The Five-Elements Wellness Plan: A Chinese System for Perfect Health (Paperback)

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In traditional Chinese medicine, oranges are known to weaken your immune system, bananas cause fatigue, and yogurt doesn't help weight loss. The ancient Five Element Diet (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) describes the foods and preparation methods best suited to each element, the parts of your body most affected, and the healing forces unleashed with each dish. Your eating habits will change simply because you know more about the effects of foods on long life, love, sexual capacity, and prosperity.In traditional Chinese medicine, oranges are known to weaken your immune system, bananas cause fatigue, and yogurt doesn't help weight loss. The ancient Five Element Diet (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) describes the foods and preparation methods best suited to each element, the parts of your body most affected, and the healing forces unleashed with each dish. Your eating habits will change simply because you know more about the effects of foods on long life, love, sexual capacity, and prosperity.

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Improve your health, relieve ailments, and control your weight with the therapeutic Five-Elements Plan. It's a modern adaption of the 3,000-year-old traditional Chinese diet and medical principles that will enable you to choose wholesome foods and preparation methods based on the needs of your own body. This system doesn't require great cooking skills or exotic ingredients, and you won't have to count calories and nutrition values. You'll even be able to select meals at restaurants following these guidelines. Whether you want to prevent colds or enhance vitality, are unhappy with your weight or have trouble concentrating, eat healthfully and with gusto using the Five-Elements Plan.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (March 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806958677
• ISBN-13: 978-0806958675
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #887,094 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars informative, February 10, 2007

By	R. Durain (Iowa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Five-Elements Wellness Plan: A Chinese System for Perfect Health (Paperback)

I found this book to be very informative; Traditional Chinese Medicine takes a different approach but arrives at many same dietary fixes as our modern medical. For example when my father-in-law had kidney failure they told him to eat only 2oz. of meat per day. This book recommends 2 Tbsp per meal. I also learned shocking information about health and nutrition that I could apply to improve my health. (I have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.) This is a great read for anyone wanting to improve their health and step out of the box to do it. It does not recommend that you HAVE to eat any different foods than you are right now; its just the order and seasons in which you cook and eat them and it also depends on what ailments you have. I found this book to be very useful. The only reason it did not get 5 stars was because some parts were just a little hard to follow. This could be that it is about oriental medicine and culture and was originally written for a German audience.