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Arlan Murata

Arlan is a Wellness Entrepreneur and is on a Wellness Quest
Phone: 714-784-0474
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What Are The Differences Between Western Diet And Chinese Diet?

Published July 1, 2010 by Arlan Murata

My reference source is Henry C Lu’s, “Chinese Natural Cure, Traditional Methods For Remedies and Prevention”

Western diet focuses on foods for Nutrition: protein, carbohydrates and vitamins; and weight loss. On the other hand Chinese diet is designed to treat many ailments that include: hypertension, diabetes, diarrhea, cough, common colds, weight loss and so on.

Chinese Diet

In the Chinese diet, we want to know what foods to eat to help with various problems. One does not drink tea when one has constipation. It is good for a cough to eat an apple with honey. If we are cold or hot, we take ginger in foods to warm us because it has warm energy and mung beans to cool us because they have cool energy.

We find nutritional benefits in foods but do not consider other properties of the foods in the Western Diet. Red pepper contains Vitamin A and B plus it has properties that warm us. Mung beans have proteins and carbohydrate plus properties that cool us. These are major difference between the Western and Chinese Diets.

The major aspects of Chinese Diet are: the five flavors of foods, the five energies of foods, the movement of foods, the  organic action of foods and common action of foods. Continue Reading

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Are You Really Your Wellness Enemy?

Published June 8, 2010 by Arlan Murata

Do you realize that billions of dollars are spend each year convincing, manipulating & even seducing you into making some or all of your health choices, right or wrong?
Food & beverage (F & B) companies are paying billions or more to advertisers that really know how to push our buttons. These companies know that many of the food & beverages make us fat and are not good for us. They don’t want to change the products or marketing strategies they have created over the last century. Since the bottom line is profit, these companies are overjoyed that the products they’ve been promoting are cheap, profitable & addicting to the human bodies.

So how do we keep healthy for life?

Carbohydrates, sugars & a condition called insulin resistance. We all are eating meat, fresh & saltwater fish, lots of vegetables, fruits and grains. Our bodies work with a combination of these foods. This is called calibration. Just like a car engine that has to have its fuel calibrated or it won’t run smoothly. It would run rough or give off nasty exhaust, sound familiar? In the car we adjust the fuel flow. Our bodies on the other hand are the opposite. We are hard-wired genetically & we can’t change that, our calibrations are fixed. Since we can’t calibrate the body, we need to calibrate the fuel, food, we eat. Most of the commercially prepared foods are not properly calibrated for us. This is why processed foods wreaks so much havoc on our weight, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, etc.

As Pogo says, “I have met the enemy, he is me”. Just like smokers who keep smoking and drinkers who keep drinking, we keep eating these commercially processed addictive foods, even though it is slowly killing us.
F & B companies were lucky in hitting on what people want, convenience and fast. Peoples lives have changed from our ancestral days of intensively physical lives to a much more sedentary life. We have to think about exercise. Human metabolism is how the body’s chemicals work together in processing the fuel, foods, it needs to run efficiently. This process is calibration.
Complex carbs such as ones found in whole grain raise blood sugar very slowly, which is how our blood sugars intake should work. Historically, we ate unprocessed grains. Today, they are processed – we want white bread so we buy bread that has the brown bran, the part that contains fiber, oils, minerals and vitamins, taken out.
Simple carbs get into the blood stream, they spike the blood sugars very fast and forces the body to compensate with a burst of energy, then crash. This is why you feel great for  a short while but then are tired and want more fuel. Then you stuff your self with these simple carbs. All the carbs that aren’t used are stored as fat in our bodies, which is why people are overweight.
So why hasn’t things changed, since we know this? Although some companies try to make healthier products, but continue to make “metabolic addictive” cheap refined ingredients and foods because of the profit they make. People get hooked and some food companies are hooked on the profits. Thus, no matter the consequences on people’s health, they keep doing it.
When will people deal with the messed up food addictions they don’t know they have, thousands of advertising impression every day, the illusion that cheap foods are actually valuable, stimulate drinks loaded with sugar and alcohol loaded with calories, and tobacco loaded with nicotine.
Thoughts to ponder from David Macallan, N.M.D, in his book, “The Silhouette Solution”
•    Different kind of doctor
•    It’s not all my fault
•    Don’t believe the ads
•    Knowledge is power
•    Carbs have consequences
•    Leave miss-calibrated foods alone
•    Break free

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What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?

