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 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...]

Martin Luther King's Rice Heritage The ancestry of Martin Luther King, Jr., the leader of the modern civil rights movement, is veiled in obscurity. Like many African-Americans whose forebears were enslaved, his genealogical roots were severed with the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. According to family lore, his earliest forebear was Willis Wilhams, a great-grandfather, … [Read more...]

Protecting Yourself Naturally from Mad Cow Disease Rogue proteins, known as prions, are suspected as the underlying cause of vCJV (variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease), the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease. The disorder affects the brain and central nervous system, and all cases to date have been fatal. Believed to be spread by prions, infectious proteins in the body that … [Read more...]

Diet and Disease No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means. Maimonides There is now an increasing volume of evidence linking the way we eat with our physical and mental health, leading to a widespread and growing interest, among both medical professionals and the public at large, in applying diet as a solution to the modern health … [Read more...]