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EDITORIAL: Where should you move to be perfect?

August 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

An interesting article published recently by the website onlinedoctor.superdrug.com gave a fascinating look at how culture can shape and evaluate ideas of beauty and what we perceive as the ideal form and figure. The project was assigned to 18 freelance designers in different countries. Most who participated in the experiment/study were female (four males participated, […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2015, BMI, China, Chinese, Colombia, Netherlands, Philippines, Spain, Vol 34 No 35 | August 22 - August 28, culture, italy

Women and heart disease

March 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Francesca Minas, American Heart Association Northwest Asian Weekly Only a little over half are aware that heart disease is the leading killer of women, responsible for one of every three women’s deaths annually. Believe that heart disease is a “man’s disease” is still a common misperception. Yee Mei, Lee-Kong of Seattle got a pacemaker […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2010, 2015, American Heart Association, BMI, East West Bank, Go Red Heart Checkup, Heart Truth, Last February, Lee Kong, Nancy Lee, New York City, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Susanne Steinbaum, VP, Vol 34 No 14 | March 28 - April 3, Women's Health Issue 2015, Yee Mei

BLOG: Easy medicine: A list of foods for stress — (But be sure to create your own list, too)

March 26, 2015 By Assunta Ng

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly “Food is medicine,” said a doctor in a television interview recently. But of course, he was not the first to acknowledge that food is medicine. Hippocrates, a Greek physician said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” more than 2,000 years ago. The Chinese culture has […]

Filed Under: Health, Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2015, BMI, Food, Lord Byron, Northwest Asian Weekly, Peggy Lynch, Publisher's Blog, Seattle Center, Seattle Chinese Post, Vitamin B12, Vol 34 No 14 | March 28 - April 3, Women's Health Issue 2015, blog

OECD: French best at eating and sleeping, Koreans skinniest

May 9, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PARIS (AP) — The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and, according to a survey, can add a new love to the mix: sleep. In fact, the French excel at the two leisure activities, spending more time at table and in bed than many other nations.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: BMI, Body Mass Index, Korea, New Zealand, OECD, TV, japan, vol 28 no 20 | May 9 - May 15

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