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Robert Chu, PhD, L.Ac., QME 1028 N. Lake Avenue, Suite 107 Pasadena, CA 91104 (626) 487-1815 acuchu.com Strategies for Optimal Health  by Robert Chu, PhD, L.Ac., QME Diet and Nutrition Watch your Diet! - Much of y our health is determined by watching your diet! Avoid excessive carbs - chips, pizza, bread, breadsticks, pasta, rice, buns, muffins, cakes, cookies, tortillas, burritos, tacos, fruit juices/drinks, soft drinks – these are empty carbs, and have little nutritional value. You need complex carbs (vegetables and fruit s) to stay alive, roughly 30-40% per meal - but overdoing with empty carbs is unnecessary. Read the labels! Anything with artifi cal anything is not the best for you…avoid hidden sugars like high fructose corn syrup. Also abusing sweeteners wil l eventually have a detrimental effect. Sugar is, in general, bett er than artificial sweet eners! Avoid any foods with artifical color, flavor, sweeteners, and preservatives, as well as ingredients you don’t know or can’t pronounce. Avoid enriched white flour, tr ansfatty acids and triglycerides. Eat more foods without labels: Try to eat fresh, o rganic foods like fruits, carrot sticks, celery, almonds (unsalted and unflavored), walnuts, raisins, dried fruits as snacks... Limit yourself to maybe 1 day a week of eating what you want without worry! Eat only about 2/3 full. All you can eat buffets are deadly! 6-8 small meals a day, organic foods – eat throughout the day to easily digest meals Detox with green leafy bitter vegetables: bok choy, broccoli, romaine lettuce, kale, mesclun, mustard greens, spinach, turnip greens, watercress, collard greens – best bet: Gourmet salad greens Best water – bottled or reverse osmosis filtered only Ideal breakfast, lunch and dinner: Oatmeal or multigrain cereal, mixed greens salad with 2 ounces of protein Protein needed in a day: 0.2 g per Kg of body weight Don’t take too many vitamins, Calcium, Glucosamine, Chondroiton, MSM – take only 3X a week, speak to your pharmacist about the many Rx’s you are taking. Avoid taking unnecessary OTC drugs. © Copyright Robert Chu, PhD, L.Ac., QME April 2011 – No photocopyi ng or duplication without prior consent of the author in writing.

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Exercise is moving your thighs!

Walk at least ½ hour twice a day, or 10K steps a day - wear a pedometer 

Weight training: Deadlift, Squats, Lunges, Clean and Press– 3 sets of 10 each exercise

Hourly routine: 10 squats, pushups, twists – takes 2 minutes for every hour you are

awake – 3 X Day Week one, 5 X Day Week Two, 8X Day Week 3, 10 X Day Week 4

Try Yoga, Tai Ji, Qi Gong

Do Sauna, Massage, Steam room, Jacuzzi, or Thai Yoga Massage 1 x week 

Check your BMI - http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

Sleep6 –8 hours a day½ hour naps, if needed

Sleeping time is not time to think!!!

Less Stress, More Healthy emotions:

Do Meditation, Yoga

You are responsible for “habits”. Excuse-itis is the worst disease of all.

Brief Therapy/Awareness Therapy/Hypnotherapy/NLP/EFT

Read the “Power of Now”, “A New Earth” and “Silence Speaks” by Eckhart Tolle

Watch movies to educate yourself: Food, Inc., Sicko, Fast Food Nation, Supersize Me,

and King Corn

Watch Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, ABC

Learn how to deal with toxic people and emotional vampires

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Don’t set off genetic triggers

See http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com for info on the toxicity of your health/beauty

 products!

Clean environment, Air, Water, avoiding toxins, plastics/styrofoam

Medications are best for short term.

Go for natural medicine: Try Acupuncture, Chiropractic, herbs, bodywork, naturopathy,

homeopathy as your firstline medical treatment.

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On Larry King, September 10, 2009:

KING: The book "Why Our Health Matters," the guest, Dr. Andrew Weil.

OK, if you -- if you could make some changes, give us some that you would make rightnow. Be -- be -- be the king.

WEIL: OK. First of all, we don't have a health care system in this country, we have a

disease management system that's horribly dysfunctional and getting worse by the

day. And the vast majority of disease that we're trying to manage is lifestyle related

and, therefore, preventable.

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Disease

Poor Diet &Nutrition

Lack of ExerciseEmotional

Sleep

Trauma

Stress Fashion GeneticFactors

Environmental

Factors:

Weather PollutionToxinsElectromagnetic fields

Preservatives