LIVING WELL™ Diabetes Program

Nov 9–16, 2008
Feb 15-21, 2009

Join Green Mountain at Fox Run (Vermont) and experts from Joslin Diabetes Center, the celebrated diabetes research center at Harvard Medical School, for an intensive week-long healthy lifestyle program for mastering Type 2 diabetes

Take a Photo Tour of The Mansion on Peachtree and 29 Spa by Lydia Mondavi, Atlanta, Georgia

Spa at Home with a recipe for our Pumpkin Papaya Facial or cook up healthy Spa Cuisine featuring pumpkin and pumpkin seeds

The area in which Jiuhua Spa & Resort is located was once a lake during the Cretaceous period, but due to great movements of the earth's crust, the lake was buried underground. The extrusion between the plants created high temperature and pressure and under this surrounding, the lake became a hot spring as time passed by.  The water of Jiuhua hot spring is clean and limpid, and although its color is slight yellow, it is totally different from those turbid and strong sulfur-smell hot springs.  It has gained fame as "A Basin of Golden Water" since ancient times.  Jiuhua Spa Resort is located in the Changping District in the north of Beijing, next to the Six Ring Road, one hour' drive from the downtown Beijing.   Jiuhua Spa Resort has many recreational facilities including a 32-lane international bowling alley, 12 squash courts, ten badminton courts, exercise rooms for various types of ball games, chess rooms, games arcade, 4-D cinemas, nightclubs, KTV and many more. Healthcare with the professional Chinese and Western Medical Practices are Jiuhua Spa & Resort's most distinguishing amenities.  It incorporates the best of modern western medical care with ancient traditional Chinese medicines. It has a team of western and Chinese medical professionals to manage its International Check-up Center that is equipped with the latest and advanced international facilities to offer our guests with convenience as well as efficient services while trying to provide high quality but competitive healthcare services to the community.

China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and a national or multinational entity in East Asia. The civilization is one of the world's oldest, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia.  Chinese civilization is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations. It has the world's longest continuously used written language system, and the source of such major inventions as what the British scholar and biochemist Joseph Needham called the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China: paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing.  The stalemate of the last Chinese Civil War has resulted in two political states using the name China: the People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, which controls mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; and the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, which controls the island of Taiwan and its surrounding islands.   Read More