This is a new way of thinking about what foods are needed to achieve balance and ultimately improve health. Goldsmith provides a keen and comprehensive understanding behind the basic principles of Chinese medicine so they can be easily applied to day-to-day lives. She takes these same concepts, expands on them for the food to eat in order to maximize the benefits of Chinese dietary therapy. Eating well is essential to good health and Chinese medicine believes that food truly is medicine.
In an easy-to-understand and straightforward manner, Ellen explains how and which combination of foods and flavors act upon the body to move qi energy and how they act on the body to warm or cool. Many of the modern day chronic health problems caused by lifestyle, genetics and stress can be helped by distinctive and long lasting changes in the way we eat.
There are meals that are appropriate for each season from breakfast to dinner, including beverages and desserts. All the recipes are super straightforward, easy to assemble and easily adapted to meet your needs, desires and tastes.
Score: 5. With facts about green foods such as spirulina and blue-green algae and information about the "regeneration diets" used by cancer patients and arthritics, it is also an accessible primer on nutrition—and a inspiring cookbook with more than mostly vegetarian, nutrient-packed recipes.
The information on Chinese medicine is useful for helping to diagnose health imbalances, especially nascent illnesses. It's smartly paired with the whole-foods program: because the Chinese have attributed various health-balancing properties to foods, you can tailor your diet to help alleviate symptoms of illness.
For example, Chinese medicine dictates that someone with low energy and a pale complexion a yin deficiency would benefit from avoiding bitter foods and increasing "sweet" foods such as soy, black sesame seeds, parsnips, rice, and oats.
Note that the Chinese definition of sweet foods is much different from the American one! Pitchford says in his dedication that he hopes the reader finds "healing, awareness, and peace" by following his program.
The diet is certainly ascetic by American standards no alcohol, caffeine, white flour, fried foods, or sugar, and a minimum of eggs and dairy but the reasons he gives for avoiding these "negative energy" foods are compelling. From the adrenal damage imparted by coffee to the immune dysfunction brought on by excess refined sugar, Pitchford spurs you to rethink every dietary choice and its ultimate influence on your health.
Without being alarmist, he offers dietary tips for protecting yourself against the dangers of modern life, including neutralizing damage from water fluoridation. There's further reading on food combining, female health, heart disease, pregnancy, fasting, and weight loss.
Overall, this is a wonderful book for anyone who's serious about strengthening his or her body from. Score: 3. I whole-heartedly endorse his book. Here, the author demystifies Chinese dietetics, one of the pillars of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Joerg Kastner provides an introduction to the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the energetics of foods.
Emphasizing a holistic approach throughout, Chinese Nutrition Therapy provides readers with tools for integrating the principles of Chinese dietetics into their daily lives. The book includes a comprehensive classification of more than readily available foods such as vegetables, grains, herbs and spices, fruit, meat, seafood, dairy products, oils and fats, and more.
Numerous clinical examples and treatment suggestions artfully combine Western medical conditions with Chinese diagnostic techniques. I will definitely recommend this book to health, reference lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Balch Submitted by: Jane Kivik. Hot How It All Vegan! Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Whitney by Phyllis A. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help!
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