What makes learning at French Meadows unique?

By |2018-03-07T21:53:05-05:00September 14th, 2009|Macrobiotic Counseling, Macrobiotic Philosophy, Macrobiotics, Mental Health|

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 [...]

Overeating

By |2018-03-07T21:53:05-05:00September 13th, 2009|Adjusting Your Diet, Macrobiotic Diet, Macrobiotic Philosophy, Mental Health, Weight loss|

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. [...]

Discharging Foods From the Past

By |2020-01-10T19:38:08-05:00September 1st, 2009|7 Steps, Adjusting Your Diet, Macrobiotic Diet, Macrobiotic Philosophy, Macrobiotics|

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 [...]

Macrobiotics is getting more macro

By |2018-03-07T21:53:05-05:00July 7th, 2009|Articles and Research, Macrobiotic Diet, Macrobiotic Philosophy, Macrobiotics|

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 [...]

Food is energy

By |2018-03-07T21:53:06-05:00June 4th, 2009|Macrobiotic Diet, Macrobiotic Philosophy|

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 [...]

All Life is Energy

By |2019-07-10T13:28:48-04:00May 12th, 2009|Adjusting Your Diet, Macrobiotic Philosophy, Mental Health|

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 [...]

Order and Creativity

By |2018-03-07T21:53:28-05:00March 24th, 2009|Macrobiotic Philosophy, Mental Health|

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 [...]

Dear Al Gore

By |2018-03-07T21:53:28-05:00February 17th, 2009|Adjusting Your Diet, Macrobiotic Philosophy, Press|

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 [...]

Kushi Institute Summer Conference 2009-Healing Ourselves, Healing the Planet

By |2018-03-07T21:53:29-05:00February 4th, 2009|Events, Macrobiotic Philosophy|

Join Denny and Susan Waxman July 9-12, 2009 for a macrobiotic weekend just outside NYC! This year's Kushi Institute Summer Conference will be located in Palisades, NY just 20 miles from Manhattan. The serene natural setting combined with delicious vegan cuisine, daily movement classes, and over 40 classes to attend, make this the "must attend" [...]

Good Health

By |2018-03-07T21:53:54-05:00October 30th, 2008|Cancer, Macrobiotic Philosophy|

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 simple and clean food may [...]

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