Longevity For Life

Traditional Chinese Medicine focuses on using foods to prevent and treat disease.  Knowledge of food energetics can help build a strong sense of health and well-being by eating different foods that impose difference effects.  Like the saying, "you are what you eat".

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The principles are macrobiotics involve creating a yin and yang balance of all aspects of life-including the food combinations we choose to eat.

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Eating from your own garden or buying your produce from the local farmers market will leave you feeling more connected to your home or local community.  When you eat seasonal, locally grown produce, the body is more able to maintain balance from the inside out.

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It is beneficial to take advantage of cooling fruits and lighter greens in the summertime, when they are at their peak harvest.

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At the same time, heartier vegetables, such as deeply rooted carrots and squashes, grow more abundantly in the winter time and are going to add warmth to the body.

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I's good to maintain a balance of eating seasonally as well as locally, as much as possible, to stay in harmony with the natural order of things.