User:Pat Palmer/sandbox/todo list/Macrobiotics

Macrobiotics involves a set of choices in nutrition and lifestyle designed to bolster health and minimize the likelihood of illness. Macrobiotics is a small but resilient movement, led by a loosely connected coalition of trained counselors who learned from a lineage of teachers reaching back to Japan around 1900. These

teach nutritional principles, cooking skills, menu planning, and the use the diagnostic principles similar to those used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to monitor one’s self and diagnose one’s own physical and spiritual condition, adjusting cooking, diet and lifestyle for each individual’s need.

that includes a mostly plant-based, whole foods diet and also includes a view of food as medicine based on the energetics of foods and cooking styles as originally conceived in Traditional Chinese Medicine,

Macrobiotic coach:

Has a broad understanding of macrobiotic diet, cooking, and lifestyle practices —Helps people establish a clear direction for their health and life —Helps to improve life of oneself and others through creating order and structure in diet, cooking, and lifestyle practices —Provides support for creating order and structure —Can provide a combined plan for what to do and how to do it based on the goal —Can help with shopping, setting up a kitchen, menu-planning, and guidance on cooking and lifestyle practices —Can offer support and encouragement, positive guidance, and lifestyle practices

Macrobiotic counselor:

Able to offer guidance for those with cancer, advanced cardiovascular problems, HIV, Lyme disease, serious psychological, addiction or nervous system problems, and other immune issues.