What is Macrobiotics?

Friends,

What is Macrobiotics? Answering this question reduces the philosophy and body of information down to a formula. Since the literal meaning is “the great life,” to describe it as a ’strict diet’ is antithetical. Grasping the idea of Yin and Yang is the essence of how we can create a balanced life, thereby freeing us from disease.

It is true that many have extrapolated a ‘diet’ out of this discipline and that it has indeed healed many catastrophic maladies. We would all be best served by saying something like . . . “The study of Macrobiotics illustrates the balance in nature, and my being close to nature is a way to health.”

How this applies to diet regarding vegetarianism or veganism is to say that meat is on the extreme Yang side of the food equation. Eating what grows locally and in season is the way nature best takes care of us. If you live in the Artic circle, you would do best by eating what you can get there. What you can get there is fish, bear, seal etc.

Macrobiotics is more of a forum than a formula.

Wayo