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I have been practicing macrobiotic diet since 1972. Congential heart condition. Not expected to live past 4 or earlier years. I will be 69 in this year.
Barb Frey.
The main pull towards Macrobiotics for me is that IT MAKES SENSE and you needn’t get involved with any gimmicky potions or pills. It is what it is and it is just about how you feel and how to take care of yourself. The answer to how you feel starts with what you eat. Having incorporated a Macrobiotic diet and lifestyle for over a year now I have experienced many milestones to reassure myself that this is good for me … my mind clearing up, my insight improving, my confidence building and the increase in physical endurance that I experienced this winter, which is beneficial to my job as a professional ski instructor.
Gunars Kazaks – Prof. Ski Instructor
The Journey continues.. It was 16 years ago I was diagnosed with cancer and told that chemo may give me 6 months to live. I believed that and decided to not take the drugs but to begin my own natural healing. I was two months into my “healing” Journey when I discovered Macrobiotics. I learned a great deal with the books and self study. I met some good people at the K.I. (macro center) and their fellowship helped me along the way. I am still living the great life and at age 55 feel great still walk an hour a day and still enjoy the good foods from the earth. I will be leaving for China in two weeks to travel and learn for the next three months. Life is Great. I wish you all this Great Life as well.
Dennis Robinson
In 2001 I was diagnosed with stomach cancer stage III, grade.My prognosis was 6 months, the most 12 with chemoradiation. After two major surgeries, and in the middle of chemoration, I got a consultation with Mr Kushi, who was the first human to give me some hope. Well, I followed his recommendations, and changed my lifestyle overnight.Itworked, I was dismissed from checkups last year, considered completely cured, though doctors never admit the power of it, they agree that a healthy lifestyle gave me life back. I am and will always be to Michio and to all the people dedicated to macrobiotics, if one embraces it with trust, the rest is a question of cause and effect. Good habits generate
good health. Thanks to you all.ESTELA DE PAOLA DE LERMA – Sculptor and Art Educator
In late April 2007 I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer that had metastized slightly to my left pelvic bone. I went on a strict “Kushi Prostate Cancer Macrobiotic Diet”. I retained Verne Varona, an “OUTSTANDING” Macrobiotic counsellor with a strong Macrobiotic background.After 3 months my PSA dropped from 39.6 to 0.8, and my testosterone dropped from 426 to 10. ( I also took Casodex & Zolodex for about 2 months staring 5-1-07 and terminated both 6-1-07) I am now taking no drugs and am cancer free I also lost 21 pounds from 153 to 132 (height 5’81/2″ age 70) and many other positive changes are too numerous to go into.Macrobiotics should be a worldwide requirement – however the profit driven medical establishment is to ingrained and powerful to allow natural healing to curtail their money machines.Donald J Porter
As a child, I had chronic chest problems. I suffered from pneumonia at age 7 and had my tonsils removed at age 8 and was forever getting bad coughs and colds. When I discovered Macrobiotics and omitted all dairy products from my diet, it was nothing short of a miracle. I can honestly say that I rarely get a cold or cough now and haven’t had to visit a doctor in years. Macrobiotics has taught me that the cure really is in the kitchen.Aine McAteer – personal macrobiotic/health chef to some of Hollywood’s top actors, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Pierce Brosnan and Robert Redford.
Macrobiotics has provided me with a sense of purpose in my life, confidence in my ability to deepen my own health, and optimism in my ability to help others – friends, family, and patients – improve their health. It has provided a fascinating counterpoint to the standard western perspectives on molecular biology and pathophysiology. And beyond this, it has helped me to see the unity in all creation and to understand the process of change.
Gordon Alan Saxe, MD, PhD – Assistant Adjunct Professor, Family & Preventive Medicine
Cancer Prevention & Control Program
Macrobiotics has been a key part of my life. Macrobiotics has given me vast energy, the ability to heal, as well as prevent illness, clarity of mind, and strength of spirit. Macrobiotic principles and philosophy are so vital! Macrobiotics continues to serve as a bridge towards my own self-realization. Andrew Vavrek - Musician
On an intellectual level macrobiotics, although assimilating & using the concepts is sometimes confusing, it has given me clarity and understanding about the world in which we live, why things are the way they are, why things happen the way they do and I find that comforting. Physically, the improvement to my health was dramatic, I lost 30lbs in the first two months of the change and literally felt light and happy, I was on the way to irritable bowel syndrome and that miraculously disappeared, my athlete’s foot went away never to return, my PMS and heavy periods – gone! etc. etc. and I probably am in better shape than I was when I was a teenager although I am 43. I get a lot of pleasure when I get an ‘aha!’, when something clicks, some smidgeon of understanding as I continue to broaden my knowledge. I have direction and passion in my life because of macrobiotics which very importantly helps me to get up in the morning! Anna Rosenberg – Teacher
In the beginning, it cleared my skin and eliminated my chronic fatigue, asI quit eating milk products and sugar. It also vastly improved my moods,from gloomy and melancholy to cheerful and energetic. The philosophical approach was very important to me. Ohsawa’s dictum.”a theory without a practice is useless; a practice without a theory is dangerous,” became a major concept underlying my life and my work.
Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D – The founded of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts
Macrobiotics is a way of eating, thinking, and living that is intended to help you to become your best self. The food and way of life provides energy, lightness of being, clarity of mind, and a broad view of life.We have to use these gifts in order to better understand ourselves and others, to have greater compassion, to have the courage to open our hearts, to speak our truths, and become ourselves. Doing these simple things becomes a path to your inner nature, your soul.This is the real spiritual path. Macrobiotics has helped me to become more myself. It’s helped me accept myself more completely, to relax ever more deeply into my being, and to live and speak more fully from my heart.Tom Monte – authors and teachers of natural healing. He has written more than 30 books and hundreds of articles on virtually every area of health.
Macrobiotics helped me in some expected and unexpected ways. The understanding about food was initially, meaning the first seven years, very important to me. But as I grew more knowledgeable about cooking, I began to discover a much deeper meaning of macrobiotics, and that has to do with freedom. It is possible to be attached to anything, even the best things such as spiritual ideals or philosophical beliefs.What I found was that my attachment to the principles of macrobiotics began to limit me. I had reduced the freedom of what I understood to be macrobiotics, through a certain degree of control over life. Life is so rich and dynamic, and yet the very principles of food that seemed to have helped me heal, many years earlier, were now causing unhappiness. I went back, in my mind, to the Chinese grandmothers, remembering the feeling that I had when I was with them. It was a very feminine way of being, and I had somehow left that behind.I remember having my first dreams around this time. These dreams showed me that there was a deeper healing that went beyond food. Also, I had the fortune of interviewing Herman Aihara for four days at Vega in Oroville. I wanted to write about the more spiritual aspect of macrobiotics. Herman, in his humility and love, showed me something that I knew was the kernel inside all the outer aspects of macrobiotics.I knew, not just from Herman, that one’s happiness has more to do with living one’s true nature, which is truly free. Herman was a living example, for me, of a fluid and alive relationship to life. The food and the theories were like the tip of the triangle, but the base and foundation was an understanding of oneness and the sacredness of life.
Anne Scott
My husband was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 40 in 1983. When the tears subsided and the shock wore off, I started looking for natural methods of healing cancer. I was at the vet’s parking lot when Mrs. Hohlefelder, mother of twins who were students of mine, met me in the parking lot.I’ll never forget her words, “Your husband does not have to die of cancer. Get Life Magazine’s excerpt of Recalled by Life by Dr. Sattilero and Tom Monte. He followed a macrobiotic diet.” That word, MACROBIOTIC, has altered my life profoundly from that moment to this day.I went to the library with my dog still in the car. I was so excited. So on July 19, 1983, I threw out all white sugar, meat, cheese and bought a pressure cooker. I tried so hard to be a good cook but I burned everything. I said to Joe, “If you don’t eat this, you’ll die.” His response was, “I know.” With great respect for the person who wishes to go to the spirit world, I let go.
He died in January, 1984. With two children to raise, I maintained my macrobiotic practice, which I do to this day. Many incredible doors have opened for me, since I embarked on my macrobiotic journey.
Barb Jurecki
In 1965, a friend invited me to have dinner with Michio and Aveline Kushi.
I was already a vegetarian (from birth) but I ate a lot of sugar and junk food. The diet made sense to me. I loved the rice and found it to be so satisfying. I began to attend Michio’s lectures and the philosophy sounded right. It was such a big view; looking at human life from a single cell to the whole cosmos. That is big. And now, 38 years later, I still think that whole grains can be one way to save humanity and the sanity of the race.Betsy Polatin -The faculty at the Opera Institute and Boston University
Macrobiotics has helped me be more of who I am. What I mean is that is has inspired me to be the absolute best Bita I can be. It has also always been a force of positivity, coupled with my own personal philosophy. I feel it has given me an edge in life. I never feel alone because I have a strong belief in philosophy as a whole. To quote Nietzsche, one of my favorite philosophers: “We are always in our own company.” This quote is tender yet whimsical at the same time.Food wise, macrobiotics has helped me have more energy and vigor than anyone I know. The combination of a macrobiotic diet and an avid love of fitness keeps me brimming with spunk. I look at people my age and I can’t believe that we’re the same age!. I had a fiesta recently to celebrate my 25th birthday, and people were just sitting on the couch like slugs, watching television. I was ready to dance the night away!
