Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life by Claudia Welch

Author:Claudia Welch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: 2011-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

Good-quality yang—energizing, lightening, and motivating foods—are light, sharp, warm, dry, and rough. Although these are generally easier to digest than are heavier, more building foods, they often have cooling energetics and so can also benefit from being cooked with some moderate amount of gentle spices such as ground coriander, ginger, turmeric, and so on. It is also good to add a little oil, so they are not excessively lightening. Here are some examples:• Steamed or sautéed greens such as kale, chard, collards, and spinach with a drizzle of olive oil and lemon juice

• Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage with a drizzle of olive oil and black pepper

• Salads with olive oil, black pepper, and lemon juice to taste, and eaten in the middle of the day in warm weather, when the heat of the environment supports the digestion of raw foods, which can be hard to digest otherwise

• Small amounts of beans, depending on the way you cook them. Many people find beans gas-producing. But if you soak them overnight in room-temperature water and then cook or pressure-cook them with a stick of kombu, and a couple of pinches of asafetida powder (found in many health food or Indian grocery stores, where you might find it by its Hindi name, hing) until they are very soft, they are often much easier to digest.

• Spices, such as ground cumin, coriander, fennel, black pepper, and fresh or ground ginger are all lightening and can be used to make other foods lighter and easier to digest, too. (See also page 185.)

• Whole-grain crackers with very few ingredients, ones recognizable as food (like whole wheat flour, oil, and salt or whole popped grain and salt) and popcorn

• Green tea

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