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08/04/2017

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07/26/2017

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05/17/2017

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04/28/2017

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04/28/2017

04/28/2017

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04/13/2017

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03/23/2017

01/24/2017

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12/21/2016

Merry Christmas everyone! We are closing at 3:00pm on Friday December 23rd, 2016 come in from the cold and into UHC for a warm complimentary hot chocolate and cookies! :) 7609-109 street edmonton ab

06/23/2016

White tea. It is a highly production tea because the procedure of this tea easier than green tea and black tea. Do not underestimate white tea. It contains tons of health benefits which can make a person live healthier and even longer.

White tea contains antioxidant and anti-aging properties which help in maintaining good health and healthy skin. Anyone who wants healthy skin, white tea is what you can have.

Most importantly, white tea is the best choice to prevent cancer and resist cancer. According to white tea guide website, white tea prevents different types of cancer; such as colon, prostate, and stomach cancers. Flavonoids, a class of antioxidants, inhibit the growth of cancer cells and prevent the development of new ones. In some cases, white tea has been found to work as well as prescription drugs, but without the side effects.

White tea is also the best choice to improve a person's immune system. When a person getting cold or fever, white tea has amazing effect to decrease the body temperature. It even works better than a antibiotics without side effects.

In addition, there are many other health benefits from white tea. For example, reduce blood sugar, heart protection, decrease blood pressure, keep healthy teeth. and it's a natural killer for viruses.

In China, white tea can be used as a external use medicine for anti inflammation.

What are you waiting for? Stop drinking hot chocolate, soft drinks, high calorie drinks or alcohol. Drinking white tea, you can be healthier than ever before. The best temperature for heating white tea is 95-100 degrees. This temperature can release the healthy elements inside white tea and easy to obtaining by your body.

06/22/2016

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06/22/2016

Traditional Chinese Medicine has more than two thousand and five hundred years history. It is a safe and well-known treatment for disease.
There are three causes of disease: external causes; internal causes and non-external-non-internal causes. Traditional Chinese Medicine is a treatment for source of disease.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is not only used as treatment for disease but also it can be a health care and health issue prevention medicine to keep body healthy everyday.

In United Health Centres, we want to provide less side-effect medicine with some serious health issues to help our patients. Traditional Chinese Medicine is the best choice for this.
Dr. Han and Dr. Lai are professional Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors in United Health Centres.
Dr. Lai is doing most of Traditional Chinese Medicine care in United Health Centres.
United Health Centres welcome walk-in and calling appointment.

06/16/2016

Music is everywhere. There are different types of music. Country music, rap, rock music, pop music, hip-hop and so on. Everyone knowing it is a way to relax from a day of busy work or study. Surprisingly, music has health benefits for people.
1.Music heals
Pain relief:
According to a paper in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing, Listening music can let people feeling less chronic pain from a range of painful conditions, including osteoarthritis, disc problems and rheumatoid arthritis, by up to 21% and depression by up to 25%.

Reducing blood pressure:
According to research reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in New Orleans, if one person just listen classical, Celtic or raga music every day may significantly reduce high blood pressure.

Medicine for the heart:
Music is good for your heart. Research shows that it is musical tempo, rather than style. Italian and British researchers recruited young men and women, half of whom were trained musicians. The participants slipped on head phones and listened to six styles of music, including rap and classical pieces, with random two-minute pauses. As the participants kicked back and listened, the researchers monitored their breathing, heart rates and blood pressure. The participants had faster heart and breathing rates when they listened to lively music. When the musical slowed, so did their heart and breathing rates. Some results were surprising. During the musical pauses, heart and breathing rates normalized or reached more optimal levels. Whether or not a person liked the style of music did not matter. The tempo, or pace, of the music had the greatest effect on relaxation.

2. Effects of music on the brain
Music enhances intelligence, learning, and IQ:
The idea that music makes you smarter received considerable attention from scientists and the media. Listening to music or playing an instrument can actually make you learn better. And research confirms this.

Music improve memory performance:
The power of music to affect memory is quite intriguing. Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activates the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, cause the brain to be more capable of processing information.
Listening to music facilitates the recall of information. Researchers have shown that certain types of music are a great "keys" for recalling memories. Information learned while listening to a particular song can often be recalled simply by "playing" the songs mentally.

3.Music improve physical performance
Music improves athletic performance:
Choosing music that motivates you will make it easier to start moving, walking, dancing, or any other type of exercise that you enjoy. Music can make exercise feel more like recreation and less like work. Furthermore, music enhances athletic performance! Anyone who has ever gone on a long run with their iPod or taken a particularly energetic spinning class knows that music can make the time pass more quickly.

Music improves body movement and coordination:
Musical rhythm has the remarkable ability to move our bodies. Music reduces muscle tension and improves body movement and coordination. Music may play an important role in developing, maintaining and restoring physical functioning in the rehabilitation of persons with movement disorders.

