For decades it has been known that TV watching contributed to child obesity.  Children who watch just one hour of TV a day have a significantly higher possibility of becoming overweight. But it’s not just kids who plump up watching the boob tube.  The TV can have very detrimental affects on adults too. Several years ago a study was done with 4000 adults of both sexes.  Two groups were formed.  One group increased their TV watching over a 5 year period.  The other group’s TV watching stayed the same over the 5 years.  At the end of...

I have become very enthusiastic about traditional Chinese medicine because of the results I have obtained.  There were some key dietary changes My acupuncturist asked me to make.  Because of this, I became interested in Asian cooking. I thought I would do a little research on the reason Asian cultures seemed to use white rice instead of whole grain brown rice.  Why weren’t they concerned about the greater nutritional value of brown rice? The focus of this article changed after doing a little research on this subject. I found out something more interesting. Rice has concerning amounts of  inorganic...

A friend and I started seeing a doctor from China that practices Oriental medicine in downtown Los Angeles.  My friend has stage 4 cancer and heard about him from her roommate.  I started going because of pain throughout my body that had become so debilitating, I could barely walk anymore.  A month ago we went to see Dr. Teng, a skilled acupuncturist and herbalist. I was shocked by his dietary recommendations, but was willing to have treatments and do the diet for 6 weeks to see if it helped. It has been less than 4 weeks and...