Re: fruit
deus,
Are you getting any naturally pickled or fermented foods in your diet?
Pickles after a meat can help alleviate the desire for desserts which when eaten often can contribute to an expanded and acidic condition.
If you are eating fruit during the wintertime it is smarted to eat it cooked with a pinch of sea salt.
Bananas and other tropical fruit have more potassium and/or sugars and/or acidity, and doesn't make a good balance for a more standard macrobiotic diet in a temperate climate.
If you have tremendous transmutation power and can (and continue to) have a good condition after eating these fruits, then more power to you.
Perhaps you have a lot of residual yang, from your past diet, or you have a more yang environment or activity, I don't know but if you can avoid suffering from various maladies and conditions while continuing to include these fruits with your macrobiotic diet, then so be it!
Oh, by the way, are you eating any fish, eggs, dairy, or meat?
And what is your consumption of salt?
Which macrobiotic cookbooks have you read/used?
Can you leave town or have you effectively been Shanghaied? :-)
I may be unavailable for a few days as we are moving andmay have a temporary lack of Internet service.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine
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