Bo,
You've answered part of my question, justifying your egg consumption but the rest of the question asks in what way do you consume eggs and how do you balance the yang energy in your diet and lifestyle?
Since the macrobiotic philosophy is all embracing (balancing yin and yang is possible in both wide and narrow approaches in which each person determines what is best for themselves), one can eat eggs and still maintain some form of equilibrium.
I'm interested in how YOU do it (do you drink coffee or beer, eat honey/maple syrup based desserts, drink/eat more raw fruit and vegetables, ingest psychoactive substances or what?).
Do you still eat whole grains, temperate climate vegetables, beans, sea vegetables, miso soup, etc.?
Eggzactly ( ;-) ) what do you do?
Peter,
While it is possible to eat a wide macrobiotic diet to include meat, dairy, and poultry, it is generally not recommended because of the difficulty of maintining one's equilibrium, and there are many more discharge/health problems to contend with.
You found that eating a strict macrobiotic diet like they serve and teach and the K.I. was detrimental to your health and well being and you've found that by eating more animal foods you have felt healthier, stronger, and balanced.
Are there any components of the macrobiotic diet and philosophy that you've found useful or have you returned to the Standard American Diet, wholeheartedly?
Have you read Annemarie Colbin's "Food and Healing:How what you eat determines your health, your well-being, and the quality of your life" (
http://www.foodandhealing.com/books.htm )?
She describes (in the book's Introduction) how her husband, John, suffered from eating a vegetarian diet and how by including fish, chicken, duck and an occasional steak in his diet, his moods and strength improved (and in other parts of the book, she describes a number of dietary practices i[n great detail] to choose from).
Of course you must have read "Nourishing Traditions:The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats"(
http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/S...lon/index.html ) by Sally Fallon, he Founder of A Campaign for Real Milk (
www.realmilk.com) and President of the Weston A. Price Foundation (
www.westonaprice.org).
Roger Windsor
, a longtime macrobiotic fringee and past publisher of the wholistic news magazine "Spectrum" featured an interview: "Breaking Free of Dietary Dogma" with Ms. Fallon in the magazine's September/October 1996 issue.
Rebecca Wood, who used to be heavily into macrobiotics now promotes the inclusion of meat, poultry, and dairy in her publications including "THE SPLENDID GRAIN: Robust Recipes for Grains with Vegetables, Fish, Poultry, Meat & Fruit" ( http://www.rwood.com/books.htm ).
While I avoid animal foods (except for an occasional pice of fish), I can see how others might feel the need to eat more meat, poultry, and dairy.
It's important to note however, that this is a macrobiotic forum where more emphasis is placed on the macrobiotic philosophy of yin and yang and it is probably the direction and practice of most of the subscribers of this list to follow a more plant based macrobiotic diet and I would be willing to guess that most here are happy with that direction, as I am.
If you are seeking conversations with many of the folks who have started eating more animal foods, and/or left macrobiotics or are considering it, why don't you start a discussion group over at Yahoo/Groups ( http://groups.yahoo.com/ )?
Thank you, very much.
With warm regards, peace and love,
Bruce Paine