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The Bane of Your Bones Reversing Osteoporosis, Naturally! By Dr. Greg Fors, DC Board-certified Neurologist Osteoporosis is epidemic in our country today. Amazingly, more than one out of two Americans over the age of 50, mostly women, have some level of osteoporosis that leads to 1.5 million fractures a year. One out of the three women will develop osteoporotic fractures. But men, don’t feel left out, one out of five men also develop osteoporotic fractures. The pain and disability of osteoporosis can make life miserable. Problems with Osteoporosis Drugs: You can see we have a real problem here with bone health, and as a doctor of functional medicine I must ask the question, why and how can it be prevented and treated naturally. This is extremely important because there are no simple answers to this disabling and crippling disease. If you’re a woman with osteoporosis you probably understand how difficult it is to find treatment that doesn’t bring on some horrendous side effect. All known drug therapies today have serious side effects, from bone death to bone cancer. No kidding, check it out on line. Diagnosing Osteoporosis: The most common way osteoporosis or osteopenia (early osteoporosis) is diagnosed is through a fancy x-ray machine called a DEXA scan. But, this can only tell you where you’re bone density is at. It will not tell you at what rate you are losing bone or at what rate you are building new bone, information that is vital to proper prevention and treatment. To understand how osteoporosis develops it may be helpful to take a short look at bone physiology. How Osteoporosis Happens: Like all tissues in the body bone is dynamic, remodeling itself all the time. This is vital, so our skeleton can respond to stresses, strains and needed repair. When we need to build more bone, cells called osteoblasts create more bone tissue. If we need to take bone away, then cells called osteoclasts breakdown bone. Our bones are always maintained in a dynamic balance by these two cells. In osteoporosis and osteopenia, the problem is that you have too much osteoclast activity and/or too little osteoblast activity. Over time this leads to slowly diminishing bone tissue, which then leads to fractures in the hip and/or compression fractures of the spine causing pain and disability. Wouldn’t it be great if you could know where you are at as far as building bone or tearing bone down on an ongoing basis? Well you can! A Better Way to Diagnose and Follow Treatment: There are now blood tests that can tell you how active your osteoblasts are being at building new bone and another to tell you how active your osteoclasts are at tearing down bone. Why is this so fantastic? For one thing, if you are now taking a drug with side affects, you could run these tests to see if it’s worth the risk. Are these drugs really making any difference to your bone health? With the DEXA scan you have to wait at least a year to see if there’s any possible reduction in bone loss. With these blood test you can follow your osteoporosis treatment more closely. But what if you want to try a natural approach to your osteoporosis or osteopenia, or add on natural support to your drug therapy? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to test your blood within months to see if treatment is improving your bone health? Furthermore, what if there was a natural way to stop bone loss in its tracks and even start to improve bone density without the side-effects. Well there is, but it is not the simple "pill for an ill" as conventional medicine tries to treat this disabling condition. Osteoporosis/Osteopenia Recovery Program: The underlying causes to osteoporosis and osteopenia is multifactorial. One of the major causes is our Standard American Diet or SAD for short. A diet that is nutrient poor and sugar rich leading to a more acidic condition that leaches calcium from our bones. Besides calcium, adequate magnesium and potassium are vital along with zinc and copper to keep our bones healthy. Through a Red Blood Cell Mineral analysis, you can test the level of these minerals and restore them to optimum. Then there is vitamin D, and blood levels must be maintained at optimal levels. Furthermore, research is now finding that certain nutraceuticals can help to reverse osteoporosis. In my Osteoporosis/Osteopenia Recovery Program we look to all the multiple factors that lead to bone loss and correct them one at a time. We then follow bone restoration through blood tests that measure the osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity in your bones. This way we can monitor the effectiveness of your program. I found that most people wait too long to do something. This is not a program for someone who’s already severely osteoporotic with very little bone mass and multiple compression fractures! Want to know more than Call for a FREE Consultation or attend my “Reverse Your Osteoporosis, Naturally!” workshop seating is very limited. It will be held on Wednesday, September 19th or Monday, September 24th 7 PM at the Pain and Brain Healing Center in Blaine. Please call 763862-7100 to reserve a seat. Dr. Greg Fors, D.C. is a Board-certified Neurologist (DIBCN), certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU) and acupuncture. As the clinic director of the Pain and Brain Healing Center in Blaine Minnesota he specializes in a functional medicine approach to autoimmune disorders, fibromyalgia, fatigue, food allergies, hypothyroidism, depression, osteoporosis and arthritis. 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► On Aug. 21, 1987, “Dirty Dancing,” starring Patrick Swayze, opens in theaters. The film was a surprise boxoffice hit and turned Swayze into a Hollywood star.

