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Marie Claire recently featured an article with some tummy flattening tips that involve none other than eating. Not just eating more, but eating healthy and eating right. As a foreigner in Shanghai, it’s easy to get carried away with all the dumplings, yummy cakes and sugary milk teas that cross our paths. Enjoying these goodies from time to time is fine as long as we keep our bodies filled with healthy produce. We've added some helpful little links to the veggies and fruits we have that will not only promote a flatter tummy (away with the China bloat!) but are all ...

Recently, GOOP featured a great article on keeping up your metabolism as we age. Read below for some great tips by Dr. Oz Garcia, a New York city based nutritionist and expert in anti-aging nutrition.     Q:“How might a 40 something jump start a sluggish metabolism?”   A: Staying slim and fit is always a challenge but maintaining your girly figure after age forty can be an all out battle. Even maintaining an exact diet and fitness regimen will not beat the penalty of aging.   On average, women gain 25 pounds between the ages of 30 and 60 and it’s not from eating ...

This article is from a collection of health tips from the “Ask Dr. Mao” series. Have a hand mirror handy so you can refer to your own tongue for reference.   Dr. Mao's Secrets of Longevity By Dr. Maoshing Ni How Chinese medicine uses the tongue to interpret your healthThe tongue is one of the most important diagnostic areas in ancient medical traditions. What makes the tongue such a great diagnostic tool? Your tongue, containing water, electrolytes, mucus, and enzymes, is a very sensitive organ and its appearance changes with many physical changes in the body. In Chinese medicine, ...

As an American, I’m accustomed to determining the healthiness of my food according to its Calories. However, upon my arrival in China, this quick and easy guideline became extremely hard to determine with food items in China either not revealing their caloric content or explaining it in Kilojoules or Kilocalories. After countless failed guestimates at healthy options and gaining the China Chub, I finally decided to do some serious searching as to just how many calories are in those tempting boxes of Almond Pocky and came up with this quick and easy equivalent chart.   1 calorie = ...