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The macrobiotic diet is rooted in the idea that the food we eat has a direct correlation to our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. In addition to being a diet, macrobiotic teachings are intended to illustrate health on a larger scale and help us transform the way we see our surroundings, lifestyle, and nutritional intake. The... more »
The word, "macrobiotic," which translates as "great" or "long life," is Japanese in origin. Macrobiotic diet emphasizes several factors when selecting foods, among which is climate. The emphasis is on locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Whole grains and other longer lasting foods may come from other regions. "Great life" is... more »
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At the end of the 19th century, Sagen Ishizuka, a Japanese army doctor, developed the dietary system known as Macrobiotics. In Greek, macro means big and biotics means concerning life so the term refers to "a great life" or "a long life" His theories on diet and medicine were based on the customary Oriental diet and also incorporated ... more »
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A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics), from the Greek "macro" (large, long) and "bios" (life), is a dietary regimen that involves eating grains as a staple food supplemented with other foodstuffs such as vegetables and beans, and avoiding the use of highly processed or refined foods. Macrobiotics also addresses the manner of eating by recommending against overeating and requiring that food be chewed thoroughly before swallowing.
History
The earliest recorded use of the term macrobiotics is found in the writing of Hippocrates, the father of Western Medicine. In his essay "Airs, Waters, and Places," Hippocrates introduced the word to describe people who were healthy and long-lived. Herodotus, Aristotle, Galen, and other classical writers used the term macrobiotics to describe a lifestyle, including a simple balanced diet, that promoted health and longevity.Blauer, Stephen, in Michio Kushi (1993), The Macrobiotic Way, 2nd ed. Avery, p. xi.
According to Macrobiotic proponents, the Macrobiotic methodology was utilized by many of the long-lived traditional cultures, such as the Incas, and the Chinese in the Han Dynasty. George Ohsawa drew from Asian and Japanese folk medicine to create his version of this philosophy of health.
George Ohsawa brought his teaching to Europe from Japan. Ohsawa was a Japanese philosopher, who was inspired to formalize macrobiotics by the teachings of Kaibara Ekiken, Andou ShÅeki, Mizuno Namboku, and Sagen Ishizuka and his disciples Nishibata Manabu and Shojiro Goto.
Ohsawa took his macrobiotic teachings to North America in the late 1950s. Macrobiotic education was spread in the United States by his students Herman Aihara, Cornelia Aihara, Michael Abehsera, Michio Kushi and Aveline Kushi, and in turn by their students. Michio Kushi has been the most prominent of these teachers.
Ohsawa coined the term for a natural way of living, macrobiotics, in the late 1950s. Macrobiotics, from the ancient Greek languag read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobiotic+diet
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