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Macrobiotic diet

Many who tried this diet, say that it is possible to follow this food only if completely to pass to a macrobiotic way of life.

You should not be afraid that there is not a lot of macrobiotic recipes. Actually, now they are enough on the Internet, and all of them very appetizingly look.

It is a little history
For the first time the macrobiotic diet appeared at the end of the last century when the Japanese medical officer (Sagen Ishizuka) created the theory of food and medicine on the basis of traditional east diet. Conclusions of the doctor became history as the theory of longevity.

In brief the macrobiotic diet can be described so: all not refined products, almost without animal products.

The word "macrobiotic" comes from the words "macro" (big) and Bios (life). For this reason this diet is called "art of big life", in sense of "long and full" life.

Main products of a diet
They are illustrated by a special macrobiotic pyramid.



And are deciphered as follows:

1. Grain has to make 50-60% of your food. Brown and wild rice, barley, a millet, whole wheat, etc. are recommended.

2. Vegetables are sleduyushcheynaiboly an important part of yours of macro food. Boiled and crude vegetables have to make not less than 30% of your diet. Any greens (except spinach), local vegetables and seasonal vegetables are recommended.

3. Beans, especially haricot. Haricot has to be about 10% of your food. Special attention integral bean, such as lentil, chick-pea and haricot. Tofu is also the good choice as it contains a natural probiotics and helps digestion.

4. Fruit – quite rare product in macro diets. They are ideal as snack or desserts, but they cannot be eaten more often than 3 times a week. Tropical fruits, such as bananas or pineapples, it is necessary to avoid.

5. Sea vegetables (Seaweed) - one more important part of your macro food. Seaweed are vitamin-rich also minerals, and perfectly maintain health.

6. Soups are very important part of the balanced diet macro and have to be on a table every day. Soups miso and also soups on the basis of grains, vegetables, seaweed, beans are recommended.

7. The fermented products is ideal, you can also taste marinated vegetables which bring many good probiotics in food.

8. Seasonings / Oils. Among oils the best choice is sesame oil and corn oil. The recommended seasonings: sea salt, brown rice vinegar, tamar, takhin, vegetarian broth, dried mushrooms, etc.

9. Fish. The macrobiotic diet allows to eat light meat of fish 1-3 times a week.

10. The least processed products are recommended.



Three main principles of a macrobiotic diet:

1. Main products: whole grain, vegetables, haricot
2. By-products: fruit, drinks (tea, vegetable juice), oils, nuts, seeds, fish
3. The forbidden products:
- any food containing the white, brown and refined sugar
- artificial sweeteners,
- fruit juice
- milk, cheese, cream, butter, vegetable oil, yogurt, ice cream – with very big restrictions
- the refined oils,
- caffeine,
- white rice and white flour,
- foodstuff with chemicals: preservatives, dyes.

Menu sample per day

Breakfast
- 2 cups of porridge
- 2 slices of whole-grain bread with 2 tablespoons of apple jam
- Green tea

Lunch
- Sushi, cucumber, sauerkraut
- Boiled salad with sauce from tofu
- Green tea

Afternoon snack
- Half a glass of mix from roasted almonds, seeds of sunflower and raisin

Dinner
- 1 bowl of soup miso
- The baked fish with rice
- Quarter of a cup of grated daikon
- Boiled garden cress, carrots and onions sauce
- Dessert: cake from couscous with pear sauce
- 1 glass of the made coffee.



Macrobiotic nutritious principles:
- Enjoy food and be grateful for food.
- Eat seasonal and local products.
- Be attentive to quantity and quality.
- Avoid dietary extremes.
- Chew food carefully.
- Reduce the volume of what you eat.

Macrobiotic vital principles:
- Be generous.
- Bear responsibility and recognize mistakes.
- Open for yourself life by means of personal experience.
- Lean on the intuition.
- Be friendly.
- Respect everything living beings.
- Be attentive to ecology.
- Practice of economical life.
- Have sense of humour.
- Practice of a self-reflection.
- Improve art of life.

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