@Julie, Wonderful inspiring story, so happy you shared with everyone, and even better that your Mother is healed. Can’t wait to start the diet very soon….

What is her name I can’t seem to find her through google

Thanks, Anna! 🙂

Hi, Julie!

Thank you for sharing your mom’s story with us! 🙂 I am so happy the macrobiotic diet has helped your mom! It’s amazing! I used to keep the Ohsawa diet once a year but I stopped, don’t know why. Your story inspired me to do it again, as a prevention. Thank you!

I would like to share with you some of my Mom’s experiences in the past few years. First of all, we thanks one of her friends introduced her the “Oshawa diet method”. Otherwise, she would have died long time ago.
My Mom was really sick. She could not breath properly, exhausted all the time, so many symptom of which 6 doctors could not figure out what was wrong with her and they gave up. Finally, her friend recommended her to try Oshawa Diet Method. There are 7 diet levels that you should follow. The most difficult one was strictly eating only Brown Rice and sesame seeds with a little salt for at least 10 days, drink just a little pure water. We were so worried of seeing her kept losing weight….But miracle happened, on the 5th day she sit up slowly and walked around the house without help. The 10th day she talked and washed dishes …Now she is 84 yrs old living healthy.
Since then, we followed her diet method and it can cure almost any kind of diseases I believed so. For more information, please go on line searching for “Oshawa diet” it is part of Macrobiotics diet as well. Good luck !

Thank you, Roxie! :*

Hi, Elizabeth! Any healthy diet helps, but it’s best if you ask your doctor.

Thank you very much for your recommendations! 🙂

There are 2 helpful cookbooks: MUYUMI’S KITCHEN- Macrobiotic Cooking for Body and Soul which the author/chef calls her recipies “petit macro”. She provides easy recipies. Another excellent book to learn the basics to transition into macrobiotics is THE SELF-HEALING COOKBOOK-A Macrobiotic Primer for Healing the Body, Mind and Moods with Whole Natural Foods . Author- Kristina Turner

Hello, bless you for the path you walk. Here are a few resources you may find helpful and effective:
in addition to the brilliant book “the journey” ruxandra recommended.
– paida-lajin is a form of meridien energy activation to accelerate healing the body. Easy to find and there are affordable courses to self practice.
Pailala.org and many YouTube videos.

Wish you well and also hold you in prayer.

Hi, Lilac!

That’s my problem with the macrobiotic diet as well. I LOVE fruits! It’s something about their energy that’s not in line with the macrobiotic principles. Anyway, I don’t think that someone can have a 100% macrobiotic diet. That’s the diet for monks or really sick people who are on a treatment. If you still want to enjoy foods, a 50-60% macrobiotic diet should be enough.

What I found out is that it’s better to adapt a diet to your own needs. I can’t say my diet is macrobiotic but I learned a lot from this diet and still incorporate some macro principles into my lifestyle.

You should do the same. The macrobiotic diet has some really good principles. The ones that you feel are not suitable for you, you can modify as per your needs. So eat more fruits and only the kind of oils you like, but also eat a lot of fermented foods, whole grains and veggies. 🙂

As a vegan I almost already follow the macrobiotic diet. But I have two issues with it: First, why are fruits so downplayed? Everywhere one goes, we are told how good they are for our health. So many phytochemicals!

Second, corn and soy oils, and other seed oils, being omega-6 oils, are inflammatory. The anti-inflammatory oils are omega 3, (fish oil, flax oils), as well as the nut oils, including coconut. The only exception is GLA, which is an omega-6 oil that is anti-inflammatory (found in borage, black current seed, and evening primrose oils). Inflammation is more and more found to be at the root of a whole host of diseases. So to intentionally eat omega-6 oils seems misguided to me.

By the way my arthritis pain left me when I cut out omega-6 oils and other inflammatory foods with arachidonic acid.

So, if I were advising someone, I would steer in favor of the ANTI-inflammatory fats/oils, not the inflammatory ones recommended by the macrobiotic diet.

And as for fruit, I would not advocate eating it in excess because of the fructose, to which some persons are intolerant; but I would think seriously before putting it so low on the priorities. Also, it is important that one not make up for the omission of fruit with less desirable foods.

Thank you for your informative site.

Hi Susan. You could try eating more macro soups and smoothies and maybe puddings as well. Unfortunately, I don’t have any recipes.

I’m so sorry to hear this. I really hope the macrobiotic diet will help you. Have you tried other alternative methods as well? You should read the book “The Journey” by Brandon Bays. It really helped me a lot to heal some emotional problems which were manifesting themselves in the physical plane as well. I think you should fight this on many levels at once. The treatment, that you are currently on, the diet, and the spiritual-emotional level. You should check out the book and maybe it will help you too, as it helped me. It was pretty eye-opening. I’m sending good thoughts and prayers to you! Lots of love in your way and I relly hope you will get through this!