Chinese Food Therapy Bible(Part II)

Chinese Food Therapy Bible(Part II)For maintaining your health, you have done a lot effort. How much money you have spend for your health? How much nutritional supplements you have eaten? How much drugs you have taken from your doctor? But are they really beneficial for your health? It begins again. Its always the same. One minute you are feeling just fine, dealing with everyday activities. Maybe youre a little bit stressed. Maybe you arent. Youve never been able to figure out why. As

For maintaining your health, you have done a lot effort.

How much money you have spend for your health?

How much nutritional supplements you have eaten?

How much drugs you have taken from your doctor?

But are they really beneficial for your health? It begins again. ItÕs always the same. One minute you are feeling just fine, dealing with everyday activities. Maybe youÕre a little bit stressed. Maybe you arenÕt. YouÕve never been able to figure out ÒwhyÓ.

As the saying goes, itÕs Òdifferent strokes for different folks.Ó There are actually quite a few different types of health problems. What you need is the right answers and hopefully a right treatment!

Why not maintain your health with an economical, effective and natural way ?

The best way to treat a disease is prevention and healthy eating is the key to maintaining good health. Many organizations exist in China to teach citizens how to eat healthily.

Instead swallow tablets vitamins A, B or C, why not consider a more pleasant alternative? And yes, fortunately this is possible and what, in the pleasant form of food.

Ancient wisdom at the service of modern diseases, Chinese food therapy dates back thousands of years and is part of traditional Chinese medicine. The first written about this dietary therapy appear in the Huang di Neijing or internal Classic of the Yellow Emperor who only dates the year 300 BC. The Huangdi Neijing is the oldest book of traditional Chinese medicine. We can compare in importance with the Hippocratic Corpus of Ancient Greece or with contributions from Galen to the European medicine. Enough historical references, go to practice.

Chinese Food TherapyÕs philosophy is the fact that different types of natural food is beneficial to health, they can help against diseases or act as preventive treatments. For maximum profits, these foods should be eaten in a balanced way.

This balance is achieved primarily through the identification of Òopposing foodsÓ and a judicious combination of these. Ancient philosophy of the two opposite energies, the famous Yin and Yang, is one of the precepts of Chinese food therapy. Yang ingredients like carrots, garlic or ginger stimulate metabolism. Yin ingredients meanwhile, such as Chinese cabbage, eggplant or tofu have a cooling effect on the body. The balance between these two categories of foods is the key to a diet beneficial to health.

In fact, the Chinese have conducted numerous studies on the beneficial effects of food on health and most