Quantcast
Channel: Kang Dao Acupuncture Health Center » Healthy Eating
Browsing all 16 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Ten Ways To Good Health

My favorite cup (click to enlarge). This is my office tea cup. I like it a lot because it reminds me of easy ways to stay healthy. Notice that it says “Less Alcohol, More Tea,” not “No Alcohol, Only...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sugar: The Bitter Truth

This is an engaging 1.5 hour-long presentation by Dr. Robert Lustig, an endocrinologist at UCSF School of Medicine. He addresses the issue of obesity, a huge problem in the U.S. One in three Americans...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A Healthy Breakfast that can Lower Your Cholesterol

Flax (Photo credit: bdearth) Hi folks. I just wanted to pass along a great food-based tip for lowering levels of so-called “bad” low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. My Aunt Helga had high...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How To Eat

Everyone agrees: eat more of this stuff. How should you eat? What should you eat? Is it best to be a vegetarian? Vegan? Should you eat “paleo” style? How about going raw? Gluten-free? Is bread the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Eggs!

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) As a child, I read the newspaper every day. I always started with the comics, but I usually read the front section as well. Even back then, I remember conflicting studies...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Welcome Merritt Jones to the Team!

I’m pleased to welcome Merritt Jones to the Kang Dao team. Merritt is currently earning a graduate degree in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Article 3

Christina Warinner makes some generalizations about the so-called “paleo diet”, but towards the end makes great points about real food: We evolved to eat fresh, in-season food. That’s when it has the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Fat is Not the Enemy

An amazing grass-fed steak I found at Trader Joe’s with the fat still intact!   Just a reminder to examine your ideas about food and your perceptions of health – where do these ideas come from? For...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Chinese Medicine for Sports Injuries and Training Tips

If you can’t do this for yourself, go see an acupuncturist. Judo twice a week, muay thai three times a week, Brazilian jiujitsu whenever the schedule allows, running four times a week and weightlifting...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Traditional Chicken Bone Broth: A Recipe To Build Qi And Blood For Immune...

Reblogged from Alcantara Acupuncture Blog: Bone broths are a staple in many cultures, and when done the old-fashioned/traditional way, you really reap the benefits.  And, on a Chinese Medicine level,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Coffee with extra spices

This morning I cooked organic Ling Zhi slices (灵芝 ganoderma lucidum, aka reishi mushroom) and used the resulting brew in the coffee maker. In the filter I put coffee and a dash of each of the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

An Interview with Jo Robinson: Eating on the Wild Side

Garlic’s chemical properties change depending on how it is prepared.   Here’s a very interesting interview with Jo Robinson, author of Eating on the Wild Side. In the interview, Robinson says: In a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why Skipping Breakfast Might Raise Risk Of Heart Disease : The Salt : NPR

Skipping Breakfast is Risky – article from NPR. Eat your breakfast people! Just don’t make it a carbolicious sugar bomb.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Medical Wisdom of Star Trek

I’ve been watching the original Star Trek series lately. It’s very interesting to see how medicine is practiced several centuries in the future – or rather, how humans of 1960′s America imagined it...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pomegranates are in season!

  Pomegranates are here! The easiest way to get pomegranate seeds loose without making a huge mess is to do the whole thing underwater. Fill a large bowl with water, cut the fruit in half and submerge...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Life-Changing (and possibly cholesterol-lowering) Loaf of Bread

Photo credit: mynewroots.org A patient just sent me this link to a flourless bread recipe. It’s made with seeds and nuts and no yeast – as you can see from the picture, it’s one of those dark, dense...

View Article
Browsing all 16 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images