{"id":9690,"date":"2013-10-16T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2013-11-11T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T21:30:15","slug":"amazing-food-the-gift-of-nature-coordinating-diet-and-nature-mood-food-and-move-three-secrets-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=9690","title":{"rendered":"Mood, Food and Move – Three Secrets Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazing Food – The Gift of Nature<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Coordinating Diet and Nature<\/strong><\/h2>\n

by Shiuan Gee<\/strong><\/p>\n

In our healthy life, the only thing more important than food is happiness. There is an old Chinese saying: \u201cpeople regard food as their god.\u201d From this, we can see that the matter of food just is \u201cTo be or not to be.\u201d But the important questions are: \u201cHow can we coordinate our diet with nature? How do we include natural food in our daily life?\u201d<\/p>\n

We know that humans have had to hunt-and-gather or grow their own food for thousands or even millions of years. Today we can eat any sort of food anytime and anywhere. You may ask, \u201cwhy do we need you to teach us how to eat?\u201d\"colorful<\/a><\/p>\n

I am not a food teacher. I am just a food experiencer. I would like to share my 20 years of experience with you.<\/p>\n

I think food not only gives us nutrition we need to support our life. It also can clean our body and bring out poisons, foods like seaweed, green tea, mung bean, wood ear fungus. When we are sick, food also can be the medicine to cure us.<\/p>\n

In general, all kinds of natural food is good. But the important thing is that we should eat the right food at the right time. That means we should make an effort to coordinate our diet with nature. The foods that are most beneficial in nature follows the changing of the seasons. In other words, during certain seasons, eat certain foods.<\/p>\n

First, we should know the properties of each food, hot (not spicy) or cold. In the cold season of winter, we eat hot food; in the hot season of summer, we eat cold food. In the spring and autumn, we should eat foods with warm properties.<\/p>\n

Second, we should know our own bodies. Every human being is made up of the same\u00a0 molecules as the natural world, but at the same time, everybody is different. So the hot person should eat cold food, and the cold person takes hot food. For example, most women have cold stomachs. They should drink more hot coffee, hot tea, and hot soups. And along with vegetables, they also should eat some beef and lamb.<\/p>\n

Third, when we are sick, we should especially eat certain foods to help us regain wellness. Traditional Chinese medicine call it \u201cShi Liao\u201d or \u201cDiet Therapy.\u201d Of course, people with different illnesses should have different foods. I will write about this topic in another article.\"dreamstime_xl_23390151\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To be in harmony with nature, taking action is worth a thousand words. Let us start to eat natural food. And always remember: the dietary cure is better than the medicinal cure.<\/p>\n

Tip, the food\u2019s properties:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Hot food:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meat & fish: Beef, pork, liver, egg, milk, belt fish, yellow eel, carp,\u00a0croaker.<\/p>\n

Grain:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wheat, soybean, black sweet rice, peanuts.<\/p>\n

Vegetable:\u00a0 Chinese chive, ginger, green scallions, red tea, pumpkin, chili, garlic, black paper, cilantro; potato, onion.<\/p>\n

Fruit:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cherry, Litchi, orange, papaya, date, mongo, chestnut, longan pulp.<\/p>\n

2. Cold food:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Meat: duck, rabbit,<\/p>\n

Fish: black fish, crab, jelly fish, conch, mussel, seaweed.<\/p>\n

Grain: rice, mung bean,<\/p>\n

Vegetable: tomato, Chinese cabbage, spinach, green cabbage, celery,<\/p>\n

bitter melon, rape, bamboo shoots, cucumber, radish, olive,<\/p>\n

bean sprouts, winter melon.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fruit:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 water melon, banana, apple, pear, honey melon, <\/b>grapefruit, grape, kiwi.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Warm food:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meat:\u00a0 lamb, chicken, deer, goat milk,<\/p>\n

Fish & seafood: catfish, silver carp, shrimp, clam.<\/p>\n

Grain: corn, millet, red bean, water lily seeds, lotus seeds, sweet rice.<\/p>\n

Vegetable: cauliflower, mushrooms, cooked lotus, cabbage, carrot, broccoli.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stren beans<\/p>\n

Fruit: pineapple, fig, medlar.<\/p>\n

\"Shiuan<\/a>

Shiuan Gee<\/p><\/div>\n

Shiuan Gee,<\/strong> Author, Former Journalist and Editor of \u201cHealth and Life\u201d Chinese Newspaper. Book:\u00a0Philosophy Prose Collection\u00a0 \u201cThoughts on Life\u201d; Documentary literature: \u201cThe Night of New Orleans\u201d. Nonfiction: The Report of the Mainland\u00a0China\u00a0Intellectuals\u2019 Sex Life. Novel\uff1a\u201cThe little\u00a0Sparrow Flew away\u201d. Also as an Amateur Health\u00a0food cooking chef and Gourmet, she is writing a\u00a0Dietotherapy book: \u201cAmazing Food\u2014Health Diet 101\u201d, \u201cHow to get Benefits from Your\u00a0Daily Diet?\u201d<\/p>\n

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