Sutherland Chiropractic Health Care Clinic
The Sutherland Chiropractic Health Care Clinic Newsletter
Spring 2007
Doctors Return From Golden Triangle
Dr. Michael Hornick, Dr. Stacey Hornick, and Dr. Nicole Arnold, recently returned from volunteering their time to help the children of the Golden Triangle where they provided free Chiropractic treatment to over 600 children. This was the first time that most of these children had ever been seen by a doctor.

The doctors worked out of the Akha Training Centre which is located in Chiang Rai province, in a small town called Mae Suai. This area is part of the famous "Golden Triangle", which stretches from Thailand to Laos and Burma.
Drs. Hornick and Dr. Arnold journeyed to the hills of Thailand to the region of Akha, by arrangement with CGT Inc., a non-profit organization that matches volunteers with projects that directly help the children of this region. The unique programs of CGT have transformed the lives of hundreds of Akha Tribal Children.

CGT Inc. has been rescuing and caring for children since 1994 and is a state government approved charity.
CGT Programs include:
Sponsor a Child: Children sponsored at the Training Centre Receive, total care, protection, comfort & love, three meals a day, healthcare, bedding, clothes, school uniform, education, training, the children gain confidence, a positive attitude towards life and a hope for their future.
Projects: Many small projects linked to a bigger program to add benefits and value.
Village poverty alleviation: CGT Inc. has a very exciting village poverty alleviation program.
Brief History of CGT::
The refuge was started in January 2000 by David and Asa Stevenson with the intention of caring for 20 Akha children that needed help with schooling and to take them out of the danger and vulnerability of sex slavery where they suffer years of humiliation that ends in the slow and painful death from AIDS. February 2000 the first building was started. Before the first building was finished 40 more children were found that needed shelter and food, to stop them going onto the street to beg. The children had walked 100’s of kilometres with no bedding or clothes finding food in the mountains as they went. Since 2000, with the help of many friends, the refuge has grown to accomodate many more children.
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Summer 2006 (Archive)

The things that you choose to do or not to do, will create the future that you have tomorrow. Your life is but a series of choices. Make them wise ones.

"The superior physician helps before the early budding of disease… To administer medicines to diseases which have already developed is comparable to the behaviour of those persons who begin to dig a well after they have become thirsty."
- Huang Ti (The Yellow Emperor) 2697-2597 B.C. -

What Have You Chosen?

- We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them -
Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883 - 1931)


So it is with both your physical and mental joys and sorrows. We would encourage you to live consciously by design, not by default. Too many times we will find ourselves caught in a survival or existence mode, rather than having a thriving or an experiential mode.

When you put that fast food hamburger, fries, shake, chicken, etc., in your mouth, are you thinking about the consequences of your actions? Sure, it might taste good, it is probably quick, but what does it really do for you? How many chemical irritants are in the food? What is the retained nutritional value? Is the time and effort you save, worth it to you? Looking at it another way, let's say you earn $100/day. You then go and spend $25 for your family to eat out. You have spent 25% of your workday, approximately 2 hours to save yourself 1 hour of cooking time. Factor in the cost of your (hopefully) more nutritious home-cooked meal, and you're even as far as the cost of time goes. However, if you've done it right, you now have the benefit of better nutrition which should mean better health = less sick time at work and at home = more energy and efficiency = better over-all lifestyle. You reap what you sow.

You could take some of that cooking time and turn it into a family affair. Have a medieval feast. Get the kids to help cook it. Teach them skills for later in life. If you can't cook, take classes together. If you can, learn something new. Talk to one another. Don't be strangers in your own house. Teach your family good habits. All of these may help to ease some of your emotional stresses. The better nutrition should help with some of the chemical stresses in your life. It is up to you, you can choose health, or you can pass it by and hope that some lands on you by default. Not having pain does not equal health. The World Health Organization defines health as the optimal state of physical, social, and mental well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

The things that you choose to do or not to do, will create the future that you have tomorrow. Your life is but a series of choices. Make them wise ones.