Last week, about the time I hit the 35th iteration of my dissertation on the value of soup, I thought ‘I’ve got to write this up. Then I can just hand it out!’ Every week my patients seem to present me with a different theme, and last week’s was definitely about eating in a way […]
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building your immunity
Dr. Mao Shing Ni has this to say about our immune systems: ‘Think of your immune system as the National Guard coming to the rescue during times of grave danger – whether it’s a threat from the outside or a disaster on the inside’. I just love that quote. We tend to see our immune […]
acupuncture for kids
I love giving acupuncture to kids. For one thing, they’re a lot easier to work with than adults, largely because they haven’t been on the planet long enough to accrue all this stuff that we older folk gather: beliefs, injuries, beliefs about our injuries, stress, you know. An acupuncture treatment for a child, therefore, usually […]
it’s resolution time!
We’re almost through the season of indulgence – all those holiday meals and parties and bowl games with unlimited noshing. All of which lead to a mostly grim determination to restore balance by ‘going on a diet’. Am I right? Hands up everyone out there who is going to make losing weight a New Year’s […]
We are what we eat
We are what we eat. This statement is becoming more and more profound as I study Chinese Medicine Nutrition. It covers not only what passes our lips and enters our bodies; it also has to do with how we prepare our food and how we eat it. We pay loads of attention to it on […]
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