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What Is the Macrobiotic Diet?

By Cathy Wong — 2020

The macrobiotic diet is a predominantly vegetarian lifestyle said to enhance health and promote longevity. It's focused on whole grains, legumes, and vegetables.

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Macrobiotic Diet: The Pros and Cons of Eating the Zen Way

Newton's Third Law states that with every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In ancient Chinese philosophy, this concept is referred to as Yin and Yang.

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Julia Guerra
2019
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Is the Macrobiotic Diet Good for You?

The macrobiotic diet, which originated in Japan, emphasizes whole grains (such as brown rice, barley, oats, corn, rye, wheat and buckwheat, which comprise 50 percent of the diet), seasonal vegetables, and, for protein, fish, soy foods and legumes with smaller amounts of sea vegetables, nuts, and...

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Andrew Weil
2005
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Macrobiotics for Healthy Living and Delicious Eating

When I first encountered macrobiotics, I was overcome by most beautiful food and cooking. The essence of eating such pure, whole foods and creating delicious natural flavours felt completely right.

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Anna Freedman
2011
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Macrobiotic Diet

Call it the pursuit of hippieness. Macrobiotics, with its brown rice, beans, sea vegetables, and Asian yin-yang philosophy of finding balance in life for health and vitality, was the original counterculture diet back in the '60s. It's actually been around much longer than that.

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Monica Kass Rogers
2020
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With Macrobiotic Cooking, a Balance of Yin and Yang

For most of his life, a Japanese man named George Ohsawa devoted his time to developing and promulgating the concepts of macrobiotic eating, which he believed would lead to a healthier, more balanced life.

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Trish Hall
1988
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