Traditional Chinese Medicine and Nutrition

Balanced dietary and nutritional practices are a very important component of Traditional Chinese Medicine and are considered to be crucial to overall good health and well being.


Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  When you partner with your practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (who is well-trained in Eastern and Western nutrition), together, you will shape and form your diet to accommodate your lifestyle and specific needs to create balance, weight maintenance and good health. The Eastern diet incorporates a wide variety of foods - various tastes are combined to fine tune the individual’s diet to best accommodate their health concerns.

Snack Attacks! Have Healthy and Tasty Treats Everyday!!

Truly, we should all have 6 small meals a day; cows graze and so should we.  It's when we snack on the wrong foods that we start looking like our bovine counterparts!

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  be smart about snacking!  Prepare your daily snacks the night before.  It only takes 10 minutes of your life to prepare yummy goodies to munch on for the next day.
Throw a bag of baby carrots into your bag every morning.  They're tasty, crunchy and if you need a 'pick up', you can dip each one in a tiny bit of natural peanutbutter!  Keep a small container of peanutbutter at your office or get yourself a tiny tupperware to put a stash in.  Make some fat free salsa!  Chop italian plum tomatoes, spanish onions, cilantro, green and red peppers.  Add some Mrs Dash, cayenne pepper and fresh squeezed lemon.  Eat this salsa with some cut celery sticks...yummy!  Throw a few pieces of fruit in that bag of yours as well.  Green tart apples, clementines, pears, blueberries...whatever you like!  A small fistful of nuts can give anyone a pre-workout 'pick me up' and get you going to your next adventure.  Whatever you do, keep your palate guessing.  Don't eat the same snacks every day or you'll get bored.  Don't wait to eat until you're absolutely famished; this is a recipe for nothing but failure and dollars-to-donuts, you'll be reaching for chips and cookies instead of your well-prepared handy snack bag!  Remember, it only takes 10 minutes of your life every evening to make 10lbs of fat disappear quicker!!!

Daily Nutrition Numbers and YOU

Ok...Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  don't make me feel like I've wasted my time giving you the following information....it took quite a bit of time to type, so save it in your mobile unit, your computer and print out a copy.  Refer to the following information and see where you're at!

According to Cooking Light Magazine, the following is a daily nutritional numbers chart.  It's a pretty simple guideline to daily intake of certain important elements to good health.  Of course, individual health issues should be taken into consideration, such as pregnancy and lactating women.

Women ages 25-50
calories:  2,000
protein:  50g
fat:  65g or less
saturated fat:  20g or less
carbohydrates:  304g
fiber:  25g to 35g
cholesterol:  300mg or less
iron:  18mg
sodium:  2,300mg or less
calcium:  1,000mg

Women over 50
calories:  2,000 or less
protein  50g or less
fat:  65g or less
saturated fat:  20g or less
carohydrates:  304g
fiber:  25g to 35g
cholesterol:  300mg or less
iron:  8mg
sodium: 1,500mg or less
calcium:  1,000mg

Men over 24
calories:  2,700
protein:  63g
fat:  88g or less
saturated fat:  27g or less
carbohydrates:  410g
fiber:  25 to 35g
cholesterol:  300mg or less
iron:  8mg
sodium:  2,300mg or less
calcium:  1,000mg