The Yin-Yang Diet

For Balanced Nutrition, Health and Harmony

By: Ken Babal

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

The Yin-Yang Diet is a modern, scientific approach to balanced nutrition based on the ancient Asian concept of Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang describe how opposites or contrary forces are interconnected, interdependent and complimentary. The audiobook explains the Yin or Yang nature of foods and nutrients and how they affect our constantly changing body chemistry. A diet that is too extreme in either Yin or Yang invites disease. A diet that is balanced in Yin and Yang creates metabolic health and harmony.

On the furthest extreme of Yin are fruit, sugar and alcohol. Eggs, meat and salt are on the furthest extreme of Yang. Nutrients can also be classified as Yin or Yang. The most important mineral ratio is the potassium to sodium ratio. To be healthy, we must strike a balance between sodium (Yang) and potassium (Yin).

Protein (Yang) and fat (Yin) comprise the opposite poles of our "life battery." The association of fat and protein represent the interaction of Yin and Yang from which energy and life is created. A key element of The Yin-Yang Diet is a protein-oil shake for regeneration of the body's cells, tissues and organs.

The Yin-Yang Diet includes recommendations for adaptogenic tonic herbs. Yin tonics help with the accumulation of energy and moisture and are nourishing, moistening, cooling or anti-inflammatory. Conversely, Yang tonics help us utilize energy. Yang herbs are activating, drying, warm or hot. They are the sexual, athletic tonics, which stimulate metabolism, build muscle, reduce body fat and strengthen bones and joints.

Other important Yin-Yang considerations covered are Digestion and Elimination, Acid and Alkaline, and Food and Food Abstinence. Recommendations follow each chapter. The Yin-Yang Diet goes beyond a plant-based diet, and there is no calorie counting! When you achieve Yin-Yang balance in your diet, you are on the path to what the Chinese call "radiant health" or "health beyond danger." Radiant health is the highest level of health a person can attain.

©2019 Ken Babal (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Good for general Info

I find most of the information shared are quite general not detailed enough. The research is not thorough to look into the overall holistic health, but rather only certain controlled conditions, when explaining the benefits of the food type. For example, when he talked the about the benefits of eggs, milk, meat, etc... obviously the author may have not read about the The China study research by Dr. Colin Campbell, the most comprehensive study on nutrition ever conducted. Obviously the author is not aware of the detrimental effects of the protein called casein in milk products, salmonella in animal products especially poultry, when recommending them to the public. This could create risks to the health of the general public. The term used such as "moderation" for toxic food such as meat fish and dairy, is silent supporting killer for people, and can be misleading.
However, I did learn something and took something away from the book. Still my journey to finding out the depth of Yin Yang foods continues...