Published June 5, 2010 by Arlan Murata

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is based upon the classic, “Yellow Emperor’s Classics of Internal Medicine” and over 3,000 years of experience. Medicine as is science is based upon trial and error. TCM practice has over 3,000 years of this practice with amazing results that baffle scientist today. My TCM Doctor took on a case of a person in a coma that the Western Doctors had said would not come out of the coma and that the family should move her into a care facility. Using herbs and acupuncture, Dr. Shao-Bin Zhang woke her upon in 45 days and she was able to walk and talk after 90 days. Proof is in the results as this is not an isolated patient case treated by Dr Zhang.

TCM uses four distinct treatment methods: herbology, acupuncture, manipulative therapy and food cures. Also, it encompasses remedial exercises of Qi-Gong and Tai-Chi. These exercises are much more than exercises then I can explain. Most of the best practitioners are skilled in and use all methods including the remedial exercises.

The Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor examines you every time you see him by observation of your complexion, tongue, hearing and smell, takes your pulses and asks you many questions about your appetite, sleep and symptoms. Based upon this and his records of your case, he makes a diagnosis tells you what you need to do and the treatment he prescribes for you – herbs, acupuncture, manipulation and the foods that are best for you to eat.

Chinese Medicine focuses on the causes and the treatment is based upon years of experiences on the human body. You are treated with herbs, acupuncture and food cures are less drastic than Western Medicine. The treatments are longer lasting because the patients are given the knowledge of what is best for them to do – foods to eat, exercise, sleep and treatment.

Philosophy - Yin and Yang; Five Elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water; and Energy, Blood and Fluids.

Causes of Diseases – Six External Pathogens of wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire. Seven Emotions of joy, anger, worry, contemplation, sorrow, fear and shock, Food and Fatigue

The Internal Organs - The Heart, The Small Intestines, The Liver, The Gallbladder, The Spleen, The Stomach, The Lungs, The Large Intestine, The Kidneys, The Bladder, The Pericardium, The Triple Burning Space, and The Brain, Marrow and Womb.

Writings about Traditional Chinese Medicine may be different and how hard to understand. I can only tell you what I read, experienced and learn about. I will attempt to pass on the knowledge in a series of posts or a newsletter.

Another series I will write about is food cures of Asian Traditions and Current Nutrition. As I decide how best to pass on this knowledge, I will put newsletter subscription boxes for you.

Sources: “Chinese Natural Cures” by Henry C. Lu and “Healing With Whole Foods” by Paul Pitchford

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Amazing Chinese Healing Practices

Published April 29, 2010 by Arlan Murata

Alternative wellness practices that have helped me and that I’ve seen heal others. Wellness has many alternatives to the slash and burn generally practiced in the Western Medical World of surgery and drugs that are not solutions, in my opinion. Here are some videos and website to explain and demonstrate some alternative solutions.

Dr. Shao-Bin Zhang, Professor of T.C.M. of Guangzhau, China and a Licensed Acupuncturist practicing in Southern Caliornia brought me back to wellness. The Western Doctors could not even tell my why I had dizzy and cold sweat spells that sent me to ER multiple times. They performed many tests and concluded that they did not know what the problem was wrong. Seeking a solution I had Dr. Zhang examine and treat me with herbs, acupuncture and few other TCM methods. He examined and asked questions about my wellness. He made the dizziness and cold sweat disappear after 60 days. On a coma patient I referred to Dr. Zhang, that the hospital doctors advised the family that the patient would never regain consciousness. Dr. Zhang woke her up and helped her recover enough to walk and get on a plane to return to her home in Hong Kong. Dr Zhang has many cases of healing like this that the Western Medical World would not believe.

