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Food as Medicine: Diet Can Prevent and Manage Disease

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Food as Medicine: Diet Can Prevent and Manage Disease
Samgyetang, ginseng chicken soup. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Cheryl Ng
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Chinese medicine practitioners believe in preventing disease and regulating the body through eating certain foods.

Since I was a child, when I got sick, my parents always consulted Western doctors. I did the same as an adult and didn’t think about seeing a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner.

Cheryl Ng is a senior editor for the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times and the host of an online news program, with over two decades of experience. Cheryl enjoys studying alternative therapies in her spare time. She studied macrobiotic Chinese food therapy at the (now-closed) Kushi Institute in Massachusetts, USA.
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