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China Watch Blog would like to share with readers its own family’s experience with the use of this product – Body Rejuvenator – which is sold only in the USA and European Union, but imported by yours truly to Hong Kong. Yours truly found that the product really helps people improve their memory, especially people suffering from Alzheimer’s diseases – although the producer of this stuff does not make this claim in promoting this product.

Please note that yours truly is not an agent of this product, but merely a user. You may purchase this product directly from this company if you like to use it. Please go this link: http://miracle2network.com/bodyrejuvenator.asp

At the website, readers will find out that the product is used to help people with unbalanced blood sugars which are causing some of the most serious challenges in today’s world -from energy slumps to stress, to mood swings to degenerative diseases, including Type I and Type II Diabetes.

The Body Rejuvenator claims to help people with these problems, and I think it does! Since everyone has sugar in their blood (and most people have too much) practically everyone can benefit from this powerful elixir.

Millions of people today are living fatigued lives, because their blood sugars are too high. Only they don’t realize that’s the reason. Fortunately their condition may not have progressed to diabetes or some other degenerative disease, but their health has been severely compromised anyway. It’s so simple to begin balancing these sugars. Just one ounce a day of this great tasting body rejuvenating elixir may be all you need.

Addiction to sweet food could also lead to the conditions stated above, so be moderate in what you eat. You are what you eat basically.

China Watch Blog has learnt that a recent nationwide study confirms that binge drinking has reached epidemic proportions in China and argues that efforts to tackle the problem must address the country’s unique drinking culture.

In this study, published online in the journal Addiction, binge drinking was defined as consuming 50g or more pure alcohol in one day for men (about five 330ml tins of beer), and 40g or more for women.

The study found that of the almost 50,000 people surveyed across China, 55.6% of men and 15% of women were current drinkers, having had at least one drink in the previous 12 months.

Among current drinkers, men averaged a daily intake of 47.8 grams of pure alcohol, with a median of 5.6 binges per year. Women fared a bit better, with an average daily intake of 19.1g and a median of 2.4 binges per year. Twenty-six percent of male drinkers and 8% of female drinkers were classed as ‘frequent drinkers’, drinking 5-7 days per week.

So among Chinese people who drink, the average man regularly drinks to just below binge level and has a true binge about once every two months. The average woman drinks to excessive levels (above 15g per day) and binges about once every 5 months.

What makes China unique among other heavy drinking countries is that drinking frequency, quantity, and binge drinking increase with age. The heaviest Chinese drinkers are middle-aged or beyond, while drinking levels in other countries tend to peak in people’s late teens and early twenties.

There is a cultural basis for this difference: Chinese youths are expected to concentrate on education and avoid alcohol, while older people are encouraged to drink during social occasions to enhance friendships and build relationships with business partners.

Entrenched drinking customs in China also contribute to the problem, such as frequent dining out, drinking with business partners, toasting (urging one another to drink), and popular drinking games such as ‘Wager’ that encourage excessive drinking, the study says.

China Watch Blog has come across this interesting phrase in a Chinese soap opera “No regrets”, where the male actor Wayne Lai Yiu-cheung asks: “How many decades (a decade is 10 years) does one have in life?”, implying that everyone should live life to the fullest, with passion as our life is “very precious”.

This phrase has become a very hot phrase in Chinese soap operas and dramas.

We must become addicted to life and daily we should be aware of how fragile life is. Choose to value every second, minute, hour and day of our life, instead of wasting it. Our life flits away day by day.

Since we have this life, what is the most important thing in life then?

Seek for Happiness! In everything that we do, we must strive to bring happiness to others, and in so doing, we will have happiness in our life.

So, it is not important if we live a decade in our life, but to live a life, even if it is only for a day, with full happiness.

China Watch Blog has learnt that Mainland China’s Internet users has reached a staggering 485 million by the end of June this year, and the figure shows that the growth rate is slowing to 6.1 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier, but is this an addiction to the use of Internet?

Microblogging and group-buying posted the highest growth in users, according to a report by the state-backed China Internet Network Information Center.

Shanghai Daily reported the network as saying that microblogging sites had 195 million users by the end of June, more than tripling from the beginning of this year as the new platform provided easier ways for people to interact and post thoughts online.

Social networking sites saw users drop 2.2 percent to 230 million in the same period, the report said.

CNNIC compiled the report, which included 53,749 respondents.

McKinsey & Co predicted earlier this year that the Internet population in China will grow to 750 million by 2015 with more users accessing the web through mobile devices.

About 36 percent of China’s population accesses the Internet, which compares to more than 70 percent in both South Korea and Japan.

Web users who turned to group-buying sites for bargains rose 125 percent in the period to 42.2 million users.

Such sites attracted 18.7 million users as of the end of last year.

China Watch Blog was told by a reader that no matter what we think and do in our life, there is always the “animal nature” in us towards food, that is, the desire to eat most things that we can lay our hands on.

Chili sting ray and cockleshell

Nowadays, many, after being bombarded with messages of healthy living, healthy food and healthy exercises, may not be so tempted to gorge himself or herself with his or her favourite food like in the past. Yet, there are many people who have this problem.

Singapore hawkers' centre

Yes, the strong desire to eat – tantamount to food addiction – can lead to addiction if not checked. Many blame themselves for having lack of self control.

Delicious "low mean"

But what do you do if you “love” to eat and cannot control yourself?

Mouth Watering Fried Crab

A nutrition expert says that instead of trying to fight the desire to “eat”, which is not easy, people should go with the flow and “eat”, but everytime, they do so, they should try to eat half of the food and either packed the other half for someone else in the family or at least bring it back and feed their pet, if relevant.

