. Oats and barley are two grains that are considered to be gummy fibers these are broken down by bacteria in the gut Insoluble fiber is made up from the structural material of the cell walls of land plants. It accounts for half the weight of 
the plant and is among the most abundant 
fibers in nature. It contains of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. While they can "hold" water, insoluble fiber does not 
dissolve in water (some hemicellulose 
fibers are water soluble). In addition to 
creating a feeling of fullness in the stomach, insoluble fiber's water-holding quality helps to create bulk and moisture in stools.
Insoluble fiber is sometimes refer to 
as a "No-carbohydrate" carbohydrate because it passes through the gastrointestinal tract mostly undigested (the human body does not have the enzymes to break them down). Additionally, unlike soluble fiber, insoluble fibers are not metabolized by intestinal bacteria.Fiber and Obesity: According to the University of Toronto fiber may help to maintain your weight. A study said that people who increased fiber by 20 gram a day minimized their weight gain by 12 pounds.People who consume insoluble fiber will lower their risk of diverticular disease. Also insoluble fiber helps if someone is constipated because it bulks up in your stool.Fiber and Diabetes: In a study suggested eating gummy fibers like oats and barley may have an effect on blood glucose. Isolated versus intact fiber: Isolated fiber: is when adding inulin, maltodextrin, oat fiber and polydextrose. These are soluble fibers but they do not lower cholesterol. All these make food gummy help the ice cream to get gummier.

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Nutrition:Effects of exercise and diet on chronic

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Currently, modern chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, Type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cancer, are the leading killers in Westernized society and are increasing rampantly in developing nations. In fact, obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are now even commonplace in children. Clearly, however, there is a solution to this epidemic of metabolic disease that is inundating today’s societies worldwide: exercise and diet. Overwhelming evidence from a variety of sources, including epidemiological, prospective cohort, and intervention studies, links most chronic diseases seen in the world today to physical inactivity and inappropriate diet consumption. The purpose of this review is to 1) discuss the effects of exercise and diet in the prevention of chronic disease, 2) highlight the effects of lifestyle modification for both mitigating disease progression and reversing existing disease, and 3) suggest potential mechanisms for beneficial effects  ...Read More

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