"Eating Healthy the Chinese Way, BUT It's Not About Cooking Chinese Style"

Eating healthy is quite a bit different in Chinese medicine. The Chinese studied human diet for thousands of years. Food is both therapeutic and enjoyable. And not all foods are suitable for everyone, given a certain dis-eased condition. You can make intelligent choices and eat simply but well to satisfy both appetite and mental clarity.

I include links for a healthy eating guide, ala Chinese medicine. You came here for something different, right? So I encourage you to learn something new.

So here's a "eating healthy" guide for you, ala Chinese medicine. It's not the style of cooking that counts, but the content. It's the foods that you eat to keep each Organ system healthy and harmonious.

• What healthy food choices mean in Chinese medicine (diet therapy).
• Simple food combining. The less complicated your meals, the better you'll feel and look. Find out why proper food combining is so important. Cut out complexity. Keep it simple.

Here's more healthy nutrition tips from an anti aging point of view at this anti aging beauty guide.
And stop in at Healthy Eating Habits to learn about developing great healthy eating habits, too.

Ancient Chinese doctors felt that the seasons have a profound affect on the human body and psyche. As seasons change, so does the environment. When this happens, then people also need to change along side with it. That includes the foods that you choose to eat during these seasons. Now even in western cultures there was such a thing as "eating with the seasons". So in the following links, here is how the Chinese see it.

• Heart healthy diet according to Chinese energetics.
• Healthy colon cleanse according to Chinese energetics.
• Healthy lung diet according to Chinese energetics. Bet you've never considered that before!
• Healthy kidney diet according to Chinese energetics.
• Healthy liver diet according to Chinese energetics.

Do you realize that the quality of the food you eat affects how you feel and is part of eating healthy? Visit this website for more healthy eating tips for choosing high quality foods. There's lots said that you are what you eat, but it's more important to realize that food affects the way you feel,too. Your food choices affect your mental clarity AND your stress level AND therefore your energy level.

Pay attention to the choices you make and pay attention to how you feel afterwards. Here are some general recommendations for every meal to ensure you get maximum benefit from eating healthy:

1. Limit or eliminate drinks from the dining table. You want to optimize your stomach acids for digestion. Having too much drink dilutes your stomach acids. So it SLOWS down digestion, which then leaves undigested food in your digestive system, resulting in fermentation. POISON. It's one of the reasons for bloating (feeling full) after meals. Don't you get a feeling that the system isn't moving very well?

2. Another reason to limit or eliminate drinks from the dining table, is that it fills you up. I see this happen in young children and adults all the time, often in restaurants. You get full too fast! In the case of kids, please, parents, bring some toys or take your kids for a walk while waiting at a restaurant! Then you and your kids will eat your meal instead of wasting your money.

3. Turn off the TV. Why does watching TV affect your eating? It affects intake, because you're not mindful but you're distracted. Unless you're really disciplined about listening to your body, when it tells you it's full, I'd stop the practice. It's a major reason why people eat too much.

4. Junk food isn't just bad for your body. It's bad for your mind and emotional state too. The Calgary Herald occasionally runs an experiment during the Calgary Stampede where they assign an intrepid reporter to eat junk food during the entire 10 days of the festival. One year, a reporter kept his normal weight because he spent a lot of time walking the grounds BUT he noticed he felt grumpier and less patient than usual.

That reporter found out that a lousy diet makes you feel lousy. He didn't ignore his feelings when this was going on, which is a credit to him. If he'd continued to eat this way, then his body would also start showing symptoms.

Overprocessed and fried foods are cheap for your pocket but expensive to your physical health and to your mental emotional state. By eating a poor diet, you clog up the filtering organs in the body, namely the kidneys and the liver. In Traditional Chinese medicine, there's a connection between the organs and specific emotions. For the Liver, anger, impatience, and frustration affect it. So the reporter experienced what a poor diet could do to his organs ENERGETICALLY, but he didn’t know why.

There are only two ways for change to occur in your life. Either a change comes into your life from outside of you or a change comes out of you. so if you really want change then you have to change EVERYTHING That includes consciously eating healthy and cultivating healthy thoughts and feelings.

I hope you enjoy my eating healthy guide. You can do this. You can make the changes necessary in your life. If I can do it, if my clients can do it, so can you.

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