Seasonal dietary therapy and health preservation

Author: Liu Chengqi
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Introduces 21 dietary enemies of common diseases, reveals 6 nourishing secrets for Yin-Yang imbalance, and provides dietary advice for each season:
Spring: Diet should focus on pungent-warm, sweet-fresh, and light flavors, with less sourness and more sweetness, and less meat and more fruits and vegetables.
Summer: Diet should focus on clearing heat and dampness, sweet-cool and nourishing fluids, and light and balanced flavors, with less bitterness and more pungency.
Autumn: Diet should focus on nourishing Yin and moisturizing dryness, clear and sweet-acidic flavors, and warm-cool and light flavors, with less pungency and more acidity.
Winter: Diet should focus on nourishing Yin and preventing cold, mixed-light and warm-soft flavors, and dietary nourishment, with less saltiness and more bitterness.
This book introduces 175 healthy foods commonly eaten for three meals a day, helping you master 68 simple and practical dietary care methods, 93 easy-to-learn and love nourishing methods, and 90 highly effective dietary therapy methods.
Focusing on dietary care, nourishment, and therapeutic diets, this book provides a comprehensive and systematic discussion on what foods should be consumed in each season, how to consume these foods, and the effects of consuming these foods on disease prevention, physical health, and anti-aging.
The book details the names, synonyms, common names, properties, organ affinity, functional effects, nutritional value, contraindications, dietary care methods, and nourishing methods of 175 frequently consumed foods or food products in daily life. It also explains in a concise and easy-to-understand manner the 68 dietary care methods and their effects, 93 nourishing methods and their effects, 90 dietary therapy methods and their effects, dietary nourishment for 21 common diseases, and dietary nourishment for 6 types of Yin-Yang imbalance and physically weak individuals.