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China Watch Blog reports that someone sent this article for our readers to warn us that toxins are everywhere, so “detoxification” is a very important defense mechanism in terms of healthcare. A medical professional should be consulted prior to use of drugs or undertaking of dietary programs, and by taking such steps will lead to Happiness too.

People nowadays face lots of pressures in balancing their life and they are easily attracted by to various types of unhealthy food that are high-fat, high cholesterol, high-sodium, low-fiber, low-carbohydrate, etc. Consequently, they will weaken the immune system opening the door for various chronic diseases. With the advancement of medicine, many rely heavily on drugs and are less conscious about the fundamentals of diet.

Detoxification is to make use of the healthy food to remove the toxins from the body. Pesticides on food are common and when they enter and aggregate in our body, it is not hard to imagine how harmful they are.

To maintain a healthy body, we need to eliminate toxins from inside. Many kinds of food have detoxifying effects in general. There are many ways in detoxification. The high fiber, low fat, low sugar, low salt approach is most popular. Sweet potato, brown rice, fresh fruits and vegetables are good candidates as they are effective in toxin removal, highly acceptable, safe, economical, and easy to find.

The following are the top 10 food selected for detoxification purposes.

1. Seaweed: – Seaweed is rich in polysaccharides and highly alkaline. It can neutralize gastric acid, promote detoxification, prevent fat accumulation and help metabolism. Kelp is rich in alginate, mannitol, protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, iodine, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements. Especially with iodine, it is very useful in treating goiter and other diseases caused by iodine deficiency. It contains protein and eight amino acids. Iodine when absorbed can accelerate detoxification. In addition, it can lower blood pressure and prevent arteriosclerosis.

2. Onion: – Onions can promote gastrointestinal movement and strengthen digestion. Its sulfur combined with protein benefits the liver most, thus contributing to detoxification. The “warm” property of onion enables easy sweating and rowing edema. Sulfur compounds can rid the pesticides and other undesirable substances.

Recommendation: Add raw onions in a sandwich; add diced onions to soup with broccoli, carrots, celery and other high-fiber vegetables in order to break down toxins accumulated in the body and to help bowel movement.

3. Green bean: – Green bean is used in a variety of drugs by Chinese medicine professionals. Regular consumption of green bean can help getting rid of toxins from the body. It regulates metabolism. Green bean soup is best for detoxification and maintenance of healthy skin. With honey together, its detoxification effect is even better. Many people often eat bean sprouts (from green beans), because it is affordable. But very few know that green bean sprouts also has high medicinal value.

Recommendation: barley and green bean soup, blend green beans with boiled soy milk (or milk).

4. Sweet potato: – Due to the recent trend with concerns in health, the demand for sweet potatoes is up year after year with supply of sweet potatoes in different color and flavor. Sweet potato contains digestible fiber which can facilitate bowel movement. In addition, it can also neutralize acid accumulated in the body. Furthermore, sweet potato’s collagen and mucus polysaccharides can prevent arterial sclerosis. It also plays an important role in keeping vessels elastic and in excreting excess cholesterol.

Recommendation: baked sweet potato with skins. For health purposes, timing is important. The rule of thumb is to eat it early in the morning (e.g., 6:30 a.m.) before normal bowel movement time. This is to maximize intestinal absorption of sweet potatoes. This is particularly necessary for patients with serious illness wanting to use sweet potatoes for cure. Eating sweet potatoes after 12:00 is not desirable because the metabolism will slow down in the afternoon. On the contrary, sugar from sweet potatoes will remain unprocessed.

5. Cauliflower Cauliflowers (white) and broccolis (green) are cruciferous. Their antioxidant properties could have been proven with medical evidence that they can help to fight cancer. They also helps to prevent edema, increase the discharge of urine and to enhance the immune system. Cauliflower and broccolis are rich in β-carotene, vitamins B1 and C. They are also rich in calcium, potassium and small amounts of selenium (Se), a substance effective with anticancer, anti-heart disease and arthritis and other symptoms.

Additionally, there is a substance called lndol-3 carbonal, which can increase the secretion of female hormone estrogen to prevent breast cancer.

Recommendation: cook with seafood or cook in boiling water with a sprinkle of salt. They are nutritious, healthy and delicious.

