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| Wednesday, 27 January 2010 08:00 | |||
Dr. Jaime Trent has always been passionate about health, exercising and food. And she’s found a way to incorporate all of those passions into her daily schedule — her job.  Trent, who works at the Fulk Chiropractic/Acupuncture office at 1313 Baptiste Drive, also recently opened a new office at Body Maxx Fitness, 708 Baptiste Drive. Originally, she had planned to focus on nutrition in her new location, but she said she couldn’t do that because all of the things she deals with: acupuncture, nutrition and chiropractic therapy go hand in hand. “It’s hard to do one without the other,” she said. “Everything I do deals with balancing and healing the body and giving it the right tools so the body can heal itself.” Trent has been working as a chiropractor and certified acupuncturist for the last six years — but recently began researching nutrition and how important it is to health. She said the inspiration came from her children, who are four and 21 months, and her concern for their future. “It’s the statistics, too,” she added. On top of researching how to make herself and her children healthier, Trent attended seminars and discovered information that she said shocked her. “Sixty-five percent of adults are now obese or morbidly obese, and 97 percent of cancers are lifestyle related,” she said. With the economy and health care reform on the minds of most Americans, Trent said she was no exception and is constantly reading more about how to better herself and her clients. “I didn’t realize that people didn’t know about these statistics,” she said. Although most believe that chiropractic therapy revolves around pain, Trent said that’s not the case. “By keeping your spine in alignment, it allows the body to function at the optimal level,” she said, adding that it not only deals with the spine, but everything the spine is connected to — which could even be the lungs. Trent said she has assisted asthma patients in the past using chiropractic therapy. Acupuncture, Trent said, is dealing with the energy of the body or “chi,” and that it’s a Chinese medical discipline that includes different techniques aside from just acupuncture. “Nutrition is at the base of everything,” she said, adding that this is where food supplements come into play. “Our soil is overused, there are fertilizers that are used on our food that can be toxic, and to give an analogy of how it breaks down, 50 years ago one cup of spinach would be equivalent to 60 cups today,” Trent said of our current food industry. She attributed the trouble most Americans have with health today to processed foods that we are used to consuming. “When we eat processed foods, we don’t get full because they aren’t providing us with the nutrients we really need,” she said. Aside from eating whole foods instead of processed foods and incorporating essential vitamins into our diets, Trent said she also uses a purification program, which is a 21-day detox system that helps to get toxins out of the body. “Over time, toxins build up in our fat tissue, and our liver is our main detox organ,” she said. “Everything out there is polluting our bodies, from the food we eat to the air we breathe, this is a way to take the stress off of the liver and allow it to heal.” Trent said she will work from her Body Maxx Fitness location on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and spend Mondays and Fridays at the chiropractic office. Trent can be reached at Body Maxx at 294-1000 or at the chiropractic office at 294-3851. Here are some things people can try to eliminate from their diets: 1. Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats 2. Preservatives 3. Artificial sweeteners 4. High fructose corn syrup — Courtesy of Dr. Jaime Trent Nutrition Facts Eating more whole foods Trent said processed foods are anything that has been removed from the original food item. For example, when it comes to whole wheat flour versus just flour, Trent said the regular flour has been stripped of vital nutrients that can be found in whole wheat flour. So if it says “enriched” anywhere on the label, you’re purchasing a processed food item. Reading the label Trent said reading labels is a vital asset to knowing what we put in our bodies. This tip relates back to flour and can also relate to other food items, such as eggs. Although Trent said eggs are the same on the outside, it depends on what happens to the chicken that lays the eggs. For example, any package of eggs that says “free range” means the chickens are allowed to roam on open land when being raised and are free of antibiotics that other chickens may receive when being raised to produce eggs. Vitamins Trent said vitamins are important, but added that knowing the differences between vitamins on the market today is essential to your body’s reaction. Trent said to beware of synthetic vitamins, which are often made in labs and aren’t a natural form of the vitamin you’re actually purchasing. “Our bodies are meant to get nutrients from food,” she said. “Vitamins don’t give that to us, especially if it’s just one type of vitamin.” She added that we need a broad array of vitamins for our bodies to function properly. Vitamin Suggestions Whole food multi-vitamins and fish oil vitamins, also known as Omega-3 vitamins, are good options. “Most think vitamins like these would be expensive, but they are affordable and basic vitamins everyone can afford,” Trent said.
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Audrae Erickson: ...
High fructose corn syrup is simply a kind of corn sugar. It has the same number of calories as sugar and is handled the same by the body.
According to the American Dietetic Association, “high fructose corn syrup…is nutritionally equivalent to sucrose. Once absorbed into the blood stream, the two sweeteners are indistinguishable.” The American Medical Association stated that, “Because the composition of high fructose corn syrup and sucrose are so similar, particularly on absorption by the body, it appears unlikely that high fructose corn syrup contributes more to obesity or other conditions than sucrose.” As many dietitians agree, all sugars should be consumed in moderation as part of a balanced lifestyle. Consumers can read the latest research and learn more about high fructose corn syrup at www.SweetSurprise.com. Audrae Erickson President Corn Refiners Association 1
January 29, 2010
Brandon Jones: ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...01831.html - wasn't this article published only a year before you wrote that, Audrae?
Perhaps the calories aren't so bad, but the lifetime exposure to dangerous heavy metals might be. Also, the relative cost of corn syrup in this country is so low compared to sugar that it is in every food imaginable, even things you wouldn't think. Like pasta sauce. Perhaps it is nutritionally no different than sucrose. That may be an undeniable fact. But no one is going around putting mercury laced sucrose into every food item in the grocery store. Avoiding hidden sugars is just smart, no matter what kind. Also, High Fructose corn syrup creates poverty in countries like Haiti and Cuba. By subsidizing farmers to create a surplus of cereal corn, we can get away with the expensive process of converting corn into sugar (which is a waste of energy) instead of helping people in developing nations by purchasing the exports that are naturally abundant within their borders. This surplus also creates the kind of environment where it's virtually impossible for a corn farmer to make an independent living on his crop alone. But, maybe you've got another agenda Audrae. 2
February 05, 2010
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