Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Macrobiotic Community Cookbook

The Macrobiotic Community CookbookA classic collection of more than 150 innovative recipes, now updated and repackaged.

Andrea Bliss-Lerman, an expert chef and macrobiotic cooking teacher, has gathered together a collection of original and tasty recipes contributed by leading macrobiotic practitioners across the country. Featuring many of her own inventive recipes, this is a unique community cookbook that will attract a whole new generation of readers in an ever-growing market looking to foster greater health and well-being through nutrition.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Cooking the Whole Foods Way: Your Complete, Everyday Guide to Healthy, Delicious Eating with 500 VeganRecipes, Menus, Techniques, Meal Planning, Buying Tips, Wit, and Wisdom

The revised and updated edition of the popular, whole foods cookbook-with more than 80 new recipes...now 100% vegan!
With a dash of fun, Christina Pirello introduces whole foods cooking, inviting health-conscious readers to cut out processed and chemically enhanced food, as well as dairy, sugar, and meat, and embrace fruit, whole grains, vegetables, and beans. From savory soups to innovative entr?es and delectable desserts, here are more than 500 recipes and ideas for wholesome, gourmet eating. With tips on meal planning, a shopping guide, productresource list, and extensive glossary, Christina makes healthy eating a most delicious adventure.


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55 Macrobiotic Principles for Any Diet!

In an era of fad diets and harmful information, "55 Macrobiotic Principles for Any Diet!" is essential to taking a step back from the confusion. Let us contemplate health and wellness from a holistic approach focused on principles, not strict static regiments. Finally, you have found the opportunity to discover an alternative that is focused solely on you and your objectives.Take the first step in discovering the path of genuine health and wellness by purchasing "55 Macrobiotic Principles for Any Diet!"

What is Macrobiotics?

Macrobiotics: The micro-sections

To start off, let’s quote The Macrobiotic Association of Great Britain: “Macrobiotics is a way of life and philosophy in which we recognize the vital importance of healthy nourishment is through quality natural food and cooking. It has helped millions of people to take a healthy authentic path in life and it follows that organic natural agriculture is the most abundant, economical and healthy way to grow food throughout the world. “

Definitions fix parameters, whereas the general inquisitive mind seeks components. So taking down the rather large word reveals Macro as something very large in scale or scope or in capability. Bio is invariably ‘life’; therefore, macrobiotics translates either as the great life or as the big view of life, implying an appreciation and the gratitude in an unconditional way toward life, whatever the circumstances may be.

That makes it near to a religion, maybe a fixed dogma but with a fuller potential. The art of living is completely trusted on the manifest universe.

Ancient Greeks practiced macrobiotics as an art that enhanced health and longevity; it’s however difficult to say whether:

i. Macrobiotics was derived from their art of harmonious living;

ii. Or, was it macrobiotics that taught them to bring harmony into their environment?

That makes macrobiotics quite an intuitive and traditional subject that borrows knowledge-forms and wisdom to recognize an interconnection between beings and things. That relates to the Universal Principle of Complementary Opposites (the constant interplay of contraction and expansion).

It sounds strange but a macrobiotic diet doesn’t have a specific definition; it is set according to the body constituency of individual practitioners, taking into considerations their living environments, diverse needs, even their professions. This makes individual diets vary; however, it does remain based on a common ground comprising human evolution, its relationship to the environment and individual needs. So, it’s more than a preventive approach that aims to maintain a good health and lessen chances for bodily disorders; it is more of a therapeutic praxis targeted toward the ailed, willing to employ natural healing modes.

Macrobiotics: The micro-components

Ayurveda (ok, let that be simple nutritional science; Indian herbal science is more complex) shows us the benefits of grains as a crop. Something that deals in organically grown whole grain cereals or legumes, vegetables (including seaweeds), soy products (fermented) and fruits – selected according to their respective yin-yang properties - as a combined meal, is bound to bring back the biological balances. However, macrobiotics doesn’t say about an entirely raw diet; it does allow cooked stuff like brown rice, buckwheat pasta and vegetables (especially beans). Mild natural seasonings are allowed in macrobiotics, so is fish, various nuts, seeds and non- to mildly stimulating beverages.

