 Embrace Healthy Food Habits
Healthy food habits have therapeutic values to cure and prevent many diseases and illnesses. China has used the mystic ‘Food Therapy’ which is the practice of using natural foods for healing instead of medicines since 2000 BC.
The Chinese food therapy is based on the concept of balance between the polar opposites of foods called the ‘Yan’ and the ‘Yin’ combining the two forces on a middle ground for the best balanced combination for improved health. Their food philosophy is that ‘Yan’ comes into action to increase the body heat and to raise metabolism for proper food digestion, whereas ‘Yin’ cools down the heat afterwards and balances the broken nutrients to produce energy.
Accordingly, all illnesses and diseases occur when we fail to maintain healthy food habits and this balance between ‘Yan ’and ‘Yin’ gets disturbed as a result of our unhealthy and improper diet or a lack of a particular nutrient element in our food. This causes disparity in our nutrition that brings to a standstill the right energy flow in our body and its nutritional needs. Similarly when we opt out of food therapy, our intake of unhealthy and imbalanced diet might contain hazardous portion of ‘Yan’ (heat) or ‘Yin’ (cold) that could lead to detrimental health conditions.
The practice of healthy food habits is surely the path to physical well being. In order for this wonderful Chinese food philosophy of balancing nutrition to work, it’s necessary to know how our body reacts to specific diet and food intake. Our body is all about proper equilibrium and thus our food too should be in proper symmetry of heat (Yan) and cold (Yin) and too much of either will cause a negative reaction in our body.
YIN FOODS
Almonds. Apple. Asparagus. Bamboo. Banana. Barley. Bean curd. Bean sprouts. Beer. Broccoli. Cabbage. Celery. Clams. Corn. Corn flour. Crab. Cucumber. Duck. Eels. Fish. Grapes. Honey. Ice creams. Lemons. Mushrooms. Mussels. Oranges. Oysters. Peppermint tea. Pineapple. Salt. Shrimps. Spinach. Strawberries. Soya beans. White sugar. Tomatoes. Water.
YAN FOODS
Beef. Black pepper. Brown sugar. Butter. Cheese. Chicken liver and fat. Chillies. Chocolate. Coffee. Eggs. Smoked fish. Garlic. Green peppers. Goose. Ham. Kidney beans. Lamb. Leeks. Onions. Peanut butter. Roasted peanuts. Potato. Rabbit. Turkey. Walnuts. Whisky. Wine.
Incorporating these into your daily diet in a balanced manner will automatically cultivate healthy food habits in you.
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