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Can you clarify and quantify that statement? I'm not sure what you mean by Hot and Cold foods and temperature? And how are each integrated into the overall diet

Can you clarify and quantify that statement? I'm not sure what you mean by Hot and Cold foods and temperature? And how are each integrated into the overall diet? Is there any information you could point us too?

wahern 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food_therapy Of course, the notion that there's a correlation between what you consume and what your body exhibits is common to pretty much every culture, including modern culture. Likewise for classes of foods correlating with classes of ailments. The devil is in the details--what's the particular effect, if any, of a particular ingredient or mix or ingredients. Rarely do the claims and the reality line up in a rigorous, medically significant manner. But like with religion, the classes of foods and ailments are susceptible to very liberal interpretation, and lend themselves to equivocation with whatever correlation may actually exist. And because foods obviously can and do have significant health effects, opportunities for coincidental relationships abound. That said, modern food science isn't particularly rigorous either, relies on its own gross generalizations and fallacies, and even shares some with folk medicine--most infamously, the supposed relationship of salt and saturated fat consumption to hypertension and cholesterol, respectively, exhibit many of the same classic errors you see in folk medicine.
- kranner 7y ago
  Similar concepts of hot and cold foods are widely applied in Persian and Indian cuisines. https://frbkrm.com/2013/02/17/139/ https://frbkrm.com/2013/02/17/139/
- hnarn 7y ago
  There's nothing remotely scientific about this.
grawprog 7y ago
Probably this? https://dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/a-18619239 https://dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medi...

wahern 7y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food_therapy Of course, the notion that there's a correlation between what you consume and what your body exhibits is common to pretty much every culture, including modern culture. Likewise for classes of foods correlating with classes of ailments. The devil is in the details--what's the particular effect, if any, of a particular ingredient or mix or ingredients. Rarely do the claims and the reality line up in a rigorous, medically significant manner. But like with religion, the classes of foods and ailments are susceptible to very liberal interpretation, and lend themselves to equivocation with whatever correlation may actually exist. And because foods obviously can and do have significant health effects, opportunities for coincidental relationships abound. That said, modern food science isn't particularly rigorous either, relies on its own gross generalizations and fallacies, and even shares some with folk medicine--most infamously, the supposed relationship of salt and saturated fat consumption to hypertension and cholesterol, respectively, exhibit many of the same classic errors you see in folk medicine.

kranner 7y ago
Similar concepts of hot and cold foods are widely applied in Persian and Indian cuisines. https://frbkrm.com/2013/02/17/139/ https://frbkrm.com/2013/02/17/139/
hnarn 7y ago
There's nothing remotely scientific about this.

grawprog 7y ago

Probably this? https://dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/a-18619239 https://dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medi...