Macrobiotics: The past micro-accounts

One might ask if the course of macrobiotics has stayed true to its roots or has undergone changes for good over the years. What was sown by Hippocrates (Father of Western Medicine) as the name of a genus, later transformed into a term denoting a particular lifestyle that’s based on simple, balanced diets for a promoted health and longevity.


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Monday, December 6, 2010

Changing Seasons Macrobiotic Cookbook

Wholesome and delicious recipes for cooking in harmony with nature.

Rooted in centuries-old principles, the macrobiotic diet consists of simple yet highly nutritious foods such as whole grains, vegetables, and beans, selected and prepared in harmony with the seasons. From lightly sautéed spring greens and refreshing summer salads, to harvest vegetables and hearty winter stews, this cookbook provides hundreds of easy-to-follow and flavorful recipes for complete and balanced macrobiotic meals. A combination of great taste and whole foods, this is traditional macrobiotic cooking at its best.
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The Infertility Diet: Get Pregnant and Prevent Miscarriage

Eat your way to pregnancy! The Infertility Diet is a nutritional approach to fertility enhancement and miscarriage prevention. Endorsed by infertility doctors across the country, this book is based on over 500 medical studies linking fertility and nutrition, and is a groundbreaker in the field. The essential diet for anyone trying to have a baby. A caring gift for all potential parents.
The Infertility Diet: Get Pregnant and Prevent Miscarriage supplies specific nutritional advice for couples with problems including sperm count, motility, morphology and clumping; miscarriage; candida albicans; cervical fluid; endometriosis; estrogen/progesterone balance; hypothyroidism; luteal phase defects; ovulation; PCO; elevated prolactin levels; and prostaglandin. Learn what foods to eat--and what foods to avoid--to get pregnant and carry your baby to term.
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Sunday, December 5, 2010

The Nourishment for Life Cookbook



In A Simple Celebration, Ginna Bell Bragg, chef at the Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California, and Dr. David Simon, director of clinical programs for the Center, explore the spiritual and mindful aspects of cooking and offer a practical, easy-to-use vegetarian cookbook that incorporates Ayurvedic health care principles into more than 140 delicious recipes.

While many recipes in A Simple Celebration have a subtle Indian influence, Bragg and Simon include a variety of other cuisines as well, resulting in a balanced, health-enhancing diet. With recipes such as Warm Wild Rice Salad, Pasta with Madeira Mushroom Sauce, Ginger-Molasses Muffins, and French Apple Cake, it is clear that the ancient mind-body principles of Ayurveda can be readily applied to dishes from every culture.

Supporters of Ayurvedic health care, Bragg and Simon emphasize in A Simple Celebration the importance of understanding one's dosha, or body type. Dosha recommendations are given for each recipe in the book, and a chart is provided that describes the taste quality of common vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices, dairy products, and other foods.

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Friday, December 3, 2010

The Real Food Daily Cookbook: Really Fresh, Really Good, Really Vegetarian

With three bustling restaurants located throughout the Los Angeles area, Real Food Daily boasts a loyal clientele of ravenous vegetarian diners and health-conscious celebrities, trendsetting young hipsters and members of Southern California's culinary community at large.
After 10 successful years as a cherished destination for lovers of delicious and naturally wholesome cuisine, this eclectic hot spot continues to thrive under the stewardship of its pioneering founder, Ann Gentry, who raises the standards and expectations of nutritious, meat-free cooking through her unique brand of California cuisine.
In THE REAL FOOD DAILY COOKBOOK, you wll find recipes for 150 of the restaurants' most popular dishes, such as Lentil-Walnut Pâté; Country-Style Miso Soup; Tuscan Bean Salad with Herb Vinaigrette; Southern-Style Skillet Cornbread; Tofu Quiche with Leeks and Asparagus; Acorn Squash Stuffed with Sweet Rice, Currants, and Vegetables; and Coconut Cream Pie with Chocolate Sauce.
After years of getting floods of recipe requests from her loyal customers, Ann is delivering in full force, not only to her patient fans, but to everyone who yearns for delicious, healthful, real food in their daily lives.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Book of Macrobiotics: The Universal Way of Health, Happiness and Peace

A NEW AND COMPLETELY REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO MACROBIOTICS.

The Book of Macrobiotics is the passport to a new world of infinite understanding and adventure. It has been read, reread, studied, and treasured by hundreds of thousands of people seeking a clear, comprehensive approach to the problem of living in a world of endless change.

