MissionNutritional Therapy
Collaborative Care encourages you to eat with the seasons and offers menus that enable patients to conceptualize the relative ease of incorporating a healthy diet into a busy schedule, and that nutritional foods are by no means esoteric.
Healing with Chinese nutrition involves selecting ingredients for nutritionally healthy cooking. Collaborative Care works with you to prepare an individualized plan that includes herbs and foods to optimize your bodies healing potential. Collaborative Care food plans are based on traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Sample Menus
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Tips for Seasonal Eating
There are many ways to start incorporating local foods in your diet throughout the seasons. Although it is not reasonable to try to convert your entire diet to local, seasonal foods, you can make many small changes around the calendar.
- During the summer and fall buy produce from a farmers' market, roadside stand or from produce identified as "local" at your supermarket or food store. Sweet corn is fresher (and usually sweeter) right after picking, and tomatoes can be tastier and juicier when they're vine ripened.
- During the winter months include some of the following familiar fruits and vegetables in your diet: potatoes, winter squash, carrots, cabbage, onions, beets, garlic, apples, and pears.
- In the winter try at least two of these less familiar vegetables: celeriac, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, parsnips, rutabagas, turnips, or kohlrabi.
Tips for Healthy Cooking
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