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Guten Tag Leon,
natuerlich verstehe ich Dein deutsch! Kein Problem. Lebst Du auch in Schweden?
Thank you so much for the fascinating introduction into macrobiotics. I actually met someone recently who is on a macrobiotic diet, too. I admire the discipline you show concerning your diet, Leon!
Thanks also for your opinion about supplements, and in particular your information about the food stuff in the natural food stores. We've already bought more food that looks healthy, I'll still have to find out if it all really is though. Unfortunately, I've been feeling too weak to go shopping recently, so I can't look for all the healthy stuff out there myself and don't want to delegate my boy-friend too much.
Isn't it awfully hard at the beginning to know what's good and what's bad and to find food that really has none of the bad ingedients in it or hasn't been treated in a bad way and so on? Do you remember how long it took you to know everything and always pick the right stuff?? Would you say that it is a lot more expensive to change to the natural food stuff?
I've always been eating tons of salad and also lots of vegetable, almost no red meat but never really thought about grains, beans or lentils and the like, neither did I think about all the bad ingredients a lot.
Do you know, by any chance, if the megadoses vitamin C IV can kill the hidden viruses in your body??? In my simplistic view, I understand that the viruses and the antibodies fight and one beautiful day the antibodies win (ah hopefully ;o[ I'm waiting for that ) but the viruses stay hidden in your body. I always thought you can't do much about the fact that they're staying in your body, but that you can only help (e.g. with vitamin C)the antibodies fight the viruses and help to bring them into their dormant state within your body.
Ah, if you're confused now by my professional description, never mind the question.
Bis zum naechsten mal. Machs gut!
Sabine
In Reply to: Leon C - macrobiotics posted by Sabine on August 11, 2000 at 17:11:17:
Hi
No, actually, i live in NY state, USA. Where are you exactly ?
i didnt realize that there was a definition in the glossary of macrobiotics. it is a wonderful thing and at this point i would say that there really doesnt feel like much discipline is required ! u quickly see what it can do for you and you become enamored of the results ! I always have thought that diet was the easy part (as far as many things; working out, for a good example), so there is no excuse NOT to do all that you can with diet.
Actually, it is very easy (!) to know what is good and what is bad. ;-) If it comes in a box, it is probably bad ! ;-) What i realy mean is, if it is "manufactured," it is bad. If it is made by people, it is bad. (That is not to say that all things you can eat that are made and sold in stores are bad by ALL accounts. Its just that it is bad in macrobiotic terms because you could choose a food that has more benefits for you...and no drawbacks).
All that is good is food that God made for you...pretty much just as it comes from the earth. You dont have to worry about wether ingredients are good or bad when there are no ingredients. :-) Just pure, WHOLE foods, like brown rice, broccoli, soy beans, etc. Here, I have found that foods marked as meeting the California Organic Foods Act of 1990 (or of those of Texas and Colarado) are good. I have eaten food that was called organic (not certified to the strandards of any of those laws) and found that it was NOT pure (and i had bad reactions). Also, it seemed at first that eating this way was more expensive, but i dont think it is. Sure, pound for pound, organic foods often sell for a few cents more than toxic foods (e.g., organic brown rice is $0.99 per pound and toxic brown rice is about $0.69 per pound), but our good stores often have good sales. Also, if you tired to eat an organic diet exactly like a normal toxic diet, it would get expensive, because meat produced without chemicals does cost quite a bit more, but you do not do this in macrobiotics. Whole grains with beans replace most of the meat (not quite all). Instead of paying $1.99 per pound of beef and then $0.59 per pund for potatoes, you pay maybe $0.99 for brown rice and $0.69 for beans and get your protein AND your carbohydrate needs met, IN addition to meeting your requirements of minerals and vitamins that you would have to pay extra to SUPPLEMENT with (to make up for the demineralized/processed/toxic food). (You think that beef most people are eating has the magnesium and manganese and other minerals it should ? No way, when the cows were fed CARDBOARD-- YES cardboard-- and given growth supplements? Or the fish from the "fish farm"-- you think they give you the omega three oils they should ? No way, bc in the fish farm they get cheap pellitized grub with synthetic supplements as well.)
