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Roy, it seems to me that you're basing your beliefs on macro theories and not on what's going on in the real world. This is a message send to another discusion list.
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It seems that a new (or maybe not so new) problem is arising in long term followers of the macrobiotic diet -- osteoporosis. Several long term advocates of the diet are suffering from the problem, some quite severely. Broken ribs and thin bones have been reported. What I find intereting is that some are choosing to follow even more strictly the very diet that caused the problems in the first place. Is there no sanity left?
One very prominent long term macrobiotic advocate suffered multiple fractures of the ribs, spine and feet, his wife suffered broken ribs in a light exercise class. Now understand we are not talking about someone who was practising macrobiotics in a casual fashion, these are serious students and teachers, nationally known.
As I understand it they are now taking calcium, magnesium and other supplements and are thankfully improving dramatically. My advice would be to not expect any public recognition of problems caused by following the macrobiotic diet from counselors or teachers. All you will hear is that who ever is suffering from the problem did not follow advice correctly.
Vernon
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I myself suffered from severe osteoperosis after following the strict kushi-diet. And no, I did NOT do anything wrong with my cooking. I walked one hour each day and didn't engage in any abnormal physical activities.
And what about all the countless macro-children here in Holland who suffered or suffer from weak bones or deficiencies in their growth? Countless parents were forced to switch to a diet with dairy out of pure desperation. I've read even one of the hardcore-macro's admit that most of the macro-children that were brought up with dairy looked healtier than most of those that had not taken dairy. But many people are just too ingorant and forget that despite how nice all those macro-theory-books are, the most important thing here is practise, not theory.
Peter
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