Traditional Chinese Medicine often includes dietary changes to affect disease or discomfort. What you eat can affect your body’s reactions and can either make you feel better, or make you feel worse. If you have a migraine, cooling foods like cucumbers and most leafy greens and lettuces will help lower the temperature of you body [...]
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If you’re dieting to lose weight, the reasons to add a protein shake to your daily diet may be obvious—it’s a meal replacement, reducing how much bulk you take in without compromising the nutrients you need to get through your day. The reasons to lose weight? How about improved health with more energy, less joint [...] In the springtime, add leafy greens, onions, leeks, and other early vegetables to your meals. Looking at Food as Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine (and maybe just by common sense?) eating seasonal foods is the way to go! The foods that arrive in the spring, tender green vegetables and herbs, provide energy as directly [...] This past Saturday morning in the Heavenly Bodies Clinic our aromatherapy expert, Marlene, demonstrated how using essential oils can help with weight loss. The oil from the grapefruit has a calming effect on your mental state and can help curb your appetite. Some of our Weight Loss Club participants were here, and we all got a [...] Our weight loss club participants are learning how to use the 5 Flavors to satisfy their appetites. Using the 5 Flavors in your meal planning will also help to keep your body healthy. As you learn to identify these flavors, and identify your cravings, you may also learn to put attention on areas that are [...] This is the soup that resets your body for the new season. It helps you lose your “taste” for sugar and allows your body to let go of the season’s excesses. It is fairly bland as is, even though it contains each of the 5 Flavors: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and pungent. How you season [...] Gillian’s World Famous Baking Mix is so easy to use–just like any other baking mix you may have used in the past–except it doesn’t have any wheat or sugar in it. And it full of protein, and tastes pretty awesome in savory and sweet recipes. And we’ve tested lots of recipes. I just put some scones [...] I hated being fat. So much so, that I didn’t realize how fat I was. My brain somehow wouldn’t let me see what I really looked like. Sounds odd, I know, but I think its common. When I was on Active Duty in the USAF, I was required to maintain a certain weight. It was just [...] When I first read that headline, I was afraid they were going to start recommending we eat more! Then I read this article from the NY Times. I think they may actually be trying to help. Here’s an excerpt: “The goal is to give people a jolt of reality before they reach for another handful [...] Your beautiful, amazing body works hard for you. Don’t divert its amazing power by carrying around more weight than it was built to carry. Join us this spring to grow stronger, slimmer and even more sensational. Here are the rules of engagement for the Spring 2010 Weight Loss Program at the Heavenly Bodies Clinic in Arlington [...] |
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