My Health Beijing

It usually feels like we live in a toxic world here in Beijing, bombarded daily from the air and what we eat and drink. But what about the other extreme …

Which websites do you turn to for health information? There are thousands of healthcare sites offering advice, but a sizable portion are either trying to sell you something you don’t need or simply …

Drinking a cold Coca Cola in the summer can be wonderfully refreshing, but it’s far too easy for children and teens to drink too much soda. The American Dietetic Association …

How does the EWG get away with scaring consumers about sunscreen?

I do a lot of health checks in my family clinic here at BJU, and a large percentage have problems with their cholesterol tests. Since high cholesterol is one of …

We consumers should vote with our feet and support places that have the moral courage to be nonsmoking trailblazers in China. Let’s start with a review of Beijing coffee shops.

Most of you already shave every day, so why not use an aftershave that includes sunscreen?

While Beijing’s weather these last few weeks has often been spectacularly clear, the general trend still has frequent AQI spikes over 200, thus triggering my personal cutoff to wear a …

It’s hard to think of common medical folklore more ingrained than PSA tests for men and calcium supplements for women. And yet last week we had a couple of very …

When’s the last time you cleaned out your medicine cabinet? I try to do this every few months…but apparently I’m doing a terrible job. I’m totally embarrassed to share with …

A couple weeks ago I wrote about new research questioning routine dental x-ray screening safety. This issue of over-testing patients with potentially dangerous screening tests is actually quite a big deal, and …

Last week I wrote how brown foods are better than white foods, in general terms of health and prevention of diabetes. I wanted today to mention another similar rule: pure …