Macrobiotic diet
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A macrobiotic diet is a restrictive dietary regime based on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism. The diet tries to balance the food elements classified as yin and yang, a practice that a
Some basic macrobiotic ingredients
Michio Kushi
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Michio Kushi was a Japanese educator and alternative cancer treatment advocate who helped to introduce modern macrobiotics to the United States in the early 1950s. He lectured all over the world at co
Macrobiotic diet
…reach a supposedly ideal yin:yang ratio of 5:1. The diet was popularized by George Ohsawa in the 1930s and subsequently elaborated on by his disciple Michio Kushi. Medical historian Barbara Clow writes that, in common with many other types of quackery, macrobiotics takes a view of illness and of therapy which…
Michio Kushi
Former Kushi Institute building at 17 Station Street in Brookline Village, in background, adjacent to Brookline, MA MBTA D-Train stop
Kushi Institute, Becket, Massachusetts, 1996
Kushi Institute, Becket, Massachusetts, 1996