► On Aug. 20, 1911, a dispatcher in The New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. The message was relayed by 16 different operators and came back to the original dispatcher 16.5 minutes later.

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HOSPITALS (cont’d) • Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital is America’s third oldest hospital, established in 1811. At the time of its founding, the United States had only two other general hospitals, the Pennsylvania Hospital and the New York Hospital. It quickly became the first teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. This 1000-bed hospital has had its share of medical firsts, including the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia in 1846, the identification of appendicitis in 1886, and the first replantation of a severed arm in 1962. • William Worrall Mayo, a surgeon from Lancashire, England, traveled to Rochester, Minnesota in 1863, to serve for the military draft board during the American Civil War. His wife and two toddler sons joined him the following year, and Dr. Mayo opened a small private medical practice above the Union Drug Store. His practice thrived for many years, with his sons joining him after their graduation from medical school. An 1883 tornado changed Rochester’s history, destroying one-third of the town, causing 37 deaths and 200 injuries. Talks began about establishing a hospital in Rochester. When it opened in 1889 under the name

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the business when he attended Mass at a Detroit church. He put the last of his funds -- $7.00 – into the offering plate and prayed to St. Jude to provide his family, including his soon-to-be-born first child. His prayer, “Show me my way in life and I will build you a shrine,” was answered a week later, with a gig that put Thomas on the road to success. • Honoring his promise, in 1962, Danny Thomas founded St. Jude’s in Memphis, Tennessee. The hospital specializes in treating children with cancer, sickle cell disease, and other serious illnesses. When St. Jude’s opened, the overall survival rate for childhood cancer was less than 20%. Today, that rate has reached 80% for several types of pediatric cancer. The hospital is on Fortune magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Although the daily cost of keeping the facility running is about $2.4 million, there is no cost to patients. • In 1902, businessman Kaspare Cohn donated a two-story Victorian home in Los Angeles to the Hebrew Benevolent Society to create a 12-bed hospital for the Jewish community. It was simply known as the Kaspare Cohn Hospital, and its services were free. Los Angeles’ first female doctor, Dr. Sarah Vasen, acted as superintendent for four years. By 1910, the facility had moved and increased to a 50-bed hospital, followed by another upgrade in 1930 and a name change to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Another Jewish hospital, Bikur Cholim, established in 1921, merged with Cedars in 1961 to become CedarsSinai Medical Center. In 1972, a new facility was constructed, using a $4 million contribution from cosmetic giant Max Factor’s Family Foundation. More than 2,000 physicians are employed by Cedars-Sinai. • Cedars-Sinai is well known for its services to the stars. Several famous folks have passed away within its walls, including Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, Charles Bronson, Johnny Carson, Natalie Cole, and Debbie Reynolds.

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TIDBITS® CHEWS GUM by Janet Spencer

Today 50% of Americans chew some gum, but 10% of chewers make up for 75% of sales. We average 500 sticks per person per year. There has been a 500% increase in gum consumption since World War II. Come along with Tidbits as we chew gum! JUST DESSERTS • In 1898 the “New York Daily Tribune” ran an article from London which warned, “Health authorities here have issued a warning against Americans chewing gum, which is fast becoming a rage among the children of the East End. The authorities consider it more dangerous than the ‘ice cream’ which the Italians sell in the street, and which has been the subject of a rigorous crusade.” • Some 35 years later, it was still widely thought that chewing gum would exhaust the salivary glands and lead to an early death. • Today we know that it does not lead to an early death; nor does it cause buck teeth or clog the intestines when swallowed. The Wrigley Company advertised that gum would steady nerves, sweeten breath, soothe the throat, relieve thirst, quicken appetite, aid digestion, and improve teeth— and all these claims are true. Gum stimulates blood flow to the mouth; increases jaw strength; relieves pressure in the ears from flying; and can curb the craving for a cigarette. William Wrigley • William Wrigley worked as a travelling soap salesman for his father. He later opened a branch soap factory, and began giving away premiums and gifts to people who ordered his products. Next he started a baking powder company on the

