http://dennywaxman.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:12:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to an editorial in yesterday's New York Times*, per capita meat consumption more than doubled in the last fifty years. It is expected to double again by 2050. To nourish farmed fish, pigs and poultry, small fish like sardines and menhaden are taken from the ocean. This upsets the ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/04/our-oceans/ When we live in a temperate climatic zone, it is best to choose daily foods that originate in the same or a similar climatic zone. For example, although potatoes and tomatoes are grown in North America, they originated in the Andes Mountains, in a tropical environment. Tropical foods are used ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/19/the-importance-of-the-origin-of-food/ Macrobiotics is a traditionally based diet, not a traditional one. It is based on the traditional diets of the world's long-standing cultures. Macrobiotics has its dietary roots in the Far East, Middle East, India, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and the United Kingdom. We have combined the unique foods from ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/31/macrobiotics-is-a-traditionally-based-diet/ A good Macrobiotic practice means that the person in question has good digestion, from the beginning to the end of the digestive process, good circulation and good nutrition, which is nourishment. Good nutrition means both quality and quantity. The idea that simple and clean food is always better is false. Too much ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/30/good-health/ Anything that aids good digestion and good circulation helps our health. Health is like a mountain spring, the right amount of water moving at a natural speed. If the source is pure, great. But even if the source is not pure, if it has the right kind of activity, it ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/14/health-is-like-a-mountain-stream/ Our body renews itself and changes in many ways, The first way is with our blood plasma, the liquid portion of blood, which renews itself every ten days. Our white blood cells renew themselves every two or three weeks. Then we have our red blood cells which typically renew themselves ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/14/self-and-global-renewal/ It is less and less common now to have undernutrition. Although overeating is damaging, some people think that the more simply they eat, the better their health will be. But simple is only good for a certain length of time. If we eat too simply and don't take any oil, ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/19/sitting-down-to-eat-and-natural-aging/ It is natural for our bodies to stop growing after twenty years. It is only recently that people continue to gain weight as they grow older. After the first twenty years of life, we continue to grow our personality, not our body. We decide what type of person we would ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/11/aging-naturally-part-two/ The process of healthy aging means transformation from the physical world towards the spiritual world. When young, we are more interested in physical and sensory things. We liked to be very active and we are interested in stimulating our senses, often times with loud music. As we start to grow ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/08/healthy-aging/ Macrobiotics has the reputation in some circles as being about food or health or curing cancer. In fact, it is not so much a diet or a cure as a spiritual path with practical applications. Macrobiotics is really the teaching of Jesus, as expressed in the Gospel of Thomas, ... http://dennywaxman.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/29/macrobiotics-as-a-spiritual-path-and-social-act/