We know that in addition to proper rest, exercise and lifestyle choices, a healthy diet is also essential for obtaining and maintaining health.

But did you know that many traditional cultures go beyond this point and use specific foods instead of drugs to treat mental and physical health? And they’ve been doing this for thousands of years.

Can be used for specific foods:

• Emotional improvement

• Improve sleep

• Improve the ability to cope with life setbacks

• Reduce internal inflammation

• diabetes management

• Lower cholesterol

• Balance hormones

• Reduce dietary needs

• Strengthen the immune system

So how does food affect health?

Food is the fuel of the body, similar to gasoline for cars. Just as your car works best on certain types of fuel, so does your body. Because when you fuel it with nutritious whole foods, it runs at its highest performance.

When foods that are often eaten, such as artificial pigments, chemicals, preservatives, additives, trans fats, highly processed foods, lack nutrition, the body may begin to malfunction. As time goes on, negative health consequences are inevitable.

In addition to having a negative impact on health, research also shows that these processed foods may affect your thinking, and more importantly, your mood, emotion and ability to cope with life. Every meal you eat will affect your feelings.

Personally, it is very common for me to use food as a crutch for emotions. Unfortunately, this leads to the “Article 22” situation, that is, eating highly processed food rich in chemicals will reduce the ability to cope with stress and increase the desire for food.

In traditional Chinese medicine, they use “taking food as medicine”. Therefore, according to your physical or emotional experience, they are not prescribing herbs, specific foods or recipes, but herbs. For example, if you want to comfort me with food, they will recommend specific root vegetables, soybeans, spice pumpkins, adzuki beans and cinnamon to help nourish the earth and satisfy the hunger of the heart. If you are fighting insomnia, you can recommend black sesame and add other healing foods.

But using “food as medicine” is not just about what you eat. Because stress has an important impact on your body’s effective use of food and nutrition. Therefore, yoga, tai chi, meditation, mindfulness and other decompression activities will go forward together with solving and improving your physical and mental health.

Now that we know how food is cured, we have the opportunity to choose food that can increase energy, health and soul for each meal!

If you want to know how I can use the healing power of food to improve your health, increase your energy, and build a healthier relationship with food and the body, please contact me through the healing food coach.