It’s no secret that obesity, and its twin sister disease of diabetes, have become epidemics of every modernizing country. I’m now witnessing firsthand the expanding waistlines of Chinese people as they quickly adopt the “Western” diet. Unfortunately, diabetes is already a scourge here as well. But how does it compare to the US, or to …

What natural supplements and medicines work to prevent or lessen diabetes? We know that the Western-prescribed medicines such as insulin injections and metformin pills are extremely effective, but wouldn’t it be great, and much healthier for us, if we could focus on more natural therapies? Fortunately, with diabetes, there are quite a few healthy approaches …

Here’s another pop quiz: What’s the most effective way to prevent or reverse diabetes? Exercise Diet Weight Loss Avoiding sugar The answer, surprising to many, is not diet, it is — weight loss! Losing about 5-10% of your body weight seems to have the most impact in reducing your risk of developing diabetes. In fact, …

I recently gave a lecture at the U.S. Embassy, and the presentation was called, “Diabetes: How Can We Prevent It?” (I’ve attached the slide show at the bottom of this post.) The talk went well, and now I’m jazzed about sharing some pearls with my readers. For example, how many of you have been told …

I must now confess to everyone that I am addicted. Yes, people, my body craves for my daily fix. And when I take it, my body feels healthier. What is my burden? Vinegar! This is definitely one of the stranger habits I’ve picked up in China, but somewhere along these three years I started to …

Ready for the secret? OK, here goes: Lose weight, eat well and exercise! Oh, sorry, you already knew that? And it seems pretty obvious as well? And yet, if everyone knows this, then why is diabetes the epidemic that it is? 怎么办？ Ah, human nature. If everyone did what doctors told them to, then I’d …

Diabetes can be a terrible disease for people; it’s a chronic disease that involves not just medicines but aggressive lifestyle changes as well as intrusive and painful glucose checks, not to mention the insulin injections. And the long term effects on your body can be devastating — nerve pain, foot infections and amputations, kidney failure, …

Diabetes is the disease of high sugars in your system; it is a potentially devastating disease for many people, and it is reaching epidemic proportions among all societies that have more of an American diet (including China). It is definitely a lifestyle disease; each person’s dietary intake, exercise and weight issues play a huge factor …