Macrobiotic Diet
 

Does anyone follow a macrobiotic diet?

Followers of the macrobiotic approach believe that food and food quality powerfully affect health, well-being, and happiness, and that a macrobiotic diet has more beneficial effects than others. The macrobiotic approach suggests choosing food that is less processed.

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I agree with that. In theory...

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But do you follow it? The diet I mean.

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Face from the A-Team does/did follow one after he was diagnosed with cancer! I follow a pseudo, not really macrobiotic diet but slightly similar, one of my own. I do use some of it's principles like trying to eat local in season produce (more in the summer than the winter though), eating beans and whole grains and kind of following the seasonal cooking styles. Other than being diabetic it's keeping me in good health and is making it fairly simple to control my diabetes. Generally speaking a macrobiotic diet is really just eating in a healthy and sensible way for you, the environment and local farmers.

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What like this?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090212/...xR.9DYDfPtiBIF

A hardline Hindu organization, known for its opposition to "corrupting" Western food imports, is planning to launch a new soft drink made from cow's urine, often seen as sacred in parts of India.

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But I love those nightshade veggies. Seriously though, my husband was looking at it because of cancer and the like.....is it hard to source the food?

If my husband switched to this, he would be dead in two weeks, he doesn't like any of it :(

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Food seems to have an effect on my happiness, and probably health and well being as well but I don't really follow the diet. For instance right now I'm happy because my coworker gave me the bowl of cheese she had leftover from the nachos she had for breakfast and I am currently dipping my Snyder's hard pretzels into it.:)

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ewwww you eat that for breakfast?

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It's easy to source the food really but that's only part of it. A lot is the way you cook it and how you combine ingredients. I'm sure he would like it, there is so much you can make that it isn't as restrictive or radical as you might think. I can't follow it 100% because I just can't eat a number of the staples it relies on but if you can there is a world of variety. Think brown rice and turkey and vegetable (like potato and carrots) chili in the winter. You have your whole grains, you have some meat, you have some beans, you have some veg, you have the seasonings and spice plus some other things. It may not be perfect but you can make it close to a decent macrobiotic meal.

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No, usually I just have coffee, and once in a while one of those cheese muffins. Today everything just kind of fell into place with the nacho cheese and I happened to have a bag of pretzels laying around...

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As a Hindu, I'm going to be first in line to buy a gallon of the stuff . . . NOT!!:eek:

Wonder if they will do an allsortment of flavours:huh:

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Yeah, Like asparagus-wee flavor.

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Probably be easier to try Yoga or learn about Dianetic's.

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The more I think about this.... are you talking about eating like our grandparents ate?

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It didn't work out very well for the lads on "Doctor In The House"...

I don't know why a healthy diet needs to have a label attached. We buy fresh meat, fresh produce, whole wheat pasta, etc. We don't buy frozen, packaged convenience foods. Pretty simple plan, but I wouldn't label it "macrobiotic".