[garymill]

I would highly advise purhasing a copy of the new #7 diet book that just came out.

For those who plan to use macrobiotic principles with a certain consistency in their lives, this book clearly defines a #7 diet as an elimination diet to be used only for a specific period of time and for the purpose of removing excesses and toxins from the body. Historically, this is most important, because mistakes in application have been made in North America at times when the #7 diet was followed either as an elimination diet for exaggerated periods of time or as a health maintenance diet, which it is not. Full Details on the book here