deus,
Why the restricted fruit regimen is a punishment for sins committed in a past life!
Actually, fruit in a temperate climate could be the balance for fish, for someone eating a diet centered mostly on whole grain cereals, temperate climate vegetables, sea vegetables, legumes, and so on.
Temperate climate fruits are considered yin while the tropical fruits are considered very yin.
Is your diet, your activity, your condition, your weather or any other contributing factor so yang that you feel like eating much fruit?
Healthy persons eating a balanced macrobiotic diet in a temperate climate might find that ocassionally having a cooked temperate climate fruit in a dessert might be a welcome change, but could find that often eating a raw fruit to be too much to handle.
So, again, it all depends on various things.
Southeast China is which city?
What's your average temperature, now?
I find it funny that you refer to yourself as a English type.
From what I hear and read, England nowdays, is such a diverse country that I imagine that one could have any type of body, skin color, and diet.
And, yes, when when you live for an extended time in a new climate, you need to make adjustments for that change.
Also, eating a lot of fruit on a macrobiotic diet could precipitate unhealthy conditions such as colds, influenza, even pneumonia.
Are you near the SARS outbreak?
Be careful and be well.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine