John Aguilar, Jr, LAc, RYT, M.S.TCM

Licensed AcupuncturistChinese Medical HerbalistYoga and Tai Chi Instructor

Chinese character for the Chinese concept of Yin Muladhara, the First or Root cakra Manipura, the Third or Navel cakra Vishuddhi, the Fifth or Throat cakra The Ba-gua trigrams around the Yin-yang symbol Ajna, the Sixth or Third Eye cakra Anahata, the Fourth or Heart cakra Swadhisthana, the Second cakra Chinese character for the Chinese concept of Yang

The Quick and Easy Thing You Can Do Today to Improve All Aspects of Heatlh

Eat less, chew more.

That's it.

So much of health is directly dependent on diet, and the benefit of a good diet is wholly dependent on effective digestion.

I'm betting the single most widely spread "bad" dietary habit we have is overeating. Ignoring all the complexities of how and why that's bad, the fact is, when you stuff yourself the body simply can't digest it. That makes the meal 1) a waste of potential nutrition, and 2) a burden on your body (when it was supposed to be helping things out).

So as a very general rule, eat less. It doesn't matter how much less, or less of what, just take in less. Whatever you do put in will then be digested so much better. Thus, you'll get more out of it. Simple.

Then, chew more. Again, good, effective digestion is the how and why diet is so important for good health. The best diet is completely pointless, if you don't digest it.

Chewing is A) very important in the digestive process, B) very often overlooked and poorly done, and C) under your conscious control (thus, it's something you can actively do to improve health).

Relatively easy and guaranteed to improve health - Eat less and chew more.