{"id":201,"date":"2009-10-22T17:24:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-10-22T17:24:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:24:57","slug":"being-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Being in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Mutsuko Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaves are beginning to change colors and air is crisp, clear and chilly.<br \/>\nIt is harvest season and moving towards winter.<br \/>\nKind of awakening to getting ready for cold season just like we change the clothes.<br \/>\nKeep us warm, time to put on sweater and coat.<br \/>\nSo as inside our body. Time to enjoy long time cooking such as stewed baked goods, pickles etc.<br \/>\nAnd lots of root vegetables to ground us and keep us warm.<br \/>\nUse a little more Soy sauce and Miso to keep our intestines strong.<br \/>\nThat is the secret to fight catching cold and the flu.<br \/>\nHave Miso soup several times a week.<br \/>\n(Miso is fermented soy bean paste, there are several different kinds, with darker coloured ones a stronger Miso)<br \/>\nUse a little soy sauce in your cooking. (Only natural ones)<br \/>\n* It is not necessary to take extra sea salt. Just a small amount of sea salt is important.<br \/>\nAnd eat wholegrains every day.<br \/>\n(wholegrain brown rice, whole wheat, buckwheat, oats, corn, barley etc)<br \/>\nCook more root vegetables.<br \/>\n(Carrots, Daikon, Burdock root, Lotus roots, Beets, Turnips, Yams etc)<br \/>\nSome protein foods, beans, seafoods.<br \/>\n(Azuki bean, Soy bean and Soy bean products, Black soy bean, Galbanzo bean, etc)<br \/>\nDon\u2019t forget sea vegetables for minerals.<br \/>\n(Hijiki, Arame, Wakame, Kombu, Nori, etc)<br \/>\nOf course its important to eat lots of greens always. To keep our blood clear.<br \/>\n(Kale, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Yocho Green, Mizuna, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage etc)<br \/>\nDrink Bancha tea for your tea time.<br \/>\nTake umebochi when you feel you are catching a cold or have an upset stomach.<br \/>\nYou can put in the bancha tea and eat it.<br \/>\nPlease don\u2019t eat white sugar and any food with it in. (as much as possible).<br \/>\nPlease don\u2019t eat anything with artificial additives.<br \/>\nPlease don\u2019t use a microwave to heat up.<br \/>\nPlease stay away from fast foods.<br \/>\n*Our body is very sophisticated and a living thing, its not like putting gas in the car.<br \/>\nIt is all about balance. Dancing with our lives. Activities, age, gender, where we live, what we do, which season, what kind of foods are in season.<br \/>\nIt is always the best to eat seasonal, local growing foods if you can get them.<br \/>\nOrganic growing foods are the best. If you manage to get them.<br \/>\nTouch the foods. You can feel the energy. Begin to feel calmness.<br \/>\nEnergy from Nature. Cooking becomes transformation.<br \/>\nTransforming energy into our body.<br \/>\nGet nourished, create aliveness, and calmness inside us.<br \/>\nWe become one with the nature. We cannot forget that.<br \/>\nOneness. We are alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mutsuko Johnson Leaves are beginning to change colors and air is crisp, clear and chilly.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter","tag-mutsuko-johnson","comments-open","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}