Macrobiotics For Everyone: A Practical and Delicious Approach to Eating Right for Better Health, Natural Balance, and Less Stress - Softcover

Roger Mason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0757003729 ISBN 13: 9780757003721

Publisher: Square One Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

For many people, maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is a constant struggle. With busy lives and full schedules, eating the right foods isn't always a high priority, but the truth is, Americans consume more fat heavy foods than any other nation, putting them at risk for serious health conditions, including heart disease and cancer. In fact, practising good health is not as difficult or as time-consuming as some people might think. In his new handbook, MACROBIOTICS FOR EVERYONE, author Roger Mason makes healthy eating fun, delicious and most importantly, easy. Expanding upon the Japanese macrobiotic tradition, this book offers a diet that is not only creative and less restrictive, but, also, very tasty and effective. Divided in two parts, the book begins with a simple history of the macrobiotic lifestyle. Part two concentrates on simple ways for people to apply the macrobiotic diet to their lives, including a final chapter on meditation. Also included are reader-friendly charts that provide basic nutrition facts for all of the healthiest foods. A balanced diet can be the most powerful healer. MACROBIOTICS FOR EVERYONE can teach you the simplest and most effective ways to achieve good health.

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About the Author

Roger Mason is an internationally known research chemist who studies natural health and life extension. He develops unique natural supplements and products. Mr. Mason has written several bestselling titles including Lower Cholesterol Without Drugs and The Natural Diabetes Cure. A frequent guest speaker on radio stations across the USA, he advocates natural alternatives to drug therapies.

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George Ohsawa, a philosopher and writer, came to the United States in the early sixties and brought us the macrobiotic diet and lifestyle. Macrobiotics is a philosophy and a holistic approach that stresses the importance of proper dietary and lifestyle habits. For many years, it was clear that all the books on this subject were heavily influenced by Japanese culture, written by Japanese people (or with their outlook) and featuring Japanese cooking and Japanese ingredients. It became apparent there was a need for a book making macrobiotics more practical, more universal, more down to earth, more fun, tastier, more creative, sexier, less restrictive, more appealing, and without all the Japanese clothing. This book provides us with all this, without watering macrobiotics down or weakening it. There were just too many unneeded limitations, and too much cultural influence that simply did not translate. Why use expensive, hard-to-find Japanese vegetables, few soups, tea with caffeine (bancha), buckwheat noodles with white flour, refined couscous, no salads, very limited seasonings and condiments, few fresh green and yellow vegetables, all that salt, no supplements, no natural hormones, almost no raw foods, and no fasting? This book is for all cultures around the world.

There are so many natural health books today about the right foods to eat, and so many contradictory philosophies. How can one know what is valid and what is not? So many authors are very convincing. The answer is very simple—results. The macrobiotic way of eating is the only proven way of curing “incurable” illnesses such as the various cancers, diabetes, heart and artery problems, arthritis, osteoporosis, and the wide variety of illnesses that plague modern society, especially in the developed nations.You have to experience this for yourself. Nature is the greatest healer, and our diet and lifestyle will allow Nature to heal us. If we are in harmony with the Natural Order, we will be healthy and happy. If we are ignorant of the Natural Order, we will be sickly and unhappy. Buddha said ignorance (to ignore), not sin, is the root cause of suffering. This is simple,clear, practical, and realistic.

We are literally what we eat. Diet causes illness, and diet cures illness. We must take responsibility for our health, and our very destiny. We must treat the cause of our illness, whether this is mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual,and not just try to remove the symptom. You cannot cure yourself bybeing butchered, poisoned, and irradiated. Make better food choices, takeproven supplements, balance your hormones, fast weekly, end any badhabits, and exercise. This is what natural health is all about.

Edition details

• Publisher: Square One Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0757003729
• ISBN 13: 9780757003721
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 94