Dietary Therapy /Chinese Nutrition

You are what you eat! This statement is true regardless of what diet you follow!

The western approach to nutrition is to count calories, proteins, carbohydrates and fats. We eat low fat or fat free, increase our protein intake, eat low carb, cholesterol free, salt free, use artificial sweeteners, eat high fiber, add fiber  ...  - and the list goes on. The different diets are virtually endless and new ones appear every day.

Our culture seems to be obsessed with slicing and dicing the foods we eat down to their individual components; all in an effort to eat better and improve our health.

Sadly, the statistics tell a different story! Americans are not healthy and the American diet is not a healthy one.

The Chinese approach, not only in the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is rather different. The Chinese seems to spend less time on dissecting foods to their individual components and seem to devote more time on balancing a meal.

The attention is on the proper balance between Yin and Yang foods, between cooling and warming foods. People choose foods based on the season: they eat warming foods in the winter and cooling foods in the summer. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from the Chinese?

Check back for more information later!