Fiber Fiber Fiber!

Fiber is a Carbohydrate, but!!!!unlike other carbohydrates, it doesn't get broken down by your body. Also Fiber doesn't make the blood sugar go up quite as quickly. It allows the sugar to get into your system more slowly....this sounds much better than eating bread a lot....right?

so instead taking fiber supplement, how can you get lots of fiber???

http://www.everydayhealth.com/photogallery/fiber-rich-foods.aspx

Check this site! There are 10 kind of foods which have lots of fiber.
Of cause, it will help your bowl movement!!

If you are getting acupuncture for weight management, adding extra fiber on your diet will help a lot!

My insuracen covers Acupuncture???

Have you wondered if your insurance covers other Alternative medicine, like an acupuncture??

http://www.everydayhealth.com/alternative-health/the-basics/paying-for-cam-treatment.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthWomensHealth_20091020

This site explains how to get that information from your insurance company.
Most of insurance cover the Acupuncture treatment, but...depend of your plan.

Check your insurance and use it to be healthy and stay healthy!!

Daily news

I have been receiving a daily e-news from Everyday Health.....of course every day.

Few days ago, this e-news letter sent me a very interesting site which is "Symptom checker"

http://www.everydayhealth.com/symptom-checker/

A doctor talks to you as like you are in his office and you can check what your symptom is.

I don't say you should trust what he said 100%, but it is kind of good to see what you may can do for yourself or need to go to get help from medical professions.

Unfortunately, There is not this kind of thing for acupuncture treatment....but....someday, I will create one for you!!!

Bakery

I went somewhere in Tustin and find a Bakery which I can guess Owner might be Japanese.

Yes, I can not resist....so bought An-pan, and Melon Pan.
Both were really goooooooooood!!!

Well, if you want to have Carbohydrate a lot, I recommend to have them before 3pm. After that...even dinner time, avoid Carbs.

This is kind of one tip of not to gain weight...I have been doing after working at the weight managing clinic.

Supplement

How Many people are taking supplement daily?
How many people are just taking supplement is good for your health??

Supplement is the Food which can reinforce with and make balance of your healthy eating.
In this world, it is really difficult to eat well balanced. Also so many food did not have enough vitamins and minerals.....

So, it is really important to eat well and also take multi-vitamin daily and additional one depending on your life style and your meals.
Also don't forget sleep well and exercise well too!!

Have a healthy day!

2 hours was too long for me

I love Walking. Walking is the best exercise for me....I think for many people too.

So 2 days ago, I walked 1 hour and half to get the destination and came back....total almost 3 hours.
I sweat a lot. My whole body was wet!!!!!So change everything and took a shower....then next day...
I caught a cold....felt so tired and coughing crazy. Well....I think this is the sign of "2 hours walking is too much for me", but I was fine and actually enjoyed this exercise.

Anyway, it is really important to know what is the best exercise for you as well as how much is the best for you too.

Facial care

These days I have been seeing the word "Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture."
Well, Yes, acupuncture works well for facial rejuvenation because each needle will stimulate your facial cells.
In my opinion, if I can get facial acupuncture at least 2 times/ week for first few weeks, my face looks totally different.....Well, I can not needle by myself.
But at the same time, I'm a bit afraid of getting blues. There are many tiny blood vessels are under skin especially ....face. Well, I have to talk about my experience when I was in college in Japan.
We were practicing acupuncture...point around eye. It was not too bad when we did...not really painful, very relaxing and brighten my eyes. Next day....when I try to put make up on........OMG!!!! I had a natural eye shadow only onside. I was thinking....did I wash my face last night????
Well, that was a blues from the day before......we call Panda eye. Teacher said that " oh, it's happens!" Thanks teacher!!

Anyway, so after that, I forgot about this happening because I did not really doing any facial acupuncture till....get old.

So now, I'm the one want to get the facial acupuncture...but have but memory........there is the way not to have needles on the face! We call Micro Current facial which uses little electricity to stimulate the facial cells...still as effective as needles.
When I took this class...it was amazing. My face was really smooth and facial line was so tight.
Can you believe that?

Now I'm offering this Micro Current facial rejuvenation in my office to who are really scared of needles, getting blues and/or don;t like Botox.

What do you think?????

What is going on??

My family contact me whatever they wonder about their health situation.
My mom...she hates to see a doctor, but she has a bleeding problem which I suggest to see her doctor ASAP because she has been suffering from heart problem and taking blood thinner.
So....Bleeding is not easy situation. Especially if someone is taking blood thinner and also someone whas diabetes condition.
Diabetes condition case, blood vessels are getting thinner and blood circulation would be poor which create the condition of difficult to heal. It is very important to get proper care.

Anyway, other bleeding....menstruation would be another topic.....for some day!

Can do and can not do

When I became an acupuncturist, I decided that take all of clients who need help with acupuncture treatment.
However, there was a situation I had to say NO to one client who really wanted to get a treatment.
There is a issue and I don't know how to handle this issue.....
This is the first time to reject a client, however...I refer to trusted another acupuncturist. I really hope that works well.
I still feel so bad, but I have to keep my license to do my work.....

coughing for long time

I don't know why, but I have been suffering from Cough for more than 1 month now.
Always after my exercise, start feeling down and having cough. Used to do exercise everyday though.
So yesterday, I felt really good and did some walking....today....my energy level is too low to eve cook my food.
Well...what I can do is taking enough rest and once I have good enough energy, have to give myself an acupuncture treatment.

Acupuncture for PMS

PMS....Premenstrual　Syndrome....

I treated so many ladies who were suffering from PMS.
Symptoms are usually....

Moodiness, Lower abdominal and/or back pain, Sleepiness, Depression, Brest tenderness, increase appetite, luck of concentration, etc....

then...why is this happened????

The reason why is... Hormone level...progesterone and estrogen....both are really important hormone for females body system which is getting pregnant and having menstruation.
I kind of don't want to have a monthly period at all, but this is very very important to have regular bleeding. Regular means not every month. Some people have only every 3 month or so!

Anyway, my PMS symptoms are really really bad for long long time, but since start taking herbs and regular acupuncture treatment, it seems better and not really having emotional crash every month!

Acupuncture and me

Why did I start thinking studying an Acupuncture??

When I was a high school student before the college entering exam, I got sciatic nerve pain. Ortho Dr told me that there were no way other than pain killer, but this pain killer would make me sleepy....but I had to study for entering exam, right??

So there were no confidence with my Dr, but...he recommended me to get an acupuncture treatment.....that's the beginning of my Acupuncture life.

Acupuncturist was really nice guy and he always make me feel relax....and release my pain.
Then...I was thinking...oh, how I could be like him....western medicine could not help, but other way.....then I found my college "Meiji University of Oriental Medicine" which was far away from my home.....8 hours driving a way.

Anyway, I took the entering exam and passed and got in my college.
My mom and grandma were not happy about that because....being acupuncturist in Japan was more for blind people's job....BUT!!! you know I anyway went to my college and studied for 3 years and took exam and passed and one more year to be an intern...then graduate with Bachelor in Acupuncture in 1996.

Weight management

I start dieting when I was a high school student.
First thing I did was stop eating oily foods which were fried food and fatty meat.
After high school, I went to college and stop eating meat because meat was very expensive for me.
However, when I started college life, I gained 20 pounds in a month because I was so so sad to live alone and ate lots of bread every single days.
Until something happened, I was 20+ pounds bigger.....and I did not like myself at all....

Very long time

It has been really long time since last posting.
My life changed a lot.
My office moved to Irvine from San Rafael.
There is no patient yet in the new office, but I really hope that I can have some clients soon at my new office.