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		<title>Cold Started From Thick Socks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a Chinese proverb saying that: &#8220;Cold starts from the feet.&#8221;  For this reason, covering the feet with thick socks seems is a usual practice for many people who hate &#8220;cold feet&#8221; in winter.  Contrary to popular belief, you may get the opposite result in doing so. &#8220;The indoor temperatures are usually relatively high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/12/30/cold-started-from-thick-socks/</link>
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		<title>Hold Your Head High To Combat Night Coughs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You cough, cough, cough, and keep coughing&#8230;.  You are so familiar with these coughs as they just follow a cold.  Indeed, cold is one of the most common causes of cough. You also know that in order to combat the coughing, you need to drink plenty of fluids and get plenty of rest.  Unfortunately, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/12/22/hold-your-head-high-to-combat-night-coughs/</link>
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		<title>Stay Comfier, Warmer, And Healthier In Two Thin Blankets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since July 2010, the central and eastern equatorial Pacific has continued to cool with the sea surface temperatures getting cooler than normal (by 0.5 degree Celsius or more).  The latest forecasts by a good few climate models across the world suggest that the sea surface temperatures will stay below normal in the coming months and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/11/30/stay-comfier-warmer-and-healthier-in-two-thin-blankets/</link>
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		<title>A Glitch From Heart And Spleen: Aphthous Ulcer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aphthous ulcers (canker sore) are little, yet they are powerful enough to spoil your mood. Every time you eat, especially hot, sour, and spicy food; brush your teeth; or even talk to someone, the pain reminds you that happiness in itself cannot be granted, even the &#8220;little&#8221; ones. According to Western Medicine, the causes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/11/12/a-glitch-from-heart-and-spleen-aphthous-ulcer/</link>
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		<title>Healthy Life In A Cool Lane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those apples look fresh even though they have sat in the refrigerator for days.  Despite you can&#8217;t put your body in the fridge to keep yourself from aging like the apples, you still can practice one of the longevity lifestyles from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)&#8212;To preserve health with low-temperature environment. Indeed, most of the long-lived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/11/01/healthy-life-in-a-cool-lane/</link>
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		<title>Eight Principles: Cold VS Hot Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), one of the most important diagnostic systems is &#8220;Eight Principles.&#8221;  They are Yin, Yang, external, internal, cold, hot, deficiency, and excess.  Although TCM Practitioners differentiate patients&#8217; syndrome according to the Eight Principles, most of the illnesses are to be identified as cold or hot before the beginning of any treatment. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/10/10/eight-principles-cold-vs-hot-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Fight Blood Deficiency; Still Love Vampires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First Twilight, then True Blood, The Vampire Diaries&#8230;.  It seems that we simply are unable to satisfy the urge to welcome more and more of the blood-sucking immortals enter our world. While hundreds of thousands of girls are obsessing with the bloodsuckers in a fantasy world, many of them suffer from anemia in reality.  In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/05/11/fight-blood-deficiency-still-love-vampires/</link>
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		<title>A Straw To Conquer Herbal Medicine Bitterness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever visited a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practitioner and also took the prescribed herbal medicine, you get the idea of what &#8220;bitterness&#8221; truly is!  In fact, many Westerners hesitate about TCM only because of the infamous inky black, extremely bitter medicine. &#8220;Unfortunately, herbal medicine is one of the core elements of TCM that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/04/26/a-straw-to-conquer-herbal-medicine-bitterness/</link>
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		<title>A Soak For Healthiness And Healing: Herbal Bath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As more and more people are pursuing a natural lifestyle, bath therapy (balneotherapy) is popularized in many parts of the world.  While bath therapy is incorporated into Natural Medicine today, it has existed in Chinese culture for thousands of years and been a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), called medicated bath or herbal bath.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/04/13/a-soak-for-healthiness-and-healing-herbal-bath/</link>
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		<title>Enjoy Fruit To The Fullest And Healthiest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While many Westerners like to have a piece of fruit as breakfast in the morning, Chinese on the other hand often eat their fruits after meal.  We all know that fruits are a healthy food choice, but are you aware that when and how you eat them can actually have their values changed?  Traditional Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/03/23/enjoy-fruit-to-the-fullest-and-healthiest/</link>
