New Year's Resolution The New Year is here. What do you plan to do in the new year to make it better for you than last year? Would you like to raise your own income taxes by 10%? Perhaps you'd like to be sued. Or how about getting mugged and going to jail? How would you like to have surgery or perhaps just take more costly medicine? Despite the fact that this is the … [Read more...]
Trim Body Fat
That which makes things grow...The gates of Hell About the most important thing you can do for your health is eat less and be trim. I believe that even the slightest overweight is cancer causing. This is explained as "that which makes things grow (high calorie food turning into body fat), makes things (cancer and heart attack plaque) grow." You will probably think what I write … [Read more...]
Yin Yang Primer
What is Macrobiotics
The Kushi Institute A Division of the Kushi Foundation, Inc. Post Office Box 7, Leland Road Becket, Massachusetts 01223 Telephone: (413) 623-5741 FAX: (413) 623-8827 What is Macrobiotics? Macrobiotics is the art and science of health and longevity through the study and understanding of the relation and interactions between ourselves, the … [Read more...]
New Reasons to be Dairy-Free
New Reasons to be Dairy-Free In macrobiotic thinking, milk is a more yin or expansive food. Milk is a food for growth; it promotes rapid development of the newborn. Mothers milk is suitable for the earliest stages of life, but once teeth come in and a baby is able to eat grains and other vegetable foods on his own, milk is no longer necessary nor beneficial. It is at that time … [Read more...]