Of what the macrobiotic one consists?

Macrobiótica was born in Japan thanks to George Oshawa and it is based on the search of the physical and emotional balance through balance in the diet. It divides foods:

• Yang foods: if its “energy” is hot, tonificante and contractive like the cereals, vegetables, fish, meat, the salt, vegetables by root…
• Yin foods: when its energy is cold, dispersing and debilitating like the sugar, the honey, milky (milk, cheeses and yogurts) the fruits (mainly the tropical ones like Banana, Handle, Kiwi, Papaya, Pineapple…), vegetables like potatoes (Popes), eggplant, tomato and beet, the alcohol.

Advantages of the macrobiotic one

• The macrobiotic one eliminates of the diet all the products refinings like the white sugar, the white bread, the industrial inlays, meat, candies, the spirits and the industrial refreshments.
• It introduces the Marine Seaweed in the diet, not like something precise and exotic but like part of the daily menu.
• It reclaims cereals again as it leaves from the diet and mainly it introduces the concept of which they must of integral and being cultivated without pesticides.
• It adapts the diet to each person according to his physical constitution, the country where it lives and the station of the year.
• It unites to the diet natural remedies and therapies like the Shiatsu, consequently you begin by the diet but you end up yourself putting completely in the world of the Natural Medicine.
• The macrobiotic one looks for the emotional and spiritual balance. The diet is a little the conscious excuse for hacerte that we needed to balance at all the levels to live happy.

Disadvantages of the macrobiotic one

• Risk of Anemia since with the exception of something of fish, as norm does not take anything from protein animal (neither meat, nor fished nor milky eggs nor).
• Taken care of with the B12 vitamin since although in theory it is in the Tempeh, the Miso (soybean ferments) and in the Espirulina alga at the time of the truth many of these products have little amount or are insufficient for some people.
• Diminution of the muscular mass. There are people who thin much but mainly they lose muscular mass since or they take little vegetal protein or its body does not assimilate it or.
• Risk of convertirte in a rare tiny beast. The fact of not taking salads, neither bread nor white rice, nor fruit like norm, nor pizzas, nor eggs, nor meat, nor milky limits much your social life and familiar for that reason the majority finishes limited its friendly and known macrobiotic.
• Everything is Made in Japan. “Miso, sauce of soybean, seaweed, tempeh, tofu, shiitake, daikon, umeboshi, seitán, umesu, genmaisu, sake, mirin…”.

The truth is that although Macrobiótica says that there are to eat the one of our earth with this diet we eat the one of hers.

Example of a menu in macrobiotic

Breakfast
An infusion of tea of three years (tea Bancha, a very smooth tea without theine) or tea Mu (a combination of sixteen plants) with a rice or millet cream (to put a cup of rice or millet with four or five of water and to slowly cook it during four or five hours. Soon to serve it with a little sesame superficially. Also they are possible to be cooked with a little cinnamon and of you happen).
As alternative of the cream of rice or millet usually one takes cakes from rice with sesame puree or some paté vegetal.

Lunch (noon)
Of first Soup of Miso that is a vegetable soup with seaweed and a salty condiment of soybean.
From second a combined plate is taken where usually there is integral Rice boiled with a piece of Kombu alga and another part of vegetal protein (vegetables, Seitán or gluten of wheat, Tofu or “cheese” of soybean, Tempeh or fermented soybean).
As last a little compote can be taken from apple (the always cooked fruit) or a little pie made with a base of flakes of cereals or semolina of maize or wheat (cous-cous) with gelatin of fruit done with alga Agar-agar.
Normally a cup usually is not taken dessert but from tea Bancha.

Tea
A tea with cakes of rice and a little vegetal jam or paté.

Dinner
A soup (that can be of vegetables with Shiitake, that are a Japanese fungus, and daikon, that is like a very great turnip but).
Of second usually one takes estofadas vegetables to the steam or.
If much appetite is had it can accompany with rice or a little protein.

Observations on the macrobiotic one

The macrobiotic one has many advantages but well-taken care of with the disadvantages. It is of diets where it is more important to advise to us by somebody to the maximum the absolute confidence, to avoid fanaticisms (often one falls in the competition of a to see that is more puristic) and mainly be made from time to time some analytical one to see the levels of Hierro and B12.

In all the cases we recommended to him to consult with its doctor, therapist or another professional of the competent health. The information contained in this article has an informative function merely.