Autumn / Lung Tip #1: Eat According to the Season

Autumn / Lung Tip #1: Eat According to the Season

In autumn, we watch the outside environment dry out, cool off, and move inward; our human bodies are doing the same.  If our aim is good health and resiliency, it’s important to acknowledge these seasonal changes and make adjustments to our own diet and lifestyle, accordingly.

If you haven’t already, consider changing up your weekly menus to include more seasonally appropriate foods.  Pumpkin spice lattes aside, most of us are more inclined to switch up our home decorations on a seasonal basis than we are to update the foods we consume.  

Here’s a great place to start: what would be available locally if the grocery store didn’t bring you offerings from all across the globe?  Eat mostly this, no matter the season. (Yes, this means food recommendations for folks in Maine vs southern California likely look quite different.)

Sweet potatoes, turnips, carrots, rutabaga, squash, and pumpkin are full of the “dense” nutrition we need to “thicken up” our bodies (at least energetically speaking) to endure the upcoming cold of winter.  Autumn is also a time for cauliflower, daikon, onion, garlic and leek. If you find your self with a slightly dry sore throat or cough — not uncommon this time of year — the flesh of apples and pears (the fruit of the season) is particularly supportive, nourishing, and moistening to the throat and Lung (the organ of the season).

Changing our eating habits in this way is not only better for local growers and the planet, but actually keeps your body more energetically in line with its surroundings, and thus more robust and resilient.

Do you have favorite autumn meals that are back in rotation as the weather cools?

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