{"id":17201,"date":"2009-08-19T06:41:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T11:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17201"},"modified":"2011-06-03T22:13:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:13:55","slug":"tai-chi-can-help-diabetics-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/tai-chi-can-help-diabetics-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Chi Can Help Diabetics, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a time when the phrase “ancient Chinese secret” was a pop culture phenomenon. Calgon soap even used it in a television commercial back in the 1970s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you can see, the phrase was more of a punch line than anything else. But let’s be frank: The Chinese culture is<\/em> ancient, and over the centuries it has<\/em> uncovered many methods and practices that, while not exactly secret, remain mysterious to Western cultures.<\/p>\n

Today, modern science is confirming the benefits of many types of Eastern medicine and practices. The latest news is this: Performing tai chi chuan exercises can benefit people with type 2 diabetes<\/a> according to a study published in the June edition of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Researchers Rhayun Song, Sukhee Ahn, Beverly L. Roberts, Eun Ok Lee, and You Hern Ahn spent six months studying a group of 99 Korean diabetics who were practicing tai chi. According to the summary of their report, “the adherent group had greater decline in fasting glucose… than the non-adherers.” The practitioners also performed more self-care activities and had better quality of life, social functioning, mental health and vitality, they reported.<\/p>\n

While only the summary is available at the Journal’s<\/em> web page, a full copy of the report can be purchased here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time when the phrase “ancient Chinese secret” was a pop culture phenomenon. Calgon soap even used it in a television commercial back in the 1970s. As you can see, the phrase was more of a punch line than anything else. But let’s be frank: The Chinese culture is ancient, and over the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}