Dear,

Our teeth decide what we should eat

Do you know that we have 4 tearing (Canine) Teeth, 8 cutting (Incisors) teeth, and 20 grinding (molar) teeth? Canine teeth are used to eat meat, Incisors teeth are used to cut fibers, and molar teeth are used to grind cereal.

So the food we eat should be at the following proportion:

Meat:vegetable:cereal= 1:2:5

Here meat include: Meat, poultry, egg, fish, shellfish.

Vegetable include: Leafy vegetables, tomato,eggplant, pumpkin, green/red pepper, carrot,radish, mushroom,etc.

cereal include: Grains,corn, dry beans and peas, potato,sweet potato.

Sincerely

Anna

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April.28,2010

Issue #28

Table of Content:

1. Zangxiang theory- The Six Fu-organs - Small intestine(11)

The six Fu-organs include gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, bladder and the triple energizer. While five Zang-organs store Jing-Qi(essence), six Fu-organs are responsible for transforming and transporting food.

2. High Blood Pressure Diet

a. Mung bean soup for hypertension

b. Eggplant Salad Recipe

c. Stuffed Bitter Gourd Recipe

d. White Radish Juice with Apple and Green Bell Pepper

e. Abalone Soup

3. An effective diet menu for hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia is regarded as the main reason to cause cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer.

If we can eat out so many popular diseases, we should have a way to eat them back.

4. Answers to friends

Diet about operation and cancer

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1.Zangxiang theory- The Six Fu-organs- The Small Intestine(11)

The six Fu-organs include gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, bladder and the triple energizer. Six Fu-organs are responsible for transforming and transporting food. That means they receive and digest food, absorb the nutrient and excrete the waste.

Six Fu-organs function well only when they are unobstructed and the Qi is descent.

The Small Intestine:

The physiological function of the small intestine is to receive chyle and separate the lucid from the turbid.

The small intestine receives the chyme from the the stomach and keeps for a certain period of time in order to further digest it.

The lucid refers to food nutrition and the turbid refers to the waste of food.

After further digestion, the small intestine absorbs the nutrition and part of water(lucid), and transit the waste of food(turbid) to the large intestine.

So the small intestine is also in charge of water. If its function is normal the urine and the stool are normal. Otherwise, the stool will become floppy and the urine will become scanty.

The small intestine and the heart is external and internal relationship. If we observe carefully, the following symptoms appear at the same time: Pain,turbid urine, or hematuria, stuffiness in chest, ulcer in the mouth, insomnia,etc.

Some people may feel a little stuffy in chest at 2-3pm, that may be caused by the small intestine. It's the time that the small intestine is very active.

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2. High blood pressure diet recipes

Some experts think that real hypertension should be caused by the hyperlipidemia. The lipid makes the blood vessel narrow which causes high blood pressure.

So if your blood lipid is not high but your blood pressure is high,that must be caused by other reasons such as constipation. Find that reason and cure it before you take the medicine for the hypertension. If you don't have real hypertension and take the medicine, you may not only get the real hypertension at last but also lead to other blood vessel related diseases such as cardiovascular disease.

Real hypertension can reduce blood pressure by taking one type of pills. Fake hypertension(allow me to call it) needs to take several types of pills.

High blood pressure diet recipes

a. Mung bean soup for hypertension

b. Eggplant Salad Recipe

c. Stuffed Bitter Gourd Recipe

d. White Radish Juice with Apple and Green Bell Pepper

e. Abalone Soup


Here is the details:

http://www.healthy-chinese-recipe.com/high-blood-pressure-diet.html

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3. An effective diet menu for hyperlipidemia

Most popular diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer,etc. are caused by our unhealthy lifestyle and bad eating habit. The culprit is hyperlipidemia.

If we eat out so many diseases,we should eat them back. Through right eating habit we can prevent or even cure the diseases.

If your blood lipid is abnormal,that means your blood is not clean. The liver stores the blood and has the function of detoxification. Green food can clear away liver heat and allow the liver work properly. The liver is active at mid night 11pm-1am. Gallbladder and liver is external and internal relationship. Gallbladder works at 9-11pm. So don't eat oil/fat at dinner to load burden on the liver. Just eat green vegetable. So here comes the menu:

Breakfast:

soybean milk (Put all kinds of beans such as soybean,black bean,white bean in a soybean maker. cook and drink).

1 or 2 boiled eggs.

drinks during day: Mung Bean soup

Lunch:(eat whatever you like to eat except cold/iced water,roasted/deep fried food)

brown rice/whole wheat bread

fish/beef/chicken/pork,

vegetables

drinks during day: Mung Bean soup

Dinner:

Raw vegetables: Green bell pepper, purple cabbage,tomato,eggplant(These are best, you can add other green vegetables if they can eat in raw). Don't add oil, but can use sesame paste as sauce.

