Balancing Act

Give the gift of good health to yourself and your friends over the holiday season with Chinese medicine specialist Wai Yuen Tong

We all know what it’s like to push ourselves. In modern society, it’s all too common to put other responsibilities—especially our jobs— before our health. If it’s hard enough to achieve a work-life balance in our everyday lives, however, then how can we ever expect to find the balance within our own bodies?

The dangers of health imbalances shouldn’t be ignored—particularly during the festive season, when it’s all too easy to overindulge and fall victim to guilty pleasures: eating and drinking too much, not sleeping enough and putting in too many overtime hours at work before the end of the year. All these stresses lead to imbalances of the body and mind, opening the doors to illnesses and general impacts on our health and wellbeing.

The world is moving towards a philosophy that’s based on prevention rather than cure—wisdom that’s long been known but seldom followed. And so, in societies both Eastern and Western, people are looking to supplements that can keep their bodies healthy and happy so they can ward off minor and major ailments.