George ohsawa brown rice fast
10 day brown rice fast!
Macrobiotics: A Japanese Concept for Balance In Your Diet
Macrobiotics is all about eating in balance. Japanese philosopher George Ohsawa developed this increasingly popular diet.
George ohsawa brown rice fast
He believed in a holistic approach to health that incorporates many aspects of ones lifestyle: diet, exercise, meditation and ‘yin and yang’ energy of particular foods. He suggested that health was directly linked and guided by nature.
Thereby, eating and living in harmony with nature would create harmony and balance within our body.
Macrobiotics focuses on choosing organic, locally grown and seasonal produce. The macrobiotic diet suggests that your food is divided roughly as follows:
- % whole grains, such as brown rice, oats, barley, buckwheat or quinoa.
This is considered the most energetically balanced food item in macrobiotics.
- % fruits and vegetables
- 10% – 25% bean and bean products, such as tofu, miso and tempeh as well as sea vegetables like seaweed
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