Cancer-causing toxin found in Chinese baby formula

"A Chinese baby drinks coconut milk mixed with water instead of baby formula in Shanghai. A Chinese dairy has been ordered to suspend production after a cancer-causing toxin was found in its infant formula, China's quality watchdog said Monday, in the country's latest milk scare" title

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Chinese Fat Burning Solutions

May 14, 2012 by admin

Chinese weight reduction methods are typically discussed like they’re a historical secret that has passed down from Mother to Daughter for generations. The truth is that is more or less the way it does happen! Fortunately you can learn the same simple strategies and solutions that allow Asian women to get lean even right after they give birth…without going hungry or giving up the food you really like.

Chinese Fat Reduction Strategies

The essential thing to remember as you look to get rid of inches and get rid of pounds using techniques mastered in Asia is that everyone is different. Sometimes you’ll give in to temptation and cheat somewhat, and that is OK.

One of the best parts of this program is that it maintains your fat burning capacity at an incredibly high level to get rid of fat at all times. You’ll slim down even when you’re asleep, so that cheat meal or cheat day isn’t going to throw you off the tracks from reaching your target weight.

All of us are human and temptation causes us to be who we are. Don’t fear it, grab hold of it!

A Simple Rule to Weight Loss

One of the most productive ways to make use of Chinese fat loss methods to get the shape you’ve always wanted is found in your bathroom.

If you guessed the bathtub, you’re correct, that’s exactly where this simple tip is located, and it’s an instant change that can deliver great results quickly.

You want to start doing Epsom salt baths, and you want to do it as often as you can every week. Epsom salt is a mixture of magnesium and sulfates, but most importantly it acts as an agent that takes fat-storing harmful particles and other damaging elements out of your body via the skin.

Just a 20-minute bath a few times weekly is sufficient to start the process, but if you have time by all means raise the number to more sessions. You’ll rapidly find that your anxiety and tension melts away each day, along with inches from your tummy and legs.

And Epsom salt bath on its own isn’t going to help you get the shape you’ve always desired, but it’s definitely part of a larger plan that you CAN use to finally fit into your favorite skinny jeans…

The Secret Technique To True Weight Reduction

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Chinese researchers eye anti-AIDS gel

Chinese researchers eye anti-AIDS …

Chinese researchers said Monday they have discovered an HIV-blocking agent that could be developed into a gel to limit the sexual transmission of AIDS.

Scientists from Hong Kong University said joint research with Shanghai Targetdrug Co., Nanjing University and City University of Hong Kong had discovered a molecule that blocks HIV from entering human cells.

Zhiwei Chen, director of the AIDS Institute of the University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, said the potency of the TD-0680 molecule against sexually transmitted HIV was "encouraging".

The new molecule could be developed into a microbicide gel to "prevent HIV sexual transmission" by killing off the virus as it tries to enter the body.

This would give people, especially women, an "alternative method to protect themselves from the virus, in addition to condoms", Chen said.

"The ideal solution is to develop an effective vaccine. Since such a vaccine remains elusive, we must explore other strategies such as topical microbicide," he said.

The TD-0680 molecule is several times more potent than Maraviroc, a Pfizer-developed equivalent which has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for clinical treatment, the Chinese scientists said.

Unprotected sex accounts for more than 90 percent of AIDS infections in China, the researchers said in a statement.

Their work was published recently in the peer-reviewed Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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Hong Kong to slam door on pregnant mainland Chinese

Reuters – 2 hrs 15 mins ago HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong may bar mainland Chinese mothers from giving birth in public hospitals next year to ease over-crowding in local maternity wards, the city's health chief said on Tuesday.

Since it reverted from British to Chinese rule in 1997, Hong Kong has benefited from its deepening integration with China. Yet the unfettered access of mainland Chinese to public services in the densely populated city has also caused social strains.

"Right now, we expect that in 2013, all public hospital obstetric services may be reserved for local pregnant mothers," Hong Kong's Health chief York Chow told reporters.

The comments came after the financial hub's leader-elect, Leung Chun-ying, said private hospitals should bar mainland Chinese mothers and that their newborns will no longer be able to claim permanent residence in the city.

"If they apply now and prepare to come to Hong Kong next year to deliver their babies, in all likelihood, their babies will not have permanent residency status in Hong Kong because once I assume office, I will surely work on this," Leung told Hong Kong's Cable Television in an interview on Tuesday.

Leung, a property surveyor and Beijing loyalist was chosen in March to succeed the bowtie-wearing Donald Tsang by a 1200-member, largely pro-Beijing election committee, in a scandal-tainted contest that protesters denounced as a "small circle" affair puppeteered by Beijing's leaders behind the scenes.

