CHINESE NUTRITION THERAPY: DIETETICS IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE,

sizing the holistic approach throughout Chinese Nutrition Therapy as one of the pillars of Traditional Chinese Med-icine (TCM), this book teaches us that appropriate diet is an integral part of maintaining good health and healing disorders. As opposed to Western nutritional therapy, a relatively young science which applies primarily quantita-tive criteria to food, TCM deals with qualitative, energy aspects of food, based on the term Qi or life energy. The first chapter gives a brief historical description and expla-BOOK REVIEW nation of the basis of TCM. Sufficient and freely coursing Qi signifies vitality and health, whereas Qi vacuity lowers overall quality of life and favors development of diseases. The fact that body can gather Qi from food plays a key role in TCM. B part of the first chapter deals with methodol