side, and gave away two packs of gum with each can. When he found out how popular the gum was, he quit soap and baking powder in favor of making gum. • Wrigley once said, “Anybody can make gum. The problem is selling it.” He decided the solution was advertising, and he turned into not only the world’s largest gum manufacturer, but also the world’s largest advertiser. He spent $100,000 on an advertising campaign in New York City that flopped. So he tried spending another $100,000 just on Broadway, and it also flopped. Then he spent $100,000 advertising in small New York towns, buying every billboard, all the streetcar space, and huge newspaper spreads. Orders poured in. He was more than repaid for his previous losses. • He sent coupons to every grocer in the nation for a free box of gum. Sales tripled. “Tell ’em quick and tell ’em often” was his motto. He got his poster on every one of the nation's 62,000 streetcars; spent $14,000 to light a sign in Times Square; mailed 4 sticks of gum to every person listed in every phone book in America; erected a chain of billboards half a mile long, containing 117 signs; and started wrapping gum in redeemable wrappers with over a thousand premiums to choose from. • When a recession hit in 1910 and World War I started in 1914, Wrigley said, “People chew harder when they’re sad”— a theory later substantiated when sales soared during the Great Depression and World War II. By 1910, William Wrigley's gum was the most popular in the nation. Today, Wrigley’s gum still holds 35% of the U.S. chewing gum market. GUM IN WAR • Because gum is effective at relieving thirst, it was widely used in World War I, and a massive campaign to get gum to the troops was begun. Wives and sweethearts were asked to send it to

their men. • During World War II, gum chewing among military personnel was six times greater than among civilians. It acted as a substitute for toothbrushes, increased morale, reduced tension, and promoted alertness. • Gum was used as war propaganda during World War II. A shipment of gum wrapped in special wrappers, with one side bearing the crossed flags of the U.S. and Philippines, and the other side saying, “I Shall Return— MacArthur” was dropped from planes over the occupied Philippines. STICKY SITUATIONS • The ancient Mayans chewed plain chicle which is the sap from the sapodilla tree. The word “chicle” springs from the Aztec phrase meaning “sticky stuff.” Chicle formed the base of Chiclets chewing gum. Today most gums are made from food-grade polymers and petroleumderived chemicals. • The first bubble gums couldn’t be removed from the face unless scrubbed with turpentine. “Dry” bubble gum wasn't invented till 1928. • One airline spent $7,000 to remove gum from the bottom of plane seats, then ruled that patrons could no longer chew gum to keep their ears from popping. • Grand Central Station once employed a man to scrape used wads off the bottom of chairs every night. He averaged a nightly haul of 7 lbs. of used gum— 14 lbs. (6 kg) on holidays. • In San Luis Obispo, California, there’s a wall where people stick their used gum. It’s called “gum alley” and people have made large designs and spelled out words with gum wads on the brick wall. IT’S A FACT • The British Royal Air Force Dirigible R-34 was over the middle of

the Atlantic on the way to America in 1911. Suddenly the forward motor started hissing and began to overheat. The water jacket had sprung a leak. All the adhesives and putties on board failed to plug the leak. In desperation, ten crewmen were each given a pack of gum and told to chew as if their lives depended on it— which it did. The wad of gum plugged the leak when everything else had failed. GUMBALL MACHINES • The Fleer gum company was the first to sell gumballs in a penny dispenser. An enterprising vending machine salesman convinced the company’s president to go with the machines by challenging him to an experiment. He suggested putting a penny vending machine at an extremely windy tourist spot in New York with a sign saying “Drop a penny in the slot and listen to the wind blow.” When the machine filled up with pennies, Fleer ordered a fleet of the machines. • In Columbus, Ohio in 1939, a ladies club was trying to raise money for a children’s wing at the hospital. When they learned that merchants collected 20% of the take from gumball machines, they asked businessmen to donate the proceeds to the hospital. In just six months the children’s ward was finished. Today, some 3,500 service clubs collect about $2 million a year from gumball machines. IT’S A FACT • In 1926 a woman told a convention of cosmeticians that chewing gum was responsible for making women’s faces “hard as the crockery of a railroad lunch counter.” She maintained that all the muscle movement of gum chewing made women’s faces ugly. Someone else defended gum by pointing out that hardfaced, large-jawed women existed long before the invention of gum.

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• Sylvester Graham was a minister in the early 1800s. He became an advocate for healthy living, and encouraged his followers to adopt vegetarian diets, avoid alcohol, take cold baths, use hard by Janet Spencer mattresses, wear loose clothing, and drink only water. • Most especially, he felt that refined flour was unhealthy. Not only were nutrients removed from the grain as it was processed, but contaminants were added that bleached the flour white, and he felt those bleaching agents were often poisonous. • Thousands attended his lectures, while others rioted when he came. In 1837 he published a booklet called “Treatise on Bread and Bread Making” in which he instructed wives to bake their own bread using coarsely ground whole-wheat kernels. Simultaneously, he began to market barrels of unprocessed and unsifted ground grains. • He also invented a cracker made from whole grains, and this cracker was named for him. Sylvester died in 1851 at the age of 57, but today we continue to consume the sweet cracker that still carries his name, though today it is made from the same processed and refined wheat flour he hated so much. Still, his cracker is a staple in the American diet, most often associated with pie crusts and S’mores: Graham crackers. • Henry Perky designed rail cars. But one morning in 1892 he was eating breakfast in a restaurant in Nebraska when he noted that the man next to him was eating boiled wheat. When he asked the man why he was eating that, the man replied that he had stomach problems and this was the only thing he could digest for breakfast. Perky himself suffered from tender digestion, so he began adding boiled