Bita Hunt
The macrobiotic way of life has been with me for over 16 years now, and the continued changes I have observed sometimes will astound even me. It takes a few years, but gradually old paradigms melt away and a new, healthier and happier way of thinking develops instead. I feel clearer, more organized, happier and healthier than I ever could have imagined possible. The macrobiotic way of life never ceases to amaze me, even to this day.
Bonnie Kramer
Macrobiotics helped me heal my B12 deficiency 15 years ago. And many other conditions I did not even realize I had, until they were gone and I studied about them.. Christine Stevens
I’ve always followed Ohsawa’s advice to make your own macrobiotics and while I’ve deviated on natural food, I’ve had no medicine, no surgery and maintained a good level of activiy. Energy, good sleep and good humour have been pretty constant, (but the gratitude comes with time). Craig Sams – Health food pioneer– top^
Macrobiotics helped me most by giving me the ability to think for myself and to be mostly free of the dominating influence, physically and mentally, of the modern hurry-up culture. It has showed me that I can do whatever I want to do. All I have to do is to dream it and then take steps to make it happen. Macrobitoics showed me that I have no one and nothing to blame for any illness or misfortune that comes my way. I am freely choosing to live how I want and to accept everything that results, good or bad.
David Briscoe
Macrobiotics set me free! Free from medical dramas, psycological mumbo jumbo, and free from falling into “What happened to me”? I now have great control over my health and destiny and can step away from being “run”. I can determine how I want to feel. My kids have never seen a doctor! David Jackson
Macrobiotics has helped me in many ways. Day to day I feel peaceful and emotionally stable. I suffer from few of the complaints that often accompany aging such as arthritis, hemorhoids, insomnia, not to mention the more degenerative conditions such as cancer and heart disease. I’ve saved thousands on health insurance over the years and have almost no medical expenses and take no prescription drugs. Gale Jack
I was attracted to macrobiotics as a philosophy of balance, helping to understand the dynamics of life, society, and the cosmos. Fortunately, I was young and did not have any major health problems, but I noticed that my thoughts and emotions stabilized as I ate more toward the center and avoided extremes.Over the years, macrobiotics has become an indispensable tool for deeper understanding and self-development at many levels.Alex Jack
Macrobiotics saved my life. It’s very simple and yet very profound. I had bought into the “American Dream” (even though I’m in Canada ) and once I accomplished all those material goals, discovered that I felt completely empty and was searching for deeper meaning in my life. The Spiritual teachings of macrobiotics, beyond just the food we put in our mouths, but what we say, think and do, and our intensions, turned my life around.
Karen Heaven
Macrobiotics has helped me in so many ways. First of all, when I began eating this way, I did have an ovarian cyst which completely disappeared after a year of eating fairly well – I was just beginning, so of course I made many mistakes – and by doing Yoga every day. Then I had yeast infections and the macrobiotic diet helped me rid of the yeast infections.I also began feeling more calm, was able to drop coffee completely, and found that eating macrobiotically favored a very spiritual way of life which fit in with my Yoga life style. I have been following this way of life since 1969 with, of course, some diversions from the path, but in general have been eating grains and vegetables with very little fish for over thirty-five years. I’m now sixty-two and am never tired, have tremendous endurance, can teach six to eight hours a day without ever getting tired, have tremendous clarity of mind. I run Yoga Macrobiotic vacations around the world and have the best cooks come and cook for my guests and have helped many many hundreds of people with this diet and so am very happy about that. I find it the most peaceful aesthetic way of living and it has given me a wonderful life. Karin Stephan
Macrobiotics has been the catalyst for me to look at food as medicine in my own life and those that I work with, plus family and friends. One great gift that macrobiotics has given me is the ability to broaden my horizons on how foods around the world affect people differently. Example: Hot curries in India allow the body to remain cool by opening up the pores to let heat escape and therefore are not beneficial in a cold climate in the winter time.The action of the food is important and one that I have spent years observing, studying and working with. As we know all food is macrobiotic it depends on where you live, what your own environment is like and how the food around is grown and how you are going to cook it depending on the season. Karla Walter
Through macrobiotics, I overcame many ailments including hypoglycemia, systemic candida, mood swings, colitis, arthritis, endometriosis and fatigue. Most of these conditions were food related and cleared up within a year of eating a healing macrobiotic diet.
