Hainan-Sanya-Haikou Expat

Health is important and many foreigners who go to Sanya mention the pure, clean air as a reason for being there. In addition, Hainan is a haven for Chinese medicine and wellness practices. As a trainer and coach mostly on communications-related needs, health and fitness is a topic also covered with clients. I am personally committed to good health, running 20-30km each week, watch my diet and am very familiar with wellness practices including all forms of exercise, fasting, cleansing, mind and breathing practices such as the various meditations available.

Fake Blog Internet Scam: Endorsed Acai Berry Diet

With that quick background, I wish to alert our readers to how deceptively sophisticated fake web/blog pages have become including this recent one I found offering acai berry diet programs. They look quite genuine at first glance, promoting products and services which should be avoided because they don't work as claimed and cost way too much. It is easy to get fooled.

Take a look at this acai berry diet "blog" page to see what I mean.

http://www.newyorkchronicle.org/?t202id=423278&t202kw=ads

Fortunately, when you find nasty sites online like this or any product/service you are interested in, you have a powerful defense.

Simply type a keyword string into your search engine to quickly find out the genuine story. The internet is a neutral monster machine tool that often exposes the good and bad we need to know with just a few minutes of digging around.

For example I typed in "acai berry diet channel 7 new york chronicle scam or ? " and quickly discovered these fake blogs that don't look so fake at first glance.

Here in China we have www.taobao.com, China's version of Ebay. There are millions of legitimate sellers but it is another dangerous place because it is still way too easy for scammers to put up fake/copy sites and take your money.

The Easy and Better Way To Be Naturally Healthy

Acai berries are a dark, purple colored berry which like any other fruit in the berry/cherry/grape family is wonderfully healthy for you. If you want to go on a simple yet natural two week diet/cleanse type program, simply start eating much more of these foods daily and reduce the level of "American diet" foods such as white breads, cakes and oily/fried foods, plus junk foods.

For example, replace all junk food snacks such as prepackaged cookies/crackers/potato chips with fresh cherries, an apple, peach or banana. Simple. No crazy dieting, no drastic changes; just a couple of food substitutions like that and your body will feel the difference. Instead of buying any pre-made sugar softdrinks, buy fresh lemons, make fresh lemonade and store it in the refrigerator. Yes add sugar! Fresh squeezed lemons with some added sugar is a helluva lot more healthy than a bottled drink with chemicals, additives and zero fresh fruit nutrition, right?

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Here's a well-written article by family doctor Dr. Alan Mease at United Family Hospital in Beijing on wholistic medicine. Its a stressed out world for certain, we need to stay as healthy as possible...Cheers, Mario

Article at MyHealthBeijing

Any country experiencing rapid economic and social development will identify trends and shifts which impact different segments of the society including health. Meanwhile, I'm just trying to find places in China's cities to go running that avoid car exhaust...Cheers, M

These latest news articles on health in China indicate some issues of interest:

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Thanks to reader Nina for this timely and important inquiry on the H1N1 swine flu situation...

Regarding the current H1N1 situation, I just returned to Sanya from Hong Kong. When the plane lands, current procedure is that four medical personnel come on board and check everyone's temperature with a very fast "ear" thermometer. We were on a smaller plane and waited in total about 35 minutes until they were finished and cleared the plane so that we could all leave.

In fact, I am well impressed with the Chinese government's response to these kinds of situations, however this procedure is bureaucratic lunacy. The time to take someone's temperature is BEFORE they get on a plane. If one person had a fever on that plane yesterday, the rest of us would be quarantined for 7 days, massively inconvenienced and at great expense. How can bureaucrats be so dumb? The answer my friends is that they don't all follow the same guidelines and they can't trust each other that this will be adhered to. I "destination" on planet earth" don't trust or know that you "departure city" have the procedure to take everyone's temperature before they board. Therefore, we are going to do it here after they arrive. You and I might think they could simply make a computer entry, call each other or even SMS each other to let them know, for example, "Flight cz3030 HK SYX cleared for takeoff".

I'm being idealist. What a great Six Sigma black belt process improvement project this makes!!!

Cheers, M

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Well, call me crazy...In India, they worship cows, most elsewhere we eat them. In China, they both enjoy and eat pigs, while in Egypt they are now slaughtering the country's entire populus of 400,000 pigs which are part of the pork industry run by coptic Christians, a resented minority, and so, said pigs and coptic Christian pig farmers are regarded as a blight on the Islamic society. Great strategy. Of course it is business people who are part of the Christian community who are in the pig business and eat pork, so in other words, even though swine flu has absolutely nothing to do with the pigs, it gives the Egyptian leadership of this mostly Islamic country a good excuse to make an anti-Christian move, ruin the livelihood of a few thousand families, and eradicate the pigs which they consider a "blight on the society".

On a somehow related note, swine flu related expectations for the coming months, plus a series of sensitive anniversaries that culminate in October with the 60-year celebration of the founding of the People's Republic of China is leading to tighter restrictions on issuance of visas to China....particularly Foreign business-people hoping to hold or attend conferences in China, particularly ..."in Beijing, will be most affected, along with large numbers of consultants and other self-employed or part-time foreign residents who use the visas."

Last year I think it was chickens to the slaughter, poor Colonel Sanders, now its pigs. Walk like an Egyptian...where's the beef?...what about lamb, will they ever find a reason to slaughter cute little sheeps? Let's switch to lamb! Or Tofu!..that would make the vegeterians happy no matter what religion they are...oh I was wondering is it easier to get a visa to China if you are a vegetarian or Christian or from Egypt? God must be sitting up there watching all these human shenanigans, laughing and crying.