6. Pumpkin: – Chinese medicine considers the pumpkin an excellent food for the heart, the spleen, the lungs as well as inner energy (qi). Pumpkin is indeed a very nutritious healthy food to be highly valued. It is rich in vitamins A and E to benefit human immunity especially during autumn. Pectin contained in pumpkin can “absorb” bacteria and toxic substances, including heavy metals such as lead. Besides the detoxification effect, pectin can also protect the stomach and reduce the chance for ulcer.

Recommendation: pumpkin porridge, pumpkin soup.

7. Mushrooms Mushrooms are rich in mucopolysaccharide, protein, fiber, minerals, etc. Not only nutritious, they are effective in anti-cancer and detoxification. Their high-fiber, low calorie properties make them ideal for weight watchers because mushrooms can fill you up without gaining weight. Mushrooms have many other health benefits because they contain nucleotides. They are delicious and so convenient to cook.

Recommendation: mushroom chicken soup, mushrooms over rice, boiled mushrooms with other vegetables.

8. Sprouts: – With protein than higher meat bean sprouts are highly nutritious. Protein in 1 gram of bean sprouts is equivalent to about 4 grams of meat. Sprouts contain ammonium acid, vitamins, calcium, potassium, iron and other minerals. The properties of high vitamin C and low fat, low starch and low sugar can produce good results for the prevention of constipation, weight loss, etc. Eating bean sprouts can help bowel movement. It is the ideal natural health food with good detoxification effects.

Recommendation: a mix of a variety of bean sprouts (e.g., alfalfa sprouts) topped with sugar-free yogurt and organic plum sauce or honey, add sprouts in salad, or eat sprout with an empty stomach for weight loss and detoxification.

9. Coriander: – Nutrient-rich coriander (or parsley) contains vitamin C, β-carotene, vitamins B1 and B2, etc., and rich in minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium. It also contains essential oil, and apple potassium. Vitamin C in coriander is much higher than ordinary vegetables. For most people, 7-10 grams of coriander will meet the demand of daily vitamin C. Its carotene content is 10 times higher than that in cucumber, tomato and soy bean.
Recommendation: three meals a day with plenty of coriander (or parsley).
Breakfast: coriander with apples, raisins, and nuts blended into juice;
Lunch: eat with other food;
Dinner: coriander with scrambled eggs , with pumpkin, or just bibimbap (mix with rice) for dinner.

10. Apple: – Apple is rich in vitamins B1, C, B5, β-carotene, fats, carbohydrates, protein, pectin, calcium, potassium, iron, zinc, fiber, malic acid and tannin. Zinc is the essential element in nucleic acid and protein which is closely related to memory functioning. Deficiency in zinc affects memory. Apple has been regarded to as the food for intelligence. New research shows that apple peels are rich in phytonutrients that have potent anti-cancer properties against breast, colon and liver cancer cells. The apple peel is also known to have a substance (天車菊素) that can stop vomiting. Unfortunately, many apple peels come with paraffin wax and pesticide residues that are not suitable for eating.

Recommendation: eat apple daily to clear up the stool. In meals toward the weekend, eat apple with yogurt and sweet potato to prepare for a thorough clean-up when it’s most convenient.

China Watch Blog has learnt that more than 20% of the whitening and freckle-reducing cosmetic products consumers can easily find on the market contain excessive heavy metals.

The revelation was made by a survey by 11 non-governmental organizations which said that the national standard for mercury content in cosmetics is below 1 part per million. But mercury content found in 23% of the sample products exceeded standards by 18 to 44,000 times.

Volunteers from the 11 NGOs randomly chose 477 whitening and freckle-reducing products in 10 cities across China and tested the heavy metal in them, using X-ray fluorescence.

Selected samples varied in price and sales channels, from stores online and offline. But many of the problematic products were bought in wholesale markets, according to a China Daily report.

“I was surprised by the results,” said Joseph DiGangi, senior scientific adviser from International POPs Elimination Network, one of the major organizers. “And we found that whether the cosmetic products have excessive heavy metal is not relevant to prices.”

Many of the samples with excessive heavy metal found in the survey use words like herbal medicine and Chinese drugs on the package, yet about 20 of the 112 problematic products contain at least three types of heavy metal – mercury, lead and arsenic.

“None of the problematic products have cited the content of heavy metal in their trade description, which is also against the law,” said Wang Qiuxia, a researcher from Beijing-based Daerwen Environmental Institute, another major player in the survey.

