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Need indeed? Manage your health by Five Elements Nutrition
Nov 1st
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Taoist Five Elements
“How to read your personal astrology?”
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Five Elements Nutrition Alphabetic Food List
In addition to your Astrology Chart and Present Health Condition, also the season must be taken into account when choosing foods according to the five Elements; while the characteristics of the water element (Cool and Wet) are prevalent in Winter, the opposite is true in summer, when the Characteristics of Fire (Hot and Dry) prevail. Thus if we lack the water element in our chart, we would want to increase the water Element in the Summer, when the Hot and Dry prevail, and warm the water Element in the Winter, when Cool and Wet prevail. Likewise, we would choose our Menu from those foods which are warming (mostly Yang), in order to stimulate the Element, and cooling Foods (mostly Yin) to Calm any Element.
From the Food Chart choose those foods that will stimulate the Earth Element, ie. warming foods, or Yang Foods.If you, however have a surplus of a certain element in your Five Element Nutrition Chart, you would want to balance the Earth Element and you would choose those foods which are cooling or Yin for that Element.
Earth | Fire | Wood | Ching Chi Male | Ching Chi Female | Water | Triple Heater | Metal
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Online VDO of Astrology 5 Elements By Master Mantak Chia
The Tao of Delicious Taoist Nutrition Book
Recommend Book
The Tao of Delicious Taoist Nutrition takes a unique approach: it looks at the energetic properties of each food, and its effect on our own energy flow. Thus instead of trying to decide if a food is “good” or “bad” we can learn its qualities, and thus use foods to create balance and harmony. This system of healing is ancient, and has withstood the test of time. Yet it is still completely relevant to our modern lives and diets. Tao Garden is a Health Resort located in Northern Thailand that is based on the Taoist system of healing. This includes the exercise programs and healing treatments on offer, as well as the food grown and served there. The meals served in the restaurant are based on Taoist Nutrition principles, as well as keeping up-to-date with modern nutritional discoveries. For the first time, some of the delicious recipes of Tao Garden have been collected and developed into this recipe book; presented within a framework of Taoist Nutrition.
This book contains:
• A full introduction to the main principles of Taoist Nutrition and the Five Element Theory.
• Nutritional analysis of every recipe in Taoist Nutrition terms.
• Sep-by-step guidelines to help you recreate these recipes in your own home.
• Suggested alternative to the unique Asian ingredients.
• Ideas of how to adjust recipes to suit your personal requirements.
• Chi gung and breathing exercises to assist digestion.
• Meditations to help you connect with your inner organs and internal wellbeing.
Gac Fruit
Jul 2nd
Gac (Momordica Cochinchinensis Spreng) is a tropical fruit found in Vietnam and other regions of Southeast Asia where it is valued for many important health benefits.
It is esteemed as the “fruit from heaven” and is prized for its ability to promote longevity, vitality, and health*. Unknown to indigenous folks, gac is a fountain of antioxidants, as recent research unveiled.
Big gac fruit at Tao Garden
This bright-red fruit grows abundantly on vines and is as large as a cantaloupe. Traditionally, the red oily pulp is cooked with rice and served during special festivities such as weddings. The bright red color generates the desired visual effect that represents good luck and joy.
Health Benefits of Gac
Most of the health benefits of gac are provided by its antioxidant properties.
Thus, if you have a high cholesterol level, gac can help you to avoid atherosclerosis by preventing the oxidation of the LDL cholesterol, which is the precursor to it depositing on your artery walls.
The body needs cholesterol, but levels should be kept to within certain limits or the resultant atherosclerosis can narrow your arteries leading to cardiac problems and strokes, particularly in the very narrow arteries of the brain. Gac also supports the immune system and helps to maintain prostate health, largely through its alpha tocopherol, or vitamin E content. Vitamin E is easily destroyed by free radicals, which is where the beta carotene is of benefit. This is the body’s first line of defense against free radicals, and each molecule can neutralize up to 20 free radical molecules before it is destroyed. This helps to save other antioxidants such as vitamin E.
Gac garden, plant at Tao Garden
Lycopene is particularly beneficial to the prostate and current research indicates that it can help to prevent prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease, plus some other diseases such as macular degeneration that affects your sight. Perhaps this is one reason why the gac fruit membranes are used in Vietnam to promote healthy vision, and they also help to cure dry eyes. Lycopene remains in your body fat longer than normal beta carotene, and recent studies have found that men with high amounts of lycopene in their body fat are up to 50% less likely to suffer heart attacks as those with low amounts.
Gac fruit is jam-packed full of nutrients and antioxidants, and has no known side effects. It is used in Asia for weddings and other special occasions, and is grown on lattices in many gardens, although it has a short season. However, gac fruit is not known as the “Fruit from Heaven” for no reason, and if you were allowed the choice of only one fruit in your life, then this would be the one.
Nutritional Constituents of Gac Fruit
Not so with gac fruit, because in addition to the beta carotene and lycopene content, it is also rich in long-chain fatty acids, particularly linoleic and alpha linoleic acids.
Inside of gac
Not only that, but its beta carotene content is around ten times that of carrots, and it contains 70 times the lycopene of tomatoes! Vitamin C is another very powerful antioxidant,40 times more zeaxanthin than yellowcontains 70 times the lycopene of tomatoes! Vitamin C is another very powerful antioxidant,40 times more zeaxanthin than yellow corn and gac contains40 times the Vitamin C of oranges. It is also rich in other free radical busters, such as xeoxanthins and alpha-tocopherol, a form of vitamin E.
Altogether, gac fruit contains a free radical killing arsenal that should be enough to scare even the most courageous free radical back to where it came from. Other constituents of gac are numerous minerals, particularly zinc and iron.
That is why the sweet gourd is such a prized fruit, and why Southeast Asian women have skins that western women of the same age would die for! Antioxidants help to prevent the disruption and destruction of skin cells that are the major reason for aging looks, and why skin creams are packed with vitamins A and E, both strong antioxidants.
G3 Heaven Juice
Let’s try… G3 Heaven Juice
The nutrient rich drink was developed with 3 additional very healthy fruits:
* Gac Fruit
* Pineapple
* Passion Fruit
A ll of these fruits together synergistically provide exponential health benefits.
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