Well, after about 3 and a half months of vegetarianism, I’m eating meat again. I tried, but it didn’t work this time.
After a period of stress and also the creeping of several aches and pains, I’ve been forced to conclude that Vegetarianism isn’t for me at this point in my life, so I have to put my health first and back off.
It was an enormously valuable experience and if you can make it work then you have my respect, I just couldn’t crack it this time, though I got a lot further than my previous two attempts.
At the moment I’m eating meat once per day, which is plenty. This provoked a quick moment of thought. From a Taoist/Chinese Medical perspective what is the advice for a diet?
Well, after some looking, I found that they recommend meat as only 1/10th of the diet and eliminating all processed food (as far as you can).
I’ve linked to a couple of very interesting sites below:
Taoist Arts – Medicine and Diet
Seahorse Arts – The Chang Ming diet
When I had some TCM treatments done I was told that the clear bland diet was optimal
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3A*%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA&q=clear+bland+diet+tcm
(if that link doesn’t work just google clear bland diet tcm)