[Peter25]

It's very interesting what you're saying Bruce,

I respect the way you're eating and I know it's your choice to follow this lifestyle. Still, reading this, I personally prefer to continue eating animal foods on a daily basis and have a 'normal' sexual energy just like most other boys and girls of my age. Especially considering that low testosteron values can lead to weaker bone-structure.

But then again, what is normal? It's the undeniable fact that some people in our western society have way to high sexual energy, leading to frustration, depression and in some cases rape. Perhaps you have to find your way somewhere in between these two extremes. Then it's just a matter of opinion what you consider as 'normal'. I can fully understand that you consider your own energy level as normal.

I find another example by looking at some of the traditional dutch farmers here in the rural area's. Many of these hard-working people have big strong bodies with thick arms and legs, thick bone-structure and lots of body-mass. They've been eating lots of meat, potatoes and dairy for many centuries, and I can pinpoint a few of them that have lived to above 90. These people would never have had this kind of strong constitution if they would have been raised macrobiotically. Then they would have looked more like the vietnamese farmers, with their thin arms and legs, and thin bone-structure. If they would engage into a hand-to-hand fight with these vietnamese, then one of them could easily take on three vietnamese. But if they would engage into a 10 mile run competition, the vietnamese would easily win.

So you see, I think it's very arrogant for someone to consider the macrobiotic diet as the only righteous diet. Not everything is better, some things are just different. It's where you put your priorities that is important. If Bo Engborg feels better by eating more eggs, then why critisize? If you realy think that everybody can balance him/herself without animal foods than you're simply executing macrobiotics as a belief, a religion. Some people have other needs in life. To fullfill those needs, you have to some degree push aside those macro-theories about climate and the 'wrongness' of certain foods, or else you might sicken yourself through arrogance.

I have seen people eating only plant-food for many years, and being completely healthy in their own way of life. I have great respect for that.

Take care,

Peter