China Watch Blog has picked up this news that a new stem cell therapy treatment to develop new bones for patients with bone loss and new skin for recipients of plastic surgery has been developed in the mainland – major breakthrough in stem cell research.

For the uninitiated in the issue of stem cells, they can read up a book titled “Cracking the Stem Cell code” by Christian Drapeau MSc, America’s leading adult stem cell scientist and author of the Stem Cell theory of renewal, to get a better idea of the topic.

Doctors from Shanghai No.9 People’s Hospital was quoted as saying in a Shanghai Daily report that the medical staff use a special machine to collect stem cells, which adhere to a base made of a special biological material, from a patient’s blood as part of the procedure.

The stem cells are then transplanted into the patient’s body, where they grow into either new bones or skin tissue, while the base is absorbed by the human body.

“So far the practice has been successful in treating patients with bone and skin loss,” said Dr Dai Kerong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s translational medicine institute at Shanghai No.9 hospital. “The stem cell technology will be used to develop corneas for blind people as well as treating heart attack and stroke patients by developing new heart and cerebral tissue.”

The technology is patented in China and abroad and will be licensed within one or two years, according to Dai.

China has established 51 translational medicine centers to boost the introduction of laboratory research into clinical use.

The complicated procedures and documentation required often prevent doctors from introducing lab success into clinical practice.

Dai said one reagent developed by No. 9 hospital’s doctors for in vitro fertilization received a license in Europe within six months and has been used in clinical practice “while this would take at least five years in China.”

China Watch Blog reports that forty-hour work weeks, two-hour commutes, carpools, school conferences, commitments: who has time to eat healthy foods and exercise? And who can afford pricey organic, fresh foods anyway?

You can, according to Randy Wright, MD and his co-author David Tabatsky. They spell it out in practical terms in The Wright Choice: Your Family’s Prescription for Healthy Eating, Modern Fitness and Saving Money (Intouch Media Health Network).

“We all know we should make healthier choices,” Dr. Wright explains. “But we don’t necessarily make it a priority. Sometimes it feels like we can’t make it our first choice. Staying fit and eating well seems to fall through the cracks.”

Moms and dads with hectic schedules are the norm right now; this pragmatic guide to good health is written especially for them. “We want to help them achieve their goal of staying fit without sacrificing work and personal goals.”

The secret is locked inside our brains, Dr. Wright says. “I wanted to explore the psychology of why we think about being healthier but don’t actually do it. To succeed, we have to completely change the way we think about food and the role exercise plays in our lives. Then you’re open for an ‘ah-ha’ moment: just as you shouldn’t start planning for retirement a mere five years before you stop working, you shouldn’t start living healthy only when something goes wrong.”

Dr. Wright’s long medical career is the background for the guide’s comprehensive overview on healthy living. From an explanation of fats and how they affect our bodies to a fascinating account of why Americans just can’t seem to put down the Twinkies, the truth about food is revealed and medical myths debunked. The financial advantages of physical fitness are outlined, and an affordable easy-to-follow fitness routine to use at home is included. “The rules we’ve developed work as personal mantras,” Dr. Wright continues. “Protecting your family and your own health are goals that should be taken to heart.”

Making The Wright Choice even more compelling are the testimonials included by Dr. Wright and his co-author. Ordinary people have found success in their health, diets and pocketbooks by following Dr. Wright’s simple regimen, including tasty, easy recipes. The Wright Choice: Your Family’s Prescription for Healthy Eating, Modern Fitness and Saving Money is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

Dr. Randy Wright is Director of the Neurovascular Institute at Conroe Regional Medical Center as well as Medical Director for the Health South Rehabilitation Hospital’s stroke unit in the Woodlands, TX. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Xavier University and electrical engineering from Georgia Tech before going on to obtain his medical degree at Emory University. He completed his neurology training at Baylor College of Medicine, then went on to complete a two-year Fellowship in sleep medicine and neurophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Wright is a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as well as a Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He currently serves as chairman of the stroke committee for the American Heart Association’s SouthWest affiliate and as a liaison member to the South Central affiliate of the American Heart Association.

David Tabatsky is co-author of Chicken Noodle Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book: 101 Stories of Courage, Support & Love.

China Watch Blog wishes to share with readers this email which we received in the post on lesson in life.

