Acupuncture relieves hot flashes in hormone-treated breast cancer patients.

This link is to a study that shows acupuncture is better than drugs in treating the hot flashes induced by estrogen-antagonist therapies in oncology.  Acupuncture reduces all the side effects of Western cancer treatment and should be a part of everyone's comprehensive cancer care. 

excerpt from lecture; White rice is better than brown

This is a video excerpt from a lecture in which I talk about eating healthfully according to Chinese wisdom.  This section pertains to Grains.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJBnd2cb0Ms

My book referenced in Acupuncture Today article

The current issue (January 2010) of Acupuncture Today says some nice things about my book and its contents. Check it out, then tell all your friends to read it.

Sorry vegetarians, plants want to live too

Interesting NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?_r=1 about how plants try to protect themselves. This is something I argue in "The Asian Diet". I believe that God loves carrots too; and that a carrot would rather stay in the ground than be pulled up and chopped into my salad. It is not possible to Do No Harm and stay alive; so that is not the goal. The goal is to be thankful and mindful for everything that has to give it's life so that ours may continue.

Most Americans have way too much meat, and that is clearly not good. Vegetarians go just a little too far to the other extreme. Balance and moderation is best in most areas; including meat consumption. As one famous Chinese medical author wrote, "Vegetarianism is best suited for monks, living in the shelter of a temple and spending their days in seated meditation". Those of us with a more active lifestyle need a little bit of a more active food source.

Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener - Times Online

Thanks to my friend Graeme for this posting.

Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener - Times Online

Artificial and processed foods are foreign to the body. We need to get back to basics. Science has not served us well in instructing our diets. Read The Asian Diet.

Lowering Blood Sugar increases health risk in diabetics

New study finds that taking meds to lower blood sugar does not address the root cause. Turns out, it's diet. Chinese medicine is all about finding the root cause and addressing it. Western medicine is more focused on reducing symptoms. Symptoms are the way our bodies tell us that something is out of balance and needs to be changed. If we mask the symptom, then we can continue doing the damage to ourselves. The damage done in this case is an increase in heart attacks. Check out the link to read about the study.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/the-diabesity-epidemic-pa_b_389423.html

Artifiial sweeteners linked to Kidney failure

Thanks to my friend Annette for this link. Drinking diet sodas not only increases appetite and decreases metabolism and contributes to diabetes, it also doubles your risk of kidney failure.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027758_aspartame_kidney_failure.html