Fat loss diet for yin(阴陰)and yang (阳陽)

A regimen diet for weight loss can be used to adapt a person to their style of life. Defining yin and yang is difficult; here, it probably means less active (yin) and more active (yang), although we know that seemingly inactive actions as sleeping burns calories, persons that seem inactive may have a metabolism that is more active than that persons look he or she is. So how define a yin or yang person? We will resort to showing the two extremes, and you probably will calculate in what part of the mid-term you are. You know that persons that eat, eat and, even if they don’t practice exercises, never get fat? That are the too yang people; and that ones that is always making diets but are with a high weight? That is the too yin people.
As we make plans for a war and the two basic options are attack and defense, we will make a very basic approach to the inactive and active persons, yin and yang. If we make a regimen for a yin person of much protein and carbohydrates, associate with a rigid quantity of exercises, this will not work; yin people are generally lazy and not committed with tasks, they will probably not use all the energy and get fat and not health. They should take a diet of less calories, and take care mainly with wheat and corn and consider, for example, becoming a vegetarian, and take care with lactose intolerance.
If we make a diet of few calories and energy to an yang person, even if he not practice any sports, him or her can have a deficiency of nutrients leading to illness and exhaustion, and an inability to maintain their active style of life. If you are too fat you should cut the generally bad things as sugar and make more exercises.
A Chinese doctor said that in the Chinese medicine a body is seen as a tree: “a big tree should be big and a small tree should be small), although western medicine seems fat as undesirable, you should respect the biotype that you pertain.

Seasons, activity and moods

We can see a correlation with activity and mood with the four seasons of the year (summer, autumn, winter and spring): people are more active in the hot weather and more inactive in cold weather (winter depression, hibernation, etc.). But we shouldn’t act with inactivity (yin) against activity, heat (yang), like we act with defense against offence, and heat with coldness (in the Dao de Jing 道德经 (道德經) Lao zi 老子 wrote: “Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat”.

This show the principle of adaptation: although we can see that the body seeks the balance shaking in the cold (mechanic movement generates attrition, therefore heat and energy) and you remain extended motionless when you feel hot. In summer animals can eat more plants and there’s more game, therefore our body probably was programmed for active doing in the hot climates, If weren’t the plants using the sun for the photosynthesis we could see the contrary; probably not because the advantage of vision of light, but it is an interesting theory. We can see the contrary, for example in the Saharan desert, where snakes and scorpions remain in caves and under rocks during the day and go out during the night.

We must adjust our diet and lifestyle accordingly.

What western medicine could learn with Chinese medicine

Western medicine and Chinese medicine are seemingly different: the former deals with dead bodies, autopsies, the later with life, there’s no use with a body without qi in Chinese medicine; the western deals with interior, they put tubes, cameras, open you with cuts, Chinese deals with the exterior, see how you look, the tone of your skin, how you smell, the points of your skin that carries 气氣qi(acupuncture points) etc.; western is good in treating deceases, Chinese like to prevent it, they knew about this importance much before the western, and they still better on preventing decease then western counterpart, there’s a Chinese saying that states the good doctor prevent illness, the bad treat it.

This two disciplines are starting to merge, there’s western health care plans that cover accupunture,  meaning they accept that it works, and there’s chinese doctor giving it time more western medicines, specially for fast effects and treating an already deceased body. Would be very beneficial to the world if we could fuse these two disciplines, it would solve one of the main problems of humanity: illness, pain and death; such a fusion would cause a revolution in our society.

There’s still works trying to acomplish this, and I think they are important, but exist a shortcut that maybe they are overlooking, there’s a faster and easier way to accomplish part of it.

The key to understand this is not see superficially as most westerns do, and I would say even Chineses, don’t look yin and yang as up yang and down yin; don’t see the forms of

太极拳太極拳Taijiquan(taichichuan)  as if they are immutable or could only be done in a certain order, don’t see it as a simply martial art or a simply form of exercise; don’t see the elements of the ba gua, the eight trigrams, and even the five elements, that should better translated as the five phases, as simple elements that interact with others; don’t see the art of war as a simply book of warfare, it can be used in business,sports, games, life management, martial arts, etc.; don’t see the YI jing (I ching) as a book of dragons, and, finally, do not see Chinese medicine as simply needles.

Westerns see needles everywhere, where Chinese medicine is much more than simply accupunture points, the qi vessels, its a complex science that see the human as a whole, not only treating decease but preventing it; in fact you could remove completely the accupunture points from chinese medicine and you would sill have an effective mean of dealing with the body and mind.

The most important difference in Chinese medicine is exactly the mind, they see the body and mind as a whole; if were maybe a centurie ago( I don’t know much about history of western medicine) someone would say: there’s a magical discipline in china, that say if we are happy this will affect our health, if we have anger it would affect how we feel, if we are depressed this have an impact in our body; but today western medicine know this and yet they don’t have a effective way of using it in medicine.

correct if I’m wrong as I’m not a western doctor or scientist, but when western medicine do an experiment, they put person in groups of age, male of female, and watch the results, and is basicly this. But today western medicine know how mind affect the body, they can’t see the results of a medicine in a depressed person and a happy person, a person that experienced a traumatic experience and a tranquil one, they know that, and yet they can’t use a method to take these factors in consideration; Chinese medicine could help with this, they have a complex method of separating in categories and seen the effects on our body seen our mood, our voice, our look, every small detail, principally the yin yang theory and the five elements (or phases), what I call of categorization of reallities.

Of course to do such a work that would cause a revolution in our lifestyles requires a man with incredible feeling about western medicine and, not only chinese medicine, because chinese philosophy take the whole as more important them the sum of its parts, you will need a complete understanding of chinese thinking: martial arts, qi gong, yin and yang, five phases, art of war, etc. So I warn the person (or group, as a so difficult task would be difficult by only one man) that they have to get rid of their prejudices, open their minds ( both western to the “mystical” Chinese medicine and the chinese to the “imcomplete” western medicine) and be prepared for a hard work, there’s no magical formulas.

Maybe I myself will do it someday, and maybe it will be needed, but if someone or group think he can do it or at least start the studies to make it easier to develop later I will be thankfull, If you need help contact me.