Macrobiotic Articles

Getting Started Articles

Nine articles that deal with the basic why, what and how of macrobiotics:

Why We Embrace Macrobiotics

There are many health benefits attributed to following a macrobiotic lifestyle. The following list is...

Way of Life Suggestions

Chew your food well, until it becomes liquid in your mouth. Eat with good appetite. Eat in a peaceful,...

The Standard Diet

The macrobiotic approach to health is based on the traditional philosophy that food is our best medicine,...

Take Time for Harmony

There certainly are many obstacles and difficulties on this macrobiotic road we travel. Macrobiotics...

How Can Macrobiotics Help Me?

In Western medicine, health is the apparent absence of symptoms and disease. According to macrobiotic...

How Can I Get Started?

It’s Creative, Aesthetic, Delicious, and Healthy You can create sound health by including cooked,...

Foods to Avoid and Reduce

“Standard Macrobiotic Diet” is a contradiction in terms since each person is a world to himself,...

What is Macrobiotics?

Both an art and a science, macrobiotics defies a simple definition. Our Rice House of Macrobiotics Study...

Kitchen Tips

Eight articles offering a broad range of information for organizing your kitchen, eating well while traveling, and other related practical topics:

Why Cook?

Why have we cooked food for tens of thousands of years? Is it a mistake? Some health teachers certainly...

The Macrobiotic Traveler

Introdution Breaking your routine for a holiday vacation and maintaining balanced macrobiotic eating...

Relaxed Pressure Cooking

SCENE I: Here I am, ready to go. I’ve got the food, the knife, the cutting board, and I’m...

Must We Eat Japanese Food?

Jane from London saw an ad saying; “We have over 250 macrobiotic products from Japan,” and she asked:...

Light Summer Cooking

This is a simple menu that expresses light summer cooking. The dishes are pretty simple yet quite tasty,...

Kitchen Management

Introduction Macrobiotics is a flexible system, and kitchen management is always possible even with challenging...

Cooking With Intuition

The Standard Macrobiotic Diet allows broad scope for personal creativity and enjoyment and is easy to...

Compost: Animal or Vegetable?

Here in Israel we questioned whether to grow our organic vegetables with animal fertilizer or non-animal...

Health Issues

Personal recovery stories and a practical guide for macrobiotic healing highlight the six articles in this series:

Food, Faith, and Healing

The following article appeared in Macrobiotics Today, November/December 2010 issue, excerpted from Ginat...

Michio Kushi On Illness

October 12, 2004 FRIENDS, I would like to thank my sons for letting all of you know that I recently had...

Macrobiotics For Healing

Introdution A macrobiotic lifestyle can be valuable to maintain your health, heal an unwanted illness...

Hot Flashes

It’s a cool day and our jackets are on. Suddenly I feel myself warming up, and I know it’s...

Macrobiotic Home Remedies

Folk tradition is rife with natural healing techniques. Our magic glasses of yin and yang reveal how...

Healing Stories

A friend of mine was practicing deliberate creation, the manifestation of his dreams. He decided that...

Degeneration

Society is in danger: Illness is the reason most people come to macrobiotics today. US health costs...

Macrobiotic Philosophy

These six articles deal with the theory of Five Transformations, the Seven Levels of Natural Order and other philosophical issues of interest:

Order of the Universe, Georges Ohsawa

The Twelve Theorems of the Unique Principle Yin-Yang are two poles which enter into play when the infinite...

The Macrobiotic View of Death

I’d like to explain the larger view of what happens to us after this life, based on the book, Holistic...

Expanded Macrobiotic Thinking

By Sheldon and Ginat Rice This paper has two main purposes: to broaden our understanding of the factors...

The “Feeling Better” Macrobiotic Guarantee

Macrobiotics is a wonderful way of life, discipline of appreciation and system of healing. At its onset,...

The Spiritual Connection

How to Chant Based On Level IV Lectures by Michio Kushi, 2003-04 Use specific chants for specific purpose...

The Seven Levels of Natural Order

Seven refractions of light in a rainbow Seven days of creation Seven facial orifices Seven lower sphirot...

The Foundation of Absolute Happiness

Based on Macrobiotics Today, September/October 1994, Vol. 34, No. 5 “Introducing Essential Ohsawa”...

Five Transformations

The traditional Chinese medical theory known as the five transformations describes a universal cycle...

Macrobiotics - A Balanced Life

Based on Aveline Kushi’s “Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking” Yin and Yang “Yin...

Macrobiotic Friends

Interviews with macrobiotic associates and an extensive study of Macrobiotics in Israel highlight the six articles presented here:

Macrobiotics In Israel

This long article contains the following essays: Macrobiotics in Israel, by Ginat and Sheldon Rice Macrobiotics...

Interviews with Macrobiotic Friends

This article contains profiles of Israeli macrobiotics friends. The interviews were conducted at our...

In Defense of Cruises

Many thoughtful and concerned friends express alarm over the effect of pollution from ocean liners. ...

Consultation With Miso Sushi

A Skit by Ginat Rice MacroLover: [Knocking] Jello, Jello Miso Sushi: Who’s there? ML: Lettuce....

Brown Rice & Meatballs

by Aya Rice When I was young, I used to eat brown rice with meatballs. It was somehow possible to mix...

Chats

The CyberMacro community held weekly Sunday chats starting January 8, 2006, in conjunction with theMacroLovers of Jerusalem Yahoo Group. Ginat conducted monthly chats on this site for a total of 6 meetings. Read the full transcripts.

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