Each package includes a 45 Minute Therapeutic Massage. Get this by itself for $24, or along with a full chiropractic exam, x-rays, and treatment for $34.

Too much junk in the trunk from the Holidays?  Add on to that massage a full Nutrition and Lifestyle assessment with the Wellnes Coach- former Timesland athlete of the year and 3 year leading tackler at UVA Jon Copper.  Also $34.

Or Just go all in and get all 3 options for only $44 (best value!)

Ever been on a diet, and then quit?  Ever had poor health in a particular area, and gotten overwhelmed by all the “helpful” information you can find at Barnes & Nobles or on the internet?  Do you ever wish you had someone that could help you sift through all the hype and advice, help you clearly assess and define where you are at, help you set achievable goals for where you need to go, and provide you with motivation and accountability along the way?  If you are thinking that would help, then the Nutrition and Lifestyle assessment with Jon Copper is for you.

Since finishing his football career, Jon has helped hundreds of people lose thousands of pounds by helping people like you make positive lifestyle changes to improve your health in all areas.  Whether the goal is to lose weight, reduce inflammation, improve energy, or increase your athletic performance, getting a personal gameplan for your health from him will only move you in the right direction.

Regularly voted as one of Roanoke’s top chiropractors, Dr. Davidson and Dr Jenson have a combined over 50 years experience of keepin’ your spine aligned.  To your health in 2012!

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Topics will include

-The Diabesity Epidemic- what happened in the 1970′s that has caused diabetes to explode and waistelines to increase exponentially?  And why are all the diets failing us?

-Nutrition in the NFL- what does it look like to eat well in order to perform at the highest level?

-What common convenience store items are banned by the NCAA and VHSL?

-Life Savers or Expensive Toilet Water- What’s the scoop on vitamin supplements?

We will have special guests former UVA Standout and current Cincinatti Bengal Running Back Cedric Peerman, former UVA linebacker Merrill Robertson, and former UVA and NFL wide receiver Billy McMullen.

Show will begin at 7:00 PM and will run until 8:00 PM directly following the normal Hoos Talking radio programming from 6:00-7:00

You can listen live streaming online at Sports Radio WRNL 910

Is your nutrition holding you back as an athlete?

Did you know that nutrition affects EVERY area of you being an athlete:

-Injury Prevention & Rehab

-Weight & Body Fat

-Dehydration & Cramps

-Energy, Fatigue, & Endurance

-Inflammation, Joint Pain, & Bruising

-Immune Function & Sickness

-Focus & Academic Performance

-Motivation & Emotional Health

-Muscle Mass & Strength

Here is what the Rejuvenation Review offered today by Jon Copper through Living Social will do for you as an athlete:

-give you a clear assessment of how your nutrition affects your athletics

-set clear & achievable goals to help you improve your performance as an athlete

-put together a custom gameplan for reaching those goals

Wish you had all of that laid out for you by someone who has practiced sports nutrition at the highest level for over a decade?

Then the Living Social Rejuvenation Review offered today is for you!

Link to What all is included int he Review, Wellness Coaching, and the Living Social Deal? 

“I was never the biggest or the fastest player, but the things I learned and applied in nutrition
helped give me numerous advantages in strength, energy, performance and recovery over my
competitors and I have considered my knowledge of nutrition one of the biggest factors in my
ability to play sports at a high level.”

          -Three year starter and three year leading tackler Jon Copper, UVA Football Team

-work one-on-one with you

-give you a clear assessment of where you are at

-set clear & achievable goals

-put together a custom gameplan for reaching those goals

Wish you had all of that with a common sense approach that wasn’t a crash or fad diet, but actually made sense, worked, and allowed you to enjoy food?

Then the Living Social Rejuvenation Review offered today is for you!

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I work with The Back Resort & Rejuvenation Health Center, and we are featuring Chiropractic, Massage, and Wellness & Nutrition Coaching.  I do the Wellness & Nutrition Coaching.  It would mean a lot to me if you could check it out, and feel free to pass this along to anyone you think might be interested!

Wheat contains Gluten and Lectins.  These have a severe inflammatory response in about 1 in 6 people.  These symptoms range from the mild end of headaches, to more severe such as Celiac Disease.

The majority of people- over half, and maybe as much as 80%, have some sort of mild inflammatory response that goes undetected over time.

Additionally, grains also contain phytic acid which reduces the absorption of minerals that are very important for bone health and reducing your body’s inflammatory response- minerals such as zinc, calcium, and magnesium.  They also contain Omega-6 Fatty Acids which cause inflammation (as opposed to Omega 3 Fatty Acids found in cold water fish that reduce inflammation. Additionally, grains increase the acidity in your body causing more inflammation.

Bottom line?  Passing on the bread can help reduce inflammation in the long and short term.

Stay tuned for “But I thought Whole Grains were Good for Me?”

Source: The Nutritional Foundation How to Reduce Inflammation with Diet and Supplementation (Anabolic Laboratories)

Consuming fruit with white edible portions, such as pears and apples, can reduce the risk of stroke by 52%, researchers from Wageningen Uninversity in the Netherlands wrote in the journal Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. This is the first study to look at the link between fruit and vegetable color groups and stroke risk, the authors explained.

Apparently, you can tell whether a fruit is rich in phytochemicals by the color of its edible portion. Phytochemicals are naturally-occurring compounds that are found in plants. Generally, phytochemicals refers to plant compounds that may have an impact on human health although they are not established essential nutrients. Examples include carotenoids and flavonoids.

