The actual word macro-biotic originates from the Greek and means "great or large life". It is based on The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the oldest-known book of Chinese medicine. It is attributed to Huang Ti, the legendary Yellow Emperor who ruled China during a golden age.

Macrobiotics was developed and made popular in the twentieth century in the West by Japanese-American immigrants like George Ohsawa, Michio Kushi and Herman Aihara. Macrobiotics on a dietary level calls for eating simple natural traditional foods. Macrobiotics includes the principles of eating foods that grow locally, eating fresh foods in their seasons. Macrobiotics is a way of life that starts with diet. Once the body is cleansed, the mind will inevitably follow. A healthy mind in a healthy body. Macrobiotics is a healthy, holistic way of living a balanced lifestyle. The macrobiotics way is one of moderation, and it is still extremely valuable and helpful throughout the world.

Macrobiotics is not just a diet. When you deeply understand the natural laws of macrobiotics you understand the laws of nature. Macrobiotics stresses the importance of a balanced diet because diet is the foundation for a happy, healthy and harmonious life. Macrobiotics calls for living a balanced life based on the two complementary, but opposite, natural forces of contraction YANG and expansion YIN.

The macrobiotics movement has become increasingly popular during the past decades due to the many shortfalls in traditional western medicine and to various astonishing recoveries of numerous chronically and terminally ill persons who used the macrobiotics diet wisely.

Macrobiotics applies YIN YANG energy principles to explain the relationship between food and the human body.

Macrobiotics explains most diseases as the body being in a state of decay and lowered immunity YIN, thus, making itself a suitable host in which a disease can flourish. Therefore, when eating a macrobiotics diet, you are not attacking the particular symptoms of a disease, but cleansing the body and thus raising its defenses to the point it can throw off the illness no matter what that illness is. Natural antibiotics are based on the same principles.

On the other hand, a strong YANG condition resulting from eating much YANG foods makes us susceptible to anger, aggression, intolerance, impatience, all macrobiotics YANG attributes.

One of the most remarkable applications of the macrobiotics principle of natural balance is the theory of natural antibiotics.

My experience with thousands of patients who have consulted our macrobiotics center personally and via the internet from more than 45 countries has shown time and time again that some YANG foods (especially some YANG vegetables) are the best natural antibiotics in the world. Better than any chemical antibiotics man ever invented.

With these principles we have successfully treated patients suffering from so-called "incurable" diseases: herpes, HIV AIDS, hepatitis B & hepatitis C, syphilis, polio and lyme disease. Natural antibiotics are effective not only against bacteria (like chemical antibiotics), but also against viruses, parasites and fungus.

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Understanding the macrobiotics principles deeply makes clear that all diseases are the result of a long term disturbance of the two natural opposite forces at work in the human body.

Constipation and diarrhea are opposite diseases.

Constipation is the result of consuming too much YANG foods (meat, cheese, salt, etc.) which results in contraction and tightening of the intestinal muscles.

Diarrhea is the result of consuming too much YIN foods (sugars, fruit, alcohol) which cause dilation of the intestinal muscles and causes diarrhea.

The standard macrobiotics diet consists of various foods and cooking styles. Little more than half of the suggested types of food to consume in macrobiotics are whole cereal grains, such as brown rice and whole wheat. These whole grains constitute 50-60% by weight of the diet. Vegetables make up 20-30% by weight. These percentages can vary from person to person according to current health condition(s). It is also recommended in macrobiotics that the vegetables be local and organically grown, with the majority being cooked using different methods of traditional cooking. Suggested cooking styles in macrobiotics include lightly steamed, boiled, sauté with a small amount of unrefined, cold pressed oils, especially sesame and olive oils. Soups and beans and sea vegetables equally make up the last two categories of the macrobiotics diet each at 5-10%. Recommended beans include adzuki beans, chickpeas and lentils. Soups may be made from various vegetables and grains. Macrobiotics recommends that we avoid red meat, animal fat, eggs, poultry and dairy products.

The balancing of specific foods using the yin-yang principles in macrobiotics is an important aspect of the macrobiotics diet, but as important is the manner in which the foods are cooked. Macrobiotics recommends using gas stoves or wood burning fire to heat food. Fire gives energy, vitalizing the human organism physically, mentally and spiritually. Fire is also the foundation of human culture and civilization. The quality of water is also an important part of cooking in macrobiotics. Clean natural spring or well water is an important resource for macrobiotics cooking.

The macrobiotics kitchen must have is a gas stove, a good vegetable knife, wooden utensils, a grater, cast iron pots and a teapot.

The individual and family that cooks and eats following the macrobiotics way can become humble, strong, relaxed, open, healthy and vital, thus making the whole world in order. When the whole family follows the natural order of things then the community, society, culture, ecology and economy is vital, creative calm and deeply reverent.

The standard macrobiotics diet is now well known. The main advantages of the macrobiotics foods are the following:

● Macrobiotics foods are rich in micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and fiber. These elements facilitate the elimination of toxins from the body. Yang foods like grains speed up the elimination process through the  bowels and yin foods like leafy greens speed up the elimination process through the kidneys.

●  Macrobiotics foods metabolism produces little waste and help carry toxins out of the body. Animal products leave behind much sulfuric and phosphoric acids that have to be eliminated later from the body. Foods that help reduce the amounts of toxins in the body help naturally and gradually cure all acquired diseases. This a macrobiotics applied to health.

Yin food for Yang illnesses & yang foods for yin illnesses

Someone with a salmonella poisoning (typhoid) or gangrene will not tolerate lettuce or even brown rice and will have to rely on a different grain rather than brown rice or whole wheat until cured. This means following a modified diet that suits the current state of health.

The same logic applies to all diseases and all patients. Every patient will benefit from staying away from certain foods and concentrating on certain other macrobiotics foods until they recover.

Do you know what foods you should start with based on your current state of health?

Do you know how the foods shown here will affect your body?

These food have different shapes and colors because they have different energies. Their effect on your body differs greatly.

Do you know when to eat or avoid each of them?

If you do, then you are your own doctor!

You are free from the need for a doctor or medicine

You know that your food is best medicine

2500 years ago, the Greek Hippocrates, the father of modern western medicine, admonished his students in one of his precise aphorisms

... Thy food shall be thy remedy ...

Food really IS your best medicine. Disease, pain and suffering can be explained in macrobiotics as nothing but a long term disturbance of the balance between these two complementary forces in the human body resulting from extreme energy foods like meat and sugar and drugs. Macrobiotics foods cure by restoring that balance. Macrobiotics living means striving to learn the art of natural balance in everything we do, especially nutrition.