Do you know what macrobiotics are? You've probably heard that term many times, especially in these times, when people have started to pay more attention to how they eat and how they live... Generally, There are many prejudices and misconceptions about macrobiotics. People often ask me if it's the diet where you only eat rice, if it's Japanese cuisine with seaweed, if it's the diet where everything that's cooked is tasteless, if it's maybe some kind of sect...etc... Nothing like it!
Macro in Greek it means big or long, bios means life. Macrobiotics of course it's not just nutrition - although most people are first introduced to it through nutrition - because cooking macrobiotics is only one of its segments.
It's macrobiotics way or style of life, that relies more on tradition, therefore, in the way our ancestors lived and ate, who were much more in line with nature and its laws. Of course, this does not only apply to our tradition, it can be Russian, Greek or Japanese, etc..., but every nation has in its tradition respect for nature, the environment and nutrition in accordance with the geographical area of life.
Macrobiotics takes into account energy, that is, the forces that rule in nature and govern the cosmos, planet Earth and us.. Macrobiotic diet is i energetske and it is distinguishes the most from other ways of living and eating. So it's macrobiotics principle, and not some established dogma that is immutable. Macrobiotic nutrition takes into account the climatic conditions in which we live, which means that it is cooked differently in the tropics and differently in a moderate continental climate or in the far north of the planet. She also takes care of it what kind of work we do (is it more mental or physical), what age and gender we are, and takes into account io specific individual needs. So it is macrobiotics very logical in each of its segments, let's say when we are cold we take foods that warm us and vice versa, when we are slowed down in any sense, we eat food that will speed up our rhythm, etc...
So, macrobiotics represents the collective wisdom and universal heritage of humanity, and for me and like-minded people, it represents a way to achieve spiritual and physical health, that is, harmony with nature. The macrobiotic spirit is inseparable from serving and helping others and, ultimately, society in general.
Cvijeta Mesic, Authorized instructor macrobiotic cooking by School of Healing Arts, San Diego, USA
