Asian nutrition & Whole food

As an organic integration of Chinese healing practice and western nutrition, this new perspective provides one of the most systematic and comprehensive discussions of the relationship between food and health.

Basically, there are three aspects I find most helpful about this method .

First, the large scope it covers: from raw food to cooked food, from herbs to animal product, from water to minerals, from food combination to the art of chewing...it explores these topics in an unhurried, sensible, and lucid manner. The analysis on each of the major foods near the end of it is useful for the reader to select meal ingredients that can best help improve his/her health.
Second, I like the "middle path" approach the author takes, without going to extremes with either his theory or practice. For instance,you can practise vegetarianism, but he also acknowleges the effectiveness of meat in treating certain deficiencies.
Third, I like its flexibility in tuning into each reader's different individual need and condition. For instance, raw vegetables and fruits may help the person who has "heat" signs, but may be too cooling for the person who feels cold constantly, especially in the colder season. So each person can use this method to fit his/her individual needs.

My interest in food, health, and nutrition, led me to read widely in these fields. Mostly Chinese food healing art, and discusses it from the perspective of western nutrition.