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Mar 6

What Parents Need to Know About Juuling

One of the biggest topics right now in high school parent newsletters everywhere is the Juul. It’s a popular e-cigarette system that looks a lot like a USB flash drive—you may have seen one in your teenager’s room, figuring it contains an essay on The Great Gatsby. Based on Twitter and Instagram posts with the hashtag #doit4juul, […]

Mar 5

The Dangers of “Junk Sleep”, and What You Can Do About It

Parents of teenagers are likely familiar with the array of media outlets ­­ iPads, TV, cell phones, stereos, video games and computers ­­ that many teens are glued to at all hours of the day and not getting enough good quality sleep. The lure of these electronics may be damaging kid’s health, causing them to not get enough sleep, nor enough quality sleep, according to a poll of 1,000 teens conducted by the Sleep Council. The survey of 12­ to 16­ year­ olds found that: 30 percent of teens sleep just four to seven hours a night on school nights, instead of the recommended eight to nine hours. 23 percent say they fall asleep watching TV, listening to music or while using other electronics more than once a week. 19 percent admitted that leaving on the TV or computer impacted the quality of their sleep. 98.5 percent have a phone, music system or TV in their bedroom, and over 65 percent have all three. 40 percent say they generally feel tired. The result, researchers say, is that teens are getting “junk sleep” ­­ and it has just as much potential to impact their health as does eating junk food “This is an incredibly worrying trend,” says UK sleep expert Dr. Chris Idzikowski of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre. “What we are seeing is the emergence of Junk Sleep ­­ that is sleep that is of neither the length nor quality that it should be in order to feed the brain with the rest it needs to perform properly at school.”   Are YOU Getting Junk Sleep? Let’s be honest. Teens are not the only ones guilty of falling asleep with the TV on, or staying up surfing the Web when they should be getting some Z’s. Adults, too, are skimping on their much­needed sleep. In fact, according to the Sleep America poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), Americans sleep just 6.9 hours per night on average during the week and just 7.5 hours per night on weekends. In contrast, before the invention of the light bulb, people slept about 10 hours each night. Meanwhile, an estimated 70 million Americans are impacted by a sleep problem, according to NSF. What is this lack of sleep doing to all of us? Plenty.   Further, according to the Sleep Council, not sleeping enough could ,,, Make you fat. People who sleep four hours a night or less are 73 percent more likely to be overweight than those who sleep enough. Even if you sleep less than six hours a night, you’re 25 percent more likely to be overweight than those who sleep longer. […]

Feb 12

Hip Pain? Check Out these Hip Exercises from Your West New York Chiropractor

We often see hip pain patients coming into our chiropractic clinic here in Lacey WA. While we generally see mostly back pain patients, we are seeing a growing number of patients coming in with issues relating to their hips. Once we adjust them, we normally advise some at home activity such as exercising it to […]

Feb 5

The Problems of Jim McMahon, Chicago Bears Quarterback Suffers Early

You may remember Jim McMahon who was quarterback for the Chicago Bears back in the 1980s. He retired in 1996 at the age of 37 and had four documented concussions in his career. 16 years after his retirement, he suffered from symptoms akin with dementia. He was struggling to move properly, often bumping into furniture; […]