We of the greater BOSTON area tend to believe that Michio Kushi as a chain smoker, since some of my friends who studied macrobiotics here in Brookline MA have seen Michio Kushi smoke. No one wants to be "taken as a fool". Maynard At 05:51 PM 9/28/00 -0700, Joel Strickland wrote: >I understand Ohzawa-san was a chain smoker. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Renga Rajan" <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:46 PM >Subject: Re: Macrobiotics > > > Gary > > > > >The whole idea of yin/yang and applying this to food is not > > >based on any sound scientific ideas or logic in my opin. > > > > Yin/Yang may be not definable precisely in scientific terms, however, they > > are based on good logic. They have something called '7 Theorams and 12 > > principles' and yin/yang is derived from them. If you have not read any > > books by George Ohzawa, then, I urge you to refer to them. It is certainly > > a good tool to understand ourselves in a better way. > > > > >>It won't make you feel tired like fruitarian diets. > > > > >I don't know what your definition of fruitarian is, but > > >the above statement is not true based on my experience. > > > > I used to live on fruits for some time. Fruits kept me hungry all the > > time, hich made me feel like tired. Since I was hungry all the time, > > I could not take my mind off from food related thoughts for long time. > > for me. May be, had I included some kind of nuts, > > it would have made me feel better. No doubt that fruit diet > > is very good to detox the body, but not more than that IMO. > > > > Renga