The Macrobiotic Diet Video

The Macrobiotic Diet originated in Japan as a combination of Zen Buddhism and western vegetarianism. Learn how to make healthy food choices for the Macrobiotic Diet from a licensed dietician and nutritionist in this health and nutrition video.

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Balance foods
Include sea vegetables
Use whole grains
Use organics

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Christine E. Marquette is a registered and licensed dietician with the Austin Regional Clinic in Austin, TX. She conducts nutrition therapy for ages 2 and up for all dietary needs.

The Macrobiotic Diet originated in Japan. As it is practiced today, it's a combination of Zen Buddhism and western vegetarianism. The focuses of this particular plan are how your food is grown, how it is made, and how you eat. The principles behind this are balancing your foods between Yin and Yang. Yin foods would be cold, sweet, and passive, Yang foods would be hot, salty, and aggressive. For this reason, because you're trying to achieve balance, there are a few foods that are to be completely avoided because they are just too hard to balance. Things like alcohol, caffeine, sugar, very spicy foods, and some types of meats. Primarily for proteins, that will include small amounts of seafoods. The rest of the diet is going to be whole grains preferably organic foods, lots of vegetables, and being sure to include sea vegetables, a variety of sea vegetables. And when you include grains that are whole grain, again, you wanted something that's either a wheat or a rice type grain, again, preferably organic. As far as the preparation of it, very basic preparation methods, things like baking, steaming, and boiling are preferred, and as far as the actual eating, you're to be very mindful when you're eating. Make sure that you're eating slowly and eating in a relaxed state.

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