Yes, Im glad you are thinking of it now...think of the terrible toxins that you are eating with those good things you eat. Most of those chemicals were given approval by the WHO of the UN, but for doses usually 1/100 of what people are now consuming and NOT in conjunction with each other (and ofcourse no concern was paid to all the toxins that load down your body in the air, water, etc.) Think about those little amounts ! For me, dropping them has made all the difference !
Whole grains are great. They provide such a vast amount of minerals-- magnesium, manganese, zinc, selenium, etc., and trace ones too like silicon, boron, etc.
Some of the doctors that have experimented with MASSIVE doses of vit. C IV do belive that they have killed viruses in the body, yes. (Dr. Fred. klenner believes he killed polio virus in people with C before there was a vaccine, as one example.) I know what you mean-- i always thought of the viruses as just lying around forever too. (but i have found a stage where they are now kept out of sight and without effects !)
You worte that: "I understand that the viruses and the antibodies fight and one beautiful day the antibodies win (ah hopefully ;o[ I'm waiting for that ) AH ! but you can do so much to hasten that day ! there is so much you can do ! you can actually help the antibodies. two direct ways come to mind: give them more of the tools they need to wage their war (vitamins, minerals from better foods, enzymes from raw vegetables; help create more beneficial bacteria, bc they play an important role in immunity) AND reduce the work that the immune system has to do (i like to think of the detox system as a subset of the immune system. less work for the detox system means more strength for the immune system. minerals are a good example. there is a common "pool" of minerals for all the body's systems to draw from. the less minerals that the detox system uses to detoxify nasty toxic foods you eat, the more minerals are available for the immune system to use in its fights.)
see you--
In Reply to: Re: Leon C - macrobiotics posted by Leon Cavallo on August 13, 2000 at 00:15:57:
Leon,
thanks so much for this further wonderful explanation of health foods. I feel that every message of you helps me to go the right direction. I also find the whole stuff fascinating.
I'm so much looking forward to go shopping in the health stores. I'm still too weak to do so, but try to pick out the healthiest stuff we've already got at home. One of our friends just brought us vegetables from his grandma's garden, God bless him.
I live in the Southwest of Germany. And I live just right next to a HUGE industrial area....I always knew this wasn't the healthiest place to live, BUT NOW I wish I could move right away...missing nature like hell anyway. I'm starting to hate chemicals more and more.
Thanks as always.
Sabine
In Reply to: Re: Leon C - macrobiotics posted by Leon Cavallo on August 13, 2000 at 00:15:57:
Thanks, Leon.
Good stuff that it would behoove everyone to study.
Namaste`
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Leon C - macrobiotics posted by Leon Cavallo on August 13, 2000 at 00:15:57:
You and I, Leon, eat much alike and have realized how easy it is. I've been trying to convey that love (and the resulting benefits) to the BB members here for over a year. But it just seems so hard for most people. The addiction (Yes!) to sugar and junkfood is just too great. And there is so much mis-information showered on them daily that most people have lost their natural instinct to know what is good and what isn't.
If you read my post to Sabine (info on Dr. Bruker), you know that I ate VERY macrobiotically for many years (it was the in thing in the early eighties!) I still eat much like that with a few modifications. However, I never worried much about Yin and Yan. I don't like to "work" at what I should eat. I just went by the basic concept. Still have a couple of cook books.
As older BB member already know, my eating this way is the more remarkable in view of the fact that my husband of 40 years has never "eaten with me". He has stubbornly stayed with his SAD (standard American diet) and has much physical decline, as a result. (The ideal, test case :-) I guess) The older I get the more I'm thankful to have stayed the course. I'm full of energy, have never had a weight problem and none of the usual ailments of people my age.
Keep it up, Leon. I'm sure you're much younger than I am and having one person who is starting on that path and one who's been there may persuade others.
As always
Rosemarie
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