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Summary: take it with a pinch of salt...
Review: I read the book and am fully convinced of the diet prescribed by Michio. I've just completely switched to a macrobiotics diet and feel healthier and more energetic. My blood pressure is back to normal so is my diabetes. I've read several of his books where there are testimonies of cancer cases where doctors have given up hope and given them months to live, they've survived for years and have proven western medical opinion wrong.I've heard from people who have met Michio that he's a chain smoker and not surprisingly as mentioned in another review that he died of lung cancer. Does that prove that what he preach is not true? I don't think so. If not for his diet, he might have died much earlier but he live to a ripe old age of 70 plus. I'm all for brown rice, miso soup, sea vegetables, sea salts etc.They are the healthiest food around and very delicious too. Incidentally I've just been diagnosed with prostate cancer and my doctor told me decide within a week on prostatectomy before it spreads. I'm not going to do that BUT put my faith in a wholesome and healthy diet. I'm sure I've many more good years without the suffering the possibility of impotence that comes with surgery. Good luck to all with cancer! And don't try to convince your doctor about macrobiotic. Western medicine is like a religion, it does not accept other beliefs. You got to make the leap of faith. God bless you!
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Summary: If you have cancer, this is the diet!
Review: I read the book and am fully convinced of the diet prescribed by Michio. I've just completely switched to a macrobiotics diet and feel healthier and more energetic. My blood pressure is back to normal so is my diabetes. I've read several of his books where there are testimonies of cancer cases where doctors have given up hope and given them months to live, they've survived for years and have proven western medical opinion wrong. I've heard from people who have met Michio that he's a chain smoker and not surprisingly as mentioned in another review that he died of lung cancer. Does that prove that what he preach is not true? I don't think so. If not for his diet, he might have died much earlier but he live to a ripe old age of 70 plus. I'm all for brown rice, miso soup, sea vegetables, sea salts etc.They are the healthiest food around and very delicious too. Incidentally I've just been diagnosed with prostate cancer and my doctor told me decide within a week on prostatectomy before it spreads. I'm not going to do that BUT put my faith in a wholesome and healthy diet. I'm sure I've many more good years without the suffering the possibility of impotence that comes with surgery. Good luck to all with cancer! And don't try to convince your doctor about macrobiotic. Western medicine is like a religion, it does not accept other beliefs. You got to make the leap of faith. God bless you!
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Summary: take it with a pinch of salt...
Review: Sadly, both Michio Kushi's wife and one daughter have died of cancer. Being that they were Japanese, the healthiest and longest lived people in the world, this doesn't really speak well for the diet. However, macrobiotics, when taken with common sense, have been known to help cancer patients, some say to the extent of "curing" them. Follow your own instincts... and keep in touch with a trusted doctor!
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Summary: The most thorough treatise on the subject
Review: This book does an excellent job of summarizing and organizing all of the work done by Michio Kushi and others over the span of decades working with cancer patients. Though Macrobiotics is based on much Japanese culture, this book is geared to the westernized/American reader so there is very little in the way of cultural chasm to jump over. Many of the reviews up here are rather ill-informed. Though Macro has been around for decades, most of modern medicine now accepts its precepts, including the AMA, WHO, National Institute of Cancer Research and others. Most of the major natural lifestyle books that have been published in the last 30 years acknowledge learning much from Michio--some are direct carbon copies of Michio's works! In any case, I have used it and seen first hand my family members recover directly from changing the diet and lifestyle. The changes to body and health happen within a few weeks. My family and I looked and felt better within 6-8 weeks, and the member that had been diagnosed with cancer and given 6 months to live, had the cancer go into remission and lived a number of years longer--and did not die from cancer. I make no claim it will work in every case, but it is a tremendous aid in re-establishing ones good health. If I were to come down with cancer or other serious illness I would go strict Macro. It not only effects your chronic health, but your more general weight and energy levels as well. It is a bit hard to stay on for the long haul with our modern lifestyles, but you do the best you can--and you do it seriously if you are sick. There has NEVER been any serious and backed up accusation that anything on the diet is in any way dangerous to your health, so there is zero downside to trying it. As to the sad passing of members of Michio's family from cancer, what can one say. There appears to be a weakness in their genetic make-up that allows this. Nobody knows if they would have died at a much earlier age, and for all we know Michio was attracted to the study of health and cancer due to this family predilection. This is a common reason people get into the study of health. I am forever grateful for the work this man has done and shared with us.
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Summary: The Author Herself Died From Cancer!
Review: Today is July 7th, 2001. I just saw it on today's Washington Post (Page B06) that this author, a Japanese female, died from cancer at age 78. In a world where many Japanese (especially women) enjoy longer than average life spans, she dies at 78 and it was cancer that killed her. It is kind of wicked fun to see people's lives become longer and longer during the 20th century when almost every kinds of food turn to be less and less natural. We are drinking bad milk, eating bad meat, bad fruits, bad breads, bad ... whatever. Yet we live longer and longer. It's weird. Most of us don't consume healthy foods. We are eating those deadly burgers. Some of us die young. But most of us become healthier than our parents and grand parents. Our (ape-like) ancestors used to eat more or less natural foods. Many of them did not live long enough to start his/her own healthy food business.
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