Just get the taste of the food, and try to stop after one or two mouthful in the long run. Yes, it is difficult, but if you keep trying and trying and trying, you can kick the habit and fight the addiction to food.

Again, remember to go with the flow, but eat sparingly and you will win the battle.

China Watch Blog points out that most of us are addicts in one way or another, but many will not care to admit it.

A simple past time like watching Television can turn a person into an addict, with the definition of addict meaning the addict will find it difficult to give up watching a favourite soap opera or drama or a programme that has caught his or her attention.

But in today’s Internet age, for example in Hong Kong, most TV programmes can be download from the TV station even if you miss your favourite programme.

So if you are a TV addict, don’t be disheartened if you miss any programmes. Just go to the TV station and download it and watch it in your spare time.

In that way, you will allow you addiction to TV programmes to prevent you from attending to other functions or chores.

Good luck.

China Watch Blog has learnt that the number of people who are addicted to promiscuous sex, telling lies & viewing pornography in the world are much more than the numbers estimated by the so-called experts.

How many will come forward and tell the world, yes, I am having promiscuous sex or admit they have lied to their spouses or come clean on having watched pornography.

Basically, we will never know how many are really addicted to sex, lies & pornography except those who come forward and seek treatment so that they can change their lives.

For those who are addicted to sex, lies and pornography, they have to come to real terms with themselves and try and try and try again to be rid of this addiction. It is no easy task, but you should try to do so, or it will destroy your life.

Your life will improve if you can rid yourself of this addiction.

China Watch Blog has picked up this news that a man in his 30s has died after a three-day gaming binge at an internet cafe outside Beijing, during which he did not sleep and barely ate.

The Standard reported the incident which highlights the nation’s ongoing battle to stamp out web addiction, which affects tens of millions, researchers say.

The man, who was not identified, slipped into a coma this week in the cafe on the outskirts of the capital. He was rushed to a nearby clinic, where he died shortly after, the Beijing Times said.

He spent more than 10,000 yuan over the past month on internet gaming, and had barely moved from his computer for a three- day period, the paper said.

Police confiscated several  computers as part of their investigation but ruled out murder.

Officers have also not detained the operators of the small cafe, which has only about six terminals.

The number of teenage internet addicts in China has soared to 33 million, spurring a new industry of unlicensed web “boot camps.”

China Watch Blog has learnt that many busy professionals, who work long hours and do not have time to go shopping, are turning to the Internet’s stores at Alibaba.com and various other similar setups, to purchase goods and they get lots of happiness from it.

What is the big attraction to online shopping? Price of course, and these online shoppers are happy because they can get lots and lots of bargains from the Internet.

My colleague recently purchased a North Face quilt jacket for 210 yuan, a fraction of the price for the same product sold in shops in major cities in China. Some are being sold for over 2,000 yuan.

So if you are offered the same product at one-tenth of the price in shops, would you buy it? And once you are indoctrinated into it, whenever you are free and you get to surf the internet, guess where you would be heading. Right, the internet stores offering bargains.

Therefore, it is buy, buy, buy for my colleague who is hunting for winter clothing and other accessories which are now being sold very cheaply as the online stores want to clear their stock before moving on to Spring season items.

Other than clothing and accessories, daily necessities are also being sold cheaply online. So, again it is order, order, order for flour, bread making items, Chinese tea products, food stuff, tit bits and so on.

In a week, my colleague who is a regular online shopper purchases anything from 10 items to 20 items, and all these purchases keep the courier and express companies busy. Similarly, hundreds and thousands of other people in China are doing the same, and they are buying, buying, buying almost everyday.

So much so that this online industry is booming, triggering off another boom among the courier and express companies who are hardly able to keep abreast of this boom. So more courier companies are opening up, while others cannot keep up with the competition are closing down.

In this fast booming market, even a one yuan price difference for courier fees make a difference because an online shopper may be buying up to 30 to 40 items per month, and the courier price adds up.

Let’s says online buying addiction is starting to grow in China, and believe me, it is contagious.

China Watch Blog has learnt that there is a Public Security Bureau notice  being disseminated on the internet which reminds the public to beware if someone approaches you  on the road in Fujian province and tries to sell you a popular form of Chinese tea called – Tie Guan Yin (literally translated as Iron Goddess of Mercy).

There has been reported incidents of such attempts to sell people this tea, and once they smell the tea,  they faint and what happens next is left to your imagination. They can either rob you, take you to a place and remove your vital organs for sale and so on.  Such cases have also occurred in  Guangdong, Hebei, Tianjin and Heilongjiang provinces as well.

On the same note, if someone approaches you on the road to sell you dried seafood products or garlic, and they ask you to smell or taste the products, be warned that “This is not garlic! It is ether garlic!” A kind of medicine which will make you faint once you take a whiff or two of it, and similarly, the product which they ask you to taste will also take you to Never Never land.

After you faint, you are entirely at the mercy of these crooks. They’ll take your wallet, strip your body of all the valuables and might even do some other things which we do not wish to report. Just leave it to your imagination again. So beware when travelling around China, don’t let people on the road get too close to you especially those who pretend they want to sell you something and get you to either taste their wares or to smell something which they are pandering.

Don’t be that kind hearted fool, who ends up holding the wrong end and short end of the stick by trying to be kind to “strangers” on the road. Many have learnt their lessons at a price.

And obviously these people who are up to no good are addicted to their leherous profession. Beware.