Metropolitan Health Services

The use of foods as a health care method has an ancient history. In China there are records found in the # 3 Tomb of the Hand dynasty @ MaWangDui Changsha, Hunan Province, which were written around the fifth century BC.

It is common understanding, and it is important to be aware, that the foods we eat have a direct effect on our body. Mainstream media often publish recent discoveries of beneficial foods in a more general way, inferring that the food will be beneficial to everyone. However, 'food bites' often fail to introduce us to the full, rich qualities of each food and how, depending on the state of digestive health, they will affect us individually. Chinese Medicine looks at the nutritional value of foods, and how our bodies react individually to the combinations of foods we eat.