Macrobiotic Approach - Diabetes

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Diabetes - Type I

According to macrobiotic therapy, Type I diabetes results from the long-term

overconsumption of simple carbohydrate (sugary) foods and drinks along with the

overconsumption of fatty foods.

 

This leads to chaotic blood sugar levels and weakens the pancreas' ability to

produce insulin. Without insulin the body cannot utilize glucose properly, and

the result is a high level of glucose in the blood with a low level of glucose

absorption by the tissues.

 

The overconsumption of fatty foods results in too much fat in the blood stream.

In this case, there may be enough insulin but the glucose gets covered by the

excess fat and is unable to pass through the membranes of the blood vessels and

cells.

 

Dietary Recommendations

The macrobiotic approach emphasizes a diet that is low in fat, protein, and

simple carbohydrates while high in complex carbohydrates.

 

The following dietary suggestions may be used until the symptoms improve or for

about one month. Then, widen your food choices using a macrobiotic dietary

approach.

 

Main foods: Brown Rice, Millet Rice, Azuki Rice, Sweet Brown Rice, Brown Rice

Mochi, and Gomashio every meal. Chew each mouthful 200 times.

 

Side dishes (one-third of main foods): Tekka Miso, Scallion Miso, Shio Kombu,

Hijiki Nitsuke, Carp Soup, Vegetable Stew with Fish, Baked White Fish, Poached

Fish, Azuki Beans with Kombu and Winter Squash, Vegetable Tempura, Deep-Fried

Kombu, Burdock Carrot Nitsuke, Takuan Pickles, Miso Pickles.

 

Miso soup ingredients: wakame, tororo kombu, scallions, onions, dried daikon,

Homemade Age, Brown Rice Mochi.

 

Beverages: Brown Rice Tea, Brown Rice Bancha Tea, Bancha Tea, Kombu Tea, Mu Tea.

Drink a maximum of 2 cups of beverages per day.

 

Foods to Avoid:

 

All animal foods, shellfish, red-meat fish, all dairy foods (including ice

cream), all sweet foods and drinks, all fruit, vinegar, hot spices, tomatoes,

potatoes, eggplant, melons, all mushrooms.

 

Avoid vinegar and vinegar salad dressings as they are very bad for this

condition.

 

 

 

Diabetes - Type II

From the macrobiotic theory, type II diabetes arises from the overconsumption of

fatty foods.

 

Dietary Recommendations

Use the following dietary suggestions until your condition improves or for about

one month. Then, widen your food choices based on a macrobiotic dietary

approach. To be successful, you need to control your weight.

 

Main foods: Brown Rice, Azuki Rice, Brown Rice with Barley, Udon Noodles. Chew

each mouthful 200 times.

 

Side dishes (one-fourth of main foods cooked with less salt than usual): Sesame

Miso, Ginger Miso, Okara Nitsuke, Soybean Soup, Carp Soup, Hijiki Burdock

Nitsuke, Burdock Carrot Nitsuke, Azuki Beans with Kombu and Winter Squash,

Vegetable Tempura, Eggplant Nitsuke with Miso, Cucumber Pressed Salad, Shiitake

Nitsuke.

 

Miso soup ingredients: Daikon, string beans, summer and winter squash, tofu,

eggplant.

 

Beverages: Vegetable Broth, Brown Rice Broth, Brown Rice Bancha Tea, Bancha Tea,

Grain Coffee. Drink a maximum of 21/2 cups of beverages per day.

 

Foods to Avoid:

 

All animal foods including shell- fish, dairy foods (including ice cream),

meat-based soups; all alcohol- sweet foods and drinks; vinegar; coffee.

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