Lenore Baum
The greatest gifts have been: being healthy and having a healthy daughter, feeling empowered with the understanding of expansive and contractive foods and the five elements; the friends I’ve made and the experiences I’ve had teaching; and the impact it’s had on my family’s health and well-being. Macrobiotics has shaped my life for the last 18 years and I’m very grateful. Linda Wemhoff
Macrobiotics helps me in many ways. It helps me to have a clear head and to stay in touch with my intuition. I have stayed clean and sober for 14 years now with the help of macrobiotics and 12 step programs and have a lot of energy to pass on what I have learned to others. Lisa Silverman
Prior to starting macrobiotics, I had followed a vegetarian-style raw foods diet for over 3 years–lots of juicing, smoothies and raw salads. I developed many health problems including candida, chronic fatigue, low blood sugar, etc. After one year of adjusting my diet to grains and vegetables, all chronic health problems disappeared. Energy levels better than ever. Career-wise, I opened two macrobiotic restaurants and wrote two cookbooks. Margaret Lawson
On January 1, 2003, my mother found out that she had breast cancer, I immediately called my aunt. Five years prior she had been diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma and given less than 12 months to live. She researched alternatie treatments and discovered the macrobiotic diet. Today she is completely healthy and cancer free. She recommended the same diet to my mother. My mother had a lumpectomy and radion, but turned down 5 year of Tamoxifen drug treatment, and also went on the macrobiotic diet. Today she feels great.
Jolanta Sonkin
was a dance major and philosophy minor at the University. The philosophy of macrobiotics gave me appreciation of relationships in nature. Like earth to water, water to fire, air and metal etc. I felt an instant understanding that simple food had power to heal, and then I fell in love with grain.My goal became a mission to create healthy children. Three of the four were home birthed, and all raised with macrobiotic quality food for most of their young years. I feel strongly that macrobiotics prepared my young body to create and maintain a healthy family.Joanne Saltzman
In 1976, I decided to enter the Realm of Yoga and Vegetarianism. It was Great…..but after 8 years of that, I was not healthy, and a look at Macrobiotics, began to tell me why.
I had developed so many allergies, digestive problems, abdominal pain, and low energy.
The allergies were so bad that it seemed i would have to move into a bubble to protect myself from the plants, pollens, dust , mold, animals and chemicals that i had gotten so sensitive to !I had been eating a lot of dairy, as a vegetarian for 8 years….and it seemed that my health had deteriorated…not improved….Much to my dismay!!! After all, i had taken these steps to do the opposite!Almost immediatley, on the Macrobiotic Diet, my digestion improved, and of course, energy levels as well. Within 6 months, all the allergy symptoms were completely gone. What a tremendous relief….boy was I convinced!
I ate vegan- Macrobiotic for 4 years and developed a B-12 deficiency, so I then began eating fish . I have been fine and very healthy since.
I have a tremendous amount of energy…..I receive that from healthy food, Yoga, Deep, Breathing, fresh air, Nature, Spiritual life, a positive attitude, relaxation…….. all the many things that when combined offer us Harmony and Balance. Julianna Norrie
After my husband suffered major heart attack and heart triple bypass surgery, we vowed never again to endure that invasive surgery, and macrobiotic approach to health made so much sense to both of us.Fred has actually recovered to full healing of the heart, from being told he had perhaps 50% heart damage, to 0 % heart damage now, eleven years later. Fred looks and feels better than he did 15 years ago. Marsha Rueff
Macrobiotics gave me physical strength, mental clarity and spiritual memory. Physically, there was a new endurance. On a practical level, macrobiotics opened me up to the delicious appreciation of vegetables. Until then, I ate few vegetables. On the mental level, I gained improved clarity and curiosity. Philosophy inspired me and led me to study many of the great thinkers of the ages. On a spiritual level, I recognized a direction for my life, to work in the field of healing.Thanks to this macrobiotic stimulus, I soon discovered acupuncture. Because there were no acupuncture schools in the US at that time, I went to England to study and have practiced both macrobiotic counseling and acupuncture since 1976. My work led me to an interest in and study of western herbs, then Chinese herbs and into the realms of psychological and spiritual dimensions. This is a journey with no end (at least in this lifetime!).
