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Hi Joreon. Standard macrobiotic practice does not include refined sugar in the diet on a regular basis. Maybe when you go out to eat or holiday meal. Too yin -- robs calcium stores to buffer. Very extreme food -- tropical origin, refine, not whole. Make bread without sugars if you want to be healthy and have good balance of yin/yang.
Also whole grains are most perfect of all foods (but not totally pefect). We must eat whole foods as it makes strong energy which makes blood, cells, tissue, organs, muscle, thinking, etc.
Whole foods = whole body, whole thinking. When you eat bread all the time the energy is squashed out when it is ground into flour and quickly oxidizes. Less chewing is required for bread eating and high gluten in bread makes intestines weak. Many people, especially Americans have bad habit of putting a spread on the bread -- mostly sugar type (jellY0 or high fat like butter, cheese, peanut butter, etc. This adds to problem of too high protein as well. Thinking becomes dull.
With whole grain eating energy is made clean and efficient. You can have better sense of life's wholeness. Not broken dreams. Once in a while bread is OK. Don't need to get too strict then there is unhappiness.
I hope this helps.
In peace,
Roy
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