[Mara]

A raw vegan diet is inappropriate for most people, Johnnyzen, and certainly is not macrobiotic.

It seems to me that the Atkins diet and the raw foods diet are at opposite, extreme ends of the diet spectrum, and they both incur negative effects upon the individual. Any raw food enthusiasts I have known have been chronically depressed and fatigued as well as prone to catching every cold or flu that comes around. They follow the diet with a religious zeal and no interest in common sense.

The macrobiotic diet is the middle way and the only dietary way of realizing one's true humanity, and one's health in relation not only to diet but to the climate, the seasons and a multitude of other factors yin and yang.