Michael Rossoff
The philosophy of macrobiotics & yin-yang showed me in simple terms how the universe works. Everything became much more easily understood from this perspective. Many phenomena that were previously ambiguous became crystal clear. Raed A. Tolaymat
When I found out that I had Hepitius C several years ago, I began to search for some alternative way to battle this incurable disease.I found a web site that was created by a guy who had Hepitius C. He had discovered a special macrobiotic diet that could bring the disease down to a very controllable level so that your liver enzyme level would come back into normal range which greatly reduces the HCV’s ability to do any permanent damage to your liver.This is a very big accomplishment. This special macrobiotic diet basically gives your liver and entire system a break from all the non-food ingredients, sugars(including fruit sugar), alcohol, meats(except for fish), and the stress of your liver trying to figure out what to do with this stuff.Your system can very easily break down and assimilate the macrobiotic diet with little or no trouble. What happens is in about 3 month is all the good nutrients from eating this diet finally is filtered into your blood stream, and then you are getting the full benefit of this macrobiotic diet.
Your liver now knows what to do with this healthy array of nutrients and it gets a big break. Now it is able to get back to the task at hand of producing its own powerful interferon’s which is how it can slowly beat down the population of the HCV in your system which greatly keeps the HCV in check. At this point your liver is very capable of protecting itself against the disease and allot of other diseases. With this diet I have brought my HCV down to a low hum within a years time.
More so than any of the man made interferon drugs that I also tried in two 6 month futile attempts with cost on the average of $2500.00 per month. Plus the side affects from these drugs are sometimes worse than the HCV itself.
The man made interferon only has about a 49% cure rate at best. This special macrobiotic diet is much more affective at enabling your own liver to bring this disease down to it’s knees. Therefore letting you to live a healthier and longer live than you would normally with HCV.
Randy Franklin – Vice President
Great Eastern Sun Trading Co., Inc
I had started with juices and salads and that was helpful initially. But it led to problems. E.g. one cold rainy night, I ate a salad for dinner and woke up later with an asthma attack! I also developed a skin rash that would not go away for months. Macrobiotics helped me to understand why all those things happened.In general, macrobiotics and the idea of yin and yang help explain a lot of things.Needless to say, my health improved significantly although I never followed the dietary recommendations all that closely.ButI think macrobiotics also made me more adventurous, more assertive of myself etc. This eventually led to me and my wife separating – even though we were a fairly strong couple and we remain friends – and to lots of other difficulties in life in recent years. My life went through lots of upheavals in past five years or so.
Of course it is not just macrobiotics alone, but I think it played a big part. However, I feel this is all part of “restoring balance”. Overall, I am glad for all the things that has happened in my life, in spite of the difficulties.
Richard Seah
It has given me increased physical health and mental balance, even though I was quite robust when I started at the age of 25, and was not looking for a cure. It has given me insight into my calling in life, my “dharma” as it is known in Buddhism, as I have worked with it for several decades. – Steven Acuff
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Macrobiotics has helped me to find a way out of disorientation and week health conditions. I learned by Macrobiotics to control my state of health on my own.But the most important is that by the macrobiotic way of living I was able to escape from my prepeared structures (carma), to break my limits and to find out my own personal way to realise myself and to develop my causalities and talents. Axel Bergdolt
I had chronic fatigue syndrome, terrible headaches and a rash on my right hand that I could only control with a steroid cream. I was exhausted all the time and yet it didn’t matter how much sleep I got. I was still tired. I didn’t sleep well. Everything bothered me. Sometime it’s hard to remember how bad I felt. I still get tired sometimes, but I recover usually in a day or two.I very seldom get headaches anymore and if I do I know how to alleviate them naturally. I no longer need to use the steroid cream. I haven’t taken any medication for anything, except novacaine for some dental work. I’m so grateful to be alive and to be eating this way. Rosemary Traill
Macrobiotics has helped me to become a more patient person. I have also learned, as I share with others that the practice goes far beyond just the physical aspect of the “diet” and learning not to put the blame elsewhere. It all starts with me getting my act together, before helping anyone else, you must first have yourself in order.
