Macrobiotics | What's in a name?

Macrobiotics! Macrobiotics! What's in a name?
*Imagine!*		Imagine being able to live for years without once getting a cold or missing one day of work. Imagine being able to spend your pregnancy and nursing months without getting tired and without the fear of having diabetes or varicose veins and without taking a single pill. Imagine being able to stay slim and active without counting calories. Macrobiotics teaches you how.
*What is macrobiotics?*		Macrobiotics is founded on the principle of oriental medicine. It teaches the laws of nature and how to live harmoniously within them. It is not just a diet, but a holistic approach to living that takes into account all aspects of life. It stresses the importance of a balanced diet because diet is the foundation for a healthy, hence happy, and harmonious life. It calls for living a balanced life based on the two complementary, but opposite, natural forces of contraction and expansion. These forces are often referred to as yin and yang. Sometimes they are called male and female or positive and negative. Call them what you like, so long as you understand them. It is mentioned in the Hindu scripture: The truth is one. The sages speak of it by many names. The philosophy of yin-yang in macrobiotics shows in simple terms how the universe works. Many phenomena that are ambiguous become crystal clear. Examples Yin is expansion and yang is contraction. These two complementary forces create everything in this world. Think of a beating heart. Heart beats are actually nothing more that an oscillation between the two forces of contraction (yang) and expansion (yin). So are our breathing lungs (inhaling is expansion=yin and exhaling is contraction=yang). Even when we walk, our movement is due to the synchronized contraction and expansion of our varied muscles (study the moving arm and other examples to the left).
*Why do some foods propagate an infection and others stop it?*		Yang foods, kill bacteria and prevent an infection from spreading while yin foods increase and enhance infections. This is a simple scientific example of macrobiotics. My experience with my own diet and with thousands of patients who have visited our macrobiotics consultation office (and via the internet) over the last few years from more than 45 different countries has shown time and time again that yang foods are the best natural antibiotics in the world. They are better that any antibiotic chemicals man has ever invented. Read more about natural antibiotics. Many patients with diseases that were difficult to cure like drug-resistant tuberculosis, gangrene, Chlamydia & candida, hepatitis B have been cured using the proper selection of foods. The macrobiotic movement has become increasingly popular during the past decades due to the many shortfalls in traditional western medicine and due also to various astonishing recoveries of terminally ill patients who followed the right diet.
*Modern medicine and macrobiotics*		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*. Modern medicine and macrobiotics do agree. Food is your best medicine. No matter what the illness and no matter what you call this approach. Dr. Henry G. Bieler, M.D. says: ... I began to suspect the close relationship between health and proper eating habits when, early in my career as an overworked young doctor, my own health broke down. I have always been a man of great curiosity and as I investigated deeply the chemistry of food along new lines, I came to the conclusion that I, personally must give up the use of drugs and henceforth rely solely on food as medicine. It was not long until, after repeated verified results, I discarded drugs in treating my patients. My colleagues, at the time, thought I had lost my mind. But time has only strengthened my belief ... As a person's understanding of the macrobiotics principles deepens, it will eventually become clear that all diseases are the result of a long term disturbance of the two natural forces at work in the human body. Take for example two GI tract disturbances, constipation and diarrhea. Constipation is contractive and the result of consuming too much yang foods (contractive=yang) like red meat. Diarrhea is the result of consuming too much yin foods (expansive=yin) like sugars and fruit. Therefore, diarrhea is a yin illness and can be cured by yang foods. If we start thinking in these terms, everything becomes crystal clear and the road to health will no longer be a mystery. And there will be NO incurable diseases.