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		<title>DOs And DON&#8217;Ts To Keep Constipation At Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we digest food and change it into substances that our body can use after eating, we excrete waste from the body.  Our body cannot function well if our gastrointestinal system doesn&#8217;t.  In fact, there is always a close relationship between eating and excretion; food and constipation. In general, four to five hours after eating, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/03/12/dos-and-donts-to-keep-constipation-at-bay/</link>
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		<title>Comb&#8212;Your Palm&#8212;To Your Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Meridian Theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), there are hundreds of acupuncture points and 20 meridians (channels) connecting most of them in our body.  Among these 20 meridians, there are the most important 12 Standard Meridians with each meridian corresponding to each organ. While the 12 Standard Meridians go along the hands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/03/01/comb-your-palm-to-your-health/</link>
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		<title>From A Sense Of Taste To A Sense Of Healthiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although there&#8217;s no accounting for taste, when it comes to abnormal taste, how easy it is to understand why we don&#8217;t like it at all! The abnormal taste we are talking here is a distorted sense of taste, or phantom taste perception.  That is a lingering taste&#8212; whether it is sweet or bitter, sour or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/02/19/from-a-sense-of-taste-to-a-sense-of-healthiness/</link>
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		<title>Deflate Bloating From Your Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You already have been physically active.  You also have had a sensible diet.  But you still can&#8217;t get rid of your flabby tummy.  Don&#8217;t give up; read on.  Probably bloating is to blame.  Bloating, indeed, has been a common issue for many people attempting to lose weight. Not sure whether you really have bloating?  Find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/02/04/deflate-bloating-from-your-body/</link>
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		<title>Preserve Shen = Preserve Strength And Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Shen,&#8221; in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), represents &#8220;strength&#8221; and &#8220;spirit.&#8221; While strength means the physical energy that one has or the quality of being physically strong, spirit means a person&#8217;s feelings or state of mind.  &#8220;So, when we talk about preserving health, we shall preserve &#8216;Shen&#8217; as strength and spirit are interdependent,&#8221; TCM Practitioner said. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/01/30/preserve-shen-preserve-strength-and-spirit/</link>
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		<title>Go Beyond Gingerbread: Utilize The Raw Side Of Ginger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It really has been a bitter cold season since the beginning of 2010 for many regions in the Northern Hemisphere.  Not only the US and European countries face record low temperature, many cities in Asia from Beijing to Seoul have been enveloped in cold and windy weather with heavy snows. While extreme weather events brought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/01/13/go-beyond-gingerbread-utilize-the-raw-side-of-ginger/</link>
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		<title>Numeric Diet: Get Healthy Bites From 1 to 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Western countries, most people have already known that the Food Pyramid created by the US Department of Agriculture is a visual image illustrating the percentages of each food group that forms a healthy diet. The Food Pyramid basically has four levels: At the lowest and widest (4th) tier, it is the foundation of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2010/01/05/numeric-diet-get-healthy-bites-from-1-to-8/</link>
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		<title>TCM To Fight Evils Of Flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While H1N1 (Swine Flu) is really getting everybody concerned and wish to be immune to, almost all of us have some kinds of flu fever at least once in a lifetime.  Although to bring down a fever is a priority for both Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the approach of the latter one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2009/12/14/tcm-to-fight-evils-of-flu/</link>
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		<title>When Cold Feet Are Just Not The Nerves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people, in particular women, suffer from &#8220;cold feet&#8221; and &#8220;cold hands&#8221; upon the arrival of winter.  Although it is not an illness, it could be quite bothering.  No matter how many clothes they wear, or how much hot fluid they drink, nothing seems really help.  What on earth causes that and how can it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2009/11/27/when-cold-feet-are-just-not-the-nerves/</link>
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		<title>Eat Sweet Potatoes On Thanksgiving, And Every Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For North Americans, it wouldn&#8217;t be Thanksgiving without Brussels sprouts, cranberries, and of course, sweet potatoes.  And for many Chinese, winter wouldn&#8217;t be called winter without snacking fresh baked sweet potatoes on the street. Although we might only perceive sweet potato as a festive food or a seasonal snack, it deserves more of our attention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/2009/11/20/eat-sweet-potatoes-on-thanksgiving-and-every-day/</link>
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