Do not jump to conclusions too quickly in life

The following photos are photographs of the same location in different seasons. . . . .

Winter

Spring

Autumn

Lessons on Life生命的功课
There was a man who had four sons.
He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly.
So he sent them each on a quest, in turn,
to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
有一个人，他有四个儿子。
他希望他的儿子能够学会不要太快对事情下结论，
所以，他依次给他四个孩子一个问题，
要他们分别出去远方看一颗梨树。

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring,
the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
大儿子在冬天前往，二儿子在春天，
三儿子在夏天，小儿子则是在秋天前往。

When they had all gone and come back,
he called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.
当他们都前去也都返家之后，
他把他们一起叫到跟前形容他们所看到的情景，
大儿子说那棵树很丑、枯槁、扭曲。

The second son said no it was covered with green buds
and full of promise.
二儿子则说，不是这样子，
这棵树被青青的嫩芽所覆盖，充满了盼望。

The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms
that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful,
it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
三儿子不同意，他说树上花朵绽放、充满香气，
看起来十分美丽，这美景事他从来不曾见到过的。

The last son disagreed with all of them;
he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit,
full of life and fulfillment.
小儿子不同意他们三人的说法。
他说树上结满了果子、累累下垂。
充满了生命果子与丰收。

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right,
because they had each seen but only one season in the tree’s life.
这个人就对他四个儿子说：你们都是正确的。
因为你们四个人是在这棵树的四个不同季节前往，
并且只看到其中一个季节的风景。

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person,
by only one season, and that the essence of who
they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from
that life can only be measured at the end,
when all the seasons are up.
他告诉儿子们不可用一个季节的风景来评断一棵树或是一个人，
关于构成一个人是怎样的一个人的要件，还有一个人生命的
欢愉、喜乐、爱，只能在他生命的尽头时候来做衡量。

If you give up when it’s winter,
you will miss the promise of your spring,
the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.
当你在冬天时候就放弃，
你就会错过你生命春天的盼望、夏天的美丽、秋天的收成。

Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
不要让一个季节的痛苦毁掉其他季节的喜乐。

Don’t judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times
are sure to come some time or later.
不要因为一个痛苦的季节就对人生下结论，
持守忍耐度过这段艰难，美好的日子将在不久之后来到

无论这世界如何改变，对你认同的美德要有信心。

重要的不是别人如何看待你，而是你如何看待自己。

朝花夕拾，一切都是当下。

朝花夕拾，人生不过如此。

China Watch Blog has learnt of a shocking case of a stock clerk who was sent to clean up a storeroom in Maui, Hawaii, complained that the storeroom was really filthy and that he had noticed dried mouse/rat droppings in some areas.!

A couple of days later, he started to feel like he was coming down with a stomach flu, complained of sore joints and headaches, and began to vomit.

He went to bed and never really got up again. Within two days he was severely ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66, and his face and eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency at Pali-Momi, where he was diagnosed to be suffering from massive organ failure. He died shortly before midnight.

No one would have made the connection between his job and his death, had it not been for a doctor who specifically asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried rat/mouse droppings at anytime. They said there is a virus (much like the Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat and mouse droppings.

Once dried, these droppings are like dust and can easily be breathed in or ingested if a person does not wear protective gear or fails to wa sh face and hands thoroughly .

An autopsy was performed on the clerk to verify the doctor’s suspicions.. .

This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS carefully rinse off the tops of canned sodas or foods, and to wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, and so on.

Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves often have rodents.

Most of us remember to wash vegetables and fruits but never think of boxes and cans. The ugly truth is, even the most modern, upper-class, super store has rats and mice. And their warehouse most assuredly does!

Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that you wash the top with running water and soap or, if that is not available, drink with a straw.

The investigation of soda cans by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta discovered that the tops of soda cans can be encrusted with dried rat’s urine, which is so toxic it can be lethal. Canned drinks and other foodstuffs are stored in warehouses and containers that are usually infested with rodents, and then they get transported to retail outlets without being properly cleaned.

China Watch Blog has learnt that Shea Vaughn, mother of actor Vince Vaughn, is a 25-year veteran of the fitness industry.

As a fitness expert, professional trainer and wellness coach, Vaughn has become a spokeswoman for creating well-being at any age with her recently released book, Breakthrough: The 5 Living Principles to Defeat Stress, Look Great, and Find Total Well-Being (HCI Books).