4.Music helps to work more productively
Music improves productivity
Many people like to listen to music while they work. Whilst there may be many reasons for wishing to listen to music in the workplace, it really improves your productivity!
According to a report in the journal Neuroscience of Behavior and Physiology, a person's ability to recognize visual images, including letters and numbers, is faster when either rock or classical music is playing in the background.

5. Music calms, relaxes and helps to sleep
Relaxing music induces sleep:
Relaxing classical music is safe, cheap and easy way to beat insomnia. Many people who suffer from insomnia find that Bach music helps them.
Researchers have shown that just 45 minutes of relaxing music before bedtime can make for a restful night.Relaxing music reduces sympathetic nervous system activity, decreases anxiety, blood pressure, heart and respiratory rate and may have positive effects on sleep via muscle relaxation and distraction from thoughts.

Of course, there are many benefits of listening music. However, these benefits only adaptable when people listening right music in the right moment. Such as, a person want to fall asleep quickly ;however this person listening rock, loudly music. The effect probably will be opposite.

In conclusion, listening music is definitely a "soul healing" process. People will get relax, have fun and enjoy life during listening music. What are you waiting for? Go enjoy life! Get positive emotion! Life is wonderful with music. :D

P.S: All the information quoted from eMed Expert, How Music Affects Us and Promotes Health (2016).

06/10/2016

United Health Centres is a one stop shop medical centre. We are here for every patients health services and make patients feeling better.
If you have any healthy issue, we are here. And here is our services list.

05/30/2016

It is hard to say about tomato. Some people think it's a fruit; another group of people believe it's a vegetable.

No matter it's a fruit or vegetable. Tomato has a lot health benefits.
Firstly, it contains really rich vitamin A and C. Especially Vitamin C is the best element to help fighting with cancer.

Tomato has amazing effect to reduce chance of prostate cancer. According to John Erdman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of the department of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois, "There's very good, strong, epidemiological support for increased consumption of tomato products and lower incidence of prostate cancer."

Tomato is a really good choice to control blood pressure, especially for seniors. According to medical news today, tomato has a low sodium intake helps to keep blood pressure healthy.

For some people who has heart disease or heart health issues. Tomato can help to improve heart health. according to Mark Houston, M.D., M.S., an associate clinical professor of medicine at Vanderbilt Medical School and director of the Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital in Tennessee, "Tomatoes also contain folic acid, which helps to keep homocysteine levels in check, thereby reducing a risk factor for heart disease."

For women health care, tomato is amazing to keep skin smooth. Vitamin C in tomato can reduce the damage of skin from sunlight, pollution and smoke. Additionally, tomato is also good for pregnancy. According to medical news today, The folic acid intake from tomato is essential before and during pregnancy to protect against neural tube defects in infants.

In conclusion, Tomato is really a wise choice in diet list. I'll cook egg with tomato tonight for my dinner. What are you waiting for? :p

P.S: All information is quoted from medical news today website. Tomatoes: Health Benefits, Facts, Research, written by Megan Ware RDN LD.

05/30/2016

Hello everyone! It's the first day of new week! I know Edmonton is rainy and cloudy. This is good for dry weather.

I believe most of people have had their breakfast already. People who don't have breakfast might wonder why breakfast is important?

Breakfast is not only providing fuel for your body after long time sleeping; but also "it restores glucose levels, an essential carbohydrate that is needed for the brain to function. So a breakfast can help improve the memory efficiency for study or work."

Most importantly, breakfast is good for long term health. As National Health Service mentioned, "Eating breakfast has long term health benefits. It can reduce obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes."

In addition, there are two nutrition advice from shake up your wake up website:
"Breakfast should be eaten within two hours of waking.
A healthy breakfast should provide calories in the range of 20-35% of your guideline daily allowance (GDA)."

For someone who do not eat breakfast, here is a suggestion. Stop ignore breakfast. It is a really bad way to hurt your stomach and cause health issue. You should let your body getting energy from beginning of the day. :) Enjoy your breakfast!

P.S: All breakfast knowledge information quoted from shake up your wake up website.

05/27/2016

Which yellow fruit is full of juice and taste sweet? That would be pear.
Don't despise a little pear. It once called the “gift of the gods” by Homer, author of the Odyessy, pears are packed with nutrients, fiber and antioxidants, making them a delicious but healthful snacking choice.
Pears has many health benefits:
1. Pears contains high Vitamin C and K. These elements can help to protect our cells from damage from free radicals.

2.Pears are an excellent source of dietary fiber, and fiber is good for the heart. Eating pears can also reduce risk of stroke by up to 50 percent.

3. Pears can also protect us from varying types of cancer. In addition to binding to cholesterol, the fiber in pears can also bind to and help remove cancer-causing chemicals in the colon, thus reducing risk of colon cancer.

4.Because they are high in fiber and have a low glycemic index, pears make a smart snack for those with diabetes.

5.Doctors generally consider pears to be a hypoallergenic fruit because they are less likely than other fruits to produce an allergic response when eaten. For this reason, pears are generally considered “safe” and are often one of the first fruits given to infants.

