Sustaining your body with healthy food
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Wherever you are right now, I hope you are all healthy, as this is what really matters the most!
The last year has been more or less difficult for everyone, depending on how you cope with the actual situation. I will not go into the subject of the actual pandemic, but want to focus more on how we can make the best of the situation, and in this article, in particular, on how and what we eat.
One of the things I have heard most these last months is the time and joy people found in cooking and baking. And that’s awesome. But obviously, behind the fact that we spend more time in the kitchen, some may have realized that they also spend more time around the kitchen table, close to food and eating.
While cooking delicious food from scratch, with fresh ingredients is a bonus for your health, compared to the quick lunch option you grabbed at work or the take-out dinners, you do not move as much as before. The gyms are closed and working out at home is not always easy, with your family around or because you live alone with no one to motivate you.
While the current situation and in some cases the lock down can easily bring up some unexpected and unwanted weight, those who easily struggle with their relationship with food are going through particularly challenging times right now.
Social isolation can drive people to emotional eating and bingeing, out of stress, boredom, confusion or anger.
Emotions are inevitable, physiologically normal and do not cause disease when they arise in daily life. However, with the current situation, when they are repressed, contained, or expressed intensely, often, without control, or out of context, they are considered as pathological in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Every organ corresponds to the energy of a certain emotion, and every disease stems from an imbalance in an organ. Emotions like anger, resentment, frustration or irritability are directly linked to the liver.
The concept of health is the free circulation of blood and energy, as well as the ability of the body to adapt to the environment around it, and disease is the obstruction of the flow of vital energy and the breakdown of this relationship.
Therefore, we must learn to flow as nature does through the seasons. If we understand how energy moves through the seasons, we can adapt our habits and our diet to these cyclical movements.
Spring is a season of expansion and flowering, the daylight increases, the birds are more agitated and sing more, the sap of the plants ascends and the sprouts begin to germinate, it is the season of renewal.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring is related to the element of wood, which governs growth, development and expansion just like the trunk and branches of trees.
If we want to live in harmony with nature, Spring is a good time to start new plans, to open up, to expand. Any kind of stagnation, blockage or obstruction either physical, emotional or mental will go against the energy ... and especially affect the organs associated with this station: the Liver and Gallbladder.
While we should be enjoying this season being outside, we find ourselves stuck at home, trying to cope with those emotions. We found ourselves in a situation, which is the exact opposite of how we are used to live, be it in our movements or emotionally. It has a direct impact on our health and, in some cases, unfortunately, on our eating habits and weight.
More important than the weight you might have gained during the last year, I want to focus on your health and how you can help your body function at its best.
Sustaining your body with healthy food will not only improve your immune system, which is very important now, but also give you more energy, help you think clearly and you might even lose weight.
This is the reason I decided to help you with a 3 days Spring detox to learn how to clean up your diet with delicious recipes and help your body thrive!
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