April 17, 2013 – ohmygosh! my half-birthday! What a perfect time to think about cooking to Look Fit & Fabulous! Keeping our health, exuberance and ability for the activities we enjoy as well as helping others as we age gracefully! Setting that mid-year purpose – asking are we on-track for all we wish to accomplish [...]

There is a magical remedy drink within the Macrobiotic Diet that comes up again and again. I love sharing it with clients, and learning how much it benefits them afterwards. Ume Sho Kuzu which Mr. Kushi and Alex Jack alphabetically suggest for 41 conditions from anemia to upper digestive cancers, and other conditions in their [...]

Today’s many young vegetarians amaze me. The conscious choice of the young generation who avoid eating meat and meat products grows each year. They are quite informed on their own, and many are choosing this way of eating even though it differs from their parents. They’ve learned some incredible statistics about water and grain being [...]

We changed Fred’s St. Joseph Hospital Pre-Op Room to the Smoochey-Choochey Cranio-Sacral & Shiatsu Massage Palm Healing Institute, or Let Me See Honey, How I Best Prepare Your Healing this Emergency Hernia 3rd Time-around Surgery. We surely weren’t planning this for the Father-of-the-Bride with our daughter’s engagement party just 3 weeks out!  And a 5-hour [...]

Macrobiotic Diet considers better & healthy food choices instead of old food cravings. Listing healthier substitutions, try these favorite dishes we teach in our macrobiotic cooking classes. Once familiar with these ingredients & dishes, you quickly overcome old cravings & eating habits. When craving Oily Foods:   Fried Tofu, Tempeh, Sauteed Vegetables, Fried Rice, Fried [...]

Shakespeare’s Juliet asks What’s in a name, right, and we have all these dieting approaches to health! Call it Vegan, Gluten-Free, Macrobiotics! I’ll take all the above, and let me share with you what makes Macro different from other vegetarian diets. Macrobiotics is based on the energetics of the food. This is to say, on [...]

by Fred Rueff Macrobiotic Diet is your healthy workout – lifting pots, lugging shopping bags, & muscle toning as you’re chopping veggies! Now your actual cooking supplements your physical workout, & healthy eating benefits double! Who would ever think cooking’s a workout? Well, you just better believe it! Welcome to my kitchen, designed for cooking [...]

How do you judge portions of grain, veggies, soup, sea vegetables, beans and all the other vegetables on the Macrobiotic Diet suggested listing? Well, let’s see how that pie chart translates to your dinner plate? If you’re figure 50% grain and your plate swarms half full of rice, it’s way too much. Why? Because these [...]

One of the most important questions is, where do I go for macrobiotic cooking classes? You want the most experienced teacher you can find. At Atlanta Macrobiotics we are lucky bringing Warren Kramer 4 times a year, and cooking with Warren and his delightful wife, Fatim, during the week they are in Atlanta. So what’s [...]

Macrobiotic home remedy classes are just as about as important as learning miso soup, brown rice, beans and & greens! LIke the Crown Jewel of Macrobioitics! Why? Remedies are amazing combinations of macro food already on the shelves of our kitchen. Only, we might never think of preparing them to help us overcome fever, pain, hasten cuts [...]