P.S: These information quoted from "Mother Earth Living" website.

05/27/2016

Two fruits are most important for daily health life. They are apple and pear. In this article, I will introduce the health benefits from apple.

Why people always say " An apple a day keeps the doctor away"?
Apple contains rich antioxidants, flavanoids, and dietary fiber. The antioxidants in apples may help reduce the risk of developing cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. These disease are the highest threaten for human health. That's why one apple per day might change your body health gradually.

Apple has many other benefits:
1. The antioxidants from apple that helped to reduce cellular death that is caused by oxidation and inflammation of neurons. (2006, published in journal Experimental Biology and Medicine)

2. Eating apples may have benefit for your neurological health. If apple is part of the daily diet; that would protect neuron cells against oxidative stress-induced neurotoxicity and may play an important role in reducing the risk of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. (2008, published in Journal of Food Science)

Apple might even prevent breast cancer. It is a "miracle fruit" for health. From now on, if you have no apple in part of your daily diet; this would be a good chance to start it. :)

05/25/2016

Do you know why "minions" love banana so much? There are several reasons. According to Megan. W (2016):

1. Banana maintains a low sodium intake is essential to lowering blood pressure.
2. Banana can reduce the chance of asthma happening even just eat one per day.
3. Banana contains good Vitamin C, it can lower the risk of colorectal cancer
4. Banana can improve your heart health and lower the risk of ischemic heart disease.
5. For students or heavy memory workers, Bananas also contain tryptophan, an amino acid that studies suggest plays a role in preserving memory and boosting your mood.

Now you know the reasons of minions' banana choice. Go have one banana for yourself now. :D

P.S: This information is quoted from medical news today website.

05/24/2016

Who doesn't like sunshine? I believe everyone does. According to Rachel. N(2015), Exposure to sunlight is thought to increase the brain’s release of a hormone called serotonin. This is associated with boosting mood and helping a person feel calm and focused.
In addition, sunlight has a benefit for human body. As it mentioned in Vitamin council, Human skin can make large amounts of vitamin D when lots of skin is exposed and the sun is high in the sky. Your body is designed to get the vitamin D it needs by producing it when your bare skin is exposed to sunlight. The part of the sun's rays that is important is ultraviolet B.

05/24/2016

Music boosts your workout
In a Canadian study, when people matched their jogging pace to musical beats, they worked out 70 percent more over the course of one week than those who didn't do so.
According to Study author David Alter,M.D., says the musical beats distract from the task, plus make it easier to maintain your pace, so jogging feels less strenuous and tedious.
His advice: Choose music where each step (or every other step) falls on a beat. For a free app that plays songs that match your walking pace.

P.S: This information quoted from magazine on Dec.21st,2015.

05/20/2016

When it comes to healthy teas, green and black teas are the most familiar types for everyone. Scientists reporting in the European Journal of Public Health offer a good reason to sip chamomile. In a 30-year study, people who drank the tea twice a week were up to 74 percent less likely to develop thyroid issues(overactive, underactive, goiters and cancer).The study authors say the brew's antioxidants fight thyroid-damaging oxidative stress and inflammation.

P.S: The above information is from magazine published in Dec 21st,2015.

05/10/2016

Unhealthy lifestyle can cause some health issue. Some disease will become chronic disease (long-term disease) including cardiovascular disease; respiratory disease (breath system disease); diabetes and even followed by cancer.

In this case, United Health Centres provides lifestyle medicine to prevent the disease from happening or becoming worse.

05/09/2016

Traditional Chinese medicine has more than two thousand and five hundred years history. It is a safe and well-known treatment for disease.
In United Health Centres, we want to provide less side-effect medicine with some serious health issues to help our patients.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not only used as treatment for disease but also it can be a health care and health issue prevention medicine to keep body healthy everyday.

05/02/2016

United Health Centres provides women's health services for better medical care experience for women patients.

Ultrasound: Ultrasound is coming June 2016 at United Health Centres, this diagnostic tool will provide diagnostic imaging services for women of all ages.

PAP: PAP is a test for sample of cell that is taken from a woman's cervix or va**na. The test is used to look for changes in the cells of the cervix or va**na that show cancer or conditions that may develop into cancer. It is the best tool to detect cervical cancer early and cure the cancer.

Screening: "screening tests are laboratory tests that help to identify people with increased risk for a condition or disease before they have symptoms or even realize they may be at risk so that preventive measures can be taken. They are an important part of preventive health care." (Lab tests online).
This service in United Health Centres will help women patients preventing disease before getting worse.

Health and wellness services: In United Health Centres, this service will provide proper medical care and advice for women's health life.

Holistic approach: In United Health Centres, holistic approach can provide a full body health condition check for women patients.

Prevention: Prevention service in United Health Centres helps every female patients to stop getting unexpected disease.

Education: This is an upcoming service to let female customers to earn more knowledge about sexual disease, cervical cancer, the ways to prevent these disease and so on.

United Health Centres always cares about women's health medical care and do our best to serve and satisfy as much as possible for every female customers.