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The Hidden Deficiency in Modern Food

Beyond Nutrients: What’s Missing from Modern Food

Modern food is engineered for taste, convenience, and shelf life—but often at the expense of something far more important: life energy in food. Even foods marketed as nutritious and “healthy” can be energetically depleted through processing, refinement, and misguided food choices that don’t align with the body’s energetic needs.

How Modern Methods Drain Life from Food

Food production techniques that make food more “efficient” also tend to strip it of natural energy:

Pasteurization and sterilization, while useful for extending shelf life, also destroy vital energies, enzymes, and other beneficial compounds in foods like milk.
Even high-nutrient foods and supplements may paradoxically drain life energy, especially if the body is too weak to process them or they’re consumed in a form that’s unnatural or energetically incompatible.

The Ancient Concept of Life Energy

Life energy in food—a concept deeply rooted in ancient traditions—refers to the natural vitality found in fresh, living foods. This energy is best preserved in foods grown with intention: through traditional farming practices like crop rotation, organic composting, and soil restoration. In contrast, modern monoculture farming strips the soil of nutrients, producing crops that are energetically weak. As one doctor noted on the radio, “Today, you’d need to eat seven peaches to get the nutrition of just one from the past.”

The Hidden Cost of Packaged Foods

High processing and packaging further compromise the life energy in food by artificial preservatives, additives, and flavorings. These synthetic compounds may improve shelf life or taste, but they rob food of its natural energy and can introduce subtle toxins into the body.

Choosing Foods that Radiate Life

To nourish yourself on a deeper level, focus on foods that are:

Fresh and seasonal
Locally grown
Cooked shortly before eating
Raised or grown using traditional, natural methods

Examples include:

Steamed or boiled grains and beans
Local, just-picked vegetables
Pasture-raised meats cut and prepared the same day
Foods cooked slowly and intentionally

These foods don’t just feed the body—they restore energy, calm the mind, and uplift the spirit.

Food for Body, Mind, and Spirit

But the impact of life energy doesn’t stop at the physical level. Foods rich in life energy also support emotional balance and mental clarity. A nourished, resilient body is the foundation for a calm, clear mind and an uplifted spirit. Eating with life energy in mind doesn’t just sustain us—it revitalizes us, improves our mood, and helps us live in greater harmony, both within ourselves and with the world around us.

Conclusion: Reclaim Your Vitality through Food

Today’s nutrition trends often miss the most essential ingredient: life energy in food. By shifting from food that merely looks healthy to food that feels alive, you support deep, lasting health.

The Life Energy Diet guides you toward this path—where food is more than nutrients, it’s living nourishment for your entire being.

When “Healthy” Diets Do More Harm Than Good

In the past few decades, countless “healthy” diets have taken the world by storm—low-fat, low-carb, keto, Mediterranean, plant-based, and more. They promise weight loss, longevity, and freedom from chronic disease. But despite these claims, we’re seeing more obesity, digestive issues, autoimmune disorders, and chronic fatigue than ever before. Is it possible that many of these trendy “healthy” diets are actually doing more harm than good?

A common problem is that many of these diets are overly restrictive—cutting out entire food groups, encouraging calorie counting, and placing blind trust in so-called superfoods or supplements. But food isn’t just about nutrients—it’s about life energy. A low-fat diet, for instance, may deprive the body of essential life energy needed to support the heart, brain, skin, spine, and other vital organs. Extreme calorie restriction can weaken metabolism and drain energy, leaving people fatigued, emotionally depleted, and vulnerable to rebound weight gain.

Moreover, these diets rarely address the root cause of health problems: weakened internal systems like the liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, stomach, and intestines. Over- or underweight is not just a matter of calorie balance—it’s a symptom of deeper organ-level imbalance. Without strengthening the digestive and metabolic systems, no amount of “clean eating” can restore vitality. Even though some claim to address the root causes, the truth is—they either have no real understanding or end up chasing entirely the wrong ones.

Take for example a woman who followed the Mediterranean Diet for about a decade in hopes of preventing cancer. Living in New England’s cold climate, the diet—rich in cold, raw foods—didn’t suit her body. Over time, her blood levels dropped dangerously, she was hospitalized, and even declared dying by doctors. Her family said their goodbyes at her bedside. But once she was removed from the diet and allowed to recover, she miraculously regained consciousness. What went wrong? The trendy diet ignored her body’s real needs and energy condition.

