Traditional Chinese Medicine: Healthy Eating

Video Transcript

"This segment we're going to talk about some of the ways that we can eat to be healthy. So we already explored the concept of protecting the bowl of soup, and nourishing the spleen. So how do we eat a Western diet in order to work within that concept? So one of the things that we always say is, eat from the spectrum of foods. Don't eat the all grapefruit diet, or the all greens diet, or the all salad diet. There's so many wonderful, nourishing foods out there. We want to explore all the different colors of vegetables and fruits and leaves out there to eat our meals. We want to minimize the number of refined starches and fatty meats that we eat. But a little bit is okay. We're allowed to have treats and enjoy them. But most of all in Chinese medicine, we encourage people to eat cooked foods. And it can be a flash in the stir fry, it could be lightly steamed, or for those of us who enjoy salads on occasion, we can do things like adding some ginger. And we can add a little powdered ginger to something. We can use a ginger vinaigrette. We can actually warm our vinaigrette in the microwave and wilt our salad a little bit. But then we can also do things like, if we're going to have a piece of grilled chicken or grilled fish, we can add that to our salad so that we can enjoy both our raw foods along with our cooked foods to make it very easy for our bowl of soup and our spleen to digest our food to extract the chi."