Posted on July 20, 2009 in Diet for Diseases, Diet-Health
The diet of macrobiotic was invented far back in 1930 by a Japanese scientist who integrated Zen Buddhism, Asian medicine, Christian teachings, and some aspects of Western medicine. The diet that was prepared claimed to cure many diseases including cancer.
The Macrobiotic Diet:
The principle of macrobiotic diet divides cancer and other diseases into different categories of yin or yang. The standard macrobiotic diet has following qualities:
- Low in fat
- High in having fiber quantity
- Diet is predominantly vegetarian.
- Diet emphasizes on whole grain, fruits and vegetables and soups made from them.
- Fresh white fish, nuts, seeds, pickles and Asian condiments are allowed.
- Vegetables including potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, pepper, asparagus, beets, spinach, zucchini, avocados are all prohibited.
- Similarly fruits like bananas and pineapple must also be avoided.
- Eggs, coffee, diary products, sugar, stimulant, aromatic herbs, red meat, poultry and processed food are not allowed.
- This diet even dictates the type of utensils that must be used for cooking purposes. The material which must be used for utensils are wood, glass, ceramic, stainless steel and ceramic.
Macrobiotic Diet And Colon Cancer:
Colon is a tube like structure which runs from the stomach up to the anus. It comprises of large intestine and small intestine and has a bowel where all waste material is collected. Any type of deformation in the structure of colon can result in colon cancer.
Macrobiotic diet has been proved beneficial in treating colon cancer because it has few strong points:
- Diet emphasizes on vegetarian food. As the result it will be easy to digest and rich in calories.
- This diet will help in cleaning the bowel properly as it contains all nutritive contents in it.
- Diet discourages fatty food. So, again colon will not have to do much labor in digesting the food.
- Mostly all food items which require lot of time and energy of colon in digestion are discouraged by this diet. So, low fat diet with high fiber content makes the work of colon easy and also helps in treating its cancer too.
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