Designing 2004

What a year 2004 has been!  Life has taught me a few new lessons in the past twelve months and I am anxiously awaiting the lessons in store for me in 2005.  Last year at about this time I wrote a column about the importance of goal setting in mapping out the way you want […]

Chiro Wench Fights Back

An extremely biased, relatively insignificant study was published last week in the journal Neurology about how neck manipulations are supposed to increase the risk of strokes in some people.  The article was in the Macon paper, and a friend asked if I had seen it.  I had not, and asked him what it said.  He […]

Childhood Fevers

The time of year is coming when many children will have stuffy noses, coughs, and a number of them will have fevers to accompany their discomfort.  Often parents panic when their children get fevers and they rush to do whatever they can to bring the fever down.  Is it always a good idea to bring […]

Is there any truth to the weather change/joint pain connection?

We can all tell that autumn is here.  Fall festivals abound, football is in full swing, Halloween decorations are out, the stores are already filling displays with Christmas decorations, and people are complaining that their joints ache.  What do achy joints and autumn have in common?  It depends on who you ask.  There has been […]

Cause and Effect

Many changes have been swirling around us in the world lately.  I have finally turned off my television because there is too much bad news out there and not nearly enough stories of hope and the promise of stronger rebound.  A couple of days ago I was talking to one of the members of our […]

Carbohydrate Addiction

The “battle of the bulge” is one I’ve been fighting all of my life.  I can never remember a time when small was a word that was used by anyone to describe me.  Short is a descriptive term I have heard a lot, but never small.  Believe me, as a child growing up in the […]