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wheat to his diet and found it eased his indigestion. • After experimenting, Henry Perky developed a wheat cereal. But he wasn’t interested in cereal; he was interested in the machines that make cereal. With the help of a mechanic, Perky developed a machine consisting of two rollers that squashed grain between them in such a way that it produced endless strings of compressed grain formed into little “wheat mattresses.” He wanted to sell these wheat-mashing machines to bakeries. • He patented the invention and started up the Cereal Machine Company in 1895, but the cereal became so popular that he never had a chance to market the machines before he was up to his neck in orders for cereal. By 1898 it was being sold all over the world. • The popularity of the cereal spurred him to invent wheat crackers as well. The company Perky formed was sold to the National Biscuit Company in 1928, now known as Nabisco. The cereal and the crackers are still produced: Shredded Wheat and Triscuits. • During the days of the Roman Empire, bakers invented a new product. First they made a loaf of dough without using oils or butter. Next they’d put a slab of dough into the oven. Once cooked, they sliced it into individual portions and baked the slices again. This removed all moisture, making it crisp and dry, and giving it an extraordinarily long shelf life. The long shelf life was handy during wars, journeys, and sea voyages. • After the fall of the Roman Empire, these crackers popped up in Tuscany, Italy, thanks to a local baker who served them with wine. Their popularity spread, and even Columbus packed these sweet crispy crackers on his voyages. In Italy they are eaten with wine; in England with tea; and in America with coffee. The name for this item comes from the Latin words “bis” meaning twice, and “coctum” meaning baked: biscotti, from which we also get the word “biscuit.”

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► The Transportation Security Administration banned cigarette lighters on carry-on luggage between 2005 and 2007. During that time, TSA screeners confiscated 22,978 lighters "every day". Safe disposal of those lighters cost the taxpayers approximately $4 million every year.

► Those who study such things claim that the oceans eventually will dry up -- in about a billion years or so.

► If you do much printing, you might not be surprised to learn that if you figure out the cost by volume, printer ink costs far more than Dom Perignon champagne or Chanel No. 5 perfume.

► There are lots of sports fans out there, and a lot of sports to enjoy: football, basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey ... olive oil wrestling? OK, maybe there aren’t a lot of oiled wrestling events here in America, but in Turkey it’s the national sport. Kirkpinar, as it’s known there, has been popular since the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish town of Edirne has been hosting the annual tournament since 1361.

► It was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who made the following sage observation: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

► Those who track radio statistics say Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is the most-requested song in the United States -- and this despite the fact that it was never released as a single on this side of the Atlantic.

► You probably know that certain species of snakes can grow to enormous size, with the longest specimens reaching upward of 30 feet in length and the heaviest weighing more than 400 pounds. Kind of makes you wonder what these monstrous serpents eat -- and you might be surprised. According to reports, a pet python named Houdini swallowed a queen-size electric blanket. Even more amazingly, after a two-hour operation, the snake lived!

► You might be surprised to learn that the kilt originated not in Scotland, but in France.

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► The tongue of the alligator is fastened to the jaw all the way around. That’s why you’ll never see a gator stick out its tongue.

► If you bring to mind an image of John Lennon, more likely than not you’ll see him in your mind’s eye wearing a pair of round spectacles. In July 2007, a single pair of those iconic glasses was sold at auction for a whopping $2 million.

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Tidbits opens up visiting hours for you to peruse the facts on these medical facilities. • New York City’s Bellevue Hospital is America’s oldest operating hospital, opening in Manhattan in 1736 with six beds. New York’s City Hall currently sits on the hospital’s first site. Bellevue is an institution of many firsts. The nation’s first maternity ward opened there in 1799, and New York’s first city morgue was established there in 1866. America’s first ambulance service had its origins at Bellevue, with a fleet of horse-drawn ambulances, each equipped with a loud gong to warn citizens of its approach. Bellevue physicians developed the first immunization for Hepatitis B in 1971. Victims of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 were rushed to nearby Bellevue Hospital. • In 1825, Bellevue’s two physicians both became ill with typhus fever, as the epidemic ravaged the city. One succumbed to the fever, the first doctor to sacrifice his life for the care of others. Over the next 60 years, 27 doctors died from diseases they contracted while on duty. • Founded in 1751, Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Hospital had been in existence 25 years before America declared its independence. Benjamin Franklin was responsible for raising the funds to establish the institution.

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