The Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer: Towards Preventing and Controlling Cancer with Diet and Lifestyle

by Michio Kushi, Edward Esko

The revised and expanded edition of the book that started Dr. Anthony Sattilaro on his remarkable recovery from cancer, as reported in Life Magazine . Inside, Michio Kushi, founder of Macrobiotics in America, points the way toward a long-lasting solution to the problem of cancer. Also included are twelve moving personal stories of cancer victims who overcame illness through macrobiotics.
 
More than thirty-five years ago, Michio Kushi began saying that diet was a principle cause of cancer. He pointed out that a diet based on whole grains, sea and land vegetables, beans, and seasonal fruits could prevent, and in many cases, help reverse the process of cancer. In this edition of The Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer , Mr. Kushi details the macrobiotic diet and lifestyle that has helped thousands of individuals recover from illness and find better health and peace of mind.

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1982

About the author

Michio Kushi (久司 道夫 Kushi Michio; born 1926 in Japan) helped to introduce modern macrobiotics to the United States in the early 1950s. He has lectured about philosophy, spiritual development, health, food and diseases at conferences and seminars all over the world.

Kushi received the Award of Excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers. In 1999, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History opened a permanent collection on macrobiotics and alternative health care in his name. The title of the collection is the "Michio and Aveline Kushi Macrobiotics Collection." It is located in the Archives Center.
Michio and his wife Aveline are founders of The Kushi Institute, now in Becket, Massachusetts.
For their "extraordinary contribution to diet, health and world peace, and for serving as powerful examples of conscious living", they were awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Sherborn, Massachusetts on October 14, 2000.[1]

Reviews

[Marjan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book I've read on macrobiotics and it is quite refreshing to get in touch with a wholesome approach to nutrition (as opposed to reductionist-mechanicsic way of contemporary science). Macrobiotic way of eating is not just about what we eat, it is equally about how and when. Nothing happens in isolation, everything has its context and provides context for something else too. In that way macrobiotics is a much more sane and loving way to approach food.
However, I was quite surprised on how much stress was given to grains and cereals. Almost two thirds of the nutrition come from that source alone. Vegetables are next and fruits are barely there. In the context of cancer healing this could be in some way justified by cutting down sugars, but even in general macrobiotic diet the amount of grains seems quite disproportional to fruits. In my personal experience I feel much better with a larger percentage of fruits and smaller of grains, but then again - that is just plain old me and I am still not very sure about what to think of it all.
I am eagerly awaiting other books of Michio Kushi. :)