While osteoporosis has become a household word, how many people have even heard of sarcopenia? Sarcopenia or muscle wasting is another age-related malady that, along with osteoporosis, makes patients grow more and more frail with age. Sarcopenia impacts 45% of people over age 60 and approximately 20% of Americans over age 60 are classified as [...]
Harvard scientists have observed that the shortest living Americans are Native American populations in South Dakota, living an average lifespan of 66.5 years, whereas the longest-living Americans are Asian-American women residing in Bergen County, N.J., who live to an average lifespan of 91.1 years. That’s a nearly 25-year difference. Just think about what you could [...]
Many have attributed the word wellness to Dr. Halbert Dumn, who wrote a booklet in 1961 titled High –Level Wellness, in which he basically defined it as a lifestyle approach for pursuing elevated states of physical and psychological well-being. Chiropractors are the originators of the wellness movement, being the only health care professionals who recognize [...]