Sandy Pukel
My whole outlook on life has changed, how I perceived life, how I felt about myself, about family, and society. It gave me a greater appreciation for all things, patience and discipline. Most of all it made my life more whole and healthy – physically, emotionally and spiritually. While on this wonderful path that I had chosen, I was blessed with eight healthy, beautiful children, who have been my greatest teachers.They have taught me far more about life and what is really important than any book or teacher I’ve encountered. I’m still being blessed with wonderful, healthy, macrobiotic grandchildren! I am forever grateful to them for all they have given me. Wendy Esko– top^
Macrobiotics gave me hope and direction to learn how my body works. Through macrobiotics I learned about the energy of foods and how they effect my body not only in the nutritional sense but also energetically. By understanding the importance of keeping my biological systems balanced, working properly in the most efficient way , my body can create a regenerating environment instead of a degenerating environment. I can experience”macro-life” instead of the limiting “micro-life”. Virgina Harper
Macrobiotics, yoga and homeopathy sowed the early seeds of a rich life practice. I know that my intentions create my thoughts and that affects my actions. I know that my food choices affect not just my health, but the health of the entire planet.I know that healing is physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic. This knowing is on a cellular level, and has taken me to other important life studies which include Pilates, massage therapy and Somatic Movement. Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle -Director, Pilates Center of Austin
Weight Loss with Macrobiotics is Amazing.
Weight loss has been the foremost desire of my life for many years, I weighed over two hundred and twenty-five pounds when I began to eat exclusively macrobiotic foods last| year.
After nine months, and a weight loss of over forty pounds I am impressed by this way of eating because of how I feel.
Deep inside my body, I know that this is a healing diet. I was lucky enough not to have a deeper health issue (except the obvious one of obesity) to overcome. Even so, I was desperate and unhappy about my weight, my struggle with food, my seeming inability to take charge in some way. Donée has inspired and taught me, supported and helped me all the way.
I have truly learned to love the Macrobiotic diet. I am so glad to prepare it, to learn about it, and to make the effort to use the best ingredients, and to share the ideas with others.
It is truly a lifestyle change. I love the way the food tastes, and now the foods are nourishing me from the inside out. I’m excited to see what happens next.
I realize that I’m not the only one who feels a profound life change with this diet. I for one, have found a peace that his eluded me for all the years before — here in the rice bowl that I now embrace.
Diane Shea, San Diego CA, 2006
Excerpted from “Embracing the Rice Bowl” by Diane Shea, Printed in Macrobiotics Today in the March/April issue 2006.
Testimonial from a “fast food junky.”I was a fast food junky. I rarely, if ever, cooked for myself. Even if I did, I now know that what I cooked had very little nutritional value. I had grown up with the popular Mid-Western belief that milk builds strong bones and that meat and potatoes and green beans from a can could provide all my nutritional needs.
By the time I was in my forties I was sluggish, overweight and tired most of the time. In my early fifties I was diagnosed with cancer. It was removed surgically. Later that same year I was diagnosed again with another form of cancer. That, too, was removed successfully.
It was during this period of crisis that a friend introduced me to Donée who began to teach me, among other things, the value of macrobiotics. I had heard of macrobiotics before but was under the mis-impression that it was all about eating seaweed and grains. It sounded to me like an awful way to live. Donée taught me otherwise. She had to start from the ground up with me since I barely knew how to boil water. Fortunately, Donée is a very patient and loving teacher. What a great discovery this has been! Donée has taught me how to make dishes that are absolutely delicious. There is such a variety in macrobiotics that I have not tired of learning new recipes and a variety of preparation methods. For the first time in my life I absolutely love cooking for myself. I have also learned much about how the foods I cook affect my body and provide real nutrition. I have lost pounds and consistently stayed at a healthy and comfortable weight. For me this has been not just a physical experience but a spiritual one as well.
I am extraordinarily grateful for the macrobiotic way and Donée’s methods of teaching it through her cooking classes. Although I have read several books on the subject, there is nothing like the hands-on learning that Donée provides. This experience has added much joy and a sense of well-being to my life in ways I could never have expected.Diane Day, San Diego CA, 2006
Life After Breast CancerOn April 30, 1999 I underwent a lumpectomy on my right breast to remove invasive ductile cancer. I went through chemotherapy and 35 radiation treatments. After that I was left with a disease known as SCLERODERMA. I had crest syndrome which was centered in my hands and feet. There are only about 300,000 people afflicted with this disease. Bottom line, no medical cure or magic pill.
I did as much research as I could and decided that I needed to try something on my own to curb its affects on my body. A friend on mine told me about Macrobiotics, Donée Krause to be exact, I went to my first cooking class. in March of 2006. Boy, the food was good. I found myself losing weight without even trying. To date 30 lbs. My cholesterol also dropped 115 points. In the past losing weight or lowering my cholesterol was almost an unsurmountable task, but not when you follow Macrobiotics. You feel full and satisfied longer. I have given up a lot, but have gained so much more in good health and well being. And I try not to miss a single day of miso soup
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Donée has also showed me how to make my own poultices to help relieve the pain and swelling in my fingers and toes. They have been a Godsend. Macrobiotics has made a tremendous difference in how I feel, think and approach each day!
