Nutrition legacy of '60s lives on

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Nutrition legacy of '60s lives on

 

By Carole L. Philipps, Post Living editor

http://www.cincypost.com/living/macro051300.html

 

Way back when some of my generation dropped out and turned on, a food movement

was nurtured that shocked our meat-three-times-a-day-if-you-can-get-it elders as

much as any of our flower-children antics.

 

Macrobiotics - a set of principles that included a diet of grain, beans,

vegetables and soups - came on the scene in the late '60s and came of age in the

'70s.

 

Though years would pass before the health benefits of vegetables, beans and

grains were cataloged by researchers, today we recognize that diets heavy on

fats from animal sources and light on vegetables and fiber-filled grains and

beans are not good things. It's nice to know that something better than avocado

appliances are the legacy of my generation's salad days.

 

The term " macrobiotics " was coined in ancient Greece by the Hippocrates. It

comes from the classical Greek " macro, " meaning " long, " and " bios, " meaning

''life.'' But its use as a way of eating came into the fore when George Ohsawa,

a Japanese businessman, published ''Zen Macrobiotics'' in 1965.

 

Ohsawa, born in 1893, was diagnosed with tuberculosis as a teen-ager. In that

pre-antibiotic time, he was given little chance of survival. He turned to a

natural healer and not only survived, but prospered into the second half of the

20th century (he died in 1966).

 

 

More: http://www.cincypost.com/living/macro051300.html

 

 

 

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