a way to great living...

Macrobiotics is more than a diet, it is more than an exercise regime. Macrobiotics is a holistic way of living and understanding. The Macrobiotic Diet offers us a way to a balanced, peaceful and more beautiful you. Its something that we approach at our own pace, step by step.

Macrobiotics is based on Eastern Philosophies ( like Yin and Yang or the Five transformations)and Western Philosophies( like acidity and alkalinity or Hippocrates work) it is Holistic Health Management 101 .

One important point is that people don't generally go from being healthy to being sick suddenly, although it can seem that way when a symptom of disease first appears. The truth is that the disease process started before the symptom appeared. The symptom is just the physical manifestation that most people finally recognize.

Macrobiotics comes from the Greek root: “macro” meaning large, great or long and “bios” meaning life. Macrobiotics is about leading a “great life” and developing your full potential in a happy, healthy and harmonious way.

One of the building blocks of a great life, is having a ‘sustainable’(whatever that word means to you) great diet. Our diet nourishes our bodies and feeds our minds: biology precedes psychology as they say, and gives our spirit wings. The Macrobiotic Standard Diet is the foundation of this.

When our diet is out of balance for a long period of time our body our mind tends to become out of balance. We can see examples of the this today when we look at the increase of in chronic (long term) and mental illness.

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Much imbalance can be contributed to the changes in the food/diet we have eaten since the Industrial Revolution (1920’s). Some of the most drastic changes have come after WW II, when eating home cooking , fresh Organic, Locally grown and Seasonal vegetables was more and more replaced by semi-prepared or readymade meals, more animal food and Sugar was eaten(Click here. for the Top 10 ways to beat your sugar addiction). This imbalance creates many problems for our world and also to your digestive system. It took humans about 2 million years to evolve, yet in less that 100 years Industrialised food has overtaken natural growth and natural cooking methods with some undesired effects.

A balanced diet, also called the Standard Macrobiotic Diet, includes a gastronomic adventure of many whole grains, vegetables, fruit, beans (and bean products like Tempeh, miso etc.) , soups, fish, sea vegetables, nuts, seeds( like pumkin, sunflower or condiment Gomashio), an open mind and a desire for a better life!