nutrition

Macrobiotics: Diet for a Healthy and Peaceful World

Author
Gabriele F. Kushi, BFA, MEA, CHC, AADP
Publication Date: 
November 1, 2011

Board certified Holistic Health Practitioner, macrobiotic nutritional consultant, cooking teacher, and director of Kushi’s Kitchen

 

Resources
Read Up!: 
Embracing Menopause Naturally, by Gabrielle Kushi, Square One Publishers, 2006.
"Increased urinary methylmalonic acid excretion in breast-fed infants of vegetarian mothers and identification of an acceptable dietary source of vitamin B-12," by BL Specker, D Miller, EJ Norman, H Greene, and KC Hayes. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Jan 1988; 47: 89-92.

Tips: How to Begin Eating a Vegan Diet

Publication Date: 
November 1, 2011

Cook vegan at home. This is a pretty easy task with a wide variety of tasty vegan recipes available over the internet such as vegweb.com and the spread of vegan cookbooks, such as Veganomicon, available at most bookstores.


Start with fast and easy vegan foods. This could include bean burritos, spaghetti, salads, veggie burgers, chili, french fries, tofu lasagna and veggie stir fries.

Diet For a Healthy and Peaceful World

Author
Gabriele F. Kushi,
BFA, MEA, macrobiotic nutritional consultant/chef/educator

The goals of macrobiotics are the realization of planetary health and happiness, world peace and human evolution. Macrobiotic, derived from the Greek word macrobios (large life), is associated worldwide with living and eating in harmony with the season. Macrobiotics embraces the 5,000-year-old philosophy of yin and yang, wherein yin represents expanding energy and yang contracting energy. Yin and yang are the building blocks found in all phenomena in varying proportion.

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