Allergies I'd like to relate my experience with the healing power of macrobiotics. Throughout childhood and adolescence, I suffered from allergies. Practically every day of my life I would sneeze repeatedly and my nose would run. Nasal congestion was a year round problem, and became worse with the coming of late summer and hay fever season, when I would experience swelling in … [Read more...]
Health Benefits of Green Tea
A Guide to the Health Benefits of Green Tea Compiled and Edited by Edward Esko "In the Shizuoka prefecture, which cultivates tea as it has for nearly twelve centuries, the incidence of cancer is unusually low, even by Japanese standards. The residents of the area drink about ten small cups a day and use tea leaves only once, rather than brewing several infusions from the same … [Read more...]
Yin Yang Primer
What is Macrobiotics
The Kushi Institute A Division of the Kushi Foundation, Inc. Post Office Box 7, Leland Road Becket, Massachusetts 01223 Telephone: (413) 623-5741 FAX: (413) 623-8827 What is Macrobiotics? Macrobiotics is the art and science of health and longevity through the study and understanding of the relation and interactions between ourselves, the … [Read more...]
New Reasons to be Dairy-Free
New Reasons to be Dairy-Free In macrobiotic thinking, milk is a more yin or expansive food. Milk is a food for growth; it promotes rapid development of the newborn. Mothers milk is suitable for the earliest stages of life, but once teeth come in and a baby is able to eat grains and other vegetable foods on his own, milk is no longer necessary nor beneficial. It is at that time … [Read more...]