Through a variety of experimental study designs, epidemiological evidence, along with observation of real life conditions which had rational biological explanation, Dr. Campbell has made a direct and powerful correlation between cancer (and other diseases and illnesses) and animal protein. READ ARTICLE

Hypoglycemic people thrive on pressure and tension, physically, emotionally and mentally. Relaxing this pressure is the key to overcoming it.

Plenty of variety should be used in grains, without excessive use of pressure cooking or baking. Grains should be soaked and then boiled. Noodles, corn and cracked grain should be included often. Vegetable dishes should be varied and not overcooked. This is important. Oil is needed, in order to move energy out to the surface from the center of the body. With this as with any imbalance, it regulated by eating three meals per day. With hypoglycemia, four or five meals may be needed until your blood sugar becomes more balanced. The volume of each meal can be adjusted according to appetite.

The opposite of pressure is nature. It is green, light and fresh. In cooking, therefore, it is best to include green and bright colors. Hypoglycemia is the mentality of making things happen, but not nice or wonderful things. What we need inside and out is sweetness, but not extreme sweetness. We need mild sweetness. This is one of the most important things. When you cook grains, they are mildly sweet. Sweet brown rice, carrots, onions, cabbage and squash are all mildly sweet. Pureed soups and pureed anything gets sweeter and creamier. If you cook squash, it is sweet. If you make squash soup, it is sweeter, more refreshing, more light.

Everything is an image. The feeling behind hypoglycemia must be understood. What makes this kind of pressure, this kind of emotional disorder? Then you mildly do the opposite. Greens are included, bright colors, freshness, brightness, mild sweetness, lightness.

Whether because exercise makes us hungry or because we want to reward ourselves, many people eat more — and eat more junk food, like doughnuts — after going to the gym. READ ARTICLE

Living free from electricity, radio waves and EMF’s, etc. and communing with nature with no means of escape is an incredible experience and contrast to most of our daily lives. Eating wood fire cooked food in such a pristine environment has two unique benefits. The first is that it creates an unusually strong and deep physical and energetic alignment among the teachers, staff and participants. The second is that the environment and wood fire cooked food alkalize people’s conditions very quickly creating a positive, upbeat and helpful attitude among everyone very quickly that deepened by the day.

All together I felt that the learning was more organic and deep than is possible in other situations. I realized from being there that macrobiotic education in natural surroundings together with hearty cooking has a unique learning potential.

Boredom and frustration are very important causes of overeating. Emotional frustration can come from work or romance. If you are not satisfied with what you are doing in your life or in your relationships, or if you feel bored, then there is a natural tendency to overeat.

Essentially, overeating means either biological or emotional frustration. You try to compensate either biologically or emotionally for many different reasons. Therefore you have to take some steps to remedy that problem.

Overeating also comes from imbalanced nutrition, which comes not only from eating dry, baked foods but especially from refined, chemicalized foods. If you take white bread, white rice, white noodles and many refined flour products; if you take vitamins and mineral and seaweed supplements, you are going to make nutritional imbalances which will throw your appetite off.

The more supplements you take of any kind, the more complex the balance comes. Then it is an endless search trying to create a balance. The more you complicate your diet, the more difficult it becomes to find a balance. Food, on the other hand, is simple, and makes that process easier. Knowing how to get back to your center and creating a satisfying life are important ways to eat proper amounts of food.

When you eat certain foods, you discharge other foods. If you vary your macrobiotic diet, then basically Monday you discharge dairy food, Tuesday meat, Wednesday sugar, and so on. If you become too regular this way, you establish a routine and then basically your body gets bored and nothing happens. In other words, diet has to be very flexible and adaptable. When you do the same thing again and again, you get bored, whatever it is. If you do the same thing, then everything you do loses its effectiveness. That is why you constantly have to change what you are doing. That is what we call variety in macrobiotics; constantly changing, like the weather and the seasons. It is necessary to do this. Sometimes unconsciously, but really by your feeling and your intuition.

A number of years ago, I observed in a macrobiotic community that some people always made the same meal on the same day, including almost every dish with the same ingredients. This is very common. But every day calls for different foods to make balance. That is good for everyone. Within that we have certain individual needs. Basically we are trying to become more harmonious, aligned with nature. Then we are constantly changing in a very relaxed way. Naturally, that takes time.

The point is, you can’t eat with your head! This is more a feeling, a kind of general direction to go in your diet. You need to include certain things on a regular basis, but not too regular and too steady. This is not a mathematical formula. You have to keep randomly, constantly changing according to how you feel, what you crave. If you do that, discharging happens automatically. It is a daily process. You don’t have to be too concerned with it. You can push yourself to get a start, but then be very relaxed. Set your course and then go naturally.