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Zen Macrobiotics: The Art of Rejuvenation and Longevity

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In this classic , George Oshawa gives the guidelines to balance your life and body through macrobiotics. Using the theories of yin and yang Master Oshawa gives the secretes to continued health and even disease treatment and prevention. Health is a state everyone can achieve and for the vegatarian this book is a must read.

Having a decadent and unhealthy lifestyle,one day a friend told me "the only chance for you to survive is to read and live by the book, 'Zen Macrobiotic' by George Ohsawa". I started to read, it was more like listening to a old man of wisdom. That man had a great life story which he was giving me all of his discoveries to a meaningful life. Life is beautiful.

Denis

HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

I have had severe brittle diabetes since I was six. I was running blood pressure of 160-170 over 110-120 when I read this book. When I began practicing his diet and teachings, my blood pressure dropped gradually to where it has been since 120-125 over 80 to 90. I have also, several times, used his cures for specific ailments.

From a HEALTH Perspective, I HIGHLY RECCOMMEND this book to everyone (no one lacks physical problems).


PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE

Synthesizing the history of Eastern perspectives, Ohsawa makes us see quite clearly through the use of statistics and life stories just how difficult it is to rationalize Western Capitalistic Culture and the effects of corporate medicine and dietary habits on Americans (few realize that over 95% of the diet propoganda in the US comes from the Meat and Dairy industry, and, as John Robbins shows through innumerable scientific studies in his The Food Revolution, almost everything that propoganda says is untrue and designed to get us to buy meat and dairy products).

From a PERSPECTIVES perspective, I HIGHLY recommend this book.

Always be wary of anyone who discourses on a past history of a region that is for all intents and purposes "Mythical", you know, the good 'ole days when everyone was well fed, happy and lived to 105. This Reactionary thinking in combination with a healthy dose of Western Civilization bashing takes away from a potentially positive dietary concept.

I have always considered white rice to be the "Junk Food" of Pan Asian societies. When I first heard of Mr. Ohsawa's advocacy of Brown Rice I was interested to read this book. But for a person who claims to have an understanding of Infinite Universal Law, yet doesn't know why human's catch colds and birds and bugs don't(his explanation is not even worth repeating). This and other forgettable insights,led me to conclude that his understanding of a great many things is... by an ethnocentric mindset,a fair amount of philosophical hallucination, and just plain bad deductive reasoning. This endless editorializing completely overpowered the fundamental message of the book. This is disapointing, given Mr. Oshawa's reputation and the positive outcomes I've heard from people who have followed elements of his dietary concepts.