The Alternative Medicine Blog

Are Chiropractors Qualified to Function As Primary Care Physicians?

Are Chiropractors Qualified to Function As Primary Care Physicians?

Chiropractors have many of the attributes of primary care providers and often describe themselves as such. Others say that chiropractic has more of the attributes of a limited medical profession similar to dentistry or podiatry. In this paper I will try to answer the question: Are Chiropractors Qualified to Function As Primary Care Physicians? I will use resources such as admission requirements to Chiropractic schools and general educational path and requirements for some one to become a chiropractor. Then based on this information I will try to draw a conclusion.

Ever since D.D. Palmer founded the first chiropractic school there was much misconception about the profession of chiropractic. It did not matter that people preferred chiropractic to the so-called allopaths in the early part of the 20th century. The American Medical Association was set to literally wipe out the Chiropractic profession. With publication of the Flexner report this was almost accomplished. Chiropractors had to literally fight for recognition and under some circumstances chose jail to protest the bias against their profession (Keating, C., 2005). Chiropractic profession went underground so to speak.

Lately the chiropractic profession has flourished again, under seemingly less than ideal conditions. A big boost to chiropractors was the success in an antitrust lawsuit against the AMA (Keating, C., 2005). This seemed to boost the chiropractic profession, but also new research seemed to indicate that chiropractic is actually a valuable tool in the treatment of some ailments (Bronfort, Evans & Haas, 2005). With this new research, a renewed trust by the public in chiropractic care one must ask the question: Are Chiropractors Qualified to Function As Primary Care Physicians?

Follow Up on MLPNA's "April Awareness" Seminar

Some of my readers might know that on occasion, I emerge from behind my laptop and venture from cyberspace into the "real" world to lecture on topics pertaining to modalities of Alternative medicine in brick and mortar locations in front of "very real" people. Such was the case again on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. I was invited as speaker in front of an incredible audience of Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) at a seminar that was part of their continued education credits. Let me just pause here and thank Kathy Eagan, President of the Muskegon, Newago, Oceana District of the Michigan Licensed Practical Nurses Association to allow for the opportunity to share my knowledge of Antioxidants with the LPNs. It was a great pleasure giving this talk and there were some questions I was unable to answer due to time constraints and my limited knowledge on the subject of some of the questions. I promised the nurses I would post the answers right here. Read on...

Can Your Morning Cereal Give You a Heart Attack?

By Al Sears, MD

You've had it drummed into your head for the past 50 years that eating grains is the best way to avoid heart disease. But the result of millions of Americans following misguided dietary advice couldn't be clearer: rates of heart disease (and diabetes) have skyrocketed over 900%.

In other words, the massive shift to a grain-based diet has been a wholesale health disaster. I'll show you why -- and give you some advice on what you should really eat for lifelong heart health.

Lady Doc Gets Death Threats for Revealing TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret to General Public

A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life!

A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss ever discovered -- and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.

Her name is Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst, and she's marching to the beat of a different drum.

And no, nothing about her "secret" is difficult -- nor does it require that you do something completely out of the ordinary or anything unnatural.

Instead, the Arizonian boasts proudly "...this is something that I caught onto just before 2002 when there was so much research and exploration going around concerning the human colon and digestive system working in harmony with nutritional absorption, and I started doing independent studies just to test things at first ... but which I later expanded on after seeing some fantastic results."

Go directly to her site => Top Secret Fat Loss Secret <= or continue reading about her amazing discovery...

CAM News March 2008

CAM News March 2008

Just the other day I was asked by our marketing department to sum up my thoughts on organic, sustainable foods and why I seem to be incorporating them more and more in menus I create. Unfortunately, my philosophy on organic/ sustainable/ local food is one that can’t be easily summed up with a couple of key points, to an audience not familiar with some of the underlying principles. I’ll try to make it short and sweet. Please bear with me.

The reasons people promote local, organic/ sustainable foods covers a diverse spectrum of thought, as diverse as the American people themselves. There might be many different reasons, but there is, what seems to be a common thread to tell the story of local/ sustainable/ organic foods. My philosophical convictions to champion local and sustainable/organic foods come from both, practical experience and academic pursuits and I am afraid, I have to add to the diversity of opinions mentioned above. Both my professional and educational pursuits required me to reevaluate my conceived notions about food, diet, and health. The correlation between the SAD (Standard American Diet) and the American public’s health, both, economical and physical can no longer be ignored and action is required. It is agreed by most experts that the so-called SAD plays a huge role in the development of chronic disease. By now you are probably asking, what does that have to do with a philosophy on sustainable and organic foods on a restaurant table?