Nutrition and Lifestyle

Nutrition and life style are an integral part of your total wellness. Since you are part of your environment and are intricately connected with it, your lifestyle and nutritional choices have a direct impact on your health and wellness. What you eat, when you eat it, how you eat, can have wide ranging impact on your organs and your energy. Lifestyle choices,

especially in today's' highly automated, consumption driven, instant gratification society, can have severe consequences on your well-being.

oriental nutrition Nutrition - Even as the quantity of foods increase exponentially in our supermarkets, the lack of clean wholesome energetically compatible sources of nutrition in the western diet is dwindling rapidly. Our food sources are chemically and hormonally adulterated, and our portions exceed even the most lush settings at kings courts. NO wonder we are faced with the highest incidence of obesity in America today. Nutrition according to Traditional Chinese Medicine is the key element to the post-heaven energy reserves of our body and is known to be a key contributor to many of today's modern illnesses ranging from Diabetes, Auto-immune conditions and even cancer. Traditional Chinese Nutrition is an integrated part of ones total wellness. From ancient Taoist principles, come the fundamental dietary essentials still employed in modern Chinese nutrition. For example the five flavors and five colors of foods are practiced effectively to create a balanced, seasonal diet program that provides essential nutrients with minimal impact on the digestive system. For example

Sour and Green foods are beneficial to the Liver
Bitter and Red foods are beneficial to the Heart
Sweet and Yellow foods are beneficial for Digestion
Pungent and White foods are especially good for the Lungs
Salty and Black foods are beneficial to the Kidneys

To Learn More about health benefits of various foods visit our healing foods section.

Life Style - Our lifestyle Life Styles choices are one of the most common causes of diseases. In ancient times, people lived in harmony with nature and were governed by its rhythms. They would rise with the sun and retire with its setting. They would be active during summer and dormant during winter. Today our schedules are determined by digital clocks and florescent lights, Seasons are completely ignored and even our eating habits have changed, the dinner table is replaced by the trays in front of the television, breakfasts are disappearing and most lunches happen at the front seat of our cars. Following simple Taoist based lifestyle fundamentals can help restore balance to the flow of your Qi and return you to the path of Total Wellness.