another review published about the Asian Diet

This article was written by Christy Bonstell, the Chicago beuaty and health examiner who works for Examiner.com

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Jason Bussell is the president of the Illinois Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and one heck of a writer to boot. Bussell, who was interviewed by Examiner.com about a year ago, recently released a book called "The Asian Diet." The book is not about dieting, it's about respecting food and the way your body uses that food. Supplements, lifestyle and other subjects that affect your health, happiness and weight are also addressed. The book is easy to read, chock full of helpful information and is actually fun to sift through. If you've been looking for a way to improve your eating habits that may actually last a lifetime, this book is for you.

Article published in Better Life Magazine

I just had an article published in Better Life Magazine, which serves North and Central California. It is a summary of The Asian Diet. You can visit betterlifemagazine.com and download the whole 44-page issue, or click here to just view the cover and my article.

Nationally syndicated radio show appearance tomorrow night on the USA Radio Network.
Dresser after dark is the show. I don't know when he will be airing. According to his tweet, tonight is his first night being syndicated on the USA radio network; so I am going to be one of his first guests on this huge network. Check your listings for the USA radio network affiliates. The interview is at 9pm central time, but I don't know when each station will air the interview.

I had to buy a corded phone for all these radio interviews. I thought my cordless would be OK, but one of the hosts complained about my home phone quality, so I will be tethered to the wall for this interview. Oh well, at least I do not have to fly all around the country to do these interviews. I am so happy and excited to be getting the word out about the asian diet.

post-father's day

Today I am downtown at the Tiffani Kim Institute, seeing patients. I read some great studies about how acupuncture reduces side-effects of chemo and radiation, so I have copied those and am sending them out to all the oncologists with whom I have worked in the past. Acupuncture should be a prt of everybody's comprehensive cancer care. It reduces all the side-effects; from the annoying (nausea, dry mouth, neuropathy) to the life-threatening (impaired immune system). Patients who have acupuncture in addition to convention chemo and/or radiation have a better quality of life, fewer and less-severe side-effects, and live longer.

Today, as I was yesterday and am everyday, I am basking in the glory of being a father. My wife made me a husband, and my daughter made me a father. I am an acupuncturist, student, teacher, author, and more; but father and husband are my most important and rewarding roles.

We work a lot with couples battling infertility. My wife is the top fertility acupuncturist in the midwest. We always wanted all of our patients to be able to conceive, but now it means so much more. We want everyone to feel this joy and love that we do. If you know of couples trying to conceive, have them seek out Jeanie for acupuncture, and buy her book, Fully Fertile.

Looking back, this post is not very cohesive. I'll try harder next time.

exciting radio opportunity

I just found out that my NYC radio interview tomorrow is a syndicated show and may broadcast in New York, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburg, Gary, Rockford, Cable radio nationwide, Sarasota and Tampa FL, Washington DC, Cityvibe in London and Singapore, Las Vegas, Springfield MO, Greenwich CT, Columbus and Cleveland OH, Wisconsin Mississippi, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Virgina, Arkansas, and more. The Frankie Boyer Show.

getting excited

I am getting excited at the prospect of The Asian Diet helping a lot of people. I'm sure I was put here to help people, and I love helping my patients; but with this book, I may be able to help thousands or even millions of people. We are misinformed about food and this leads us to making poor food choices. If we have the knowledge regarding the ways that different foods affect us, then we are empowered to make the best choices.

I am excited that I have a lot of repeat buyers of my book. People come in to buy one, then return to buy multiple copies to send to family and friends. I have one person who has bought nine copies so far. This tells me that they like the book, and I am so glad that my message is getting through.

Well, I call it my message, but it is really not at all. My book is nothing but a synthesis of all I have been taught by many Masters, current and ancient.

I hope you all can read it. It's only $10 from amazon.com, but you can just check it out from the library. If your library does not have it, please ask them to get it. Health care costs are going to bury this country and The Asian Diet can prevent many types of disease.

I don't mean to brag, but the purpose of this blog is to share my thoughts and feelings durng this process, and right now I'm pretty excited.

The book is selling very well at my office. Many patients have been buying multiple copies to give to friends and families. I am gratified to see that people are benefiting from the work I put into writing it.

On May 18th, 2009, I will conduct a small lecture and book signing at the Book Stall in Winnetks, IL. It's at 7pm and you are all invited to attend. I just gave a lecture and book signing at the Wilmette Library which was well attended and well received. They dubbed my lecture "Chinese secrets for health and longevity". Almost all of the audience were seniors. I do not mind, but at that stage of life, most of the damage has already been done. I need to get this info to the youth and middle-aged of America.

I presented to high school seniors this week and taught them about meditation and the need for balance in their lives. I have been approached by a phys ed teacher at a local high school about guest-lecturing for a health class. It will be next year, but I hope it happens. If we can teach people the truth about food and food choices; and impress upon them their importance, then we can help them avoid many problems later in life.

In other exciting news, I have been approached by a local TV station who want to know more about my book. They may feature me as a guest. There have been no formal offers yet, but they did ask to arrange a meeting next week. So hopefully this will be my first of many TV promotional opportunities. I still need to find a PR agent in Chicago.

It's late and I have been working a little too hard, so this post will end here. But not before I tell everyone to go to theasiaindiet.com and acfom,com

why calories don't matter

Caloric science is inherently flawed for 5 reasons (at least)

1. it assumes 100% absorption (doesn't count excretion)
   
2. it assumes that the amount of energy released by combustion is the same as released by enzymatic breakdown
3. people in china eat more calories and have less obesity
4. calories from different sources are absorbed differently
5. correlations don't show causation. People who are heavy eat more calories. Did the calories make them fat, or do they need more calories because they are fat? Perhaps they are both symptoms of a deeper problem.

I will go into this deeper at a later time, but it is all explained in my book: The Asian Diet: Simple secrets for eating right, losing weight, and being well. http://www.theasiandiet.com