Blog

Food As Medicine Andrew Sterman Ann Cecil-Sterman fresh meal
Food Blog

Getting Food In Order: A Guide To Meal Design, by Andrew Sterman

Food talk today can be complex and confusing: eat more of this, less of that; this is a superfood, that other is a mustavoid…or is it the other way around? Fads come and go, and studies can be found to justify almost anything. What is often overlooked is the importance of the way foods are

Read More »
Food As Medicine Andrew Sterman Ann Cecil-Sterman bone broth
Food Blog

Bone Broth Finds the Spotlight, by Andrew Sterman

In the dietary branch of Chinese Medicine, cooking bones is a method to extract the essence of the animal in a way that can most easily be digested and assimilated. There is something shamanistic about it; we are trying to absorb the deepest digestible energy of the animal. Yes, high cuisine relies upon stocks for

Read More »
Food As Medicine Andrew Sterman Ann Cecil-Sterman grains
Food Blog

In Praise of Grains, by Andrew Sterman

With so much food variety today—and so many people’s health sabotaged by their food choices—one thing we can count on is a steady stream of food fads. To be more respectful, let’s call them trends. To someone following a new trend, of course, it seems totally sensible, the only questions left are, “What took me

Read More »
Food As Medicine Andrew Sterman Ann Cecil-Sterman wet damp
Food Blog

Diet & Dampness, by Andrew Sterman

Dampness is one of the six climatic factors taught in Chinese medicine, along with cold, heat (fire), wind, summer-heat, and dryness. For many today, modern heating and air-conditioning have eased the climatic influences—unrelenting cold or oppressively humid summer heat can be escaped by going indoors. And while climatic dampness can be an important issue for

Read More »
Food As Medicine Andrew Sterman Ann Cecil-Sterman grains
Food Blog

Cook As An Herbalist, by Andrew Sterman

There are many Chinese medicinal herbs that double as foods, and some famous herbs are used in the specialty tradition of herbal broth cooking. But to be fully integrated with a living Chinese medicine, there is nothing more powerful than organizing your daily foods as the herbs of your life. Rather than adding medicinals to

Read More »

Search

Sign Up For Blog Updates + Our Newsletter

Most Popular

The Coffee Issue

Talking to patients about coffee is a challenge. Sometimes it seems to me that most people drink it. Last week

Read More »

Share Our Blog