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Catherine Varchaver, Nutrition Counselor at Body and Soul Nutrition, has great wisdom about eating with the seasons.  Her article Season to Season: Ode to Eating and Living with Winter, is a lovely piece echoing the energetics of winter I treat through acupuncture, by using foods appropriate to the season.  I know that by eating stews, root vegetables and other warming foods during the winter, I feel stronger and more grounded than when I eat the raw and cooling foods more appropriate to summer.  Food is one of the main ways we gain qi/energy, and it serves us best when we eat with intention – both in what we eat and how we eat it.

There was a very simple and powerful piece in The Wall Street Journal the other day that I thought useful.  Written by Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Rustum Roy and Andrew Weil, it stated that diet and lifestyle changes are often more successful and cost effective healthcare than medicines and procedures currently paid for by insurance.  Click here to read the full text.