MACROBIOTICS
Would you comment on the efficacy of the macrobiotic diet? Are there studies of the diet by people other than macrobiotic disciples?
Georges Osawa in The Philosophy of Oriental Medicine states, "and we shall demonstrate the macrobiotic preparation of delicious and esthetic meals that cure all illnesses (present or future) giving at the same time longevity and youthfulness to everybody, at no expense and with no special training."
An article in the March 13, 1967, Journal of the American Medical Association reported the case of a thirty-six-year-old woman who was found near death from the effects of diet number seven, the strictest and "purest" diet in the macrobiotic system. She became interested in macrobiotics in the spring of 1964 and gradually eliminated milk and meat from her diet. In October, her menstrual periods ceased. By November, 1964, her diet was limited to brown rice, pressure-cooked or boiled, salted and sprinkled with sesame seeds. She also ate some ground oatmeal, cornmeal, buckwheat, and bread made from cooked rice. Her maximum liquid intake was twelve ounces per day in the form of soup or tea, never water. She remained on this diet until her admission to the hospital eight months later.
Some of the symptoms which developed were weakness, fatigue, weight loss of thirty-five pounds, purple and brown spots on her body and face, swellings on the joints, painful bleeding gums, and a greenish vaginal discharge.
Her symptoms were due solely to malnutrition, especially scurvy, a disease of ascorbic acid or Vitamin C deficiency, the prevention and cure of which was known in the sixteenth century.
Many fad diets are of no apparent physiological harm and may even contribute to good health, but the most rigid of the macrobiotic diets appear to be dangerous. Several deaths have been reported resulting from their use.
Starvation commonly produces a delirious condition, including hallucinations. The ecstatic state reported by many who follow macrobiotic and similar diets may have a simple explanation.
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