Common Food Cures
"Grains for sustaining, fruits for supporting, meats for enhancing, vegetables for filling"
- Neijing, The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine
Since the beginning of mankind, food is the subject that has been mostly studied, discussed and written about. Yet toady, with all the accumulated knowledge that we have on food; we are the generation that has the most food related health problems. With fast deteriorating health and healthcare expenses sky-rocketing, it is to our best interest to eat wisely to benefit our health.
Eating for health requires continuous learning because we have different nutritional needs at different stages of our life. And each person is born with different biological make up and genetic predisposition, one man’s food can be another’s poison. All is not well and there is no one diet that can fit all and there is no good food or bad food either. We just need to know which foods can best fit our nutritional needs.
Health is the one thing that money cannot buy and you cannot find health in a capsule. Eating a nutritionally poor diet and relying on supplements and drugs to make up the difference do not work. No supplement or drug can come close to offering the same nutritional benefits as real food can and you are spending more unnecessary. What we eat should be as both our food and medicine to meet our health needs. By doing so, both our health and finance are better.
In this section, you can find information on the healing properties of most common foods and we should use them as our first line of defence against illnesses.