Way to long healthy life

Macrobiotic diet is a part of Eastern philosophy of Great Life or macrobiotics. The diet was designed by Japanese educator George Ohsawa. He believed that the key to healthy and optimal life is nothing but simplicity. This diet is very interesting in the sense that it includes ten progressive restrictive stages, where in the last stage the dieter is instructed only to take brown rice and water. Since, macrobiotic diet comes with extreme restriction, this version of diet is not recommended.

Evolution of macrobiotic diet

The concept of macrobiotic diet is good for health, thereby making an evolution and the concept got expanded. Michio Khushi was the man who expanded this theory and along with his wife Aveline popularized this macrobiotic diet across North America.

Why macrobiotic diet?

If you want to opt for healthy eating habit that would integrate spiritual, planetary and physical health, seek the help of macrobiotic diet. This diet consist of high fiber and low diet emphasizing on vegetarian diet like vegetables and wholegrain Soy products are also included thereby making it enriched with phytoestrogen. This kind of diet is also recommended for chronic and cancer disease and helps in reducing the risk of estrogen-linked cancer like breast cancer. Research are being conducted to find out that whether this diet is effective in preventing and treating cancer or not.

Few guidelines of macrobiotic diet

• Include lots of whole grains and try to include at least 50 to 60 % of your entire meal. Thus,ensure intake whole wheat berries, brown rice, millet, corn, buckwheat, rye and other types of whole grain. You can consume occasionally different flour products like noodles, oats, pasta and baked goods.
• Soups are very important and make sure that one or two bowls of soup are included. Shoyu and miso must be used in soups made from fermented soybeans.
• In macrobiotic diet fresh green vegetables makes up to 25 to 30% of food intake. Of this proportion one-third of vegetables can be consumed raw. Whereas on the other hand vegetables can be consumed after steaming, baking, boiling or saute.
• In the expanded form of macrobiotic diet animal products are also included but only limited to the consumption of white meat like fish and chicken. Other animals products includes poultry, eggs, meat, dairy are generally avoided. Seafood or fish are consumed with horseradish, ginger, wasbi, mustard in order to help the body in detoxifying from the effects of seafood or fish.
• If you have sweet tooth, then you can rejoice as macrobiotic diet allows intake of sweets in moderate level. If you are in good healthy you can enjoy them three times in a week. But it is advisable to consume natural sweet foods like squash, apple, dried fruit. You must avoid honey, sugar, molasses, carob, chocolate and other sweeteners.