How To Look Younger And Live Longer The Chinese Way

In 2001, I had the good fortune to travel to China to visit police colleges to study their training methods. I was retired from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and employed by a law enforcement academy, and in that capacity I visited China. Throughout my adult life, I have been an admitted "health nut" and was curious to learn of the Chinese diet and lifestyle since they have far lower rates of heart disease, cancer and diabetes than citizens of the western industrialized world.

While in Chongqing, a municipality of 34 million people, I had the good fortune to meet a grand master of the ancient Chinese art of rejuvenation and anti-aging, an art that had been developed centuries earlier in the Chongqing region. At first, I was unimpressed with this person, who appeared to be a beautiful young woman in her early twenties. After all, what does someone of that age know about aging and the consequences thereof? When I later learned, however, that she was forty-five years of age, my interest piqued, to say the least. I had to learn what she was doing that the rest of us are not doing... to say I had a thirst for knowledge would be a gross understatement. I ended up going to China every year for eight years and living there for five more years.

When the master visited Canada at the age of forty-nine, I took her to a casino in Niagara Falls as she had never seen a casino before. She was stopped by the security guard at the door and asked to produce her ID. The guard explained that one must be at least nineteen years old to enter the casino. We all got a good laugh about that as her son was older than the security guard.

Interestingly enough, almost all the advice we are given by researchers in the west is ignored by the master. She and her assistants/students, who also look much younger than their chronological age, all eat lots of carbohydrates and saturated fats. None of them take any vitamins or supplements whatsoever. Although they eat protein every day, their diet is primarily vegetable based, but this is also true of all Chongqing people. Unlike we in the western world, age is revered in China and to have the label "Old" attached to their name is a great honor. People lie about their age in China, just as many people do in North America, but they profess to be older than they are, not younger.

The master stresses that looking younger is not the goal of her art, merely a by-product. The real goal is to retain the characteristics of youth as you age so your old age is as healthy, energetic and adventurous as it was when you were a young person.

This master of the ancient Chinese art of rejuvenation and anti-aging lived in a traditional region of China, very unlike Beijing and Shanghai, and she didn't believe people in the west would be interested in her knowledge. "After all", she said, "why would people want to look younger? Are they not proud of their age and the wisdom they have accumulated?" My skepticism was far different. I didn't think people in the western industrialized world would believe that biological aging could be slowed down or stopped without pills, potions or crèmes, since we westerners have been conditioned to believe that a pill is necessary for everything, therefore anti-aging without something to swallow, ingest or apply wouldn't make sense to the western mind. I have learned, however, that our mind can be our worst enemy or our best friend when attempting to retain the characteristics of youth.

To learn more about the book "How to Look Younger and Live Longer: The Ancient Chinese Art of Rejuvenation", and to see photos of Tian Yong, go to:
http://www.bcoxbooks.com
Tian Yong is also the model on the cover of Brian Cox's spy-thriller novels entitled "The Chinese Woman". She is forty-five years old in that photo.
"How to Look Younger and Live Longer: The Ancient Chinese Art of Rejuvenation", by Tian Yong and Brian N. Cox is available on the Amazon Kindle Store at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D484O1G

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