The holiday season is a time to celebrate with family and friends. Unfortunately, for many it also becomes a time for over-eating, stress and weight gain. The holidays don’t have to mean eating too much, overdoing it on unhealthy food or gaining weight. In this podcast, Dr. Nina Walsh discusses tips for eating healthy during the holiday season.
Autumn is a season when we naturally go inward, gather and build stores, while also taking inventory of internal environment and cleansing it of what no longer serves us. In this podcast, Dr. Nina Walsh discusses how the foods we eat in autumn can help strengthen our immune system and prepare us for the challenges of winter.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), food is viewed as medicine and is used to nourish and harmonize the body, mind, and spirit. All foods have a distinct energy and characteristic properties that either help to balance our bodies and make us healthy, or that create imbalances which ultimately result in sickness. In this podcast, Dr. Nina Walsh discusses how food energetics, combined with a seasonal approach to planning our diet, can help strengthen our immune system and improve our health.