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Macrobiotics diet #7
No other natural health and treatment method has
been met with either passionate embrace or fierce opposition than
macrobiotics, especially the macrobiotic diet #7.
Diet #7 recommends eating only brown rice with a
little sesame salt (sesame salt is called Gomashio in Japanese) for a
period of days and sometimes weeks. This is supposed to help
cleanse the
body of accumulated toxins. But is this reasonable? Especially in our
modern highly polluted world with so many illnesses.
Diet #7 does not
cure any illness especially infections. Can you imagine what would
happen to a
typhoid,
typhoid or
herpes patient if he/she follows diet #7? The patient's condition
will deteriorate on the number 7 diet. We have had many consultations
with patients who followed the #7 diet prior to consulting
with us. The condition of these patients either did not improve or got worse on
the #7 diet.
Also, eating only brown rice for days or
weeks is boring and the patient who goes on this diet goes through a
period of binging following the period of this brown rice fast. This causes
their condition to sometimes deteriorate. This is the reason why most
people who tried the #7 diet left macrobiotics altogether out of
frustration and despair, thinking that macrobiotics will not work for
them. But the truth of the
matter is that their choice of foods was not the right one for their
condition.
George Ohsawa himself, who devised the diet #7, advised against going on this diet later on in his life. He said later
that no one can live in this modern life without vegetables because life
now is too polluted on every level.
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