[anniek]

Diabetes is a complex and life threatening disease. Type II, usually brought on by poor diet and excess weight is definitely reversible, not only through macrobiotics, but with a change to any no sugar, low-fat, whole grain diet, along with exercise and weight reduction.

Type I is much more complex issue, and it is vital not to discontinue the use of insulin to manage the condition. With macrobiotics, the insulin use should become less and less.

Will he be totally cured? I don't know, but I feel that stating diabetes can be cured by macrobiotics, gives the whole movement a negative reputation. I cannot even mention macro to my mother-in-law because her friend died of lymphoma despite following an exacting macrobiotic diet.

Macrobiotics is not just a diet. It is a way of changing your life, avoiding electric cooking, getting outside with your feet in the grass, relaxing, exercising, meditating. Get a book and read more.

I feel macrobiotics pushes its movement based on miracle cures through macrobitics, when in fact people following macrobiotics do die of diseases like cancer. Perhaps it could be would gain a more popular following if it sold itself as a diet and lifestyle to improve the quality of everyday life. Annie