by Carl Balingit
on November 26, 2013
© 2013 Balingit Acupuncture, adapted from the original “Torso di Livorno,” Sailko (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sailko), under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
Thanksgiving is not only a time to share thanks but to also share food. While some of us are better at moderation than others, overeating could be an issue this festive time of year. If so, an immediate side effect may be bloating and gas.
If you experience this, here’s a quick self-care tip to help your gut process all that stuffing: [continue reading…]
{ }
by Carl Balingit
on October 31, 2013
“Homemade Black Sesame Soup” © 2009 by Seth and Alexa Andrzejewski [flickr.com/sethandalexa]. License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
Though I wrote about the side effects of sugar in my Halloween
newsletter, that does not straightaway mean that we should eliminate the sweet flavor from our diet. Sweetness is one of the five flavors, each of which offers a different health benefit. Sweet foods tend to nourish fluids and relax muscles and tendons.
The side effects of sugar are due not only to excess consumption of it but also to its refined form (i.e. white sugar, brown sugar). This is because refined sugar is [continue reading…]
Tagged as:
black sesame,
healing foods,
hei zhi ma,
soup
{ }