Now, after nearly a decade, The Book of Macrobiotics has been completely revised and expanded to reflect refinements in Michio Kushi's teachings, as well as many new developments in the spread of macrobiotics in modern society. During this time, the Standard Macrobiotic Dietary approach has been simplified and broadened. Macrobiotic approaches to cancer, heart disease, and other degenerative diseases have evolved and expanded, as have basic home cares, and way of life recommendations.

The revised edition of The Book of Macrobiotics also includes a new chapter on the Spiritual World, new material on Yin and Yang and the Five Transformations, Man/Woman Relations, and Humanity's Origin and Destiny, and an annotated East West Reading List for further reading and enjoyment. Many new illustrations have been furnished, and the Food Composition tables have been expanded to include nutritional information on dozens of foods such as tempeh, seitan, rice cakes, and amazake not previously available.
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The Macrobiotic Cancer Prevention Cookbook

This volume introduces a sensible and naturally balanced way of eating based on whole grains, fresh vegetables, beans, and other natural foods that have always been associated with low cancer rates. (Holism)

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The Macrobiotic Way: The Complete Macrobiotic Diet & Exercise Book

A new edition of the bestselling, definitive guide to achieving vibrant health through a macrobiotic lifestyle. 30 years ago Kushi recognized that diet was a principal cause of many illnesses and began teaching how the macrobiotic diet--based on whole grains, fresh vegetables, beans and sea vegetables--can prevent health problems. Features 37 nutritional charts and a complete exercise program. 36 line drawings.
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Eat Me Now!: Healthy Macrobiotic Cooking for Students and Busy People

Eat Me Now! is the essential healthy cookbook's all you need to know about eating a wholesome, delicious, and nutritious diet. Find out: How to keep your immune system strong; Ways to eat healthy foods in college; How organic, living foods increase your energy levels; How to heal the earth with the foods you eat; Natural and healthy ways to maintain weight; That macrobiotic cooking is easier than you think; Over 130 heavenly, sugar-free vegan recipes plus 12 healthy fish dishes! How to Go Green and Get Fit with Eat Me Now!


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Zen Macrobiotics for Americans

The first and only practical book to make eating well fun and delicious. Find out how to cure cancer and other incurable diseases; the best foods to eat; foods to avoid; the right natural supplements to take; natural hormone balance; life extension made easy; fasting as the most powerful healer and how to meditate.
This book expands upon the traditional Japanese macrobiotic diet to become a practical guide for Americans.  It offers a diet that is more fun, tastier, more creative, less restrictive and still effective.  Offers foods selections that are readily available in our markets and reworked percentages of food groups allowed. It should be the new "Bible" for health conscious natural foods devotees.

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Zen Macrobiotics: The Art of Rejuvenation and Longevity



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Eat Me Now! is the essential healthy cookbook - all you need to know about eating a wholesome, delicious, and nutritious diet.


Find out: How to keep your immune system strong; Ways to eat healthy foods in college; How organic, living foods increase your energy levels; How to heal the earth with the foods you eat; Natural and healthy ways to maintain weight; That macrobiotic cooking is easier than you think;


Over 130 heavenly, sugar-free vegan recipes plus 12 healthy fish dishes! How to Go Green and Get Fit with Eat Me Now!


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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Your Health in the Kitchen

