Massive Frozen Food Recall issued! Please read and share.

Here's a brief on for you guys today. Please read the article posted below and share. Also, check out your freezer to see if any of the listed brand named foods are in there. Last week I had 3 patients show up in my office stating they recently suffered food poisoning. with severe gastrointestinal upset as a result of eating foods from this list. Two of them spent time in the hospital. This serious stuff, people! Fortunately, we can all protect ourselves and our loved ones with a small investment in time and energy.

So here's the article, cut and pasted from the following web link:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/health/frozen-food-recall-listeria/

(CNN)CRF Frozen Foods announced Tuesday that it's expanding a voluntary recall of frozen organic and non-organic fruits and vegetables because of possible health risks.

The company issued the recall in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because the products might be contaminated with listeria.

Republic of Tea organic turmeric ginger tea recalled

Listeria is a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. It can cause serious, sometimes fatal infections in older adults, pregnant women, newborns and individuals with weakened immune systems, according to the CDC. Symptoms include high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, stomach pain and diarrhea.

CRF said the CDC notified it that seven people from three states have become ill and were hospitalized due to listeria. Some of these illnesses have been linked to consuming CRF-manufactured or processed products. Two of these individuals died, but listeria was not the cause of death in either person, CRF said in a statement.

Foster Farms recalling chicken nuggets

The expanded recall of frozen vegetables includes all of the frozen organic and non-organic fruit and vegetable products manufactured or processed in CRF Frozen Foods' Pasco, Washington, facility since May 1, 2014. All of the affected products have the best by dates or sell by dates between April 26, 2016 and April 26, 2018. These include about 358 consumer products sold under 42 different brands.

Products include organic and non-organic broccoli, butternut squash, carrots, cauliflower, corn, edamame, green beans, Italian beans, kale, leeks, lima beans, onions, peas, pepper strips, potatoes, potato medley, root medley, spinach, sweet potatoes, various vegetable medleys, blends and stir fry packages, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, peaches, raspberries and strawberries. For a complete list of affected products and for the UPC codes, check out the FDA site, www.fda.gov.

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CRF initially recalled 15 frozen vegetable items on April 23, 2016 out of concern that they were potentially contaminated with listeria. The listeria was discovered through routine testing by state health officials in Ohio. Listeria was found in one lot of Individually Quick Frozen organic petite green peas and one lot of IQF organic white sweet cut corn. CRF suspended operations at its Pasco facility as of April 25.

CRF apologized for any concern or inconvenience the recall has caused their customers. Consumers who purchased these products may return them to the store where they were purchased for a refund and are warned not to eat these products.

Questions can go to the company at 844-483-3866.

As always, thank you for your time and attention. Make today a great day!

Yours in health,

Christopher B. Renne, D.C.

Chiropractic Physician

www.activechirocenter.com

On May 10th, 2016 Can this possibly be true?

Medical Errors May be the 3rd Leading Cause of Death in the United States!

Hey there again, friends, Dr. Chris here sharing some thoughts regarding a recent CNN article that came out earlier this month regarding medical errors.

I think many people would be shocked to learn that recent estimates suggest that over 250,000 people per year are dying here in the United States due to medical errors.  Most alarming is that research supporting this claim also suggests that many of the medical errors are simply due to logistical problems such as inventory, barcode, and medicine tracking short comings.  Let me state this again, over 250,000 people potentially dying in arguably the world’s finest hospitals due to preventable errors. This number breaks down to over 685 lives everyday dying from potentially preventable causes. 

Let me also state that I am not one of those crazy chiropractors that believes you should never go to your medical doctor.  That could not be any further from the truth.  As most of you already know, my team consists of chiropractors, medical doctors, massage therapists and registered chiropractic assistants.  Most certainly, I would be the first to refer a patient out for necessary and timely medical evaluation and treatment recommendations.

That said, the point of sharing this CNN article is highlight how imperative it is to be an advocate for a loved one that winds up in the hospital.  Just last year my family and I spent several weeks in the hospital overseeing the care of a dear family member. On multiple occasions the well intention staff, being overburdened with multiple patients and extreme responsibility, nearly made significant errors that could have been critical.  Had we not been there to ask questions and to seek additional medical staff to help, perhaps he too would have become a contributor to this statistic.

I strongly encourage you to click on the link below and read the results of this CNN article.  My hope is this will empower you to be an empowered patient and an attentive patient advocate when that time comes for you.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/health/medical-error-a-leading-cause-of-death/index.html

Nobody will ever care for you greater than a family member.  Despite the best intentions of our medical professionals, sometimes errors occur. Please be an advocate for your loved ones and take the time to learn how you can help prevent someone you deeply care for from becoming a medical error statistic. 

As always, I encourage you to be happy, healthy, and well.  Make today and this week your best ever.

Christopher B. Renne, DC

Chiropractic Physician

www.activechirocenter.com

Serving Metropolitan Jacksonville, Florida since 2000.

Just say NO to DRUGS version 2.0

Doctor Renne here, Jacksonville. Today’s topic: painkillers.

Let’s say you’ve been in an accident of some kind and sustained a lower back injury, as many of my patients have. You’re in pain. You come to see me or one of my colleagues, and we start talking about adjustments, stretching, massages, and physical therapy, and all this other stuff. To you, it sounds like a long road ahead.

Why not just cut to the chase? After all, your problem is that you’re in pain. Why don’t we just prescribe some painkillers? That’s what they’re for, right?

Well, as it turns out, this can be a dangerous road to go down.

Virtually all of the really effective pain medications are strictly controlled narcotic-type drugs. And they’re strictly controlled for good reasons: they can be both dangerous and addictive! Every year, thousands of people die from ‘opioid overdoses,’ a category that includes prescription painkillers. And taking virtually any of these medications for more than a few weeks almost always results in dependencies and withdrawal symptoms when you stop taking them.

But there’s actually a sneakier danger lurking in pain pills. Painkillers change your brain.

Without getting too technical, your brain has receptors in it that certain molecules bind with on contact, and when that happens, you feel good. Your body manufactures many of these molecules naturally, and they are known as endorphins. If you’ve ever gotten a “runner’s high” you know what I’m talking about.

Painkillers are designed to slide in and bind to those receptors themselves as if they were natural endorphins. Your brain gets the message, and you start feeling better. But if this goes on too long or happens too often, your brain will get ‘habituated’ to the effect. It starts creating more receptor sites for the drugs to bind to. Your body may also start to generate fewer natural endorphins on its own.

What this means in layman’s terms is that you need more and more of the medication to be effective and that you feel worse without it. In fact, in the long term, the medication may stop working entirely, even though you still feel a powerful need to take it. And that’s a road you really don’t want to go down, especially given the danger of overdoses!

I’m not trying to scare anybody. Some people can benefit from prescription pain medication under the oversight of a qualified physician. But it’s important to remember that these are powerful drugs that have real risks. That’s why when you come in with lower back pain, I typically turn to more natural healing methods rather than recommending prescription painkillers.

If you are experiencing back pain, you don’t have to suffer in silence. My phone number is (904)398-4860. Call today. We’ll figure out a plan to get you on the road to healing quickly.

Yours in health,

Christopher B. Renne, D.C.

Chiropractic Physician

www.activechirocenter.com