Similarly, cooking styles that fall under yang are pressure cooking, slow cooking, stewing, and baking. Yin foods are lighter (vegetarian options); grow above the ground (leafy greens); wet and moist (eg. Refer to the chart; overeating extreme yin (bottom left) foods will have you crave extreme yang foods (bottom right) and vice versa, to balance the energies. For a balance, also include quality yin foods like leafy greens, seasonal fruits, nuts, and vegetable juices. Sometimes yin foods will also have you crave more yin foods; like sugar craves more sugar, and you need good quality yin like a carrot juice to balance sugar and alcohol.

Source: dna June 23, 2017 03:00 UTC