Food Therapy

BALANCED FOODS ACCORDING TO SCIENCE & SEASONS
"Food is a major determinant of health that is directly under our control."

Food Therapy and Diet

WHAT IS FOOD THERAPY?

Food therapy is a medical treasure that we have used clinically to benefit patients suffering from many difficult diseases. The science and art of using food as an essential part of medicine has been established for over 4000 years by physicians of natural medicine. Food is a major determinant of health that is directly under our control. We cannot always control pollution, hereditary factors, noise, environment, and the social and emotional behaviors of others, but we can certainly choose what and what not to eat. Food is so important to human existence, and because it is utilized many times each day, it has a major affect on the body.

However, most people do not realize the power of foods. The body is often being abused with wrong and junk foods, instead of healing and strengthening the body with good and proper foods. The only way to fully understand whether a food is good or bad for the body is through proper education.

If wrong foods are not controlled, diseases cannot be treated effectively. For example, a diabetic patient came to our clinic with a blood sugar level of 285. She had congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, severe edema from her ankles, knees, hips, belly button and lower ribs. She was also overweight. She was on 40u insulin each day and medication for her heart and the high blood pressure. She came to us saying, “I am dying, I am dying”. Upon completion of her examination and reviewing her personal and medical history, we found out that she was drinking three glasses of orange juice and lots of sodas every day, using butter, and heavily eating meats for protein. We immediately told her to cut these foods out of her diet and her response was, “I’ll follow, but no one had ever told me not to eat these foods”.

If doctors do not help patients with food and diet, patients will suffer the consequences. As long as the patient understands what to eat and what not to eat, this knowledge can be applied many times a day to help strengthen the body, balance vital organs, normalize the internal temperature of each organ system, boost the immune system, and normalize bodily functions. Therefore, the administration of foods to heal the body requires the mastery of natural medicine and food medicine coupled with the knowledge of physics, biology and chemistry of each individual food.

After individualized evaluation and diagnosis, food and nutritional supplements are then personalized for the body’s current needs. These foods are prescribed based on their biological, physical and chemical nature to delicately maintain homeostasis. And as the body changes, it is important to monitor these patterns and adjust the foods according to the body’s changing needs, otherwise, the body will lack proper maintenance and care.

We hope that you will observe the principles of food medicine and incorporate this natural and powerful component into daily living, because anything we do three times a day will have an effect on our body! As the famous Hippocrates said, “Let food be our medicine, and medicine our food.” After all, you are what you eat!

BIOLOGY

The biology of food are sex, age, life span, nature, development, shape, size, how it grew, when it grew, category (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species), fresh or preserved, and environmental characteristics (sunny, shady, mountain, desert, lake, sea, ocean, dry, or wet that attributed to the growth and development or withering and death). Biology is very important when describing the individual foods, because it represents the nature of the growth and development of the food being consumed.

PHYSICS

The physics of food are taste, color, internal temperature, motion, energy, impulse, momentum, elasticity, fluid mechanics, waves, vibrating bodies, thermodynamics, acoustic phenomena, optics, electrostatics, electric currents, electrodynamics, high energy physics, and relationship with internal organs and organ systems.

When the physics of foods is carefully studied, it is clear that there are many important aspects of food that have been completely disregarded, such as taste, color of food, effects to the different internal organ systems, the internal temperature and the seasonal meaning of the individual foods.

CHEMISTRY

The chemistry of food represent the “science of nutrition”, and these vital nutrients are water, protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins, enzymes, co-enzymes, fiber and trace elements. Roughly, the human body is composed of 60% water, 20% protein, 15% fat and 5% carbohydrates, vitamins, potassium, sodium, and calcium. It is certainly important to observe chemical intake of foods and make sure it is properly balanced within the body to maintain normal chemical homeostasis, or balance.

These chemical values are keys to drive all functions within the body. Nutrition is very important to meet the daily chemical needs of the body for survival, however, nutrition is merely a subcategory of food. Food is not nutrition and nutrition is not food. Therefore, when one looks at the “nutritional facts” label on the foods being bought, this does not represent the entire classification of food, but only the chemical ingredients needed (or not needed) by the body.