Transform Your Health with Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is all about personalized healthcare. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. By learning a bit about TCM, you can learn which foods are best for you now, though that can change with your health, age, and even the season.

You don’t need to be a Chinese medicine doctor to learn some TCM principles that will help you understand enough to evaluate the foods you love, and which foods don’t love you back. 

This book will teach you that TCM considers some foods warming, while others are cooling, and how that can affect your body. You’ll learn what qualities the different flavours have, how nature hints at the effects of foods based on growing season, colour, how it grows, and more. But don’t worry, you don’t need to memorize anything. Keep this book handy for its charts and lists.

Don’t know much about nutrition? Not a problem. This book will cover macronutrients–carbohydrates, fats, and proteins–as well as micronutrients–vitamins and minerals. You’ll want to learn about probiotics too, I’m sure!

Sounds too much like school? Don’t worry, I do my best to make learning entertaining with fun facts, stories, and bet-you-didn’t-know infobits. For example, do you know what we and other primates have in common with guinea pigs and bats that is not the case for most other mammals? None of us can make vitamin C.

Learn which foods to choose when you are struggling with common health issues, from abdominal bloating and acid reflux to urinary tract infections and varicose veins.

You can also choose foods by taking the included five elements quiz or by season.

You don’t think I’d give you a nutrition book without some recipes, do you? No way!

I chose simple recipes because I’m not much of a cook. But simple recipes can be amazing, especially when you don’t have to go to specialty stores to find the ingredients.