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How to Make Fruit Leathers. Homemade Fruit Leather Recipe. Homemade Fruit Leather Last week I tweeted that I was making homemade fruit leather.

Homemade Fruit Leather Recipe

Well, I guess lots of people want to know how to make homemade fruit leather because I received several tweets and emails asking for the recipe. So today, I am sharing a simple recipe on how to make homemade fruit leather or fruit roll-ups. It is the same recipe-the only difference is if you roll up the final product up or cut into squares:) Fruit leather can be pricey to buy at the store, but making it at home is cheaper and so easy.

We are still swimming in peaches so I made homemade peach fruit leather, but you can use any fruit you like. To make peach fruit leather, I removed the skins and pits of the peaches and gave them a rough chop. Blend the fruit until smooth. Put the baking sheet in the oven for 6-8 hours, or until the fruit leather is set and the center is not tacky. When the fruit leather is finished, pull it out of the oven and let it cool to room temperature. Fruit Leather Recipe, How to Make Fruit Leather. 1 Rinse the fruit.

Fruit Leather Recipe, How to Make Fruit Leather

If you working with stone fruit, take out the pits, chop the fruit. If working with apples or pears, peel and core them, then chop. If working with grapes, de-stem them. Taste the fruit before proceeding. Nine ways to get strong without lifting weights. The Body Weight Fat Blaster : Fat Loss - MSN Health & Fitness. Gourmande in the Kitchen: A collection of whole food, seasonal recipes. Yoga Poses for Weight Loss.

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Foods selected according to their energetic qualities is key to balanced health. Acupuncture works much in the same way to create balance. Using the benefits of correct food consumption along with acupuncture is a highly effective way to establish balance. Understanding your health imbalances and then treating them accordingly by choosing the appropriate foods for that particular imbalance is one of the best ways to restore health. Foods all have inherent specific qualities that have certain effects in the body. WARMING AND COOLING FOODS FOR HEALTH: A BRIEF OVERVIEW. Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other ancient healing practices have always used food as one of the ways to balance the body to help prevent and treat disease.

WARMING AND COOLING FOODS FOR HEALTH: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

With the understanding that every type of food contains its own characteristics, these wise healers know that the energy contained in what we eat is not just a matter of calories, carbohydrates, fats, and protein, but also has to do with temperature. Temperature and Health Conditions Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors also look at temperature as it relates to health conditions. In allopathic medicine, we rarely think of a physical problem having hot or cold properties, but in Oriental health practices, the body is considered in terms of these qualities depending on the condition. In this way, specific foods are proscribed to help with the healing process. Often by instinct we will eat warmer foods in the wintertime and cooler in the summertime, which is our body’s way of helping us to stay in balance.

Eastern Nutrition. "Let Food be your Medicine and Medicine your Food".

Eastern Nutrition

Hypocrates Modern nutrition is still evolving, it is not a mature discipline yet. It also offers a fragmented view of food, focusing on seperate nutrients rather than whole foods and often fails to help balancing entire meals and days of food planning. That's why it is so challenging to navigate the complexities of information we are bombarded with. Should I take 1000 or 4000 IU of Vitamin D? Rather than focusing on weight loss, calory intake, food groups (carbs, lipids, proteins) or vitamins, the Chinese diet focuses on how food tangibly affects us. Chinese Medicine is a mature health system that evolved over the past two millenia (and even longer). Eastern Nutrition provides a very refined way to optimize food and drink to a person's health condition, both short term (e.g. how to fight a common cold) and long term (e.g. how to deal with a chronic health imbalance).

Traditional Chinese saying. Warming and cooling characteristics of common foods - Ping Ming Health. Each food has its own characteristics.

Warming and cooling characteristics of common foods - Ping Ming Health

In very ancient times Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners used specific foods to balance the body’s yin and yang and to treat disease. The ancient Chinese medicine practitioners discovered that most foods have either cooling or warming characteristics. When you eat cooling foods, they are adding cooling effects to your body and eating warm foods will add warming effects to your body. Therefore, warming and cooling foods can be used to balance the body which may be deficient in yin or yang. Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend. The 2014 Tapping World Summit VIDEO SERIES. Financial literacy online software: Banzai.