Food and Lifestyle choices determine your health.
Kathy Wright traditional Natropath, Certified Nutritional Consultant and author of Your Health in Your Hands will take you into her kitchen where she prepares nutritious vegan whole foods. Dishes include delicious raw recipes, macrobiotic, vegetarian and just plain health supportive cooking and conversation. Kathy ideas are not restrictive of you or your diet she teaches principals of adding more living, health supportive foods to your meal plans expanding our options and giving you freedom to choose health.
This culinary class is like no other; Kathy will give you volumes of health supportive principals, shopping tips, brand quality information, supplement education as well as shows you how to make a healthy choices fit with your life.
If you have ever gone into a health food store and felt overwhelmed, not knowing where to begin, the DVD series Your Health in the Kitchen is what you have been looking for.
If eating out, or travel are part of your lifestyle you'll gain a wealth of tips to make healthy eating out and healthy travel a reality.
The experienced whole food chief or novice to eating a health supportive whole foods diet will be amazed with the wealth of new information.
Each time you view the preparation of this culinary feast you will gain new and deeper understanding of the principals that create health supportive living and eating. You will listen a second and third time to Kathy's witty and entertaining stores and suggestions.
First suggestion is start where you are, add what works for your life, adjust to the first addition and then add another health supportive habit.
Kathy has lived and studied what she teaches for over 30 years as she evolved her lifestyle along with her many friends and clients. As a mother of 5 children she has experienced personally what it is to live in this fast food culture and keep your kids eating health supportive foods.
Most people don't realize that almost every physical problem we experience (other than an accident) has a diet-related cause. What leads to disease in the body, what leads to wellness and how to add those things into our lives is the topic of discussion as Kathy cooks up a feast every-time.
A web site for support, an organic workbook to assist you as you transform your well-being and understand this DVD, "Your Health in the Kitchen" is the capstone to your healthy success.
Mom, dad, athlete, and professional; all can benefit from a better understanding of health and how food choices affect you. Once your realize Your Health is in Your Hands all the information you need can be found in the DVD series Your Health in the Kitchen.Recipes:Miso soup-Beet salad-Brown Rice -Nori Rolls-Brown rice with Gomashio - Lentils with Kombu-Sweet potato/ Leek Casserole-Corn Polenta -Chocolate cream pie-Kale Salad
This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Wheat-Free Recipes and The Macrobiotic Diet Menu




Hundreds of tasty, nutritious recipes and menus without wheat or gluten.

Who must avoid wheat?  People with celiac disease, who are unable to tolerate wheat, and people with food allergies-all in all, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of Americans.  Wheat and wheat products are present in some form in almost every processed food product-not just bread, cereal, pasta, and other flour-based products, but also such unexpected items as licorice, cream soups, sauces, condiments, and even some medicines.

Managing to eat a healthful diet that completely eliminates this nearly ubiquitous grain can be a real challenge. Written by a leader in the field of cooking for people with food sensitivities, Wheat-Free Recipes makes it possible to enjoy all of your favorite foods without wheat or gluten, including breads, pancakes, waffles, muffins, biscuits, cookies, cakes, casseroles-even pizza.

Having a wheat sensitivity no longer means resigning yourself to dietary boredom or settling for foods with unhealthful levels of fat or salt in an attempt to make up for missing flavor. Dr. Fenster's recipes emphasize fresh, wholesome ingredients and simple, clear instructions that make for easy, fail-proof preparation of mouthwatering meals.
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Monday, November 1, 2010

The Quick and Natural Macrobiotic Cookbook

"Anyone watching his or her weight can profit by using these 150 recipes and 30 menus.... Foodstuffs blend old and new tastes, ...each recipe includes nutritional and exchange information."
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Mothers Underestimate Influence On Their Kids ' Weight


A survey of 1037 women discovered a gap of knowledge when it comes to some weight issues-including its influence on the weight of their children.
Here are some of the search results-performed by HealthyWomen.
Not surprisingly, most respondents know that obesity leads to an increased risk of health problems such as hypertension (93%), type 2 diabetes (89%) and heart disease (88%) Less than a third of women, however, we know that obesity is associated with increased risk of colon cancer (26%), gallstones (30%) and breast cancer (23%). While 87% of women believe obesity affects parents, a child's risk of becoming obese, only 28% assign this responsibility to themselves. Only 11% of respondents know that a child's risk of becoming obese more than doubles if the mother is obese during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Elizabeth Battaglino Cahill, CEO of HealthyWomen says this:
porridges, children tend to eat the same foods that parents, especially mothers, by exposure to nutritious foods, like fruits and vegetables is not only setting a good example, but also to position your child in a course along the life Source of good health.
that education is key to change, but knowledge is power only if you choose to use it.To be sure, prevention of childhood obesity and healthy children begins at home-with both parents (if there are 2 parents involved).
Needless to say MOM and dad need to change their ways to become healthy role models for children.
While healthy habits in children grow begins at home, it would be foolish to put 100% of the responsibility on parents Believe firmly in the idea that it takes a village to raise a child and in this case to educate a child healthy and active children are culture and environment exposed today may be the one who sets them to failure. removal shall take place in communities, schools and various levels of Government, especially for children of higher risk.
Battaglino Cahill summarizes very well when she says.
Mobilize and educate women is the best way we know to break the cycle of obesity and promote healthy habits for life of any woman and their loved ones.

