The United States has by far the highest level of spending per capita in the world . With skyrocketing cost tripling in the last decade, nearing $6,100/ person or 15.4 % GDP according to World Health Organization, Scandinavian countries; with their universal health care coverage, even pay less than half that amount.
YET the United States has one of the lowest life expectancies amongst developed nations, at about 79 years. Which is also lower than Cuba and marginally beats Slovenia. Maybe it has something to do with our own immigration policy… allowing other countries illnesses into our country. Meanwhile with a Chinese more controlled society spending is only $277 per capita or 4.7 percent of it’s GDP but cancer death rates are higher.
While China’s life expectancy of 73 years is a big gap and their 4.7 % of the GDP on health care is small compared to the United States. Their own life expectancy averages absorbs rural high infant mortality rates. In cities like Beijing and in Shanghai, life expectancy is around 80 years, while Hong Kong is at 82, followed closely by Chinese ruled Macau at nearly 81 years, according to the United Nations.
If you traveled to China via Youtube, you might find these statistics unbelievable; considering Hong Kong, Beijing an Shanghai are filthy with horrible air quality and also tap water needing boiled before being drank. Therefore is the proverbial question is: does Chinese Traditional Medicine…. keep their citizens healthy longer or is it something they’re doing that prevents illness.
In China’s biggest cities: when you stop to look around exercising is more predominant than in the United States. With bicycles interwoven and widespread into their culture, social interaction seems important and the elderly are out and about. Fighting the isolation that comes with old age…. so is getting out and moving providing them with an added health benefit even in a polluted city.
Seeking balance, energetic workouts, aerobatic exercise are yang — they heat us up , deep breathing are the yin that calms us down. Tai Chi gives you a sense of balance, peacefulness. Although nobody has worked out how to measure chi, this vital energy that exercise promotes is that feel good source you enjoy after exercise. While many studies show the benefits to energy levels and immunity in energy medicine.
When I first started this concept of a website that is a centralized hub of cancer research back in March 2006 with the help of a Chinaman that I met in a Book store in Kettering, OHIO. We analyzed that deep secret that lies within their lifestyle and we came to a conclusion with cautious nutritional choices and regular exercise that optimizes glutathione levels. Thereby, helping boost immune function while improving detoxification and enhancing your body’s own antioxidant defenses.
Therefore, one of their main differences is how they view their meals. Here in the United States we eat on the run pizza, hamburger and fries with a soda pop. The Chinese balance yin (wet and moist) with yang (dry and crisp.) The Yin foods cool the body down, while Yang foods heat it up. Most protein foods are seen as yang, and with carbohydrates as yin this combination stabilizes blood sugar. Which is key to good energy and also minimizing weight gain.
Also with in a Chinese meal often a soup – based dish, Zhou adding a liquid to a rather dry meal. Quenches thirst which is often confused with hunger ~ while drinking tends to fill you up. Miso soup, for instance or anything fermented — a probiotic releases the nutrients from the food you consume. Therefore always remember yin versus yang?
Green Tea for example is wet and eliminates toxins, improves digestion and allays hunger. Green tea is an important anti oxidant, traditionally when the Chinese want another cup of tea. They will keep the leaves and add water to the pot. That’s like using one tea bag per day which means less caffeine this is how they manage the yin and yang.
Chinese Medicine prescribes various foods as medical treatment: chili promotes digestion and dispels cold, garlic counteracts toxins. While two thousand years ago Hippocrates said, let your food be your medicine the west overlooked this philosophy. The Chinese believe nutrition ensures all organs are working correctly to allow energy flow, chi to circulate within and smoothly around your body.
The Chinese view vitamin A, B vitamins and vitamin C, beta-carotene, selenium crucial to glutathione levels. With chromium-magnesium and Omega 3s along with medicinal mushroom, seaweed and turmeric crucial with calcium important. While also supplementing with Alpha Lipoic Acid, Red Clover, Burdock and Milk Thistle necessary…. et cetera? Being we have a group page on Facebook NOW. Starting in July…. I hope to have cancer survivors writing these blog post!!!
Update June 27, 2014: Upon finishing this blog post I found Charlotte of Taiwanese Descent for our Facebook Group. Her experience with inflammatory triple negative stage 3B breast cancer was successful through Traditional Chinese Medicine. Because it was inflammatory it was inoperable. While conventional doctors in both Taiwan & United States where convinced it metastasized. Charlotte was given a small chance to survive passed one year. While thinking she knew the body natural secret defense mechanisms
Declining her brothers persistent urging to have chemotherapy (he also teaches in Medical School in China.) Charlotte opted instead for Gerson Therapy which is labor intensed + Chinese Herbal Medicine, clean diet, Qigong and The YingYang Philosophy of fire and water. Charlotte stayed focused on YingYang Theory and made herself in remission in 3.5 months. While finding her Secret of Curing Cancer lies within Mother Nature. Back home in greater China region ( China, HongKong and Taiwan), almost every cancer patient uses belly breath. This helps with adding oxygen into your bloodstream and detox via lung which cancer cells hate.