My name is Yin Teing- I am from Selangor, Malaysia. This blog began in 2006 as my own personal journey to beat fatigue (I thought it was due to sugar addiction). I joined a gym, started to exercise seriously and was trying various eating plans, read tonnes of books. Basically, I changed my lifestyle- and it changed my life. So the beginning parts of the blog, I wrote stuff I was experimenting with myself.
Then, I noticed loved ones, friends and colleagues around me suffering from various health problems- attributed largely due to being sedentary, food choices, trauma and stress. In 2007 and 2008, I lost a few people who are dear to me due to diabetes, stroke and cancer. It was sad, and when I read about others suffering the same fate, I felt I had to do something- so I shifted the focus from myself to research on using lifestyle change as complementary treatment for illness. I devoured tonnes of articles, books on health, took up an ACE certification for knowledge and want to share the information and findings.
I hope you can find some answers here. If not, there’s always my life blog 
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Contact Me
You can contact me via email: yteing at yahoo dot com . I appreciate any emails and feedback that you have.
History of This Blog (longer version)
This blog originally started as a blog of my journey to beat sugar addiction. I had been experiencing fatigue all my life and can’t seem to control my eating, especially my craving for sweet stuff. I started this blog after realising that the source of my problems was due to simply- the body’s biological sugar imbalance triggered by being inactive and eating refined carbohydrate. I was adamant to overcome the problem- and decided the best way to stick to it is to start a blog. You can read more about how I felt from the Apr 07 archives. I realised that a person may also have problem losing weight (due to overeating) -is not because the person is weak willed or a failure- but the underlying factor is very biological.
For a few months, I almost eliminated refined/table sugar and white rice/bread from my diet. Of course, I did slip up. Together with exercise, I was able to gradually normalise my body’s response to sugar. But eventually, I realised that the lifelong key to success lies in moderation. Yes, I needed to take the drastic action to literally eliminate refined carbs initially and to exercise to get my metabolism going well. But once that is in motion, I do not need to cut any food groups from my diet anymore. Today, I eat whatever I like but in moderation- I exercise regularly.
Along the line, I also observed how so many chronic illness like diabetes, lower back pain, chronic fatigue, knee pain, high blood pressure and even cancer are triggered due to stress, inactivity and bad food choices. I watched my loved ones and friends getting ill - and not getting better despite medication and/or surgeries. I saw people going to specialists to obtain medication for stomach ailments when all they need to do is to adopt simple lifestyle changes like drinking warm water and eating fruits first thing in the morning. I seen friends going to see doctor for pains but either nothing shows up in the scan, or they are just given painkillers to relieve the conditions. Cannot sleep- take sleeping tablet. No bowel movements- take laxatives. Get fever- take antibiotics. Why don’t the medical caregivers offered clear alternatives rather than ‘quick kills’?
So my focus changed- since I’ve accomplished my goal of overcoming fatigue (believe me, it matters to me because fatigue had rob my life of quality). Now, I strive to look for complementary healing methods to improve the person’s health. I realised that Western medicine only masks the symptoms but do not eliminate the cause. And as long as the cause of the problem is not address, the person will continue to suffer reoccurance. For instance, the correct combination of exercises can eliminate lower back pain, reduce pain from arthritis, improve the conditions of diabetes, high blood pressure, high chrolesterol. There are documented cases of people who had done it through lifestyle change- so why the healthcare provider never wanted to educate their patients?
I believe my readers are smart people- I do my best to present whatever solutions I know with explanation to appeal to the readers’ common sense. I come from Eastern background where I am exposed to other alternative forms of healing such as using qi gong, cane exercise, Chinese medication, meditation-and I will want to write more about this in future.
However, my stand is not to turn away from Western medication and opinions of qualified doctors. If you have high blood pressure, you must take your medication and cannot reduce on your own accord. The same goes for other conditions that requires medication. However, by adopting complimentary healing methods and lifestyle change, with regular check-ups, I hope eventually, you will be cleared with a clean bill of health. I mean, your doctor cannot prescribe diabetic medication anymore if your fasting blood glucose is consistently normal or ask you to continue taking high blood meds if your blood pressure is normal, right?
This is what I hope to accomplish- I want you to know there are options and choices you can make. And that you have the power to make yourself heal and feel better.
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