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Trying To Find A Dietitian/Nutritionist Is Like Searching For A Pin In A Haystack

Today I tried to find a dietitian or a nutritionist near me.  Silly me, I thought it would be like to find a local dentist.  I wouldn't call it a total failure.  But you think in a large metropolitan area there are plenty of them.  Well, I found some, but not too narrow and it was not easy.
For the first time out I tried the phone book. If you look up nutritionist or dietitian in the phone book you will see large full color ads of Nutrisystem diet programs and other popular followed by some other real estate in lowercase. what good.
Then I tried typing the word nutrionist in yellow pages online that I received ranged from listing of CNG and other vitamin stores, the listing of centers that provide food to low-income mothers, the actual listings to nutritionists. But several of telephone numbers that I called don't work, and those who did were for nutritionist who worked for some health insurance plans that I wasn't.
So I called my insurance provider and asked them can they find me dietition or nutritionist who is on my plane. the operator asked me "is this for diabities?". I said "not for weight loss". She said "Ok, is not covered nutritionists to slimming".
Now this is interesting because overweight are blamed rising everyones prizes and anything else .... but the weight loss is not covered at least by my company.
But the operator let me know that they have coupons and discounts for Jenny Craig,  Weight Watchers, gyms and other services.  So I guess it saves faces a little.
I found a place that I really liked, but it is a little distant only to go to a medical office.  I hate to think what would happen if I lived in rural area.
Now I see why Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig and weight watchers are so popular.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Cancer Prevention Diet: The Macrobiotic Approach to Preventing and Relieving Cancer



Since its original publication a quarter-century ago, The Cancer Prevention Diet has been one of the most popular guides to the prevention and relief of society’s most feared disease.
Drawing on the most up-to-date cancer research, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack present a dietary program that can be implemented safely and simply at home, at a fraction of the cost of usual meals and medical care. This completely revised and updated twentyfifth anniversary edition includes:
• Broader dietary guidelines and new recipes
• New research on the twenty most frequent types of cancer
• New ways to combine macrobiotics with chemotherapy, radiation, and more
• The latest statistics, studies, and treatments
• The role of positive emotions in the healing process.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Everything Guide to Macrobiotics: A practical introduction to the macrobiotic lifestyle - and how it can work for you

Heal yourself naturally with balanced and nourishing foods.
Lose weight and boost energy levels.
Prevent and treat disease.
Enhance psychological health.


You can gain all this and more by following a macrobiotic diet! Macrobiotics is based on the benefits of eating seasonal, locally grown, and energetically balanced foods.  In this guide, you'll discover how to adapt this lifestyle to fit your own needs.  Create 150 delectable recipes to achieve inner and outer healing, including:



  • Forbidden Rice with Edamame and Orange Zest
  • Mochi Waffles with Berry Lemon Sauce
  • Kale, Green Beans, and Carrots with Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
  • Garbanzo Beans in Mushroom Gravy
  • Roasted Squash and Sweet Potato Sauce
  • Poached Pears in Apple Cider
This guide also features tips on incorporating changes into your lifestyle that reduce stress while enhancing balance and harmony.  The benefits of a macrobiotic lifestyle are only a few delicious recipes away!
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Monday, October 25, 2010

The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and a Fabulous Body

Heralded by New York magazine as one of the city's most popular diets, macrobiotics has become the latest trend in dieting, thanks to high-profile supporters like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Speaking to the generation of young women looking to extend their healthy lifestyles beyond yoga and Pilates, macrobiotic chef and instructor Jessica Porter offers fresh, contemporary, and accessible insight into one of the world's oldest, yet most popular, diets.  She explains that by eating good quality whole foods, any woman can experience physical, sensory, emotional, and intellectual freedom.

The effects of eating a macrobiotic diet can extend beyond basic health to weight loss, beauty, better sex, and peace of mind.  Cooking tips and recipes are combined with Jessica's no-nonsense philosophy and witty anecdotes to create a lifestyle book that will inspire women to hit the kitchen with an understanding of how to strengthen their minds and bodies through food.
Price: $17.95
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Macrobiotic Way



The third edition of the "bible" of the macrobiotic movement.

