Standard Macrobiotic Diet

by Michio Kushi

Newly updated and revised, this book is a comprehensive guide to the macrobiotic way of eating, including a summary and listing of all the principal foods in the standard diet, ecological guidelines, recommendations for temperate, tropical, and polar latitudes, basic recipes, and way of life suggestions. This book also includes guidelines on temporary use of supplements, modifications for medical treatment, and lighter cooking. Standard Macrobiotic Diet is the perfect introductory book for friends, family, associates, and all who would benefit from a healthier diet. Newly revised, with many new foods and guidelines.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Food

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

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

[Jeannie-marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Big book. Lots of assumptions about politics and the environment. I'm more interested in eating well and not a new philosophy on life. I am not into yin and yang but balance. As a reader you have to sift through a great deal of opinion in this book. It does give a lot of useful information.

[Jack Hansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Learn what, how, and when to eat certain foods in an holistic approach to health. Michio Kushi brings the Macrobiotic Diet to America where it receives praise for healing and balancing those who apply it as a regimen component on their path to vitality.

[Jack Hansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A most interesting way to balance one's health through food choices, preparation, and style of cooking. Macrobiotics are meant to cleanse the body of toxins while fortifying tissue and systems so that one's body rids dis-ease.