| Hello, 2009 is ending- and with holidays! We want to wish you a happy holiday season and give you a few good tips to make this holiday season one to remember!
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Food Poisoning 
The holiday season is upon us, and with it- we have many opportunities to go out and to have new and different foods. But Food Borne illness is common in the United States - here are a few tips to help you avoid the this.
At the holiday party - look skeptically at the platters of food before you and think - bugs. Not flies- but bacteria. There is nothing worse that having the holiday season ruined because eating something that was not prepared properly. Every year over 75 million Americans develop some form of food poisoning- over 300,000 of them are hospitalized and at least 5,000 people die from food borne bacteria. You cannot protect yourself against the way the food was prepared. If you are preparing the food there are a few tips for you: For more information about this article please
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Raw or Cooked Vegetables 
Do you remember your mom telling you that vegetables were best raw and not cooked? Well, mom was wrong!
In one way she was correct - if you take raw vegetables, and put them into a science lab and break them down they will have more of the good stuff than cooked-- but human beings don't have the enzymes to break down.
Turns out that humans get much better nutrition from cooked vegetables. I have a short video about this that you can see if you click here
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Support Group Thursday 
Our support group will be Thursday night, December 19th at 6:30 p.m. at Surgical Specialty Hospital.
Dr. Simpson will be there and will help you come up with some great ideas for the New Year.
This next year we will be opening up an East side location for support groups once a month, and for fills. Stay tuned- we are working to get this done so that we can make it easier to take care of all our patients throughout the valley. We don't know when it will open yet- but we hope by February. We will send out an announcement as soon as we can take appointments, do adjustments, and have support groups.
Our Monday hours have expanded to go Monday afternoon. Please note that some Monday mornings we will be not seeing patients until 11 a.m. - not all, but some - so please be flexible.
This Saturday we have hours until noon- with a patient seminar at 10. If someone you know needs to learn about the band- encourage them to come to this free seminar!
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