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Big, sloppy slices of watermelon served at a picnic table are the quintessential summer snack—sweet enough to be dessert but, as several recent studies remind us, good for our health as well. (And only 84 calories per wedge!) 1. It…
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ONE Start simple. We tend to spend many hours sitting in front of a computer, which distorts our posture and the natural curvature of the spine. When you’re next in the office, or in front of the computer at home,…
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Chinese medicine has a long history of helping infertile couples to conceive and documenting health preservation practices. In addition to providing treatment to couples and individuals wishing to conceive, modern Chinese medicine practitioners typically provide lifestyle advice in order to…
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As Dr. Macer said in Bioethics is Love of Life, the concept of love in bioethics can be seen in all culture, religions, and in ancient writings from around the world. Medical ethics in China has a long tradition. Under…
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a time-honored history of several thousand years. It is the sum of knowledge gained by all the nationalities of our country in fighting disease and maintaining good health in the course of a considerably long…
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What is FSH? FSH, or Follicle Stimulating Hormone, is a hormone that is produced and released by the pituitary gland in the brain and stimulates the ovaries to develop follicles, ripen the eggs and eventually release the eggs. A baseline…
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On pages 53-54 of issue 9, 2009 of Xin Zhong Yi (New Chinese Medicine), Cao Huai-ning published an article titled, “Clinical Research Assessing the Impact of Er Zhi Di Huang Tang on Hormone Levels & Anti-ovarian Antibodies in Patients with Premature Ovarian…
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The purpose of treating cancer cells with chemotherapy is to prevent them from dividing, invading and metastasizing. Most chemotherapeutic agents exert their effect on cell multiplication: obviously since multiplication is a characteristic of many normal cells, chemotherapeutic agents will inevitably…
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In the past few years it has become common practice by oncologists to advise patients who are undergoing chemotherapy not to take anti-oxidant supplements. The reasoning behind this advice is that chemotherapy destroys cancer cells by inducing free radicals and…
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