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Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session Two
WHEN: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH—1:00 PM (PACIFIC TIME)
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HOW: Conference Dial-in: 1-218-862-1300 / Conference Code: 527149
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In Session 2 of Healthy Eating—The Five Element Way you’ll learn how your DIGESTION works and how it’s affected by the 5 TASTES OF FOOD.
Listen in and find out what you can do to improve your digestion and thereby—improve your health.
The FIVE ELEMENT way of eating is a powerfully simple way of creating a BALANCED diet and an energetically vibrant and balanced body.
So you’re invited to stop by to listen and ask your questions about and find out: How to stay healthy: The Five Element Way.
Health Benefits
Featured Recipe
This session’s featured recipe is: Balanced Miso Soup.
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Healthy Eating: The Five Element Way—Phone Seminar: Session One
In this first of four 20-minute phone seminars on Healthy Eating—The Five Element Way, Kitty Bradshaw explains what ‘balance’ is, why it’s essential for improving and maintaining health, and how to achieve it through food choices.
Balanced Beet Soup
Here’s a simple, balanced recipe to try out that will help you get in touch with what a balanced Five Element meal tastes and feels like.
I encourage you to think about what you eat—become more aware of the ingredients in the meal and whether or not the tastes are balanced.
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Ingredients
- 3-4 medium sized beets, scrubbed and diced (skin may be left on, if desired)
- 1 shallot, diced
- 1 teaspoon oil, preferably unseasoned sesame oil or extra-virgin olive
- 4 cups of water
- 1-2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons of salt
- 1 Tablespoon miso, medium salty type like brown rice miso (optional)
- 3-4 Beet greens (or other leafy greens — like chard or kale), washed and chopped
How To Prepare
- Put the diced beets in the water and bring to a simmer.
- While the water is heating, saute the diced shallot in oil over medium heat until transparent.
- Add shallot to simmering beets and water.
- Cook until beets are tender, about 10 minutes — fork tines pass through easily.
- Using an immersion blender, puree the beets and shallot to desired consistency.
- Add the chopped greens and simmer until tender about 5-10 minutes.
- Add lemon juice and salt to taste. If using the miso, spoon out one ladle-full of hot liquid into a small bowl with miso and mix until it is a smooth paste.
- Stir miso paste into soup and serve.
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Learn More About Healthy Eating—The Five Element Way
You can learn much more about combining foods into energetically balanced, healthy meals in our online course Healthy Eating the Five Element Way.
This easy-to-follow course offers:
Thanksgiving ... For A Healthy Digestive System
Did you know that poor digestion makes it harder for the body to develop and maintain good muscle tone?
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many blessings Life provides, amongst the greatest of which is health; and good health is dependent upon a strong, chi-filled digestive system.
And because food is a prime focus of the Thanksgiving celebration, I thought it would be useful to offer some ideas about healthy eating that satisfy the tongue without sacrificing the stomach.
These tips will also help you improve the strength and overall health of your digestion throughout the rest of the year ... and the rest of your life.
Late Autumn Night
Cold, wet and soggy —
Pregnant darkness hangs waiting,
Moon rises slowly.
Be mindful as you eat. To be mindful while eating is simply being aware of how you feel, and noticing as you eat when you start to feel full. A good ‘starting point’ is to ask yourself at the beginning of the meal: “How do I want to feel when I finish eating”? If you answer to yourself: “satisfied, not stuffed and not feeling like taking a nap,” then as you’re eating, be aware of the imaginary dialogue between your tongue and stomach; where the tongue says: “Yes, give me more, it’s delicious! While the stomach says: “Eat slower so I have time to digest.”
If you want a healthy digestive system, and a slimmer waist, pay more attention to what your stomach tells you.
Chew well, eat slowly, enjoy the taste. Did you know that chewing is the first step in the digestion process? And the more you chew your food, the easier it is for your stomach to break it down further so that it’s easily absorbed into the small intestine, from where nourishment gets distributed to the rest of your body.
If you don’t chew well, your meals don’t get digested properly, and that’s generally the point where digestive problems begin. By chewing more, you’re automatically eating slower, which gives your stomach the opportunity to ‘feel full’ so you don’t overeat.
Wait to lose weight. Eating has its own momentum: The tongue enjoys the pleasure of taste, while the stomach and small intestine need time to digest and nourish the body. If you eat too fast, your digestive system doesn’t get a chance to let you know when you’ve eaten enough. When we don’t give the digestive system time to send this message - before going back for ‘seconds’ and ‘thirds’ - we ‘stuff’ ourselves. Then we not only feel uncomfortable, we’re also faced with a choice that the tongue didn’t tell us about: either start exercising to burn those excess calories, or be prepared to gain some unwanted weight.
Take a Walk. Whether you’ve eaten too much, or just the right amount, instead of sitting around after you’ve finished eating, grab one, two, three or more of your fellow celebrants and go outside and take a walk for about 15 minutes. You’ll not only feel good by giving your digestive system a boost ... you’ll also have room for ‘a little’ dessert.
Remember: While the Tongue is shouting with delight, the Stomach is saying: “Let’s go ‘lite.’”