How TCM diagnoses chronic diseases

(1) High-salt diet: The World Health Organization (WHO) stipulates that daily salt intake for an adult should be controlled below 6 grams. Diet with excessive amount of salt is called high-salt diet.

(2) Smoking. China is the largest consumer of tobacco in the world. Smoking can lead to lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other various diseases.

(3) Excessive drinking behavior. Brain and liver are the most productive organs in body's metabolism, and they can be affected by alcohol easily. Chronic alcoholism can lead to serious psychological and behavioral disorders and also cause fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer. Continue to learn Chinese medicine Treatment for Cirrhosis.

(4) Obesity behavior refers to the habits causing obesity. It is characterized by irrational diet, high-calorie, consumption less than absorption, lack of exercise, eating too much for compensation while in tension.

(5) Psychologically, a number of people, who can be irritable easily, excited and pursuing the perfection, prone to suffering from cardiovascular diseases, because the content of catecholamine in these people’s blood and urine is higher than the normal one. So, these kinds of people have greater risk in suffering hypertension, angiosclerosis, and coronary heart disease. In addiction, the incidence of myocardial infarction of these people is 3 to 4 times higher than the normal ones. People with depression, sulk, a sense of loneliness or helplessness, can suffer from low immunity system function and cancer.

(6) The low aging tendency of chronic diseases. The experts show that in the past decade, young people's diet has been changed tremendously. Many factors lead to obesity among teenagers, such as increase of sugar, fat and salt intake with the decreased amount of exercises. Obesity can increase the morbidity of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and other major chronic diseases. Nowadays, many teenagers are fond of smoking, drinking, eating foods with high-sugar, high-fat and  fast foods. Many children stay at home and chat or play games on the Internet, at the same time, lack of exercises and only have a gym class to exercise in the school because of the full arrange of examination-oriented education curriculum.