Does Whole Foods Offer Healing?

Healing with Whole Foods Series #6
Paul Pitchford

The system in this text is based on the standard Chinese yin/yang theories, medical diets, and herbal systems developed over thousands of years. Being quite precise and complete, such a system increases healing and prevention options. In recent years, growing numbers of macrobiotic adherents have come to accept more comprehensive systems such as those described in this text.

Both the traditional Chinese and East Indian Ayurvedic systems have been used with pinpoint accuracy to diagnose disease conditions and to categorize food as medicine. We have chosen to use primary the Chinese system because its remedies and diagnostic measures are more appropriate for North American climates.

Merging the Chinese healing arts with major features of modern nutrition and Ayurveda has given a flexible and uniquely workable dimension to this text. For more background information see the Chinese and Ayurvedic titles in the Appendix.

A real advantage of living in a developed and mercantile region of the earth is the widespread distribution of many products from our own as well as other cultures. Throughout the American marketplace, we fid stores that car foods such as unrefined grains, unsprayed fruit and vegetables, naturally leavened breads, whole-grain pasta, organic nuts and seeds, and quality traditional Eastern products such as miso, tempeh, tofu, amasake, and new varieties of sea vegetables. Additionally, the East Asian products are very often no longer from Asia but are manufactured by many thriving European and American businesses. For example, there are many kids of miso soy pastes made in America, and they are usually of much higher quality than those used by the average Japanese.

Now that it has become common knowledge that complex carbohydrates should playa larger role in the modern diet, it is only natural that the West should borrow from the expertise of the the Far East. For many centuries, the Eastern diet was not meat-based, and still is not in many areas.

The fact that traditional Chinese healing systems and Far Eastern foods appear in this text is not a recommendation for Asian food practices in general. A great number of people in Asia do not eat particularly healthy diets. An exception are those in agrarian areas of China, Viet Nam and other areas of Southeast Asia who follow their traditional rural diets. White sugar production in China is increasing at an alarming rate, yet always falls short of demand. And Chinese people have been known to stand in long lies in urban areas to get a rare treat-refined white bread. The traditional teachings of Chinese medicine, however, were written when only organically grown whole foods were available, and very nutritious products were developed from vegetable foods. We have used and recommended many of these products, since they often make the difference between success and failure for those in transition to a vegetarian diet.

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