About the Book

                        EAST MEET WEST to give you the best IN HEALTH CARE

The key to maximum good health is to know your own body, to live a healthy lifestyle and to find health care that works for you.

East Meets West outlines how to achieve a healthy lifestyle, prevent the onset of many common illnesses and deal with a variety of important health issues.  Weight control, heart attacks and strokes issues, excessive fatigue, sexual dysfunction, pain management, senior diseases and problems with stress are addressed, along with serious diseases such as diabetes, arthritis and cancer. 

Learn important facts about nutrition, exercise, herbs and supplements, and secrets to longevity.  Become informed about different health care options and the differences between them, so you can make the best choices for care when illness or injury strikes.

Trained at the University of Bejing in both Western and Chinese Medicine, Dr. Yuan has over twenty years experience working as a surgeon in China and a researcher and medical practitioner in Canada.  His advice in this book is based on medical concepts from Conventional Western Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and other Alternative Health Care practices.

Read!  Investigate!  Learn!  Take the best possible care of yourself.

About the Author

Jing Yuan,     MD, M.Sc., CMD, D.Ac.

For the past six generations, members of his family have been practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Dr. Yuan began his education in TCM at the early age of 10.  In 1978 he was accepted to Medical College, Beijing University where he studied Western Medicine as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine, graduating in 1983.  From 1983 to 1989 he acquired surgical experience at the Beijing Medical University and graduated with a Masters of Science Degree in Medical Research. He immigrated to Canada in 1989 and began his practice specializing in neck, shoulder and back pain. From 1989 to 1995 he was extensively involved in medical research, specifically involving osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, at the University of Toronto.

Currently Dr. Yuan has a practice at Toronto Neck, Shoulder and Back Treatment Centre. He is the Chair of the Ontario Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture Association and President of the Canadian Academy of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.

Anne Noble

Anne Noble first met Dr. Yuan after undergoing spinal surgery and seeking options for relief of pain from osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.   Acupuncture and traditional Chinese therapeutic massage (tuina) worked well for Anne’s purposes and she has continued treatments with Dr. Yuan for the past four years.  The excellent results of this therapy inspired an interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine and she was delighted to have the opportunity to work with Dr. Yuan in preparing this book.