Seven Heavens

I am a nutrition consultant. Most people who come to me for advice have a specific illness and want to learn how to cure it with properly selected foods. They want to know which foods to avoid and which foods to eat in their current health condition.

I offer each of my clients a diet plan that suits their health condition. People come to me personally or through the internet. We have had patients from 32 different countries. I also lecture on health, macrobiotics and nutrition. I have authored two books (food is medicine, your kitchen is your pharmacy) and about 10 articles on this subject. I have made numerous TV appearances on 4 satellite channels and was recently featured in a 13-part television program called food is medicine. I am also featured in a health and macrobiotic web site in England,

http://www.macrobiotics.co.uk      (at the main page click on news or special features)
 

I do not always use the term macrobiotics when I talk about food and medicine and, more importantly, I do not consider myself a follower of any one person or any one creed. As is mentioned in some Hindu literature:

"The truth is one. The sages speak of it by many names"

I have always tried to provide a practical scientific approach to macrobiotics, rather than an emotional or vaguely mystical one. I have also avoided the idea that macrobiotics means necessarily eating Japanese foods like miso, umeboshi or kuzu. These foods are too strange and too expensive to most suffering local patients.

Many severe illnesses like tuberculosis, gangrene, typhoid, ulcerative colitis and many forms of cancer have been cured using carefully selected, simple, inexpensive local macrobiotic foods. I do not like to say that “I cured these patients”. Proper foods cured them. I only pointed the way.

Lastly, many people tried macrobiotics but abandoned it because they did not get quick positive results. My experience tells me that these people did not get good results because they started with the wrong foods. Example: if a tuberculosis patient starts with pumpkins, brown rice and barley miso (all considered good macrobiotic foods) his condition will definitely get worse not better. TB is an extremely yin illness and none of these foods is yang. It is the same with all illnesses. Each health condition requires a specific diet to eliminate the current illness.

The standard macrobiotic diet is general and not for everyone. Your own health condition might require you to make more research, or seek professional guidance like the people who come to me, into what foods are currently right for you.

Example: if you have Multiple sclerosis, some forms of cancer, an allergy, gangrene or GI disturbance some of the foods in the standard macrobiotic diet might be harmful for you.

When my own health broke down about 10 years ago I tried orthodox medicine. I was greatly disappointed. I began searching for alternatives and found a wealth of information in macrobiotics and other "food is best medicine" approaches. I was also surprised to find out that there has been a multitude of people who have gone down this road including world renowned doctors like Henry G. Bieler, Herbert Ratner, Oliver Wendel Holmes, and Bernard Jensen.

Ray A. Tolaymat