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 [...]

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 [...]

Allergies and Strengthening Health Macrobiotics

By |2022-09-12T12:34:36-04:00February 16th, 2009|7 Steps, Allergies, Macrobiotics|

Allergies have now replaced the infectious diseases that claimed so many lives in the last century as one of our most pressing health problems. The once common infectious diseases including TB, diphtheria and scarlet fever have largely been eradicated through better hygiene and antibiotics. Yet, not much attention has been paid to the dietary [...]

Macrobiotics, A Re-definition

By |2022-05-04T15:01:27-04:00January 26th, 2009|Macrobiotics, Uncategorized|

What is the definition of Macrobiotics? Macrobiotics is not a diet. Macrobiotics is an orderly approach to diet and lifestyle. Through principles of harmony, balance and change we continually learn how to make healthier choices in our eating habits, diet, activity and lifestyle. Macrobiotics is also based on the understanding that spiritual health, the [...]

High-Energy Foods and Circulation

By |2018-03-07T21:53:29-05:00January 25th, 2009|7 Steps, Macrobiotics|

Many foods in the modern diet have too much energy. They create an overactive condition inside. Chicken, tuna, eggs, cheese, chocolate and carbonated soft drinks are all very high-energy foods that are unbalancing people's nutrition. If you recreate some of these high-energy foods into so-called healthy foods such as tofu cheesecake, you might change the [...]

Health and Medicine

By |2018-03-07T21:53:29-05:00January 5th, 2009|7 Steps, Cancer, Macrobiotics, Weight loss|

We are approaching a crossroads in modern life. Science, medicine and technology are advancing rapidly. Despite claims in the media that we are leading a better way of life, it is easy to see that this is not true in many ways. I think that it is hard for most of us to say that [...]

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