May 26, 2014 | Food and Healthy Eating, TCM Information
Diets for Children A few years ago Yuxiang Wang wrote a book on pediatric type diets, which can be found here. In it she outlines some important points about feeding children. Individualized Diet Putting children on low fat diets to lose weight is...
Jun 17, 2013 | Food and Healthy Eating, Selected Topics, TCM Information
Foods have nutritional qualities. The understanding of these food qualities vary in Eastern and Western medicine. One of the recurring themes in this website… and many other Alternative Medicine theories as well is to let food be...
Mar 11, 2013 | Food and Healthy Eating, Menopause
All of a sudden it feels like someone turned up the heat and aimed it right at you. Your skin starts to glisten and glow, your cheeks flush red and you try not to be too obvious taking of extra layers and fanning yourself with the closest piece of paper you could...
Nov 19, 2012 | Food and Healthy Eating, Selected Topics, TCM Information
Food. Think about it…. We are ALIVE! What does it take to be alive? We need skin, bones, nerves, muscles, blood, organs, brains, Qi, etc, etc. How do we make these things? What we EAT makes these things and ensures their proper functioning. What does this mean? ...
Mar 26, 2012 | Food and Healthy Eating, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Diet & Chinese Medicine Diet & Chinese Medicine: Are we really what we eat? One of the great things about Chinese Medicine is that it is based on the theory of ‘holism.’ Essentially this is the idea that all systems are a part of a greater whole, not merely...