The United States is almost the only country in the world that continues to drink milk daily into adulthood. What do the other countries know that we don’t?   Click here for information from Harvard University

Click here for information from an M.D.

“Can you get calcium into your diet with other foods?” Yes!
Click here for more calcium food options from Harvard University

 Click here for more on the Milk Myth

I was reared in Minnesota and it being a dairy state…I bought into the “Dairy – It Does a Body Good” advertising. I grew up and raised my kids
with lots of dairy in our diets…Never knowing the results of wreaking havoc on our digestive systems.

Traditional Chinese Medicine looks at dairy as big phlegm producers as well as creating stagnation. Also, when cold and/or frozen these foods
create much more phlegm. The digestive system literally gets frozen and slows or stops the digestion until the spleen and the food are back to about 100
degrees. All this time the Spleen/digestive system has been creating fat, acidity, and phlegm! Decide to work with your body’s basic functions by
limiting dairy, cheese, yogurt, etc… and consuming foods/beverages at room temperature and you’ll actually be healthier. Click here for more Traditional Chinese Medicine detailed perspective

So if you just HAVE TO HAVE dairy…here are some great Nut Milks to keep you satiated and healthy!

Click HERE - for 3 Nut Milk Recipes

Have you had your “AHA! Experience” today?

Listen NOW to Three Patient Reviews that were shared recently on Tejano 1600 Radio  in Tucson on Melissa Santa Cruz’s Morning Show. Click below:

Susan Allen’s Acupuncture Review Click Here

Lou Parrish’s Acupuncture Review Click Here

Rita’s Acupuncture Review Click Here

Click on Picture to go to website and details.

It all starts on Friday the 14th with our Acupuncturist’s presentation about Traditional Chinese Medicine on Friday 11AM at The Tucson Downtown library. Bring your friends and family so they too can hear how wonderful this healing natural medicine truly is.

Come and Dance with the Flash Mob on Saturday at 2pm in front of our Iridology booth!

“Feel Your Chi” for kids of all ages. Every 30 minutes we’ll show you how to quickly feel what this thing called Qi is! We’ll stamp your child’s passport when he/she completes the activity. Pick up a kid’s passport and guidebook at the many kiosks around this event.

See flavors of different cultures with arts and food. Many people sharing how they make the arts and crafts from their different cultures. Taste the many flavors of many countries all represented here in Tucson.

We’ll be located on the grass in the front of the Main Tucson Library in the Health And Wellness section (first time ever for this huge 6 block radius event).

The national TV networks and Michelle Obama have all been invited to see Tucson’s largest event ever (Oct 14, 15, & 16)!

Come out and play and enjoy the day.

Raw Food has been
around longer than the term. However, we now have a guide to choosing it for
most of what we consume. By not heating up past 105 degrees or microwaving
food, the original enzymes remain intact and you gain more food value. Our
Acupuncturist always says to avoid the “dead food”. Dead food is processed, frozen, microwaved, and canned
foods. These types of foods have no medicinal or nutritional value.

Humus is a healthy protein spread or dip with lots of flavor. Once you get started with humus, you can create many different flavors and varieties. So here are two recipes to get your creative juices and taste buds flowing. Enjoy eating living foods!

Click here to download my recipes.

• Avoid Sugar/manmade sweeteners, Dairy and White Flour; theses foods make your body acidic.
• Eat fresh, organic foods. If at all possible, cooked at home.
• Learn how to manage your Stress; meditation is a great tool.
• Rest; make sure that you give your body time to recover from your busy life.
• Learn to Adapt; life is change and you have a choice to adapt or fight it.
• Choose Love; when you practice LOVE, everything is easy.
• Be your Best Friend; celebrate your successes and forgive yourself the mistakes.
It takes time to make the changes but they are worth it!

For us humans, the intake of sugar damages our health because it creates acidity in the body and gums up digestion. In the process of digesting the sugar the digestive system creates phlegm; this phlegm causes untold problems in our bodies.  The artificial sweeteners (I call them plastic sugar) are even worse – because the body does not know to process them and ends up creating things like cancer, headaches, ulcers, etc. What is the moral of the story? Stop eating sugar to improve your health!  

Our mission at American Health Acupuncture, is to keep you healthy and joyful.

Inner Peace:

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat plain food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can relax without liquor,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

…Then You Are Probably ……….

The Family Dog!

Sherry and I had so much fun talking to the friendly employees and hope to be included in the next health fair.

Meanwhile here are some things that you can do for yourself.

• Irrigate/spray the inside of your nose with warm salty water or use a neti pot, this really helps.
• Stay indoors when it is windy and between 10 AM to 4 PM.
• Shower before going to bed.
• Avoid the three whites (sugar, flower & Dairy).

Enjoy your life!

1. Be more aware of what they eat and to see how their bodies react to the different foods. 
2. To avoids the THREE BAD WHITES (sugar, wheat flour and dairy) because these foods cause acidity in the body, in the process of digesting them the body uses a lot of energy unnecessarily. 
3. That everybody drink at least half a gallon of water every day to keep the body hydrated and to add 5 drops of hydrogen peroxide to each glass of water, this helps the body be more alkaline.

We want everybody to be healthy so please take care of you!

Love!  We all have an idea of what it is; but very few have actually experienced it.  The time is here to create a conscious effort to experience it from the inside out – “What Love, Light, Good, The Creator, The Universe is.” For me it happens during a meditation, an acupuncture treatment, a massage or a hike in the desert. Please listen to this short reading and create a way so you too can experience this wonderful thing!  Click on picture to watch Youtube video!

Summer Foods

We at American Health Acupuncture always think of your good health so our advice for the summer season is to eat cooling foods to help the body be hydrated and cool.   

In the heat of the summer it is important to keep our bodies hydrated and Mother Nature helps us with the different fruits and vegetables that are available.  In order to help our bodies be hydrated and cool in the summer months it is ideal to eat more cooling foods like watermelon, melons, cucumbers and fruits in general. The best time to eat theses delicacies in in between meals to maintain the balance and our good digestion.  Enjoy the summer.

A man came in for aches and pains in his back and other areas – from things that happen on a regular basis at his construction  job. On the 2nd time in for a treatment, he said to me…”If I’d have known that taking these Chinese Herbs and getting Needles stuck in me was going to help me sleep  like I’ve been sleeping, I’d have come in to see you guys years ago!” He hadn’t been able to sleep past 2AM in over 5 years. Now he sleeps all through the night util 5am.  He’s feeling better physically now and also sleeping well; what a wonderful natural medicine! “It’s clearly so much more than needles!”

Can we remove this troublesome killer from our lives?  No! It is next to impossible; because since we were born, we have been learning how to create our lives based on fear; so STRESS is a part of us. But, we can reduce it, by learning new behaviors such as diet, meditation, walking in the desert, praying, using natural medicine like Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), massage and the most important “to learn how to forgive ourselves”  We, at American Health Acupuncture, help our patients with TCM, Lifestyle and diet coaching, and teaching them new ways of being. Call us so we can help you too!