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to request an appointment today & startIf your constitution and condition are more yang, you prefer to be asked questions than to ask them of someone. It also means that you seek questions more than answers. You place more value on the question than the answer, for the reason that a good question has many answers and as time goes [...]
We get up in the morning and become more and more active. Then we get to a point when, it seems, the sun gets stuck high in the sky, so we can have either activity or stagnation. What we choose for lunch determines whether we become more active in the afternoon or stagnate. Now many [...]
The macrobiotic diet is back -- again. It may not be a health panacea, but it's a pretty nutritious way to eat. Macrobiotic living -- a one-with-nature philosophy heavy on the whole grains and vegetables -- is riding the wave of interest in organic and healthy foods to new popularity. The complete article can be [...]
The first question to ask in developing an exercise program is "is this exercise part of my life or is it separate?" If it is separate, then we should do something to bridge the gap to integrate it into our lives, to make it actually a part of our lives. Basically, activity is a type [...]
When you prepare foods, it is very important to use all of the recommended cooking styles, because each one starts to draw different aspects out from the food. For sauteed vegetables, you use a high flame, a little oil and cut-up vegetable and some salt. You turn them so they cook evenly. This high flame [...]
Yin and yang is a way of seeing life. It is a way of bringing order, harmony and change into our lives. Once we know about this principle, we start to see things in a different way. Things start to come to life. Our education teaches us to look at things in a very static [...]
There is a style of macrobiotic cooking called Kinpira. This dish usually uses certain combination of vegetables, such as carrot and burdock, or carrot, onion and turnip. The essence of kinpira is that after sauteeing, we add water, cover the pan and let it steam. Steaming makes more downward energy. It is done in a [...]
Food is energy. We might think that vegetables are vegetables, but this isn't the case. Each vegetable in a dish attracts certain aspects from the other vegetables. This is similar to how it is when you meet someone. You have a certain kind of conversation, a certain feeling between you. Then if you meet someone [...]
Vegetables give us an incredible ability to change our orientation. There are three main types of vegetables; root--growing downward like carrots, burdock, parsnips, etc.; round--growing around the surface of the earth and generally round: onions, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, squash, turnips; upward leafy--growing upward: collards, Chinese cabbage, scallions, leeks, etc. If you want to become [...]
When we cook, we bring out certain nutrients in our food. Each type of cooking brings something out. With blanched vegetable salad, vegetables are quickly boiled in lightly salted water. The vegetables are removed from the water when their color is bright. We are really after brightness. Some people may think they need the [...]
If we think that there is an idea of Absolute Health and try to hold on it. What is the inevitable result? Sickness. This is the modern way. If you like to be a loyal, patriotic American, you work hard everyday, taking medications to keep away symptoms and problems. You push yourself so that [...]
There is nothing in this world that is one sided. Everything contains its opposite. We have come to think that health is good and sickness is bad. The approach is, "If you are healthy, fine, if you are sick get rid of it. Let's take the sickness away." However, if we think about this, it [...]
If you really want to go green, the conventional thinking goes, buy a hybrid. Practically speaking though, there is a faster and cheaper option: shift to a low-carbon diet. Read article
A little less earnest, a little more flavorful and luxurious -- L.A.'s macrobiotic restaurants are going mainstream. Read article.
Tai Ji Quan (Tai Chi) A Five Week Workshop In May Led By Loretta Lombardi and Mujaa Five Sundays: May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Early registration Price is $125 by April 18th Cost after April 18th is $145 Individual Classes are $35 each —Please register by April 26 to insure that we meet the [...]
Most of us get an idea of order and stability from our family and home life. If you were fortunate to grow up in a family that was very loving, caring, nourishing and very stable, stayed in the same place for a long time and had an interesting kind of life, then from that you [...]
Over the years, hundreds of individuals have recovered from cancer with the help of a macrobiotic diet and way of life. Scientific and medical studies are beginning to show the efficacy of this approach. Read article
June 4, 2006 Dear Al Gore, As a fellow baby boomer, I am writing you because I believe we have something very important in common, deep concern over the future of our planet. I hope you will take time to read and consider this letter. As I watched your film, An Inconvenient Truth, I felt [...]