Sandy Lofaro
San Diego
August, 2006
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Meg Wolff
“I met Warren Kramer in October 1999. At that time, I’d been following a macrobiotic diet for 10 months. Warren helped me tailor the diet and lifestyle to my specific condition (recovery from breast cancer). His lectures, cooking classes, consultations, and his own example of practicing macrobiotics greatly helped me in my path back toward vibrant health. His encouragement and faith in me were extremely supportive. I’ll be forever grateful to Warren for his guidance and dedication.”
-Meg Wolff, Author of Becoming Whole, The Story of My Complete Recovery From Breast Cancer, and Breast Cancer Exposed
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Susan Baumgarten
“In the world of macrobiotic educators, cooks and counselors Warren Kramer is a treasure. It is rare to find an educator who is not only a superb macrobiotic cook but also a caring, knowledgeable counselor and teacher. My health continues to improve as a result of Warren’s insightful and practical counseling about my personal diet and lifestyle. My cooking remains varied and fresh thanks to Warren’s hand-on cooking demonstrations as well as the example he sets with the superbly balanced and delicious meals he serves regularly. And his lectures and workshops continue to equip me with the knowledge to guide my health and help my family and friends. I feel truly blessed to have access to such an incredible resource in the macrobiotic community”.
John OLeary
“Over the last thirteen years I have found Warren’s health counsel to be extremely valuable. I have consulted with him on a variety of health issues – some of which conventional medical practitioners were unable to account for. When I followed his suggestions of nutritional and lifestyle changes I was able to improve my condition without medication or surgery.”
Courtney Park
“I’ve been attending Warren’s lectures and cooking classes for over a year and they have been tremendous! Knowing that there are only a handful of astute, skilled MB counselors in the country I feel extremely fortunate to have Warren here in Boston. I also brought my 2 year-old son for MB counseling to better treat his eczema condition that he’s had since birth and Warren was extremely patient and focused in making his recommendations. His eczema disappeared by 90% within 2 weeks! My husband and I are so thankful… ”
Lowering Cholesterol
Before I consulted with Jeremy and Maria, I was completely ignorant about a macrobiotic lifestyle. Now I understand the importance of incorporating whole grains into my diet and the significance of avoiding processed foods.
When I shop, I purchase seasonal, locally grown produce. Although my husband and I still eat conventional foods (some fish, lean meat and poultry), overall we are eating a much healthier diet. My husband, who is predisposed to abnormally high cholesterol levels, has reduced his cholesterol level during the last few months.
— Helen (Boston)
Arthritis & Personal Chef Service
I first got in touch with Jeremy & Maria at the recommendation of my doctor in October of 2007. I was looking for a way to improve my health and my doctor believed that a Macro-Mediterranean diet would be very beneficial to me. At the time I did not feel ready to change my diet. I was worried I would not like the food or I would feel deprived, so, although I did initially contact Jeremy & Maria to learn about their program, I decided that changing how I ate was not a challenge I was ready for at that time.
In the beginning of May of 2008 I suddenly had to stop working as I believed that I had contracted Tuberculosis at the lab where I work. This forced me to stop my arthritis medication, which put me into a lot of pain, so much that I was rendered almost immobile. At this point my doctor urged me again to get in touch with Jeremy & Maria. She knew that they had helped others to improve arthritis pain through dietary changes and she thought that this could be one of my only chances for relief from the situation I was enduring. She made me aware that Jeremy & Maria offered a personal chef service and that I could use it to get the food I needed since I was in too much pain to either go to the store or do my own cooking at that time.
At this point I had a consultation with Jeremy & Maria over the phone and they designed a meal plan to target my specific conditions and then setup to have their personal chef start preparing the food they recommended for me.
I was still worried about liking the food, but as soon as my first week of food was prepared for me, my fears went away. The recipes were so delicious that some of them (like the veggie burgers), I loved so much that I was hesitant to share them with my family. I also was not hungry ever and so the experience was not like with diets I had tried in the past. I had so much food, actually, that my daughter even started taking my leftovers to work for lunch. Once she tried the food, she realized, as I did, that it was as enjoyable as eating the food we used to eat before, but with added health benefits.
