What Your Face Says About Your Health Chuck Norris
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our face can be a road map to your health, and it can help you to be a detective of what’s going on inside your body.
The process is called face mapping or face reading, and it originated in China roughly 3,000 years ago. During a recent interview on television, Dr. Philippa Cheetham from the urology department at Winthrop-University Hospital spoke for many in the medical community when she said: “One of the first things that I learned at medical school was how to look at the face to look for signs of disease. ... The face can tell us so much about your medical health.” Similarly, cardiologist David Friedman from Plainview Hospital said that the face is an important diagnostic he uses every day in his practice and that it is “a clue that something is happening internally.” So how do some of our external facial features reveal our internal health? Here are a few examples:
Eyes
Cheetham explained: “In the eyes, we can see signs of anemia. ... We can see signs of jaundice when the whites of the eyes go yellow. If you have a white circle around the colored part of your eye, that can be a sign of high cholesterol. If you lose the outer thirds of your eyebrows, that can be associated with an underactive thyroid.” Lillian Pearl Bridges, a professor of Chinese medicine and a leading authority on Chinese facial reading, explained that puffy eyelids might be a sign of a cholesterol problem. Fatty deposits in eyelids can be a sign that your kidneys and gallbladder are not processing fats properly. And dark circles under the eyes could be a sign of lack of sleep, dehydration or even kidney problems.
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