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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just a note about stomach reduction surgery. This surgery is a very drastic and permanent measure for what very well may be a temporary and reversible situation. The people I personally know who have had this surgery were originally told it could be reversed whenever they would elect to do so, only to later find out they were not [...]

Doesn’t everyone take their copy of the newest macrobiotic diet book to their cardiologist’s visit? Or do you just take the coumadin they suggest, and be done with it? Last month once again my husband and I were ever so grateful for our knowledge and 17 year long practice of following the macrobiotic diet and [...]

You’ve sipped Green tea at the Chinese and Japanese restaurants, usually in the teeny cups they keep refilling over and over again. And this may or may not affect your sleep depending on your other intake of caffeine for that day. Yes, there is caffeine in this tea, although it’s less than coffee, but present. [...]

You’re on a macrobiotic diet and you just ordered a beer? You’re having sake? But I thought you were on a macrobiotic diet? Did I see you having some wine, and you claim to eat so pure?Now I’m not going to believe anything you say about food anymore.  Do you hear comments like these? I [...]

Okay, you’re in the elevator, someone sees your newest Macrobiotic Diet book & asks what is Microbiotic about anyway, mispronouncing macrobiotics so it sounds like something in a lab researching mice? I’ve often been caught this way, so here are some answers you can adapt for your own comfort level. A way of eating based [...]

Summertime, and traveling other time zones may be on your agenda! Want to enjoy every vacation moment and eliminate jet lag? Sometimes a week ahead  of traveling to Europe we get to bed by 8 pm and awaken at 4 or 5 am so we’ll already be on European time. But this isn’t always easy, [...]