What Is Your Next Step?

        While out photographing wildlife in Algonquin Provincial Park last weekend, I came across this majestic Red Fox walking across a clearing in the woods after a fresh snowfall. I was immediately reminded of a quotation my Dad recorded in my autograph book as a little boy some fifty years ago “Your life lays out before you, like a sheet of driven snow. Be careful...
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Four Very Important Choices

We all know someone who has lived a very unhealthy lifestyle, indulged in all the apparent pleasures of life, and yet appears to be what we would call ‘healthy’.  And, we all know someone who has engaged a very fitness minded lifestyle, and yet suffered from disease.  There are numerous factors that influence our health and there is no guaranteed recipe for a lifestyle of wellness, however...
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What Your Body Needs

Every now and again we read in the news of someone going on a hunger strike, and if they actually decide never to eat any food again, they will live somewhere around 30 or 40 days, depending on circumstances.  So, obviously food (nutrition, vitamins, minerals, calories) is essential for life.  But even more essential for life is water – if we were totally deprived of all water, we would only...
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Amazing Design

Last Blog we noted how amazing the body was designed, so much so that it has an incredible ability to heal – something that is happening all the time, even when we don’t know it.  Here are some other pretty cool facts about your body: You have over 96,000 Km of blood vessels, enough to circle the globe 2 ½ times Your heart will beat about 2.6 Billion times over the course of your lifetime,...
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Another Successful Toys for Tots Day

The team at Martin Chiropractic is excited that another successful Toys for Tots Day has come and gone with almost 500 toys donated by our patients and friends in the community. It was the nineteenth consecutive year we have held Toys for Tots and is certainly one of the highlights of our year. For many of our patients it was also the nineteenth consecutive time they have donated toys and...
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