Leung's tough stance on the mainland mothers signals a move toward a more populist agenda once he takes office on July 1, that has included pledges to provide more land for public flats and to make housing more affordable.

NO SPECIFICS

Leung did not say if the city would pass laws or use other methods to stop the children of mainland parents from gaining the right of abode, or permanent residency, in Hong Kong.

The pledges by authorities to tackle the hot-button issue come after street protests by local mothers, heated online debates and provocative advertisements in local newspapers denouncing mainland Chinese visitors as "locusts", including mothers crowding out Hong Kong's maternity wards for months.

In 2010, of the 88,584 newborns in Hong Kong, around a third, or 32,653 were born to mainland women, up from 620 babies in 2001.

The influx has spawned an industry of agents shuttling Chinese mothers across the border, hiding them in illegal 'inns' before birth, partly to circumvent China's one-child policy and also to gain the right the live in one of the world's most developed, wealthiest cities.

A broad provision in Hong Kong's mini-constitution grants Hong Kong citizenship to any Chinese born there.

"Everyone should know Hong Kong society already has a clear consensus about this matter. One, delivering babies of couples with no residency right is not the way we want to develop our healthcare industry. Two, such offspring are not the solution to the problem of our ageing population," Leung said.

Chow, the city's health secretary, said that he was in touch with Leung and respected his view of suspending the quota system, but a final decision had yet to be made.

Private hospitals that increasingly rely on maternity services said a sudden policy change would have a major impact.

"Can we change our mode of operation? Yes we can, but not suddenly. If we are given say three years, we can make a long- term plan," said Alan Lau, chairman of the Hong Kong Private Hospital's Association.

But Henry Yeung, president of the Hong Kong Doctors' Union, said blocking automatic permanent residency would ease the crowding at maternity wards.

"This move will return maternity beds to local mothers. Before this trend, private hospitals managed to survive."

(Additional reporting by James Pomfret; Editing by Ed Lane and Daniel Magnowski)

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DNA Testing Finds Allergens, Toxins in Traditional Chinese Medicines

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DNA tests uncover hazards in Chinese therapies

"A traditional Chinese physician prepares herbal medicine for a patient at a clinic. A host of potential toxins, allergens and traces of endangered animals showed up in DNA sequencing tests on 15 Chinese traditional medicines, researchers said on Thursday. (AFP Photo/)" title

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Leading Tiananmen-era Chinese dissident dies in U.S

Reuters – 9 hrs ago BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's most famous dissidents from the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy activists has died in the United States, exiled dissidents said on Saturday.

Fang Lizhi, 76, whom China had accused of counter-revolutionary crimes, lived in Tucson where he was a physics professor at the University of Arizona. He died of natural causes, according to the Twitter feed of Wu Renhua, a dissident living in exile in the United States.

Exiled dissident Wang Dan, who topped a list of the 21 most-wanted student leaders from the time when the Chinese army crushed pro-democracy demonstrations centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, confirmed the news on his Twitter feed after speaking to Fang's wife, Li Shuxian.

"At this moment, no words can express my grief," Wang wrote. "Fang Lizhi has inspired the '89 generation and has awakened the people's yearning for human rights and democracy."

Fang and his wife sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for over a year after the Chinese army crackdown. China then accused them of counter-revolutionary crimes, tantamount to treason.

Fang had no public role in the protests, but decided to seek shelter after pro-government supporters burned effigies of him.

In June 1990, in a concession to Washington, Beijing allowed Fang to leave China to seek medical treatment abroad. China said the couple had shown "signs of repentance."

Fang never returned.

Fang campaigned vigorously in the West for countries to maintain pressure on the Chinese government to respect human rights and permit dissent.

"Fang Lizhi was truly a great man. He spoke truth to power from a rigorous analytic mind, with great courage, and ... with charming wit as well," Perry Link, a noted China scholar at the University of California-Riverside, said by email.

"A government that forced him into exile from his beloved homeland for 22 years will want the world to forget him, but it will fail."

In 1986, Fang emerged as an eloquent advocate of radical political change in China, declaring science should not be determined by Marxist theory.

He was quoted as saying in 1987 that the Chinese Communist Party could not boast of a single success in nearly 40 years of rule. "Marxism...is like a worn dress that must be put aside," he said.

His constant challenge to the Party apparently incurred the wrath of China's former paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping. In a secret speech to central committee members in 1987, Deng singled him out by name for expulsion from the Party.

Fang, along with several intellectuals identified with China's dissident movement, was invited to a banquet with former U.S. President George Bush during a visit in February 1989, but police barred him from attending.

(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing, additional reporting by Paul Eckert in Pennsylvania and Anna Yukhananov in Washington, DC; Editing by Nick Macfie and Cynthia Osterman)

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