macrobiotic eating..?

[karate_chick]

Hi Everyone!

Does anyone follow a macrobiotic eating plan?

I've ordered a couple of books from Amazon on this way of eating as I've just completed a detox and really enjoyed eating 'pure' foods. As I plan on eating as clean as possible, I thought this would be a good way to go.

I realise it's going to take a lot of self control but I'm determined to do this...my body deserves it!

Would love to hear what people have to say on the subject.

TIA,
Andrea

 

[mogambo]

I remember looking at this 20 years or so. I think it is a bit obsessive, and uses criteria that do not appear scientific enough for my taste (yin, yang, etc.). Wayyyyy to much rice!

Strange rules.

So, I am not impressed with this method. I think the good parts I took away from it though are a dedication to natural foods, whole foods, unprocessed foods. And I do tend to eat more raw and fresh stuff in the summer, more root vegetables and cooked foods in the winter.

 

[kathryn]

I mostly agree with Mogambo. While macrobiotics has some good points (as she mentioned, in addition to focusing on foods that are seasonal and reagional), and I use quite a few products that are in a macro diet (miso, tofu, seitan, umeboshi vinegar, mirin, other japanese foods), I don't like the fact that the diet avoids most fruits and is heavy on cooked foods (again like Mogambo, I tend to eat more raw, fresh food in sumer and more cooked foods in winter...which in a way follows some macro principals like eating seasonal foods and balancing yin and yang). It is often also very high in sodium.

There are people who have followed this diet with health-improving results, like Dirk Benedict, the guy who played Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica and was on the A-team. He supposedly healed himself of some type of cancer (prostate? I think) through a macro diet.

I also believe that a "modified" macro diet is much healthier than a full-on macro diet (at least the way it was presented in the 70's).

 

[karate_chick]

Thanks for your input!

I do agree that you can take it too far and to the extreem.

I was going to follow it with a few additions (fruit, fish).

Will let you know how I get on.

Andrea