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Stephen Lau's Articles in Wellness, Fitness and Diet

  • Food Toxics and Health Hazards
    Food toxics may be a health concern. Food toxicology due to pesticides, growth-enhancing dietary hormones in beef, and food additives may cause cancer, birth defects, and allergies, among others, especially in children. A wary consumer should read food labels, and go organic whenever and wherever possible.
  • Bulimia Be Gone! Start Eating Right Again!
    Bulimia is an eating disorder due to distorted perception of one's physical size and shape, resulting from abnormal eating behavior and unhealthy food relationship over time. It is a complex mental illness that requires confrontation or intervention on the part of loved ones or family members to effectuate recovery through appropriate eating disorder programs.
  • Your Psychological Food Relationship and Your Health
    Psychological food relationship is related to how you think about food and its effect on your weight and body image. Unhealthy psychological food relationship, due to negative emotions or distorted thinking, often results in food addiction or an eating disorder. To improve your psychological relationship with food, you must identify the trigger and deal with it head-on. To ignore it only perpetuates the unhealthy eating behavior.
  • A Healthy Food Relationship and Weight Loss
    Weigh loss can only begin with a healthy food relationship, which comprises a good physical and psychological relationship with food. To understand physical food relationship, you need to know the logistics of eating: what to eat, how to eat, and when to eat. Eating is a science, and therefore treat it as such. A healthy physical food relationship is conducive to permanent weight loss.
  • Food Addiction and Your Longevity
    Food addiction is binge eating, compulsive eating, food fixation, and eating disorder. It is an unhealthy relationship with food, resulting in abnormal behavior that interferes with health, happiness, relationship, and longevity. Food addiction is a disease of the mind. Food addicts strive to control their eating to compensate for the lack of control they feel in other areas of their lives.
  • Buddhism and Healthy Longevity
    Buddhism plays a pivotal role in healthy longevity. The Buddhist concept of no "ego-self" or "emptiness" takes away stress, which is one of the major causes of disease and illness. In addition, Buddhism focuses on the expression of compassion and loving kindness as the true meaning of life. This altruistic attitude inspires oneself, in the face of health adversity, to set an example to help others to relieve their own suffering.
  • Confucianism and Healthy Longevity
    Confucianism and healthy longevity are inter-related. The concepts of "chung" and "yung" of Confucius outlined everyday health practices for healthy living. In addition, Confucianism focus on spiritual wellness, using the human will to control the 'qi' (internal vital energy), enhanced both the physical and spiritual wellness necessary for healthy longevity.

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