The Self-Healing Cookbook: A Macrobiotic Primer for Healing Body, Mind and Moods With Whole Natural Foods

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Summary: Excellent Introduction to Macrobiotics
Review: For those interested in macrobiotics, I recommend this book. In addition to recipies, the book is packed with easy to understand information on macrobiotics and offers helpful suggestions and easy "experiments" with food. The authour is encouraging, and suggests keeping a journal. The information she presents will answer a lot of "why" questions and she offers a comphrensive explaination of the nutritional value of foods in the macrobiotic diet. I discovered macrobiotics when my own daughter was ill with kidney ailments. This was one of the first books I was intorduced to and 4 years later still refer back to it. It is light and enjoyable reading and a great starting point.

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Summary: The Self-Healing Cookbook
Review: I found this book by accident several years ago, when I was looking to find ways to eat more healthily. It really did the trick. The recipes here for beans and vegetables are absolutely marvelous! Tasty, simple, hearty ... I never get tired of them. I especially liked all the tips and info about cooking with seaweed ... yes, cooking chick peas with kombu really DOES make them gasless! I also really appreciate Kristina Turner's wonderful way with words - I know it sounds hackneyed, but I really did feel as if a good, loving friend had taken me under her wing. I HIGHLY recommend this book!

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Summary: Truly Healing!
Review: i ran across this book at a local health foods store that was hosting a macrobiotic cooking class. the instructor highly recommended this one. i have only just begun using it and allready feel uplifted when i use these recipes. i love the sea vegetable recommendations. it's unusual to find this but so simple and nutritios. the soups i have tried so far are wonderful. the whole balancing aspect is great. i believe this will be a very valuable asset in my kitchen for years to come.

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Summary: Truly Healing!
Review: i ran across this book at a local health foods store that was hosting a macrobiotic cooking class. the instructor highly recommended this one. i have only just begun using it and allready feel uplifted when i use these recipes. i love the sea vegetable recommendations. it's unusual to find this but so simple and nutritios. the soups i have tried so far are wonderful. the whole balancing aspect is great. i believe this will be a very valuable asset in my kitchen for years to come.

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Summary: A Macrobiotic Primer says it all!`
Review: I read this book several years ago--a copy I obtained from an inter-library book service at my local public library. I couldn't find the book for sale anywhere at the time. Now I find it available at amazon.com and I am thrilled. This book is a must have for anyone wanting to make the transition to a macrobiotic diet. The author explains the theory of macrobiotics in a very understandable fashion and offers numerous delicious recipes which should appeal to many--perhaps even picky children and husbands! She includes hints for cooking macrobiotically for children and I believe there is even a section about eating a macrobiotic diet while pregnant! This book seems to me to be indispensable for anyone who seriously wants to try macrobiotics.

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Summary: A Macrobiotic Primer says it all!`
Review: I read this book several years ago--a copy I obtained from an inter-library book service at my local public library. I couldn't find the book for sale anywhere at the time. Now I find it available at amazon.com and I am thrilled. This book is a must have for anyone wanting to make the transition to a macrobiotic diet. The author explains the theory of macrobiotics in a very understandable fashion and offers numerous delicious recipes which should appeal to many--perhaps even picky children and husbands! She includes hints for cooking macrobiotically for children and I believe there is even a section about eating a macrobiotic diet while pregnant! This book seems to me to be indispensable for anyone who seriously wants to try macrobiotics.

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Summary: Everyone should own a copy of this book
Review: I was introduced to this book approximately 3 years ago and I believe it has since changed my life, along with affecting the lives of some friends and family members. I read The Self-Healing Cookbook cover to cover but it contains so much useful information that I am constantly referring back to it. I have used many of the recipes and have shared the creations with others. We've all really enjoyed the flavors and more importantly, loved the way we felt after consumption. The Self-Healing Cookbook thoroughly covers the essential foundation of a healthy & balanced diet, based on Macrobiotic principles. Furthermore, it details the beneficial properties of many different foods, contains suggestions on how to prepare them, and even explores the seasons in which we should focus on different foods for specific reasons. And then there is the personal touch to it which of course makes this book all the more appealing. It is for that reason that I've felt compelled to gift it with so many friends (including my mother) for whom I felt would share my enthusiasm on this wonderfully fulfilling topic, SELF HEALING WITH FOOD.

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Summary: macrobiotics made easy, find balance with real food
Review: I went to an accupuncturist who diagnosed me as having an imbalance in my yin/yang. It was a whole new way of thinking for me. I thought I had a pretty wholesome diet until I learned about extreme foods. From page one, I loved this book. It helped me understand macrobiotics and the whole yin/yang foods thing. This book explains in a simple and warm tone about expansive and contractive foods, cravings, and the accumulation of toxins from extreme, or high stress foods. The author lays out useful charts that you refer to again and again in makeing food choices that are more natural and balanced,which brings you more into balance. I have been feeling really good since I've made the shift to eating more neutral foods.

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Summary: Good book, missing pages
Review: I'm a novice in the world of macrobiotic cooking and purchased this book in order to educate myself. It supplies just the information I need. The edition I purchased is the 2002, Ninth Revised Edition and, whether it's a one time aberration affecting just the book I received or a larger problem caused when the printer was binding the books, Chapter 6 (pages 115 -130) was missing altogether. I would recommend this book highly, but you might want to physically examine one before buying it.

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Summary: Good book, missing pages
Review: I'm a novice in the world of macrobiotic cooking and purchased this book in order to educate myself. It supplies just the information I need. The edition I purchased is the 2002, Ninth Revised Edition and, whether it's a one time aberration affecting just the book I received or a larger problem caused when the printer was binding the books, Chapter 6 (pages 115 -130) was missing altogether. I would recommend this book highly, but you might want to physically examine one before buying it.