Originally published in 1985, The Macrobiotic Way is a classic in its field. It is the definitive guide to macrobiotics, an approach to diet and lifestyle that promotes both inner peace and harmony with others and the environment.  Now updated, it covers not only the central dietary principles, nutrition, and foods but also cooking techniques, essentials for a macrobiotic kitchen, menus and recipes, along with exercise, life philosophy, home and lifestyle, and the role of macrobiotics in healing.
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The Self-Healing Cookbook: Whole Foods To Balance Body, Mind and Moods

A macrobiotic diet is beneficial not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally.  Consisting of nuts, grains, vegetables, and other foods that are primarily whole, living, and unprocessed, it combines foods in a way that balances the body’s energies.
Modern-Day Macrobiotics is both a cookbook and a practical guide to understanding and adopting a macrobiotic lifestyle.  Along with menus and complete eating plans – including a one-day tone-up, three-day detox, ten-day regeneration diet, and four-month healing diet – it helps readers tailor a diet to their specific needs.
Nearly 80 recipes cover every meal of the day, including dessert, and are tagged with icons indicating what types of energy the dish imparts. Colorful reference charts help readers find useful information at a glance. Health benefits; buying and storing ingredients; shortcuts and ten-minute meals; and ordering in restaurants are also covered.  Luscious, full-color photographs capture the vibrant flavors of this healthy, delicious diet.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Top 10 Weight Loss Myths And The Macrobiotic Diet

Learn the best way of loosing weight and staying healthy by adapting to a plant based diet known as macrobiotic diet and dispel the following weight loss myths:

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Myth 1 - hunger makes you lose weight quickly
Myth 2 - low-carbohydrate diets make you lose weight quickly.
Myth 3 - eat sugar free or free fatty foods will promote weight loss.
Myth 4 - use of rubber or plastics based belly wraps will help burn fat.
Myth 5 - salads are healthy so I can eat all the salad that I want.
Myth 6 - work out lets you eat what you want.
Myth 7 - juice diets help burn fat.
Myth 8 - magic weight loss pills that you lose weight while not dieting or exercise.
Myth 9 - exercising for long hours per day is good for losing weight.
Myth 10 - sit ups are the best way to lose belly fat.
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Friday, October 22, 2010

The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health: A Complete Guide to Naturally Preventing and Relieving More Than 200 Chronic Conditions and Disorders


“Food is the chief of all things, the universal medicine. . . . Food transmutes directly into body, mind, and spirit . . . creates our day-to-day health and happiness.”
—from The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health

Even in medical schools, alternative medicine is blossoming.  Two thirds of them now offer courses in complementary healing practices, including nutrition.  At the heart of this revolution is macrobiotics, a simple, elegant, and delicious way of eating whose health benefits are being confirmed at an impressive rate by researchers around the world.

Macrobiotics is based on the laws of yin and yang—the complementary energies that flow throughout the universe and quicken every cell of our bodies and every morsel of the food we eat.



Michio Kushi and Alex Jack, distinguished educators of the macrobiotic way, believe that almost every human ailment from the common cold to cancer can be helped, and often cured, by balancing the flow of energy (the ki) inside us.
The most effective way to do this is to eat the right foods, according to our individual day-to-day needs.  Now in this marvelous guide, they give us the basics of macrobiotic eating and living, and explain how to use this powerful source of healing to become healthier and happier, to prevent or relieve more than two hundred ailments, conditions, or disorders—both physical and psychological.

This encyclopedic compendium of macrobiotic fundamentals, remedies, menus, and recipes takes into account the newest thinking and evolving practices within the macrobiotic community.  The authors integrate all the information into a remarkable A to Z guide to macrobiotic healing—from AIDS, allergies, and arthritis, to cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. They also clearly explain what we need to know to start eating a true macrobiotic diet that will provide us with a complete balance of energy and nutrients.

Living as we all do in environmental and climactic circumstances that are largely outside our personal control, it is vital that we follow a healthy lifestyle, including a flexible diet that we can adjust to meet our own individual needs. The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health gives us precisely the tools and the understanding we need to achieve this goal.  Use it to build a strong, active body and a cheerful, resourceful mind.


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