Category Archives: Energy of Food

• Most recent blood type
• Rarest blood type
• Do very well on a vegetarian  diet
• Can easily digest dairy, grains, and domesticated meat

Healing with the Herbs of Life – Lesley Tierra, page 315

• Appeared after the introduction of grains into the diet
• Can handle wide range of animal products, dairy, and complex carbohydrate
• Should avoid chicken and sesame seeds/oil – causes clumping

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• Generally does well with vegetarian diet
• Need protein from lean and carbohydrate sources
• Tolerate more grains, legumes, and vegetables
• Should limit intake of red meat and dairy

Healing with Herbs of Life – Lesley Tierra, page 315

Blood Type O

• Oldest and most common blood type
• Derived from the original hunter-gatherer population
• Tend to need higher amounts of full proteins in the diet
• Should eat copious amounts of raw and part cooked vegetables, some fruit, plenty of water, and lots of exercise to offset stagnating effects of full diet.
• Avoid pork products and refined grains and flour products

Healing with the Herbs of Life – Lesley Tierra, page 315

Metabolic power is the ability to digest food normally.

Healing with the Herbs of Life – Lesley Tierra, page 314

TCM Categories according to the Five Phases:

• Fire
• Earth
• Metal
• Water
• Wood

Ayurvedic Categories:

• Vata (Air)
• Pitta (Fire)
• Kapha (Earth)

Western Medicine:

• Sanguine
• Phlegmatic
• Choleric
• Melancholic

Healing with the Herbs of Life – Lesley Tierra, page 314

• Our constitution is determined by the health of our parents at the time of conception, and inherited weaknesses and strengths.
• Inherited weaknesses and strengths determine our strength, susceptibility to disease and, consequently, our food needs.

Healing with the Herbs of Life by Lesley Tierra, page 314

• Acid-alkaline is one way of looking at warm-cool energy of food.
• The acid-alkaline determination is not the pH of food itself. It is the residue ash that forms when food is oxidized.
• Cool or cold foods tend to make the body more alkaline.
• Warm or hot foods tend to make the body more acidic (there are exceptions).

Too much acidity or too much alkalinity can imbalance your health.

*Most people eat too many acidic foods and not enough alkaline ones.

Healing with the Herbs of Life – Lesley Tierra, page 312.

A balanced diet is one that uses foods energetically, incorporating more foods with a neutral to cool and neutral to warm energy, less food with warm or cool energies and sparing use of hot and cold energy foods.

Overall, a balanced diet includes foods with a neutral-warm and neutral-cool energy that are neutral-full to neutral-empty in quality.

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