Dixon
04-09-2015, 09:23 PM
NOTE: I'm posting this as a favor to my dear friend Dan, who is not so computer savvy. My posting this should NOT be construed as my endorsing macrobiotics. I don't know enough about the subject to know whether to endorse it, although if the discussion of teeth below is any indication of the quality of the evidence, the prospects are not good. --Dixon
[to Barry or his moderators: If this is deemed too commercial to be posted by one who doesn't have a commercial Wacco membership, feel free to delete it with no hard feelings and with my apologies for any inconvenience.]
Peace Through Harmony
About Macrobiotics
The term macrobiotics was used by Hippocrates to describe the longest lived people of his time. In Greek, macro means large (or great), and bio means life.
The macrobiotic approach to food and life is based on the premise that people are beings of nature and as such function best when living in harmony with it. In order to understand our place in nature we only have to look as far as our teeth. We naturally have 32 teeth, 20 designed to grind food such as whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds; 8 teeth are incisors, designed to cut vegetables; and 4 are canine teeth (smaller than most carnivores). From this, the macrobiotic conclusion is our diet should be 50%-60% grain, 25%-30% vegetables, and no more than 12% animal food (such as white meat fish). We round out the diet with 10% plant protein (beans, nuts and seeds), 5% soups, and 5% sea vegetables, with a small amount of fermented food (pickles).
[to Barry or his moderators: If this is deemed too commercial to be posted by one who doesn't have a commercial Wacco membership, feel free to delete it with no hard feelings and with my apologies for any inconvenience.]
Peace Through Harmony
About Macrobiotics
The term macrobiotics was used by Hippocrates to describe the longest lived people of his time. In Greek, macro means large (or great), and bio means life.
The macrobiotic approach to food and life is based on the premise that people are beings of nature and as such function best when living in harmony with it. In order to understand our place in nature we only have to look as far as our teeth. We naturally have 32 teeth, 20 designed to grind food such as whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds; 8 teeth are incisors, designed to cut vegetables; and 4 are canine teeth (smaller than most carnivores). From this, the macrobiotic conclusion is our diet should be 50%-60% grain, 25%-30% vegetables, and no more than 12% animal food (such as white meat fish). We round out the diet with 10% plant protein (beans, nuts and seeds), 5% soups, and 5% sea vegetables, with a small amount of fermented food (pickles).