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Full Article: Insomnia

In the best of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), payments to a doctor stopped as soon as his or her patients became ill. In other words, a doctor's role was to prevent illness and maintain good health, not just treat symptoms once someone was alrea...

Full Article: Towards A Long, Healthy And Happy Life

PART ONE: How TCM Nutrition Works, Overview    1 Introduction: Towards A Long, Healthy And Happy Life    3 The Root Of Ill Health    7 The Yin-Yang Principle    12 Rediscovering Our Yin Roo...

Full Article: Mindful Nutrition Contents

In the West, we think that ‘more is better’. Fruit, so we think, is chocker block with vitamins, so the more we get, the better. In addition, many people think that if you eat plenty of fruit and salads, you can overdose on junk foods/s...

Full Article: Fruit In Tcm

The assertion that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, as well as other health claims are addressed by Prof. Dr. Martijn B. Katan, professor of Nutrition, Free University of Amsterdam, in his book: So What is Healthy? Myths and Facts about Nutritio...

Full Article: An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away! Truth Or Fiction?

In his chapter Salad the Silent Killer, (The Man Who Ate Everything) Jeffrey Steingarten gives one of the main differences between fruit and vegetables: unlike vegetables (which do not want to be eaten), ripe fruit loves to be eaten and have its seed...

Full Article: Differences Between Fruit And Vegetables

BEAT THE BUGS IN 2008 – THE INSIDE SCOOP ON PROBIOTICS We’ve all experienced a stomach upset after eating a dodgy meal, so the prospect of deliberately consuming bacteria doesn’t appeal at all.But that’s exactly what we should...

Full Article: Probiotics Health Benefits

In the past ten years food intolerances and digestive problems have increased enormously. It is estimated that 40% Doctors visits are due to colon problems like constipation, diarrhoea, bloating and IBS yet people who visit the doctor with these comp...

Full Article: Colon Hydrotherapy

I recently came across a great new way to start off the day. I had been eating Porridge every morning but was finding it a bit stodgy and it is a high GL food so I was looking around for a new healthy alternative. When on holidays with my extended ...

Full Article: Coconut Milk Benefits

Winter is said to be the pure ‘yin’ season. The seasonal direction of energy is ‘sinking and centring’. In the natural world the warm, yang energy of nature is concentrated and preserved deep inside the earth, in seeds and r...

Full Article: Winter Nutrition Excerpt

In a recent Winter Nutrition article we discussed some cooking methods which involved the use of a Hay Box to prepare the food. For those of you who dont know what a Hay Box is below you will find out how to easily make one for yourself.Hay Box Cons...

Full Article: Hay Box Construction

A diet pill widely available in the UK is said to increase suicidal thoughts and depression, with users also experiencing other side effects such as sleeplessness and anxiety, reports The Daily Mail.In the US an influential health panel has recommend...

Full Article: Diet Pill Fears

The Chinese say that the energetic direction of the Autumn is downwards and towards the centre. This applies to humans as well as all of nature. Autumn was traditionally the harvest and food storage season. And it is largely still so. Crops matur...

Full Article: Autumn Nutrition

With winter fast approaching now is a good time to take a look at how we can ensure we remain healthy and well during the cold winter months.Common colds can really drag you down and we now know that flu can be deadly, which is why the NHS offers flu...

Full Article: Help Yourself To A Cold Free Winter

Summer cooking methods are light and short, with some salt and more water (relative to the spring season). On hot days (above about 23°C), stir-fried vegetables are cooked at high temperatures and quickly. This leaves the food cooked on the outs...

Full Article: Summer Nutrition

Guidelines following the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Spring is the start of the new year. The energy of this season is 'up' and 'out'. The liver and gallbladder achieve their energetic maximum in this season. This means that our spri...

Full Article: Spring Nutrition