That story isn’t rare. Many modern diets ignore crucial factors: age, environment, energy levels, body constitution, and the interaction among organs. They apply a “one-size-fits-all” solution to deeply individual problems, even though they may claim otherwise. Even popular diets like keto, paleo, or Mediterranean can be harmful if they weaken your body’s energy systems.

Worse yet, these diets often promote a toxic mindset—labeling foods as “good” or “bad,” causing people to obsess over food and disconnect from what their body truly needs. Instead of nurturing the body, they create guilt, confusion, and stress.

If your health hasn’t improved—or has even declined—despite “eating healthy,” you’re not alone. It’s time to shift from chasing trends to reconnecting with time-tested principles of nourishment. The Life Energy Diet introduced in the book Total Life Energy Plan focuses not on food categories or calorie numbers, but on supporting and rebuilding your weakened systems to restore natural balance and vitality.

Can Juicing Be Bad for You?

Without much thinking, many followers of modern dietary and health programs start drinking raw fruit and vegetable juice to detoxify their body and/or beautify her face. It seems that they squeeze all kinds of raw fruits and vegetables. Many of them have a commercial juicer at home. But this kinds of juicing can be bad for you!

Your new year’s resolution may harm your body and health

Many people want to accomplish their goals, make more progress, and improve their life at the start of a new year! They make new year resolutions, and one of the most popular ones is getting into better shape and health, they may decide:

Lose, gain, or maintain weight.
Adopt a new workout plan.
Meal prep weekly.
Amp up cooking skills.
Be more productive.
Wake up early.

Every January, you see more people:

Exercise in the gym, on the street, or on a ski trail.
On a diet and eat only foods that are deemed to be healthy and helpful with weight and other health problems.

But they don’t realize that they may start them at the worst time of the year!

Does a vegetarian diet work?

Many Westerners have health issues that medicines and treatments cannot effectively treat. They feel much better after changing to a vegetarian or an almost vegetarian diet because many of their symptoms go away. Then they think that the vegetarian diet works, or even works better than any of their medical treatments.

A vegetarian diet may “work” for some of us but not for all of us. Many healthy people who become vegetarians eventually begin to have health problems, like low energy and headaches. Because of this, they add meat to their diet and the symptoms go away.

Why does a vegetarian diet “work” for some but not for others?

Why Self-Healing Is More Effective

As many of you know, I was a seriously ill patient who had no medical knowledge a decade ago. I have figured out the cure for all my illnesses. At the same time of searching for the cure, I found out that it is much more efficient and effective to heal illnesses through everyday activities.

Do You Believe in Modern Nutrition?

Traditional Chinese diet, exercise, and healthcare systems – all parts of Traditional Chinese medicine, have been lasted for thousands of years. Traditional Chinese doctors are typically also experts in dieting, exercise, and health, and are famous for having a long lifespan. However, modern Western medicine and nutritional beliefs have gradually penetrated into China and become a part of the Chinese health and wellness system, especially for the past 20 years. Just like the U.S., nutrition is a popular career path that advise people how to eat healthy. Some students come aboard to study nutrition in the US or other Western countries. Many nutritionists are on TV to offer advice and even become very famous. Mr. Haifeng Ling is one of them.

The Best Pancakes for Your Health

This is a generic recipe. Please change the ingredients and adjust the amounts or proportions of the ingredients as needed in order to better accommodate your own personal energy and health conditions.

Pancakes

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Do You Rely on Caffeine to Keep Going Every Day?

How Caffeine Can Drain Your Life!

More and more people rely on caffeine. About 85% of Americans lack energy and have caffeinated beverages every day to make it through the day.[i]

caffeine and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) — Caffeine and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME)

Caffeine is a chemical found in coffee, tea, cola, guarana, mate, and many products. Caffeine acts as a central nervous system stimulant. When it reaches your brain, the most noticeable effect is alertness. You feel more awake and less tired, so it is most commonly used as a stimulant to increase alertness or manage drowsiness. Caffeine is also used for temporarily releasing migraine and other headaches. It is a common ingredient in medications to treat headaches and migraines. Caffeine is a diuretic, or a “water pill”, which increases urine flow. But it may no longer have this effect on people who use caffeine regularly.

The Damaging Effect of Caffeine on the Body

Not only does caffeine ease fatigue, drowsiness, and headache symptoms for the short term, but it may cause long term health problems.

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