1. TCM Dietary Therapy Eating your way to health and long life

2. Chinese Medicine b Diet b Exercise b Rest b Acupuncture b Chinese herbal formulas

3. TCM Food Therapy b The Art of Cooking and Preparing Food to help maintain optimal health b Let Food be your Medicine -- Hippocrates

4. Caloric Rate (BW 0.75 )

5. Caloric Requirements Calories / day = 20 X body weight in lbs

6. TCM b 5 Element Theory FireFire EarthEarth MetalMetal WaterWater WoodWood b 8 Principles of Disease Yin & Yang Interior & Exterior Cold & Hot Deficiency & Excess b Zang-Fu Organs HT/SI -- PC/THHT/SI -- PC/TH SP/STSP/ST LU/LILU/LI KID/BLKID/BL LIV/GBLIV/GB

7. 5 Element Flavors b Fire -- Bitter b Earth -- Sweet b Metal -- Pungent b Water -- Salty b Wood -- Sour Bitter Sweet Pungent Salty Sour Earth element through the stomach-tongue connection rules the taste

8. 5 Element Diet

9. 5 Element Meat Sources

10. 5 Element Grain Sources

11. Use of 5 Element Food b Balance is the key b Support constitutional needs, yet provide something from every flavor b Add heat in summer and cold in winter b For Deficiency -- Feed organ and parent b For Excess -- Feed child and grandparent

12. TCM 8 Food Principles b Exterior -- Interior b Hot -- Cold b Excess -- Deficiency b Yang -- Yin

13. TMC Food Directions b Outward and Upward tend to be Yang b Inward and Downward tend to be Yin

14. TCM Food Directions

15. Use of Food Directions b For exterior conditions – Outward and upward moving food b For internal problems – Inward and downward moving food

16. TCM Food Energies

18. Use of Food Energies b Treat hot conditions with cooling foods b Treat cold conditions with warming foods

19. TMC Food Tonics

20. TCM Zang-Fu Foods

21. Therapeutic Food b Prepared much like TCM herbal products b The basic character of the food is the combination of ingredients with which it is prepared

22. Principles of Using TCM Diet b For Prevention, Feed the Constitutional Grandchild b In Deficiency, Feed the Zang-Fu and the Mother (Shen cycle) b Balance the ingredients for each flavor, direction and energy b Identify constitutional type b Determine whether Excess or Deficient b In Excess, Feed the Grandparent (Ko cycle)

23. Purina Puppy Chow b ground yellow corn b chicken bi-product meal b corn gluten meal b brewers rice b soybean meal b beef tallow b pearled barley b animal digest b a bunch of chemicals b 27% protein, 12% fat, 61% CHO

24. Basic Canine Diet b 2 oz Pork Chop b 4 oz Tofu b 8 oz Brown Rice b 2 tsp Virgin Olive Oil b ¼ cup Honey b 2 Whole Carrots b 1 cup Spinach b 4 Tbs Green Pepper b 4 Broccoli Spears b ¼ tsp Dry Ginger b 1 Raw Garlic Cloves b ¼ tsp Dry Mustard b 1 tsp Bone Meal

25. Cancer Food (low carbs) b 4 Strips Bacon b 4 Large Eggs b 8 oz Tofu b 1 tbs Virgin Olive Oil b 1 Whole Carrots b ½ cup Spinach b ¼ cup Green Pepper b ½ cup Broccoli b ¼ tsp Dry Ginger b 1 Raw Garlic Cloves b ¼ tsp Dry Mustard b 1 tab Flintstones plus Calcium Contains 1370 Calories with a 23/12/65 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content

26. Cancer Food (Earth Dog) b 1 oz Beef Tallow b 4 Large Eggs b 8 oz Tofu b 1 tbs Virgin Olive Oil b 1 Whole Carrots b ½ cup Spinach b ¼ cup Green Pepper b ½ cup Broccoli b ¼ tsp Dry Ginger b 1 Raw Garlic Cloves b ¼ tsp Dry Mustard b ½ tab Flintstones plus Calcium Contains 1479 Calories with a 20/11/69 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content

27. Cancer Food (Fish Diet) b 8 oz Catfish b 8 oz Tofu b 2 tbs Virgin Olive Oil b 2 Whole Carrots b ½ cup Spinach b ¼ cup Green Pepper b ½ cup Broccoli b ¼ tsp Dry Ginger b 1 Raw Garlic Cloves b ¼ tsp Dry Mustard b 2½ tab Flintstones plus Calcium Contains 1355 Calories with a 27/13/60 percent protein/carbohydrate/fat content

28. Nutritional Analysis b Commercial Software NutriBaseNutriBase Food ProcessorFood Processor b USDA Nutrient Data Lab http://www.nal.usda.gov/ fnic/foodcomp/http://www.nal.usda.gov/ fnic/foodcomp/ b NATS http://nat.crgq.com/main nat.htmlhttp://nat.crgq.com/main nat.html