To stay alive our body needs energy, materials to build and regenerate its cells, and last but not the least, the microelements, which are vital for metabolism processes. If we want our body to function normally, we must know how to satisfy its nutritional needs, which have been already well recognized.

The essentials are as follows:

The amount of energy, or the calories, that we consume, must correspond to its actual expenditure. We must maintain our weight close to the ideal.

Our daily food ration must be diverse, not to interrupt the metabolism processes at some stages.

We should take our meals at fixed time evenly distributed during the day.

Our body must be provided with all the vitamins, fat acids and amino acids it needs.

Exercise 1.
Stand up with your legs at a little distance from one another. Clasp your hands and move your arms forward down till they are straight in the elbows. Stretch the back muscles in the area of your shoulder blades and hold for 10 to 15 seconds. Then shake and relax your hands. Repeat 5 times.

Test 1: Stamina.
Have a steady run for 12 minutes along a straight path. Try to cover as long distance as you can. Make a short walking interval if you feel you need it. Measure the distance and assess your results from the following table.

The Chinese believe that when the body is balanced, the body will be healthy and beautiful. Healthy skin is beautiful skin. Health gives you that radiant glow that is beautiful.
The 3 most important steps to beauty are:
detoxification
digestion
regeneration

Eat foods with detoxifying properties. Examples are apples, watermelons, walnuts. cucumbers, sweet potatoes, tomatoes. watercress, tofu, barley, honey and milk.

Tip: For a delicious dessert

Wash and skin a sweet potato.
Slice it into cubes.
Boil it in some water until tender.
Add honey or rock sugar to taste.
Serve with the water.

Yin is the cold or cool energy. Cooling foods like aloe vera, honey, cucumbers and peppermint are examples of Yin foods.
Yang is hot or warming energy. Hot foods like chili, beef and cherries are examples of Yang foods. When your Yin and Yang are in balance, you skin and hair are at their best.

Oily skin, Yang.
A person with oily skin, a tendency to break out in pimples and a hot temper tends to have an excess of Yang, not enough Yin.
Pimple, boils and the like are due to toxic heat. Smoking and stress also aggravate the situation. Note that stress can lead to acne and dry skin at the same time.
If that sounds like you, the best food for you would be the cooling food. Food like carrots, cucumbers, peppermint, honey suckle, apples, bananas and chrysanthemum are great for cooling the ‘fire’.