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Ohio. Macrobiotics, vegetarians, wild animals, zooplankton, and almost every species on earth can and do get cancers and other serious maladies during their lifetimes. Millions of species have died off, even before the coming of modern technology. The factors are varied and numerous. They include climate, environmental pollution, radiation from nuclear fallout, improper eating habits, genetic predisposition, evolutionary trends, global warming, ice ages, war, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, social stress, etc., etc.
Some macrobiotics, but not all, have held to George Ohsawa's belief that all disease is curable (sometimes in as little as 10 days) with proper food selection and cooking. This, of course is far from the truth and George Ohsawa died of unnatural causes before he was 70. You mentioned Aveline and others as well that have died prematurely, and there are dozens of others. Most of those who follow this belief that macro is a cure-all are living in a world of make-believe; at best macro is the way of balance but there are are some invisible factors that are beyond our abilities to change in this lifetime. We all come to macrobiotics for different reasons at different times in our lives. Some are very unhealthy to begin with. My blind friend came to macro after a stroke and had diabetes. His diabetes was cured but optical nerve could be repaired.
A lot of the longevity factor comes from how you were fed while still in the uterus and also early years. We are a product of our ancestors blood and the environment. We can change only so much. Life is so fragile. But over and above all this we need to accept that we can change and control only so much of what we take into our blood. Macrobiotics offers the best opportunity to make the best form of balance of health. WE need also to realize that macrobiotics does NOT mean only LONG LIFE but also WIDE LIFE, which means quality of living and not to worry about too many things, be happy, accept fate, enjoy what the earth offers and appreciate/respect all life.
Many hard-line macros like to use the excuse when another macro gets some disease, that they did not follow macro correctly, or that they were arrogant, etc. This is simply not the truth and we see wild creatures living how they have been for millenia but dying from drinking bad water, from slash burning of forests, from industrial smoke emmissions, etc. Even though they and we try to live a natural life, there are some things that are beyond our control. So when your fiedns ask about premature macro deaths, you say, "yeah, food does help to a great degree but not 100 %, there are numerious other factors that are at play here."
ANother case in point: A friend of mine has a daughter that was born without the cochilla in the ear and is deaf. Before I knew this I made a suggestion to use certain external macrobiotic remedy as well as dietray suggestions. The mother asked: "will this make the cochilla grow back?" Reality teaches us hard lessons. I hope you have a long and wide life. Not all macros follow the same belief system, nor agree with the HEROIC "macro can fix anything" approach. Time will soon prove them wrong. I know this very well.
In peace, Roy
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