[neon]

When someone was MB for a lifetime, but still gets it, my only answer can be genetics and environmental causes.

The problem is, what eating macrobiotic does mean. There can be as many explanations as many people on this planet. I have read that Aveline wasn't very strict with eating proper macrobiotic, as well as Michio, maybe as well as Patrick McCarthy, who knows - or does anyone really know? Does anyone has good information about their eating habits? Did they adhere the typical macrobiotic food percent proportions? Which is very hard to do constantly and we all deflect to some extent. And the measure and frequency of this extent is the cause of our illness? Did they craved for exact type of foods and were they eating them, even if it wasn't macrobiotic food?

Maybe the macrobiotic is working always right, but we are just average humans and not robots and our bigist problem is discipline?
Just my thoughts here.

I also think a lot about these things:
I am reading about Maya civilization now. They were eating 80% corn, the rest was beans, vegetables, fruits, seeds. They were in 99% contact with the Nature. They were physicaly working, cooking on the fire, no polution in this Age, no radio, mobil signals etc. The life span was 45-65 years. I know it's a nice age. But I still can't understand, how it is, that people in this modern time, eating all the junk food, breathing poluted air, sitting in the office and watching tv at night are living till 70+. It says me something about the possibilities of our body. It can adapt to any kind of food and still be alive for a long time.

Maybe I shouldn't post speculations like these here. Speculations that seems to attack on macrobiotic. But it's not my reason, to attack it. I would like the opposite, to defend and have very good proofs about its advantage. Many friends ask me, how is it that Michio has cancer, that someone eating macrobiotic has passed on at 50 years, that people in the previous centuries were living shorter time than we are today with all the junk foods etc.