| MACROBIOTIC DIET'S HISTORYA Macrobiotic Diet is | | | | of eating to a macrobiotic diet.However, some of the |
| a natural approach to health and healing. Although it is | | | | macrobiotic diet's healing methods are so poweful |
| manily known as a balanced diet, it is actually a way | | | | that anyone can be helped with them (although only |
| of life that involves every area of human activity in | | | | temporarily). But if you start eating macrobiotically |
| the search of personal growth, and body, mind and | | | | you will stop needing the symptomatic treatements, |
| spirit transformation, because the food we eat not | | | | because your daily way of eating will gradually |
| only sustains life, but also underlies our health and | | | | eliminate the toxins and excesses from your body |
| happiness.Sagen Ishizuka, a japanese army doctor | | | | (although you can use the symptomatic treatements |
| that lived around the end of the last century was | | | | to speed up the healing process).Oriental doctors |
| who first establiched a theory of nutrition and | | | | have used herbs, acupuncture, homeopatic |
| medicine based on the traditional oriental diet.He was | | | | preparations and related techniques for thousands of |
| a sick man that suffered from kidney and skin | | | | years to deal with symptoms and sickness, and they |
| desease, so in order to restore his health he sudied | | | | always considered the daily diet as the basic tool to |
| extensively both western and eastern medicine, and | | | | approach health problems.The modern medicine and |
| compiled his lifelong study conclutions in two books: | | | | dieatary principles is changing every year. New |
| "Chemical Theory of Longevity" (published in 1896) | | | | techniques and new medications are introduced |
| and "Diet for Health" (published in 1898)He cured | | | | every year while others are abandoned in an endless |
| thousands of patiens by having them eat a traditional | | | | dance where many of those medicaments have |
| diet based on brown rice, and a variety of land and | | | | found to have side effects (or even produce new |
| sea vegetables, and his healing technique was based | | | | sickness) and year after year they become more |
| on the recognition of the following five | | | | and more expensive.But the main difference between |
| principles:Foods are the foundation of health and | | | | traditional and modern medicine, is that modern |
| happinesSodium and potassium are the primary | | | | medicine looks for the active chemical ingredients |
| antagonistic and complementary elements in food, | | | | that might be used to produce tablets, but do not |
| and they most strongly determine ist character or | | | | consider the nutritional ingredients (such as vitamins |
| "ying yang" qualityGrain is the staple food of | | | | or protein contents) or the acids and enzymes, as |
| manFood should be unrefined, whole and naturalFood | | | | part of the healing properties of natural |
| should be grown locally and eaten in | | | | products.MACROBIOTIC DIETS AND KIWhen a food |
| seasonMacrobiotic diets in its modern form was first | | | | item is considered as a possible medication, an |
| spread through the world by Mr. George Ohwasa | | | | oriental doctor will always consider the energy of |
| (1897 - 1966), that after becoming acquainted with | | | | that food (also called KI), and this energy can be |
| this way of thinking (he learned it from two of Mr | | | | different in two foods that are chemically identical |
| Ishizuka's disciples: Manabu Nishibata and Shojiro | | | | and for example they have a different shape.KI in |
| Goto) at the age of eighteen in several months | | | | Japan, CHI in China or GEE in Korea, could be |
| cured himself of a number "incurable" sickness, | | | | translated as "electromagnetic charge" or "vibration" |
| including a terminal tuberculosis.When Mr Ohwasa | | | | and oriental doctors have studied for centuries what |
| established his own organization, he devoted himself | | | | kind of ki each food item is made of, and what kind |
| more to the teaching of the yina and yang | | | | of ki-energy produce in our body when we consume |
| philosophy rather than the direct treatment of the | | | | them.Following the same line of thought, they tried to |
| sick.MACROBIOTIC DIETS AND HEALTHIn Greek, | | | | understand symptoms and sickness as ki patterns, |
| macro means: "big or great" and biotic means: | | | | and developed ways to influence it through the use |
| "concerning life" so the word refers to the big view | | | | of shiatsu, moxibustion, energy healing, acupuncture, |
| of life, and it invites us to learn the underlying unity | | | | herbal medicine and so on. Oriental cultures, sciences, |
| of nature.The macrobiotic diet approach to healing | | | | medicines, philosophies and religions, know since |
| simply involves providing the proper material and | | | | thousands of years ago that everything that exists is |
| allowing the body to heal itself, though it is not | | | | ki. Everything is energy, waves, vibration. And the |
| parimarily a diet for curing sichnes or a new fad, it is | | | | difference between the material world and the |
| a way of life based on the understanding of the | | | | spiritual world is only a difference in the ki |
| rhythm, the ebb and flow of nature, it is a way of | | | | density.Written by Dr. Roberto A. BonomiYou will find |
| living towards happiness.A macrobiotic diet can be | | | | all that you need to know about, self help, stress |
| used as a method of dealing with symptomatic health | | | | control, weight control, stop smoking, mind control, |
| problems, or it can become your way of eating. As a | | | | relax, motivation and meditation with subliminal |
| matter of fact many of the macrobiotic diet healing | | | | messages at Dr. |
| methods are only effective if you change your way | | | | |