BALANCE, GRASSHOPPER. BALANCE.

All foods can be classified as either yin or yang or somewhere in between. Imagine a long continuum line: the most yin foods at far left, neutral foods in the middle, very yang foods on the farthest right.

The healthy body needs things in balance, especially the vital ones. Bodybuilders and muscle seeks need to be aware that both yin and yang foods can help each other, and imbalance can be the cause of being a hard-muscle gainer or hard-fat-looser.

• 'Warming' YANG foods increase qi, (pronounced 'chee'). It means energy.
• 'Cooling' YIN foods diminish it.
• Excessive use of either one is not good.
• Balance of both including neutral foods is good.

But not altogether bad. The whole precept of Yin/Yang is total BALANCE of everything we do, ingest and experience. Therefore, what we output will be balanced also.

Because the taste centers of the tongue sense sweet, bitter, sour, pungent and salt, having a very clean palette, unpolluted or distorted by chemicals can be very helpful 'on-board' information to have.

YIN	NEUTRAL	YANG
Alcohol Almonds Apple Asparagus Bamboo Banana Barley Bean curd Bean sprouts Beer Broccoli Cabbage Celery Clams Corn Corn flour Crab Cucumber Drugs Duck Eel Fish Food additives Fruit juices Grapes Honey Ice cream Lemons Milk Mushrooms Mussels Oil Oranges Oysters Peppermint tea Pineapple Refined foods Salt Shrimp Spices Stimulants Strawberries Soya beans Sugar Tomatoes Tropical vegetables & fruits Water	Bread Brown rice Carrots Cauliflower Cherries Chicken meat, white Dates Milk Nuts Peaches Peas Pigeon Plums Raisins Seeds Steamed white rice Temperate fruits (sub-acid) Vegetables	Beef Black pepper Butter Cheese Chicken liver Chilies Chocolate Coffee Eggs Smoked fish Garlic Green peppers Goose Ham Kidney beans Lamb Leeks Onions Peanut butter Roasted peanuts Potato Poultry Rabbit Salt Seafood Turkey Walnuts Whisky Wine

YIN	NEUTRAL	YANG
Manifestation Magnetism Down Cold Wet Dark Moon Light colors Female Passive Negative Death		Potential Electricity Up Hot Dry Light Sun Dark colors Male Active Positive Life

 

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