macrobiotics

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all,

 

regarding dairy. i just tell my patients that Milk is just vegetables that went

through a cow. I get a smile and I've made my point clearly.

in the old, old days, macrobiotics was totally extrememly imbalnaced. My mother

was macro in the 50's and while preganant w/ me. she wieghed less after

delivering me then when she started. 2 months later, George Ohsawa's people told

ehr that I was allergic to dairy- so she fed me soymilk until I nearly died from

malnutrition. It was at this point that she discovered Adele Davis and I spent

the rest of my childhood eating brewers yeast, dessicated liver, cod liver oil,

goats milk, raw milk, rice polish, and so on. early 60's versions of health

food.

 

(later she opened a health food store- and look at me today :-)

 

peolpe DID die from macro diets at that time.

but as contrasted w/ macrobiotics now- which I consider to be very balanced for

the most part- and bursting w/ nutrition. How I wish sea vegetables were in our

dietary lexicon.

 

This is a good time for us to rememeber that Michio Kushi promoted macrobiotcs

to promote world peace by changing conciousness through diet.

 

in my practice the biggest,most challenging dietary change people make is to

elimnate sugar. even little bits have an impact. Believe me, this one step is a

HUGE paradigm shift for most. this is where I usually start.

 

Cara

 

 

, "" wrote: One of the things that concerns me the most about health in this country is the abominable quality of food that most people eat. When many of us experimented with macrobiotic and other approaches to diet and health in the 60's, the American diet seemed pretty bad. It has gotten much worse since then. >>>Z'ev:And the sad irony is that there is much more information available to the public about diet, insulin levels, bad fats, and chronic disease---etc. Many people admit hearing about it through the newspaper or TV.I used to try and explain the biochemistry or CM theory of diet; then watch people roll their eyes with little impact. Then I thought of using a credit card metaphor---"You can do or eat anything you like. You just have to pay for it later, and the mountain of debt won't go away until you deal with it. It's a debt you owe to your body." Compliance has been better.Jim Ramholz

 

Jim, your idea is beautiful, and I intend to steal it .... though I'll attribute to you. I'm just about to teach a clinical nutrition section in my physiology course. I used to bring in Time magazine ads with famous people with milk-moustaches. Even Donna Shalala, head of Health and Human Services, sported a milk-moustache. I held the ad open for my students to see and exclaimed, "This is what I'm working against as an instructor." Basic science in America does not have a million dollar ad campaigns. Burger King and others do. Introjection of cultural values is what CM has come to treat in America. Nam Singh says that's why he quit doing acupuncture and started teaching diet and giving dietary and lifestyle changes as treatment protocols. Nam said he got tired of "propping people up" just so they could knock themselves down again. Self-care education is an important tool of healthcare and patient management. Mmmm ... I'm starting to sound like a nursing instructor. ;-)

Emmanuel Segmen

 

 

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