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Feelgoodforlife.com Offers Valuable Information on the Effects of Antioxidant Rich Supplements on the Aging Process — and Goji Juice Is Near the Top of the List

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Qigong offers relief to those who suffer many diseases

Complementary therapies should be subjected to scientific study (wherever possible) so that the proven ones can be practised as evidence-based complementary medicine.

I AM happy to report that after many years of sharing that qigong is useful for different diseases, my message has finally been noticed by some local scientific associations and even a local university medical faculty.

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Ancient Chinese Art Provides Holistic Approach to Curing Wide Range of Maladies

LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Enriching its portfolio of wellness opportunities, Crystal Cruises is introducing onboard acupuncture, along with a menu of Chinese herbs revered for restoring and enhancing health, beauty and longevity. A menu of optional acupuncture treatments, launching this month on Crystal Serenity, focuses on weight loss, pain management, stress reduction, detoxification, smoking cessation, facial rejuvenation and even sea sickness.

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Here are some steps to reclaim a healthier you

THE DOCTOR’S WORD

1. Attend every possible health camp that takes place in your vicinity. Whether it’s a diabetes camp, a blood pressure check-up or a regular cholesterol test, being proactive about health could save your life.

2. Swap the weight scales for a tape measure. The measurement of key areas that hold fat in your body can be just as important as your weight. If your measurements are on the higher scale, lose weight now!
THE DOCTOR’S WORD

1. Attend every possible health camp that takes place in your vicinity. Whether it’s a diabetes camp, a blood pressure check-up or a regular cholesterol test, being proactive about health could save your life.

2. Swap the weight scales for a tape measure. The measurement of key areas that hold fat in your body can be just as important as your weight. If your measurements are on the higher scale, lose weight now!

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Street Food in Asia

Toronto has all the ingredients for the world’s best street food outside of Asia. We have the know-how: recently arrived cooks from places like Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore, where street food is elevated to an art form. We have excellent raw ingredients: high-quality meat, along with family-run businesses that make their own tofu and kimchi. We even have Greenbelt farmers growing Chinese herbs and greens. Most importantly, we have a large Asian population hungry for the foods they ate back home.

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You can find acne remedies in your kitchen!

Acne can erupt anytime and anywhere. It is a mysterious skin disorder and as yet has no definitive singular cause. Because of this, several remedies are put forward by medical experts and alternative health practitioners, which unfortunately works only on a case-to-case basis. The most that they do is heal the most basic symptoms and not the root cause, often resulting to several sporadic acne eruptions. Mostly, over-the-counter products are very expensive. They also tend to be very harsh and strip the skin of its natural oils. Some people, in their desire to use only the most organic products turn to natural remedies to help cure acne.

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Alternative medicine is gaining popularity in Australia

DESPITE natural antipathy to health approaches that seriously challenge its pre-eminence, the medical profession can no longer afford to scoff at and reject all complementary and alternative medicine as non-scientific.

Rather than introducing “irrational nonsense” into its curriculum, as claimed by Rose Shapiro, the author Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All (quoted in The Age, 5/7), the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is being responsible and demonstrating appropriate leadership in tackling the controversial issue.

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Two of the world’s biggest countries are teaming up on traditional medicine research

India, China to step up cooperation in traditional medicine

BEIJING: China and India have agreed to intensify bilateral cooperation in the field of traditional medicine and discussed ways to enhance mutual understanding of each other’s ancient treatment systems.

Nodal agencies were identified on either side to work out action plans and timetables, during discussions held by an Indian delegation of the government organisation AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoepathy) with their Chinese counterparts.

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Chinese medicine emphasizes that brain shouldn’t be loaded with relentless workload but for people in Turkey this is not a problem

When a man is in China, he not only changes the environment but his entire viewpoint is affected or changes because China is a world on its own. Every one of four people in the world lives in this country spreading across more than nine million square kilometers of land, which is equal to the entire European continent.China, as a “hyper power” turning into the biggest rival of the United States in the 21st century, is experiencing tremendous growth, but at the same time it is an incredibly “ethnocentric” country. After all, it is a world in itself as it embodies accumulation of a thousands of years old civilization and culture.

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In Western culture, a “snake oil salesman” is synonymous with a charlatan. But this article explains that in cultures throughout the world, they rely on snakes for their healing properties:

Got a headache? You could take a painkiller or, if you happen to be in the Black Sea town of Kirkpinar between early May and mid June, you could put a snake on your head.

Every country has its share of snake myths. In the United States, some people believe that a woman’s birth pains are reduced if she ingests a drink made from the powdered rattle of a rattlesnake. In Thailand, a married couple isn’t supposed to see a snake together or the wife will miscarry. And an old English treatment for neck injuries was to draw a live snake across the affected area three times and then bury the snake alive in a bottle.

In Kirkpinar, snakes treat every sort of ailment but are apparently especially successful at treating skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis.

Kirkpinar is a small village near the larger town of Bayburt and some of its female inhabitants make a significant part of their yearly income by hunting and gathering baby snakes as they hatch in mid-May from underground eggs. These snakes are of the natrix (grass snake) genus which live in grasslands near water and are neither aggressive nor venomous.

The snakelets are kept in earth-lined boxes and reared on cow’s milk for two months. During this period, sufferers seeking “snake treatments” arrive from all over Turkey. Ten sessions are deemed necessary for a cure and treatment takes place in the grass fields around the village where the afflicted lie down in the sun, fully clothed, and wait.

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