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Chinese medicine

Yangsheng: nourishing life

“Three parts medicine, seven parts nurturing health. Skill in treating is not as good as skill in nurturing health.” Chinese saying Lifestyle is the buzzword in Western medicine. From Dr Michael Mosley’s Just One Thing Radio 4 series on how to improve your health to Tim Spector’s revolutionary Zoe app, an individualised approach to nutrition. The …

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Longevity: exercise to live to 100

My father was obsessed with health and self-preservation. He swam, cycled, played basketball, ping pong, tennis and golf and even did a bit of body building in his youth. He lived to 90. Born in China, he moved to Thailand when he was 8. If he had gone to Okinawa or Singapore he may have …

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