The improvements in my health were quick to come. At the end of just the first week of food from the meal service, my arthritis pain had significantly improved. After eating like this for a month and a half, I lost 19 lbs. Now after 4 months I have lost 26 lbs. I had suffered for a long time from a lot of pain in my stomach and lower digestive tract. That has completely stopped. I have had trouble for the past few years with my liver and now my tests are suddenly improving as is my diabetes control. The only change I have made is how I eat. I also have developed an overall sensation of feeling better that I found totally unexpected and is almost the best thing I have gotten out of changing the way I eat. From these improvements I am convinced that this is the best way I can be eating and plan to continue eating this way from now, going forward.
After just four weeks using the Macro-Mediterranean personal chef service I now feel well enough to go to the store and cook for myself and my family. Through using the personal chef service I now feel familiar with the food and feel confident that I can learn to make it for myself. I have been given a new lease on life and am enjoying every minute of it.
I hope that my story can help someone else who was suffering like me to get the help they need.
— Marcia (Boston)
Inflammation and Chronic Diarrhea
After personally experiencing three months of rapid weight loss and failed diagnoses, my primary care physician suggested I try eating a macrobiotic diet. A daily journal of my eating habits and poor health events suggested my body was reacting as though everything I ate was an allergen. Biopsies eventually confirmed the widespread inflammation.
My physician put me in touch with Jeremy and Maria who helped me tremendously. Their insight into what changes in one’s lifestyle must take place, their availability and their patience and nurturing along the way, week after week, made the transition actually do able for me.
They supported me with readings, recipes, anecdotes and respect. The changes in my eating are still taking place as I come to accept that I must be fastidious in my dietary choices in order to maintain my health. I was unable to work for 3 months. I am now back at work and approaching the level of stamina I had previous to my body’s attack on me.
— Nancy (Boston)
Weight Loss & Off Blood Pressure Medication
Earlier this week the drug regime that aimed at treating my persistent hypertension was changed. My physician dropped the drug, Diltiagem (180 mg daily), from my prescriptions. He feels it is likely that my 20lb weight loss, the consequence of my diet changes since early October 2007, is a likely reason my current blood pressure readings have been consistently normal for several weeks. Thus the decision to drop this drug from my medications list. The changes in my diet have been due to my working with Macro-Mediterranean Holistic Nutrition. They have helped me to achieve things I never would have thought possible at my age (77). I feel the best I have in years. The tireless energy and increased mental clarity have been things I wouldn’t have expected. Thank You!
— Charles (Boston)
Gall Stones, Weight Loss, No Bloating & More Energy
I was having severe pain in my abdomen and my doctor diagnosed me with having gall stones. I did not want to have surgery, at least at that time, and she suggested a change in diet might help.
My doctor introduced me to Jeremy and Maria (J&M), who introduced me to the macrobiotic way of eating. They immediately e-mailed information to read about macrobiotics, and sent several simple recipes to get me started.
My husband was willing to change his way of eating with me… and so we started immediately. The recipes from Jeremy and Maria were simple, and once I found the ingredients, with help from J&M, were simple and quick to make. The most difficult part for me was cooking a new way, but once I settled in my mind to look at this as learning to cook for the first time, it became easier. The pain I was feeling in my abdomen was almost gone. J&M spoke with me weekly, encouraged me constantly.
As the weeks went by, more recipes arrived by e-mail, and J&M kept in touch with me. What was helpful is they asked me to keep a journal of what I was eating daily, e-mail it to them, along with questions I had, and they would respond letting me know what I was missing in my diet, and foods to add to it. Recipes were a constant, delicious, easy to make, and very much appreciated.
Soon, my husband and I noticed we were losing weight – what a bonus, especially for my husband who has always struggled with his weight and constantly trying new diets. The bonus…. this wasn’t even a diet. We were enjoying what we were eating. We found we had more energy. We never felt that bloated feeling you have when you eat too much at dinner. And some of the recipes were so delicious, that we did eat a lot – just never felt bloated.
Jeremy & Maria taught us how to change our diets without having to become fanatics. We do not miss the foods we removed from our diet, don’t even think about them.
J&M taught me a lot about the foods we eat, and how our system digests and uses the nutrients from them. We feel lucky to have met Jeremy and Maria, they have changed the way we look at food, and what to look for when checking ingredients. We are happy to have changed our way of eating and feeling much better about it. Can’t even imagine eating the way we used to.
As I look back, J&M made the change in eating go quite smoothly.
— Carol (Boston)
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