A Macrobiotic diet is a very little understood form of permanent eating style, which is heartily recommended by its devotees, and totally misunderstood by others.
The Macrobiotic diet was born in Japan thanks to George Oshawa and is based on the pursuit of physical and emotional balance through nutrition. Macrobiotic diet is very important for those that always seeking balance, known in Asian philosophy as Yin and Yang.
What is the macrobiotic diet?
The macrobiotic diet divides foods into two sets
Yang Food: if your “energy” is warm, invigorating, such as cereals, legumes, fish, meat, salt, vegetables.
Yin Food: When your energy is cold, dispersant and debilitating sugar, honey, dairy products (milk, cheese and yogurt) fruit (especially tropical like Banana, Mango, Kiwi, Papaya, Pineapple), vegetables such as potatoes (potatoes), eggplant, tomato and beet alcohol.
Advantages of the macrobiotic diet
The macrobiotic diet eliminates all refined products like white sugar, white bread, sausages, meat, sweets industry, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks.
Entering items like seaweed in the diet, not as something exotic and occasional, but as part of the daily menu. In the macrobiotic diet, cereals are seen as part of the diet and especially the concept that they must be cultivated without pesticides.
Adjusting the diet to suit each person according to their physical constitution, the country where you live and the season is also important.
A diet with natural remedies and therapies such as Shiatsu, which begins with your diet but is also moving fully into the world of Natural Medicines. The macrobiotic diet also involves the emotional balance and spiritual harmony, not just food. The diet is a bit of an excuse to make you aware that we have the need to balance at all levels of our lives to exist happily.
Example of a macrobiotic diet menu
Breakfast
An infusion of three types of tea (Bancha tea, a very mild tea without protein) or Mu Tea (a mix of sixteen types) with a cream of rice or millet (making a cup of rice or millet with four or five parts water and cook slowly for four or five hours. Then serve it with some sesame seeds on top. You can also cook with a little cinnamon and raisins).
As an alternative to the cream of rice or millet, usually take rice cakes with sesame puree or vegetable pâté.
Lunch
First Miso Soup is a vegetable soup with seaweed and soy seasoning salt.
Second a dish where there is usually combined Brown rice boiled with a piece of Kombu seaweed and some vegetable protein (legumes, Seiten or wheat gluten, tofu, or “cheese” soy, tempeh, fermented soybeans).
For dessert you can have a bit of apple compote (fruit always cooked) or a little cake made with a base of cereal flakes or corn meal or wheat (cous-cous) with fruit jelly made from seaweed Agar-agar. .
Snack
Tea with rice cakes and some jam.
Dinner
Soup (which can be vegetable with Shiitake, a Japanese mushroom, and Daikon, which is like a turnip but very large).
Second is often taken some steamed vegetables or stew.
If you have a good appetite may accompany with rice and a little protein.
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