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Post by sebastian on Dec 14, 2005 8:15:01 GMT -5
has anyone tried this? I'm looking into some recipes to make up a healthy diet, combined with excercise to lose a bunch of weight. If anyone has any information or recipes or links I would GREATLY appreciate it. Thanks!
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Post by Takeda Sanjuichiro on Dec 14, 2005 10:09:26 GMT -5
has anyone tried this? I'm looking into some recipes to make up a healthy diet, combined with excercise to lose a bunch of weight. If anyone has any information or recipes or links I would GREATLY appreciate it. Thanks! Much of the Macrobiotic diet (way of living and eating) is based on Japanese cuisine. As a matter of fact it was developed by the Japanese and is decendant of monastic cuisine and rural cuisine. Much of the elite of Japan from 700-1800 ate foods that were highly processed (by compairison) and suffered from ailments and maladies that "rustic folk" did not. Some of it is accurately attributed to diet alone, much of the maladies can be attributed to a combination of diet and lack of excersize. Someone had the wonderful idea that since monks and the poor didn't suffer from some of those common maladies, that the food and lifesylt of the "rustics" must be superior and developed a "diet" based on their cuisine. On another note, one of the key elements of Macrobiotics is, "Food should be grown locally and eaten in season" a more exacting definition is "foods natural and native to your area will be the most harmonious to your health" Some macrobiotic folk are quick to point out that foods introduced to a new area, (especially if they grow even better than in their native region) are not balanced and thus defeat the purpose of macrobiotic eating... And those same people will gladly go back for seconds of tofu with nori and miso while living in the midwest... Macrobiotics can be a decent diet, some of my family have been involved with it for years. (even if they still like the occasional cheeseburger) -Takeda
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Post by Kitadatetenno on Dec 14, 2005 14:13:46 GMT -5
By your definition, a cheeseburger is macrobiotic for me.
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Post by Takeda Sanjuichiro on Dec 14, 2005 15:01:52 GMT -5
By your definition, a cheeseburger is macrobiotic for me. Convenient that! ;D It shows the skill of your forward-thinking your majesty. It is not my definition, and yeah a great number of things could be considered macrobiotic by the "original" principals (of which I do not know what they are, only what is commonly circulated, or was a decade or so ago .) - Foods are the foundation of health and happiness.
- Grain is properly the staple food of man.
- Food should be unrefined, whole, and natural.
- Food should be grown locally and eaten in season.
- Sodium and potassium are the primary antagonistic and complementary elements in food.
I can think of quite a few things that could be shoe-horned in there Mmmmm oatmeal cookies... heck cheesecake probably works as well.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Dec 14, 2005 18:28:41 GMT -5
Y'know, I am becoming more and more convinced that cheesecake is a macrobiotic food for buke. The other day, Otagiri-dono wished for cheesecake, reminding me that every time Fujimaki comes to visit, we inevitably, inexorably end up at what I've come to refer to as the cheesecake adoption agency at the SONY Metreon in San Francisco. Now you cast a vote. Thus I offer the following for the motto collection: "Life is uncertain, eat dessert first." S.
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Post by Saiaiko on Jun 6, 2006 12:49:44 GMT -5
My mother read "Diet for a Small Planet" sometime in my early childhood, and she said it revolutionized how she cooked for us.
In other news, I think it would be a fine idea to try a "bushi/kuge diet" for a week at Pennsic. There's no place better than that for getting a real feel on medieval tastes, smells, and digestion. In fact, I am going to do it for at least pre-War week this year while clocking my blood sugars. It should be an interesting study.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Jun 6, 2006 17:45:52 GMT -5
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