At the beginning, you must feel hungry. You can slowly reduce meat and add raw vegetables till used to it.

Most important:

Taboo: COLD/ICED DRINKS,MILK,CHILI,WATER MELON AND CUCUMBER.  If you just follow the above menu, but continue to drink iced water,eat chili or much water melon,it won't work.

Only drink warm mung bean soup. Here is the right method to make:

http://www.healthy-chinese-recipe.com/mung-bean-soup-for-hypertension.html

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4. Answers to friends

Question 1

This request is on behalf of a colleague who is having a face lift. Body type is med build, strong, but has high blood pressure. does not like cold. the surgery is in 2 weeks

My Answer

In fact, sometimes it's more important that what we shouldn't eat.

1. Don't eat eggplant and tomato 1-2 days before operation as the two food will reduce the function of anesthetic.

2. Don't eat cold,raw, chili, fish and seafood before the cut is healed as they are easy to cause infection.

3. If you have swelling after operation use raw potato or eggplant.

Cut raw potato into thin chips, apply to the swelling skin. Replace a new fresh piece of chip when dried.

Or steam eggplant. Here is the recipe: http://www.healthy-chinese-recipe.com/eggplant-salad-recipe.html

Cut raw eggplant in half, cut out the pulp(flesh). The peel is outside Use the peel to apply on the swelling skin. The inner part contacts the skin directly.

You need more energy before and after operation.
a.Beef soup can help you to recover energy fast.
b.Refined food is easy to be absorbed and transformed into nutrition. In traditional Chinese Medicine, black rice, black bean and black sesame seeds, Chinese date improve Qi and blood(energy). So grind them and stir into paste, steam one hour and eat at breakfast. I mentioned it in my newsletter:
http://www.healthy-chinese-recipe.com/newsletter.html

Daily menu before operation:

Breakfast

1 cup soybean or skin milk
1 egg, boiled
2 tablespoon Rice Paste

Lunch

steamed brown rice/noodle/bread
stewed beef/beef soup+beef (Beef:vegetable=1:1)
vegetable

dinner
green bell pepper + purple cabbage + other vegetables in beef soup
rice/bread

This menu can be used in your daily life after operation. You can replace beef with chicken, pork and fish after fully recovered. If you insists and drink mung bean soup but never drink iced water, his/her hypertension can be cured.

As for the portion, you can eat about 70-80% full.

You can eat any meat that you like at lunch. But you'd better only eat vegetable at dinner(and not cooked by oil). At the beginning you may feel hungry at night. If in this case, you can eat some cooked vegetables, rice or bread, then gradually reduce rice/bread while increase raw vegetables.

Please note, don't do big changes on your diet, especially within these 2 weeks before operation. Always make changes slowly.

Menu after operation within 1 week

Breakfast

1 cup soybean or skin milk
1 egg, add some water, stir and steam
2 tablespoon Rice Paste

Lunch

Grind lean beef,cook for at least one hour.
Make vegetable juice
cook noodle to very soft or make millet+rice porridge
cook and mix noodle/porridge and vegetable juice in beef soup
(2 days later,add ground beef in the noodle soup)

Steamed eggplant


dinner
Same with lunch but add less ground beef.

River eel can supplement blood very fast, especially suitable for those who have an operation. It's popular here in Shanghai, but I'm afraid it'll be hard to be found in your place.

Chicken soup,especially black chicken soup can help people to recover from an operation fast. But you have hypertension, you may not used to it.

Some experts said beef soup/chicken soup are better after cooked more than 6 hours over low heat(80 centigrade). You can try.

All these are just for your reference, eat the food that you feel comfortable. Everyone is different. Carefully observe what food make you feel better, then eat them more.

Hope you have a successful operation!

Good Luck

Anna

Question 2

Please Anna give me some recipes for digestive trouble, such as occlusion of the esophagus and cancer of the esophagus.

My Answer:

Traditional Chinese Medicine holds that if the Qi and blood are enough, people won't get disease. While QI and blood come from food, transformed and transmitted by the stomach and the spleen. Refined food is easy to be absorbed and transformed into nutrition. Especially if you have digestive problem, cook the food you want to eat,grind them and then eat.

Don't drink cold/iced water. That'll hurt your stomach and spleen.

Black rice, black bean and black sesame seeds, Chinese date improve Qi and blood(energy). So grind them, add some water and stir into paste, steam one hour and eat at breakfast.

Raw potato can relieve pain and remove swelling. Drink raw potato juice each day. 2-3 times each day. 2-3 mouthful each time. Stick to drink till swell and pain disappear.

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