Linda M. Oude Griep, M.Sc. and team set out to determine whether there might be a link between vegetable and fruit color group consumption and 10-year stroke incidence. Their study involved 20,069 adults, with an average age of 41 years. None of them had any cardiovascular disease when the study began – they had all filled in a 178-item food frequency questionnaire for the previous year.

They classified the fruits and vegetables into the following color groups:

• Cabbages, lettuces and other dark green leafy vegetables
• Orange and yellow colors, most of which were citrus fruits
• Red and purple colors, most of which were red vegetables
• White colors, apples and pears made up 55% of them

The researchers documented 233 strokes during the ten-year follow up period. They found that stroke incidence was not impacted by the consumption of orange/yellow and red/purple fruits. However, a high intake of white fruits and vegetables was found to be associated with a 52% lower risk of developing stroke, compared to a low intake.

There was a 9% reduced risk of stroke for every 25 gram increase in daily white fruit and vegetable consumption. An average sized apple weighs about 120 grams.

Linda M. Oude Griep, M.Sc., said:

“To prevent stroke, it may be useful to consume considerable amounts of white fruits and vegetables. For example, eating one apple a day is an easy way to increase white fruits and vegetable intake.

However, other fruits and vegetable color groups may protect against other chronic diseases. Therefore, it remains of importance to consume a lot of fruits and vegetables.”

Pears and apples are rich in quercetin, a flavonoid, as well as dietary fiber. The authors wrote that white category fruit and vegetables include cucumber, chicory, cauliflower and banana. Potatoes were classed as starch.

Current US federal dietary guidelines recommend picking varying vegetables from five subgroups: starchy, legume, red/orange, dark/green and other vegetables.

Source – Medical News Today

80-90% of the foods you get from the grocery store have an ingredient that increases your desire to eat more.  It does this by increasing the hormone ghrelin in the brain.

How much of it are you eating?

Now, I’ll be the first to say that The Biggest Loser is inspiring, and doing good for a lot of contestants while also giving hope to viewers that they can do it too.  I have personally run two Biggest Loser contests where we focused on lifestyle changes (as opposed to dramatic weight loss).  Also, the techniques described here are “not allowed” by the show and could lead to disqualification- but apparently are done anyway.

However, consider the story of Ryan C. Benson- the first season’s winner.  He is self described as “shunned” by the show because he has gained back nearly all of his weight- now over 300 pounds again.  Also, he admitted to doing extreme fasting and using dehydration techniques in order to weigh less to win the program.  Extreme meaning no water for 24 hours prior to weigh in to the point of urinating blood.

Kai Hibbard, runner up in season 3, confirms the extreme dehydration techniques, reporting that many contestants would not drink the 24 hours prior to a weigh in and when the cameras were off would be working out in as many clothes as possible to sweat out excess water weight.  It is reported that some contestants would gain as much as 20% of water weight back after the weigh ins.  That’s over 50 pounds for some!

Additionally, it has been proposed that a “week” on the show may be two or three weeks in real life.  Not to mention that contestants work out on average between 4 and 6 hours per day.  Neither of these are realistic or sustainable for the average person.

Extreme fasting, crash detox diets, and manipulating water weight- all bad ideas for sustainable weight loss.  If you would like some real answers for weight loss that are both safe and work, then fill out the form on the right and I will personally coach you through some common sense approaches to weight management.

Source Dr. Tom Bilella http://articles.healthrealizations.com/NutritionTreatmentCenter/2011/10/10/Is-The-Biggest-Loser-Risking-Contestants-Lives-1.aspx?SubscriberEmail=jsc4z@virginia.edu

NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/business/media/25loser.html?pagewanted=all

The article only mentions three supplements- Iron, Vitamin D, and Calcium.  It says there is a positive correlation between long life and calcium supplementation- meaning if you take calcium as a woman, you are likely to live longer than those that do not.

With women, those who supplemented iron had a 2.4% higher death rate than those who did not.  But the article does not take into account what is called iron overload.  Women, after menopause, no longer need excess iron in the diet, but many continue to ignorantly supplement it.  Unlike most other vitamins and minerals, excess iron is continually stored in the body instead of being eliminated in the urine.  As a result, men after age 20 and women after menopause develop iron overload leading to suppressed immune function, weight gain, and type II diabetes all of which can aid a premature death.   (See Iron: Too Much of A Good Thing by Bill Sardi)

This study is limited in that is makes no mention as to brand.  It also makes no mention of the tens of thousands of studies that show a positive correlation between longer life, lower rates of disease, and vitamin supplementation. (For example, Omega 3 Fish Oil alone has over 4,000 positive studies)

The most ignorant and baffling statement in the article is as follows:

“generally, people should get all the vitamins and minerals they need from a healthy and balanced diet”

There is ZERO proof for this cited in the article, and I would argue ZERO substantial proof that can be found for this statement in any large body of research.  In fact, consensus points to the numerous published studies showing you cannot get all your vitamins and minerals from a balanced diet (see here and here), primarily as our soils are depleted in minerals.  The USDA began reporting this in the 1930′s.

For a Legitimate Long Term Study on Vitamin Supplementation and It’s affects on health, check out The Landmark Study done over a 20 year period with the University of Cal-Berkley

Another journalist repeating mantras that may kill you sooner if you read and don’t think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15238610