What Vaughn discovered, from both fitness training and personal experience, is that women over 45 often feel like they are spinning their wheels and failing to live up to their own expectations. She says the problem is a lack of a mind-body connection, which can lead to depression, discouragement, disconnect, and deflation in body, mind, and heart.

In Breakthrough, Vaughn offers women her Five Living Principles within a self-styled East-meets-West lifestyle, wellness and exercise practice developed from her own life lessons, decades of training in many disciplines and influenced by eastern philosophy that is tailored to address specific issues facing women over 45.

“The Five Living Principles of Well-Being: Commitment, Perseverance, Self-Control, Integrity, and Love, are an inspirational force in helping me create a positive lifestyle with a healthy body and the supportive mental and emotional paradigm to deal with changing and demanding times,” says Vaughn. “One encourages the other and together they help you find balance, self-confidence and a personal state of well-being.”

Vaughn herself is no stranger to this phenomenon: a mother and entrepreneur, she has had similar personal challenges which led her to find a new way of living, including reconnecting her emotional health with her physical health and founding SheaNetics®, a revolutionary blend of ancient and contemporary values and movements that deliver a powerful mind-body experience. Followers of this practice get in shape, feel great and naturally make life-healthy choices.

From recipes for well-being to creating your safe space to “meditation in motion and thought”, Breakthrough offers a jumpstart for women looking to redefine their way of life in a sustainable way.

SHEA VAUGHN (www.sheanetics.com) is a certified personal trainer whose clients include professional athletes and prominent executives. Trained in ballet, Tai-Chi, martial arts, ZUMBA, yoga, pilates and more, Vaughn is well-versed in Eastern practices, including meditation for growth and stress reduction. Her DVD workouts have been featured on QVC and she has appeared on national and local television, radio, and in print media. She is also a featured expert on “The Best Ever You Network”, lives in Chicago, and lectures nationally.

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 the Ministry of Education has made it compulsory – a MUST for college students studying mental health in China – to take up a course in “Psychology of love and sex”, and forms a basic requirement for studying such courses.

According to a Beijing Times report on Wednesday, the psychology courses for Chinese college students generally include basic knowledge, self-understanding, self-development and psychological adjustment and improvement.

For the psychological adjustment area, seven psychological problems are listed that students are likely to face during their college life: study and career planning, skills development, psychology of learning, emotional management, interpersonal relationships, psychology of love and sex, stress management and coping with frustration.

The love and sex course is designed to help students learn about the development of sexual physiology and psychology, understand the psychology of falling in love and having sex as well as to help them form healthy sex consciousness and love outlook.

Such are the attempts by Chinese authorities to bring college students up to speed on matters of love and sex so that they are very clear about what they are dealing with in discussing issues with their patients in their jobs after they complete their studies.

China Watch Blog has learnt that U.S. Grains Council’s took its “dried grains with solubles (DDGS) Use in Poultry Road Show” to nutritionists, feed mill managers, and quality control staff across Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia this summer to provide technical training and encourage distiller’s DDGS users to optimize inclusion rates.

“The program highlighted the cost saving factors that come from DDGS use in poultry and DDGS’ safety from mycotoxin problems,” reported Adel Yusupov, USGC regional director in Southeast Asia.

The highest demand for DDGS in Southeast Asia currently comes from the poultry sector, he said, noting that U.S. DDGS exports to the region have increased 18 percent since 2010.

The “Road Show” is just one component of the Council’s ongoing DDGS promotion in the region. Council staff have also completed one-on-one technical consultations with several integrated feed milling companies, including Sinmah and GymTech in Malaysia; Panca Patriot, Wonokoyo, Japfa Comfeed, and Sierad Produce in Indonesia; and Betagro in Thailand.

“One-on-one meetings continue to be the most effective way to educate customers and convince them to use DDGS,” says Yusupov.

Meanwhile, the Council’s technical consultant in the Philippines has made more than 30 customer visits, including visits in Vietnam and the Philippines, to promote DDGS use in swine and poultry, and Council efforts have contributed to a decision by Romar Commodities to extend its DDGS marketing efforts into the Philippines’ Mindanao region.

Further DDGS technical visits are scheduled for Vietnam at the end of August, for Thailand in mid-September, and for Malaysia and Indonesia in early October, and a DDGS marketing mission to New Zealand is on the calendar for October.