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Originally Posted by disgruntled
how does eating local veggies strengthen your chi? and how local do they have to be?
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The concept is that chi is constantly flowing around the world. Everything, including food, air, and water, carries this chi. Eating food grown locally (the closer, the better, but even just eating things that would be in season for your area is a good step, according to the concepts of shiatsu) allows for a more natural flow of chi both in and out of your body, putting you in harmony with your locale, and thus, improving your health.
I don't necessarily believe this to the letter, but, at the same time, the people teaching this stuff are very healthy (consider the condition Atkins was in when he was teaching people how to "eat healthy"), so they must be doing something right.