macrobiotic not an always and forever diet??

i read some new ( maybe not new to u) but to me is about that macrobiotic is not an always and forever diet.

Here it comes, but i don't understand. I heard people living on macrobiotics for years??? some one explain to me what this guy's intenions is:

It's from disease of the month

March 1997 OBESITY AND WEIGHT LOSS. Despite all the efforts of the US Government and various related concerns involved in persuading the people of the US to lose weight, their efforts have come to nothing. The general trend among the population is for an average increase in weight over the last ten years and the situation is unlikely to improve because none of the august agencies, be they medical, governmental or commercial has the slightest idea of how to deal with this problem and therefore cannot give the accurate information the public needs, which if acted upon, (and I grant you, that is a HUGE if), would easily deal with this problem. I remember reading an interview in the San Francisco Chronicle over a decade ago with a physician who specialized in obesity. He gave an interesting analogy; every twenty pounds a person is overweight forces an increase on the workload of the heart which is equivalent to a person shoveling five tons of coal by hand a day! He went on to say that if people brought their weight down to within the ranges established by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (http://www.metlife.com) then people would increase their average lifespan by seven years, and in the population at large success in getting obesity under control would mean a drastic reduction in the rates of cancer, heart disease and other degenerative diseases.

Now, macrobiotically speaking the ideal weight for a person's height, age and body frame as established by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company are 10-20 pounds too high. I checked them out and my range is 145-155 and I weigh 135. They say that a person's body mass index is okay at 26 and mine is 19. When I started eating macrobiotically I weighed 195 and I lost 60 pounds in the first four months and this was 21 years ago. I have maintained that same weight for twenty one years, and I now do not have any restrictions on what I eat. The fact is, no matter what I eat, or how much, I cannot gain weight. In other words I have eaten nothing but pizza, chocolate cake, turkey sandwiches, chicken, milk, butter, cream, eggs etc., etc for ten days at a time and I did not experience anything untoward. Of course, everybody reading this is now saying to themselves, "I thought this was supposed to be a website on macrobiotics and the macrobiotic diet is only whole grains and vegetables and what is this about eating chocolate cake and pizza?" This website is about macrobiotics, among other things, you are correct in assuming that, but it is entirely incorrect to say a macrobiotic diet is always and forever eating nothing but whole grains and vegetables. That is a misunderstanding of macrobiotic principles largely perpetrated by people who do not understand them. This is unfortunate. In actual fact, this has been a fundamental teaching in macrobiotic thinking for at least 35 years, because George Ohsawa, who is widely regarded as the prime initiate of macrobiotic practice in the modern era wrote in a book entitled 'Guidebook for Living', (1967,George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation, Oroville, CA): " Whereas long ago I could not smoke or drink, I can now do either as I like. I enjoy any cuisine...Western, Chinese, Japanese or Indian. I like fruit, candy, chocolate, and whiskey very much. If I choose to use these things now, I am able to avoid harm because I can balance yin and yang. I have told you this because many people think that macrobiotics is a twentieth century variety of stoicism. BUT HE WHO CANNOT DRINK, SMOKE, EAT FRUIT OR MEAT IS A CRIPPLE. (His emphasis) Macrobiotics is a way to build health that enables us to eat and drink anything we like whenever we like without being obsessed or driven to do so. Macrobiotics is not a negative way of living...it is positive, creative, artistic, religious, philosophical."

To return to the question of obesity and weight loss, I received an e-mail from a man who had managed to find my website and informed he had not started eating macrobiotically because he was sick but for reasons of creative personal growth (which is highly unusual) and that he had lost 40 pounds in the nine months since he had started; I saw a lady for a follow up consultation a few days ago and she informed me she had lost 27 pounds in the first four months. Let me put it this way- it is more unusual for people NOT to lose weight on a macrobiotic diet and this is usually because they are eating too much grains and salty foods for their constitution. However, I must emphasize that it is not the diet that is so much responsible for the weight loss as much as it is the digestive system's response to going on the strict macrobiotic diet(which everyone, no matter how healthy they think they are, will benefit from doing for three years minimum), along with doing the Ginger Compress regimen. Briefly, the human digestive system responds to the adoption of the strict macrobiotic diet alone by going through three distinct processes simultaneously - purging of all the poisons, stagnated fecal matter and chronic mucus build up which have accumulated in the digestive canal over the years and decades of eating hamburgers, cheeseburgers, meat, eggs and soft drinks, alcohol etc.(it is estimated the average person has 7-25 pounds of this gunk in their intestines, which includes up to four pounds by weight of pathogenic bacteria, spirochetes, worms, viruses et al.); the rehabilitation of the destroyed mucus epithelial lining, and the revitalization of the stagnated dynamics of the activities of the digestive system. The fourth, and most significant, necessary, process to help bring about the completion of the healing process is only accomplished by doing the Ginger Compress regimen. This is the dissolution of the chronic intestinal stagnation, which is the accumulation of stagnated toxic mucus in the cells of the intestinal walls. If this substance is not removed by doing the ginger compresses (and it can only be removed by doing the ginger compresses) then it is NOT possible for the body heal itself thoroughly. In the context of the topic under discussion, obesity and weight loss, then. If a macrobiotic dietary program suitable for the individual in question is adopted and they also do the ginger compress regimen, this means when the time comes for expanding dietary choices to include foods that are not considered appropriate when on a macrobiotic dietary program appropriate for the purpose of supporting the body in healing itself, when one does in fact begin to add chicken and meats and dairy food, sugar and chocolate etc., then we do not put back on the weight we lost. This is not the case with the weight loss programs you see advertised everywhere. Nor do we get sick again if it is the fact that in the individual in question their sickness is the result of years of poor eating. It is actually unlikely that a poor diet alone can be considered as the sole cause of any disease. There are many possible factors involved in the development of diseases in addition to poor dietary habits which are mainly spiritual in nature.

These include but are not limited to emotional state, attitude, world-view, habits of thinking, morals and ethics, religiosity, karma, etc. In conclusion, if we wish to lose weight and keep it off permanently then it is clear to me the best approach is to adopt a macrobiotic dietary program and do the Ginger Compress regimen. Again, and this bears repeating every time the subject comes up, it is not recommended anyone do these without having access to someone with personal experience. It does absolutely no good to talk to someone who has not personally experienced doing the Ginger Compress regimen and who is not themselves eating macrobiotically, and has done so for at least three years. The advice and opinions of such people is worthless at best, and positively harmful at worst, at least with respect to health and healing

Is there a way to apply the ginger compress for the intestinal cleansing? I know it is applied on localized spots of the body where needed, but have no idea how to apply it for cleansing.