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Café of Life Newsletter – March 2006

By Dr. Allison Barriscale

March is “Kids Month” at Café of Life. 

This month we are excited to share the value of life enhancing wellness chiropractic care and a wellness lifestyle for children.  The Café of Life’s vision extends beyond our planet’s current state and looks to distant future generations.  We understand that our children really are our future.  By instilling healthy values and wellness practices into our younger generations we help to create a stronger, healthier future for many generations to come.   

The early years in a child’s development are crucial for determining their future health and well-being.  We know from research, that the early years are vitally important times for the development of their nerve system, which coordinates and controls every function in their body.  Who we are as adults is largely related to what happened to us and what we experienced and observed when we were very young.   

From before birth, until the age of five, a child’s nerve system is growing and learning at an astonishing rate.  Neurological pathways are forming and building upon one another.  This process is most intensive and more easily influenced during the early years of life, when our neurology is most flexible.   

Dr. Bruce Lipton, a renowned cellular biologist, describes a child’s developing nervous system as a tape recorder that is constantly imprinting all of the information that is perceived directly into their nerve system.  Children act as a neurological vacuum cleaner sucking in all that is happening around them. This understanding can help explain many of the chronic patterns that we see running through families such as abuse, alcoholism, and even depression. 

With each experience a child has there is the opportunity to appropriately integrate that experience and learn, grow and develop optimally as a result.  Alternatively, an overwhelming physical, chemical or emotional stressor or experience will cause tension, stress and adverse patterns to accumulate in their nerve systems, which Chiropractor’s term subluxation.  By providing children with chiropractic care we can help them appropriately processes their experiences as they are happening while allowing minimal tension and subluxation to be stored in their bodies.   

In this proactive approach we can prevent future health and behavioral issues by minimizing the accumulation of stress and tension in their nerve systems.  This allows for optimal health, function and performance in the present as well as in adulthood.   

At the Café of Life we strive to empower the children we serve with an understanding that their bodies are innately intelligent.  We help them understand that their bodies are powerful, beautiful and healthy and that they are too.  When they are experiencing symptoms such as a cough or a fever we remind them that they are strong and their bodies can take care of them.  Many of them understand that symptoms are generally a sign that their body is undergoing a healthy process to manage a stress to their system, such as a virus.  By instilling this trust in their bodies, they learn that they are powerful and that their innate intelligence is there to help them in every way.

Children in our “Chiro Kids Club” love coming to the Café of Life.  Rarely is there ever any fussing about lying on the table or on mom’s tummy.  They seem to innately understand the value of chiropractic care for themselves. 

When we look around today at our aging baby boomer population, with an already overwhelmed healthcare system, we see that we need to be open to a different perspective.  The reactive model of our health care system is putting a huge strain on our society and if nothing changes it can only get worse. 

We need to look beyond what is happening today and think of future generations and what their fate may look like.  North American aboriginal people have it right, considering the effect of what they are presently doing on seven generations into the future.  By instilling similar values into our youth and by thinking about the future of our planet now, in every action we make, we can help create healthy generations for many years to come. 

What’s Happening this month at the Café of Life

Employee Health Program

We'd like to introduce you to Toronto's 1st complimentary "Employee Health Program”.  Our purpose is to provide quality health education to your workplace by offering a variety of professional, life enhancing "Lunch and Learn" programs and comprehensive, interactive "Company Health Fairs".  To learn about our 20 "Lunch and Learn" topics and our "Company Health Fair" professional team visit our website, www.cafe-of-life.com and click on Lunch and Learn.  To book a "Lunch and Learn" for your company/church/organization please call 416-487-6817.  We are limited to 8 "Lunch and Learns" and 1 "Company Health Fair" per month. 

“The Two Sides of Birth and Raising a Child”

Discovery Workshop with Dr. Evan Hill: Mon, Mar 20, 7:30-8:30pm

Discover the different approaches to birthing (i.e. holistic vs medical).  Know your options as a parent and learn about the benefits and risks to the different approaches.

"How to raise a Healthy, Drug Free Child"

Discovery Workshop with Dr. Shaian Mollaret: Mon, Mar 27, 7:30-8:30pm

A Complimentary Programme To Teach You What You Can Do To Ensure A Healthy Pregnancy And Healthy Children.

“Wellness and Aging Well”

With Flo Ferraton, from Melaleuca (www.meleleuca.com): Thu, Mar 23, 7:30-8:30pm

Detoxify your environment by eliminating poisons from your home.  Discover how simple life-style habits can help enhance the quality of your life!

“Chiro Kids Club” Creative Expression

Over the next couple of weeks we will be collecting artwork from our Chiro Kids answering the question “What do you love about the Café of Life?”  With permission, we will be posting these drawings inside the Café of Life for everyone to see.