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Issue: #49
November 26, 2012

 Getting old but still playing!
Volume 2, Letter 49
 

November 26, 2012 

 

Injury prevention is the key to longevity in sports and activity.  This is not to say that risk avoidance is preferable to smart activity.  

 

For example, are all trampolines bad since the rate of injury is so high?  I would say no.  Our job is to teach our children safe trampoline use techniques and also provide a netted and well maintained trampoline.  

 

When I see a trampoline without side netting, my first thought is that the risk of serious injury is greatly increased.  My children know that the house rule is no jumping on trampolines without the netting.  

 

Trampolines provide a medium for children to learn better positional sense in space.  This will actually help them prevent injury when falling down in a sporting event.  

 

Why is it that as we age we don't tolerate motion well, yet as a child we can go for long car and boat rides without issue?  As we age, we spend less time rolling and playing causing our vestibular system to be less tuned to position sense in space.  Then a long car ride becomes a nauseating event.  

 

The answer is to get back on the trampoline with your children. Roll, spin and live as a child and smile.  

 

Guided lives - not excessively controlled,

  

Dr. Magryta


Why Animals Are Good For Us?
nala

Man's best friend is also a microbial bounty for a growing newborn, a source of positive energy to all and a good teacher of loyalty and honor. 

Most Americans know that domestic animals are beneficial to us. What many do not know is that dogs and cats offer natural ways to prevent allergic and auto-inflammatory diseases.  The science keeps pointing towards our microbiome, gut microbes, as the source of early dysfunction in our immune regulation.  Good gut microbes equal long and disease free health.  I will keep the focus on the microbiome for years to come because I believe that this is the root of many health problems and a path to cure.

(aside - studies have proven the profound effect of the gut microflora.  For example, ulcerative colitis patients can be placed into remission with a therapeutic enema of healthy colonic bacteria from a healthy host.  The microflora control the inflammation)  

Domestic and farm animals provide us with natural gut flora when we are exposed to them at birth.  They that take up residence and keep the bad bugs from growing and causing DISease.  Think about the overuse of antibiotics and the subsequent yeast infections or diarrhea.  Good guys killed causes bad guys to rise.  Or bad guys get there first after birth and win the squatter's rights battle.  It is critical that we provide the proper bacteria to a newborn through natural exposures like animals, breastfeeding and natural vaginal deliveries.  

Animals also provide us with tremendously positive feelings and that fact alone is profoundly beneficial to a child's life. Children learn how to care for another as well as to learn reciprocity.  They learn loyalty and that is a hard lesson to teach.  Many studies have shown that humans are often more relaxed when they care for and enjoy an animal.  


Loving my dog, Nala,

Dr. M


 
Recipe of the Week

White Bean Dip

Ingredients:

1 large can white cannellini beans, rinsed and drained   
10 garlic cloves, roasted
1/8 cup chopped fresh basil and parsley  
2 tablespoons olive oil   1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice   Sea salt and fresh black pepper to taste

You can add chopped and saut�ed mushrooms and onions for a twist.  
 

Directions:

 

Roasting garlic - clip the tops off of all garlic in the head.  Spray with olive oil and wrap with aluminum foil.  Roast in oven for 30 minutes on 375.  

 

In a food processor, add the beans, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice. Blend until smooth. Then add parsley and basil and stir in.  S and P to taste.  Serve any way you want.  



Dr. M

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Chris Magryta
Salisbury Pediatric Associates
Touchstone Pediatrics