Healthy Kids & Families Speaker Series
Dr. Mercado and the Santa Anita Family YMCA have teamed up to provide a series of discussions with the kids and the parents of our local communities to Inform and Encourage. Our series is designed to provide research based information on popular health related topics and as a result, provide encouragement to make positive healthy changes. This 2012 Speaker Series includes 9 monthly health related topics alternating child and adult topics from February through the month of October. The 4th topic of 2012 discusses arthritis: types, causes, treatments, and how nutrition and exercise factors in. Read More
Insight as to how eating and exercise co-exist to help you manage weight loss properly. If you are going to exercise for weight loss, factoring in these 5 things will help you achieve both short and long term goals at an exponentially faster rate.
Questions to ask yourself
1. What are you eating? The types of foods factor in to gastric emptying, satiety, and many more of our body’s metabolic processes as does glycemic index values of foods.
2. How much are you eating? Calories Do Count. Read More
Symptoms:
Back pain that may occur without a known causative incident or with what the patient states as being a slight movement that wasn’t considered to be problematic. Patient may also state that hunching over to pick up a heavy object and twisting while lifting immediately caused pain. Pain can be excruciating and dispersed across the entire low back with limited movement. The patient may also have numbness, tingling, or radiating pain into the legs or feet.
Causes:
The intervertebral discs are similar to a jelly filled donut. Read More
