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Recent studies have found that sugar is playing a massive part in the UK’s obesity problems. Sugar has lots of calories and has no nutritional value at all. With many of us consuming an alarming amount of it everyday, most of us don’t realise it’s hidden in many foods.

Consuming too much sugar can cause obesity and leads to many health problems such as diabetes and liver damage. Sugar can also affect your sleep, age your skin prematurely and affect your heart.

As lots of us are leading busy lives we end up eating processed foods and drink, as they are quick and simple to make. Here at our Chiropractor Southend we would like to share these tips on how to start eating a sugar free diet.

•  Always check the label on foods. You should be looking for foods that have less than 5g per 100g of sugar. Also watch out for the words fructose, lactose and sucrose as they are all forms of sugar
• Stop adding sugar to tea, coffee, and cereals. You can get plenty of healthy sugars from fruit and complex carbohydrates such as wholegrain pasta
• Try to get as much exercise as you can, this will help burn off the sugar that you have consumed. 30 minutes is the recommended daily amount
• Try to ditch processed and pre-packaged foods. Even lots of shop pasta sauces contain up to eight teaspoons of sugar. Make your own, it is healthier and quick and easy to do

If you follow these tips, you could be on your way to a healthier, sugar free diet in no time!

If you are suffering from pain or if you have any other concerns please get in touch with us as we offer a lot of help and advice to get you back up and running as soon as possible. You can contact us at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend on 01702 430430.

Many of you have been surprised by the number of pregnant ladies, babies and young children that attend the clinic.

Arif one of our Chiropractors at the clinic is a Fellow of the International Chiropractic Paediatric Association and Member of the Royal College of Chiropractic Paediatric Faculty.

 Giving birth can sometimes atler the shape of the baby’s head and can make breathing quite hard for the baby. By gently using his hands and fingers to correct distortions and compressions to a baby’s cranium, spine and pelvis it is possible to alter the shape of the head, normalise neural function and restore a child to a peaceful, happy and healthy state. Improvements can be noticed in just a few days. Above all these are very safe procedures and highly preferable to medication.

Here is Matilda’s story:

If you are suffering from pain or if you have any other concerns please get in touch with us as we offer a lot of help and advice to get you back up and running as soon as possible. You can contact us at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend on 01702 430430.

We all love a bit of feedback, especially when it’s positive feedback. Here at Cliffs Chiropractors Southend, we really enjoy hearing about our patients’ experiences.

We strive to provide an excellent service to our patients and will always look to do the best we can. At Cliffs Chiropractor Southend we believe our professionalism, hard work and expertise combines to provide not only excellent customer service but satisfactory results.

It turns out we are not the only ones who are happy with our service;

Benjamin T says:

“Besides a rough mark down my back showing where my back was pressing against my chair, I had no idea my spine wasn’t curving right. Although not a problem presently, this would become a problem in later life and that is something I really want to avoid. So I’m very grateful to the clinic for helping to explain to me very well what the problem was and help prevent problems in the future with next to no pain whatsoever. Already the mark is a lot smoother and disappearing and so I am very thankful for their help.”

Gill S says:

“I came to the cliff’s chiropractic clinic with a very painful hip and leg problem, which I’d had for years, after using various source of treatments, which never worked, came across this wonderful clinic, which to my delight gave me my life back, with the dedicated care from Arif and his team, I am so much better, if you’ve had on going problems with back, hip, ect, please give cliffs chiro a chance to prove that what they do really works, you won’t regret it.”

If you are suffering from pain or if you have any other concerns please get in touch with us as we offer a lot of help and advice to get you back up and running as soon as possible. You can contact us at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend on 01702 430430.

Putting up the Christmas decorations for many of us is an important part of Christmas.

Some people have even added decorations to the outside of their homes, with whole streets getting involved. Whatever scale of display you are intending, we want you to keep yourself safe this Christmas, especially when it comes to keeping your back safe.

Here at Cliffs Chiropractor we have some top tips for keeping your back safe whilst getting ready for Christmas:

Buying the Tree

Take care when getting it into and to the car. Trees are heavy and especially awkward to lift and carry. Don’t be worried about asking for help and use a trolley to avoid straining yourself.

Putting up the decorations

Make sure you use a stepladder if you are hanging decorations up, you may also need to use it to decorate the tree, if it’s very big.

Keep safe when using a ladder:

• Make sure it is planted securely so there is no chance that it will slip or wobble when you are up it. Better still have someone to hold it in place.
• When using the ladder, always have your body facing the steps, keep your shoulders, hips and knees pointing in the same direction.

Gift wrapping

Use a table or worktop to do your wrapping on as opposed to the floor. This will help you avoid straining your back. Remember to straighten up regularly, stretch gently to loosen off your back and take regular breaks.

 If you are suffering from pain or if you have any other concerns please get in touch with us as we offer a lot of help and advice to get you back up and running as soon as possible. You can contact us at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend on 01702 430430.

Being a leading Southend chiropractor we are aware that we are living in an era of significant population ageing. As we are living longer it is important that we know the significance that our posture plays in keeping us fit and active in our old age.

In 2012 a survey was carried out that highlighted the need for action and attention on watching your posture. With 48% of over 55’s admitting that they are a lot less active than they were 20 years ago and over 51% of over 55’s currently suffering from back and neck pain.

Here at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend we love to share advice. Below are a few tips on how to improve your posture at an old age.

• Try to stay as active as you can. Adding just a few minutes of exercise or stretches a day could be of benefit.
• Keep hydrated. The body works better when fluid levels are up and will keep you feeling energised.
• Walking is a great way to stay fit. It is less strenuous on the joints and can help maintain bone density.
• Look at ways to increase levels of activity, such as talking the stairs instead of the lift and walking instead of driving

If you are suffering from back pain or have any other concerns please get in touch with us as we offer a lot of help and advice to get you back up and running as soon as possible. You can contact us at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend on 01702 430430.