Master Shen Wu has many testimonial from patients he treated at The Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute that were terminally ill. Here is Master Shen Wu’s website that explains and provides testimonials from patients of Master Wu’s Musical Qi Gong  http://bit.ly/c0orSn

Dr. Yee-Wing Tong’s Neuro-BioEngergetic is discussed and shown on his website. The the many testimonials of healing are amazing. These are from patients that had struggled and endured the endless useless procedures recommended by doctors and insurance companies that simply did not work. See and hear from them http://bit.ly/d5WxC1

Master Zhou Ting-Jue (QiGong ) Demonstrates his amazing healing powers http://bit.ly/bVtjo1

These Chinese medicine practioners have been healing thousands of patients given up by the Western Medical World as hopeless cases. They have many testimonials that would amaze and make you cry as the caregiver of patients given up on by the Western Medical World.  I do not close my mind to Western Medical World as they too have done wonders for millions of patients, but I do question them. The one thing that is hard to understand is why after performing live saving surgery, the Western Doctor does not counsel and teach the patients how to keep themselves well. My point is that there are alternatives to healing. I do not intent to tell the world that Eastern Medical Practices are better than Western Medical Practice.

There are many clinics in America that are wonderful like the Pritikin Longevity Center in Southern California.  The Pritikin Program involves:

  1. An eating plan based on natural whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seafood, and limited lean meat;
  2. Daily exercise, and
  3. Lifestyle education that focuses on practical real-world training such as reading food labels and cooking healthfully and deliciously, as well as skills for stepping around stress and achieving an emotionally nourishing outlook.

The Pritikn Program has been shown to reverse heart disease, control diabetes, control hypertension, and improve both men and women’s overall health.

There is good in both medical worlds, just have an open mind. The Pritikin Longevity Center is also not mainstream Western Medical Practice as point number 3 is sorely lacking in most of the Western Medical Practices.

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Want To Improve Your Mind And Health?

Published April 26, 2010 by Arlan Murata

There is more to physical wellness than drugs and surgery. Here is an alternative to consider

What is Superbrain Yoga? Will it really help your brain? http://bit.ly/9JlTGD

More to come.Posts

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Want To Learn Some Quality Living Tips To Improve Your Wellness?

Published April 25, 2010 by Arlan Murata

Wellness is unique blend of who you are, it embraces your entire being in doing your best. Feed your mind and soul, nourish & exercise your mind and body. Here are some tips that help:

  • Quality Living Tip #1 Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. Your weight will drop
  • Quality Living Tip #2 Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
  • Quality Living Tip #3 Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, enthusiasm and Empathy
  • Quality Living Tip #4 Make time to pray
  • Quality Living Tip #5 Play more games
  • Quality Living Tip #6 Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
  • Quality Living Tip #7 Drink plenty of water
  • Quality Living Tip #8 Read more books
  • Quality Living Tip #9 Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile
  • Quality Living Tip #10 Sleep for 7 hours
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What Is Wellness?

Published April 25, 2010 by Arlan Murata

Wellness is an active live-long process of working toward enhancing our physical, intellectual, emotional, social, financial, spiritual, and environmental well-being. I consider physical well-being includes our body, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. Financial wellness is our social, environmental and financial well-being. They will be subcategories of Wellness and posts will be made accordingly.

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What Are The Benefits Of A Network?

Published April 24, 2010 by Arlan Murata

How networking benefits you coming soon

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Physical Wellness

Published April 17, 2010 by Arlan Murata

PHYSICAL WELLNESS

Your body is a wonderful and amazing being that GOD created. As you were created, life   should be a wonderful and exciting experience because of a vibrant functioning body. Treat it well and allow the body’s magnificent healing power to work as it should.

Your body consist of mind, body and soul. As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”  You are responsible to exercise and feed your mind, body and soul.  A mind full of worry, hate, bitterness, jealousy, loneliness, regret and fear; a body full of fats, and grease, refined sugars, white flour and starches; a liver filled with alcohol, caffeine, colas, and chemicals; lungs filled with carbon monoxide, exhaust and toxic fumes can not and will not deliver wellness and health. Only when we accept responsibility for our own physical, mental and spiritual health will we be well.

“Wholesome nourishment of the physical body, daily exercise and nourishment of the mind and soul are the key ingredients to vitality and long life. Above all, to renew the spirit by giving up mental anguish of hate, hurt, fear, anger, jealousy, worry, regret and bitterness to accept and embrace love, understanding, hope and forgiveness is the real secret to recovery and wellness. You need to regain the faith, love and appreciation within yourself to trigger your body’s magnificent healing powers.” Ed Foreman

Exercise: A program is best setup with a fitness coach to help you achieve the goal of your exercise.

Nutrition: More Coming

Mind: More Coming

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