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Article: Health-care providers seek to overcome cultural barriers.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 17, 1998
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PHILADELPHIA _ Yu Zhen Ma didn't touch the food after she delivered her baby at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
It wasn't that she hated hospital fare. She turned away the offerings of juices, salads and Jell-O because she believes they contain ``yin'', or cold energy.
Such foods are simply not eaten by many Chinese women after giving birth because it is thought the ``yin ''will impede the healing process.
Ma's husband brought her a meal of noodles and rabbit, and she happily ate it.
The Jefferson staff has seen enough Chinese patients refuse their meals that it now plans to add some Chinese specialties to the menu.
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