Personal opinion (13):How to eat?...

Posted by , On Dezembro 1, 2010 , in Ming´s opinion , No Comments

It is almost not a topic that need to think,because we eat since we came to the world.If I ask:do you know the right wayto eat? I know you will be angry with my question.However,to eat is not a easy thing.I mean to eat healthy is not easy. To know the right way to eat,we still need go back to read the HUANG DI NEI JING (HUANG DI INTERNAL CLASSIC),there is a short sentence speak about this:YIN SHI YOU JIE (饮食有节),to eat follow the  rule ”JIE”.What means JIE?There are three basic meaning.

1. Jie means control.It is easy to understand,we need to eat but we also need to control ourselves, Chinese has a saying: To eat till 70-80% full is the right way,not eat too much,it also means not eat to much the same thing.If you like cake or chocolate,Do not abuse.

2. Jie means Rhythm。It means you need eat regularly,try to eat always more or less at the same hour.In China,normally we eat three times a day:breakfast,lunch and dinner (In the south China,such as Macao,Guangdong,Hong Kong,they also take ”ceia” ).I know in Portugal,normally people eat 5 times a day,because there are ”Lancha da manha e lancha a tarde”.In fact,many people can’t eat regularly.

3.Jie means JIE QI.This is the meaning that has stronger relationship with Chinese Medicine.What means ”Jie Qi”? In China,we have to calendar:one is the Yang calendar,it is the same as here,it follow the Change of Sun in one year; another calendar is the Yin calendar,calculate the Change of Moon,it is also called agriculture calendar,because all the Farmers use it to know when is the time to put the seeds,when is the time to get in,and the Chinese New Year is also according to this calendar,15 days is one Jie Qi,so totally there 24 Jie Qi in one Chinese year.So in fact the third meaning of JIE means what? It means we need to eat with the change of Yin and Yang.It means we only eat the food at the right time of it! For example,many years before,we only had Cucumber (Pepino) in the summer,and now we could find it in the winter,they are the Genetically Modified Foods ( Organismos geneticamente modificados),I think it will be a big health problem in future because people eat this kind of food.Maybe you already felt that:the cucumber of the summer and those from the winter,the taste is so different. Our body was always stay harmony with the Nature, the earth only produce the right food at the right season to us.However,we think we are the owner of the world,we change them,But we will be changed at the end of this game…

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