Food for the Five Seasons: How Traditional Chinese Medicine Can Fuel Your Health, Paperback

For thousands of years, Traditional Chinese Medicine has approached health in a balanced, holistic way by focusing on each individual's unique needs, honoring nature and the seasons, and using that wisdom to re-balance the body. In this informative and fun book you will find tips on: - which foods can alleviate your chronic, nagging health problems, and which foods will truly help your body to work better and shed that excess weight - how the seasons of the year affect physical and mental health, and how can you easily maximize your own health using the seasons - what the health of your internal organs (like the heart, kidneys and liver) have to do with the seasons and how this can profoundly influence your health

Christine Grisham, Dipl. OM., L.Ac., CMT, MA is the owner of Community Garden Acupuncture in San Diego, California (www.cgacu.com). Her specialties are Japanese style meridian acupuncture, endocrine disorders, chronic diseases, pain management, and end-of-life care. She is a graduate of the Masters of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine program at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) in San Diego. Christine also holds a Masters of Arts in Public Policy from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from DePaul University.