Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!ellen From: ellen@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.veg Subject: geo.osawa Message-ID: <815@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 17:21:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.815 Posted: Wed Aug 15 17:21:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 02:25:03 EDT Organization: UCLA CS Dept. Lines: 39 george osawa died of cancer: he smoked cigarettes like a fiend. he figured that, macrobiotically, cancer was expansive, smoking cigarettes was contractive, therefore, smoking cured cancer, and so he died. i was strictly macro for 1 yr. or so, and gradually moved into lacto-ovo vegetarianism, with fish a few times a year, no fowl and certainly no red meat. i felt that macro biotics was not truly nutritionally sound, tho' it had the potential to be (i do not believe that the human body can create all the protein it needs from brown rice alone) - (and so much of macrobiotics depends on faith and spiritual explanations rather than what i accept as scientific reality. i do have my own spiritual beliefs, which encompass some of what is included in macrobiotics (i consider myself somewhat of a closet Buddhist), but i do not reject modern science.). the philosophy of `Diet for a Small Planet' could be used for good protein combination within a macrobiotic diet. also, the choice of foods i found too limiting - and `heavy' macros tend to be rather exclusively Japanese in food style- (macrobiotics doesn't have to be that way, but tends to) i am a bit of a sensualist, and i like variety of taste and texture, as well as spices (which are acceptable on a Hindu/yoga based vegetarian diet) i had some intestinal problems from excesses of high-fiber carbohydrates. after i went off macrobiotics and into my own nutritionally researched vegetarianism i was the healthiest i've ever been. i am no longer a vegetarian - the spirit was willing, but the tastbuds got weak when i discovered Southeast Asian foods. i still eat little meat - 1 or 2 times a month at the very most, generally only in Thai or Indonesian restaurants, and chicken a bit more often, though not more than once a week. (after living in Southeast Asia and watching my sister-in-law kill her own chickens for dinner, i am now LESS squeamish than before) i have vegetarian Southeast Asian recipes if anyone's interested.