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Bi-Weekly Newsletter | Issue 33 | January 2007

In this issue you will find: Important PCOM Dates Tai Chi As A Beneficial Exercise For Seniors Massage Benefits Women With Breast Cancer Chinese Medicine Helps Shed Those Extra Pounds Chinese Wisdom: Quote of the Day Important PCOM Dates January 17 – Chicago Open House February 6 – San Diego Prospective Student Workshop February 10 – New York Open House February 10 – New York Chinese New Year Celebration February 24 – Chicago Chinese New Year Celebration Tai Chi as a Beneficial Exercise for Seniors More and more seniors are becoming physically active—reaping the countless health benefits associated with regular exercise. If power walking and your run-of-the-mill strength building exercises are uninteresting, the no-impact Chinese exercise Tai Chi is an excellent way to tone muscle, increase endurance, and gain balance. In a recent study in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, researchers concluded that the movements associated with Tai Chi helped seniors improve their physical functioning. Study participants who took Tai Chi twice a week for a 6 month period noticed a significant improvement in their ability to accomplish daily tasks such as carrying groceries, walking up stairs, or moving medium-sized objects. READ MORE ... Massage Benefits Women with Breast Cancer Courtesy of MassageMag.com Massage therapy reduced depression, anxiety and anger in women with breast cancer, and increased their levels of dopamine, serotonin, natural killer cells and lymphocytes, according to recent research. "Breast cancer patients have improved immune and neuroendocrine functions following massage therapy" was conducted by the Touch Research Institutes, Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology Clinics, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Thirty-four women with Stage 1 or 2 breast cancer were randomly assigned to either a massage-therapy group or a standard-treatment control group. Each participant had completed radiation or chemotherapy treatment at least three months before the study started. READ MORE ... Chinese Medicine Helps Shed Those Extra Pounds Now that the holidays are over and the long nights of eating and merry-making are behind us, January is once again a fresh start to losing weight and feeling great for the New Year. According to the American Obesity Association, 127 million adults are overweight, and 60 million meet the criteria for obesity.  This health epidemic affects not only the patient’s quality of life, but also results in a cost of $12.7 billion dollars annually to US businesses in loss of productivity and health and life insurance costs. Additionally, obesity is linked to over 30 health medical conditions including Type 2 Diabetes, and Heart Disease. Approximately 300,000 deaths each year are attributed to obesity. READ MORE ... Chinese Wisdom: Quote of the Day “He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness” - Book of Odes

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