Healthy Diet

[Healthy Diet] Follow this diet to live to a ripe old age

Have you heard that food is also divided into "heaty" and "cooling" types?

Different food variety brings us different energies. Heaty food produces "yang" energy, while cooling food produces "yin" energy. For instance, meats tend to be heaty and vegetables tend to be relatively cooling. "Bulky"-type of vegetables (roots and tubers) such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, taro, and so on are more heaty, as they contain the elements of "fire" and "momentum". Consuming them makes one heaty, increases body fat, and slows the metabolism. As you are aware, food like potatoes are buried deep in the soil, unlike green leafy vegetables that are exposed to the sun, moving in tandem with the winds. Thus, green leafy vegetables are relatively higher in oxygen content, promote healthy purification and circulation of the blood, and preventing excessive accumulation of fats in the blood and body.

Thus, the leafy greens are more beneficial to the body; the rhizome (root-type), and "bulky"-type vegetables tend to be heaty, and while they may supplement the diet, the proportion should not exceed one-third of the intake of green leafy vegetables.

If we can balance our dietary energy, we can achieve our purpose of good health ── 

When managing the intake of our diet, we should not focus all nutrition and energy on a single meal, as it would result in a skewed diet. Where conditions permit, have dinner as early as possible, restrict soup intake, and limit heaty food as it is difficult to digest. Using this approach, manage the energy intake moderately amongst the three meals daily.

As food is passive, it will not control you but will have an influence on your life. So, we should be adept at adjusting the diet, balancing its energy through an even distribution in our eating habits, to achieve the appropriate proportion towards our goal of natural balance. When the dietary energy is in balance, the body will naturally be healthy.

#BalancedDiet, #HeatyFoodType,#CoolingFoodType, #YangEnergy, #YinEnergy

【健康飲食】這樣吃活到九十九


你聽過食物也有分熱性與涼性？

不同的食物會給我們帶來不同的能量。熱性的食物產生陽性的能量，涼性的食物產生陰性的能量。像是肉是熱性的，蔬菜就相對比較涼性。而塊狀的菜類，像土豆（馬鈴薯）、紅薯、白薯、芋頭等，含熱性的能量比較多，帶有火和躁動的成分，單一吃它的時候比較燥，會增加脂肪，減少動感。你看土豆這類食物，本身埋在那裡不動，不像綠葉蔬菜，露天接受陽光，有風時葉子就擺動。所以綠葉蔬菜含氧量都比較高，能促使血液的清新和更替，不容易造成脂肪在體內或血液裡的堆積。

所以綠葉菜類對身體好處更多；根莖、塊狀的蔬菜是比較含熱量的，可以適當搭配吃，但比重不能超過綠葉蔬菜的三分之一。

若能平衡飲食能量，就能達到健康目的──
在飲食時間的分配上。不要把營養和能量完全集中到一頓飯上來，那樣就會形成一種擠壓性飲食。如果有條件的話，晚餐應盡量早吃，不能喝很多湯，不能吃很多高熱量、難消化的東西，應將攝入的能量平均到一天三餐裡。

因為，食物本身是被動的，它無法控制你，但卻會對你產生影響，我們要善於調節飲食，平衡飲食能量，就是均衡的分配你的飲食習慣，適當的比例以達到自然平衡的目的，當飲食能量平衡，身體自然也就健康了。


#飲食能量的平衡、# 熱性物質、#涼性物質、#陽性能量、#陰性的能量

Article taken from Master Jin Bodhi Facebook Page 金菩提禅师 脸书

https://www.facebook.com/jinbodhiworld/


Research credits as cited in article:

https://www.puti.org/ch/jinputichanshitanjiankangyinshipinghengzhidaoxia/

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1) Meditation and Health Facebook Page 禅修与健康 脸书
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2) Official Bodhi Meditation Website 菩提禅修官方网站
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