We had a lesson on Chinese diet. This was a really cool introduction into dietary medicine because it showed us what the basic doctors base medicine and recovery on. This diet balances all the seasons and uses food color to classify what they help with. Such as white foods or silver are considered part of the metal class and help during winter. These white foods are normally spicy like ginger. They recommend a balanced of all the colors: green, red, yellow, silver, black, and blue in every meal. Also with each season certain colors are more preferred and should have a larger ratio when compared to the other colors. The American diet is just based on quantity of different vitamins and things inside food. It is also not based on season. Although they do recommend a balanced diet it’s less based on the fact it has on the body.