Chinese Food Health gives you the basic approaches on how to nourish and preserve health in the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

As we are basking in spring’s warm sunshine, especially in the afternoon, we just wish we could have a nap… .

At this moment, all you need, in fact, is a stretch. As said by Traditional Chinese Practitioners, when stretching, our heart and lungs will be pressed by the organs in the chest, which promotes heart movement and all organs of our body will benefit from it by receiving more oxygen.

In addition, since stretching involves in upper body’s movement, which means more oxygenated blood will be supplied to the brain, and vuala! We feel refreshed and energized.

Tips:
Although human brains average only 2% of body weight, our brain uses a fifth of all our blood. Moreover, as humans walk upright, our upper body and brain are more inclined to have insufficient blood and oxygen supply.

That’s why when we sit still long and keep using brain for long time, we may feel dizzy and drowsy caused by lack of blood and oxygen supply to the brain. We should, therefore, often stretch our body and limbs.

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