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and dairy products, fatty and oily foods, and overly refined,
chemicalized, industrialized, and artificial food items. The
increase in physical and psychological degeneration which we
are experiencing is due primarily to the changing dietary
patterns of modem civilization.
Pr. Ohsawa found the solution for this problem in the
modification of a way of life in which the daily diet is
brought into a more moderate balance. He classified human
constitutions and foods into two categories which have
antagonistic and complemental characteristics, y in and yang.
The terms yin and yang do not represent certain phenomena,
nor are they pronouns of certain things. They exist in
everything and are showing relative tendencies compared
dynamically and therefore to understood comprehensively. If
yin and yang in our physical and mental constitutions are
in balance or harmony each other, we are healthy and happy.
On the contrary they are unbalanced, we become sick and
unhappy. The Sta n d a rd M acrobiotic D iet is based on these
principles and consits of the following food groups.
1. 50% - 60% whole cereal grains (rice, wheat, barley, com,
etc...) and their products;
2. 5% - 10% (one or two cups or small bowls) of soup, with
land and sea vegetables as the main ingredients;
3. 20% - 30% locally available vegetables (kombu, nori,
wakame, hiziki, agar - agar, dulse, caragheen, etc...), the
majority of which are cooked;
4. 5% - 10% beans and sea vegetables, as sources of high
quality protein and minerals;
5. Natural sea salt, vegetable oils (sesame oil, com oil,
etc...), roasted seaweed power, and soy sauces (shoyu, miso,
tamari), for condiment and seasoning;
6. Grain and herbal beverages such as whole rice tea,
roasted bean tea, cereal coffee, three-year tea (bancha), lotus-
root tea, etc...
In addition, these foods may be occasinally supplemented,
if desired, with fish and seafood, locally available fruits in
season.

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