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No More Free Rides…For Our Groceries?
Did you know that San Francisco was the first city in the country to ban the pervasive plastic shopping bag? That right! Three years ago, right here in the city. Of course it didn’t take long before Palo Alto and Oakland followed suit, and we’re always happy to lead the environmental [...]
A Sad Day for Happy Meals?
As a chiropractor and a parent I have mixed emotions about the vote today by Silicon Valley county officials to ban (in parts of Santa Clara) restaurants from giving away toys (and other freebies) that frequently come with high-calorie meals for children, i.e., meals that contain more than 485 calories, more than 600 [...]
Bare-Footin’ in San Francisco
Sometimes the younger generation, be they “X” or otherwise, think that we Baby Boomers are “older than dirt,” or at least older than the design and/or invention of anything useful, like running shoes, for instance. So, it is interesting that when Harvard biologist and runner, Daniel Lieberman, had a simple question: “How did people run [...]
Climate Change: The Cost of Doing Nothing
There are things in life that we regret (in hindsight). Like the song goes, “If I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then…” If we could see into the future and know “now” what will will surely know “then,” no person on earth would fail to do whatever it takes to stop global warming. [...]
Devil's Slide
Several years ago, my wife and I closed our chiropractic clinic in the city for the day and took her mother on a road trip. My mother-in-law, from the flat world of Nebraska, was a few years away, at that time, from retiring as a chiropractor, herself. She’s a very nice person and somewhat adventurous [...]
Sacramento Chiropractor is Keeping The Ironman Strong
Every year tens of thousands, of triathletes around the world try to get a coveted spot in the Ford Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, held this year October 4-10. If you are a triathlete, you already know that there is no bigger day in this sport, which it had its first world championship in [...]
Walt Disney Family Museum is Open…At Last!
All right, I have to admit it. I am a dyed-in-the-wool Disney fan. Yes, Harry Potter is great, but I still have fond memories of my first trip to Disneyland (the first year it opened in Buena Park and I was five-years-old). I suppose that’s why I asked my very creative CA, Kim, to paint [...]
Lighting Up the City With Wind Power
On Tuesday Mayor Newsom announced plans for installing turbines on rooftops around the city, stating, “We want to challenge the perception that wind is a rural or suburban phenomenon and not an urban resource.” He said that a goal of commercializing small-scale wind power and bringing down the cost of renewable electricity, and that small-scale [...]
Free and Easy San Francisco Style
If you’re like me, you are visited frequently by family and friends (and friends of friends) who love San Francisco (at least for the weekend). And, I’m not complaining, really, about providing food and entertainment for most of my visitors. I’m a chiropractor who is doing okay even in this economy. In fact, most people [...]
UC Berkeley Study Results In Good News For Older Women and Exercise
In two papers published in recent months and based on a 2006 study of endurance training on 10 women who averaged 55 years of age and were healthy but sedentary, UC Berkeley researchers report that postmenopausal women can achieve the same health benefits from regular, vigorous exercise as younger women do. As a chiropractor who [...]