With its focus on health maintenance and disease prevention, demand for greater knowledge and use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout the world continues to increase.

Your Personal Management and Responsibility for Your Own Health

It is ironic that diseases which are responsible for a high proportion of deaths in the developed world today, such as heart disease and lung cancer, are perhaps the most preventable. We can greatly increase our chances of avoiding cardiovascular and other diseases by making the right lifestyle choices - particularly regarding exercise, stress management, smoking, weight management, blood pressure management, and diet.

In The World

• sedentary life is one of the 10 leading causes of death and disability

• the proportion of adults who are sedentary or nearly so ranges from 60% to 85%

• lack of activity leads to more than 2 million deaths per year

• a combination of improper diet, lack of physical activity and tobacco use is estimated to cause up to 80% of cases of premature coronary heart disease

• cardiovascular diseases cause half of all deaths in women over 50

• studies have shown that relatively modest lifestyle changes are sufficient to prevent almost 60% of diabetes cases

• diabetes affects more than 70 million women worldwide

• less than one third of young people are sufficiently active to benefit their present and future health and well being

In Europe

• physical inactivity is the second most important risk factor for ill health, after tobacco smoking, in developed countries
• over 30% of adults are inactive during a typical week
• the prevalence of obesity increased by between 10% and 40% between the late 1980s and late 1990s
• in Switzerland 1.4 million cases of disease and 2000 deaths per year  are due to insufficient exercise, at a cost of 2.4 billion Swiss francs
• in England the direct and indirect costs of obesity in 1998 were 2.6 billion pounds
• some 40 million people in the 115 largest cities in the European Union are exposed to air exceeding WHO air quality guideline values for at least one pollutant
• about 65% of the European population (450 million) is exposed to noise levels exceeding 55 dB(A) Leq over 24 hours

Clearly we each have a personal responsibility in our own healing process and well-being.
So Be Honest and Ask Yourself
Are you in the way of your own healing?
What can you do to assist your own healing process?
Are you allowing healing to happen?
OR
Are you expecting someone else to do it all for you?