Eat and be central in the fall.

Energy rises and expands. Metaphor of Wood/tree, whose main characteristic is that of the fast growth of shrubs, plants, trees in full reborn and greening of nature. There are associated with the color green and acid/sour taste.Lighter cooking methods and condiments more moderate. Fermented foods in amounts slightly higher: pressed salads and insalatini, sauerkraut, etc. – tempeh – amasake. Most green leafy vegetables, and sprouts. Much more barley. More boiled foods, steamed and lightly sautéed.Movement of movement towards the superfie and fast. Firemetaphor; This feature is the fruiting season, colors, light and heat. There are associated with the color red and taste bitter.Cooking methods among the simplest and shortest: boil, steam, jump quickly. Variety of fresh fruit and not tropical summer. However, avoid drinks too cold and icy. Many grain salads, pasta, vegetables, legumes, algae. Decreasing oil and seasonings. More raw oil that cotto. Cold soups.Late estateMilza-StomacoEnergia Pancreas that condenses and falls off. Earthmetaphor at the time of ripening of everything, from fruit (which becomes sweet) to wheat fields, and then at the time of harvest. There is associated with the color yellow and, of course, the sweet taste.   The fifth transformation: Earth. Indian summer. Stability of energy. Flavor to which give the predominance: that sweet (of course not sugar … but well cooked vegetables and cereals well chewed). Vegetables preferably roundish and orange like carrots and squash and cereals such as millet and rice sweet (glutinous) AutunnoPolmoniIntestino crassoEnergia that focuses at most … that then melts waking in the water.Metalmetaphor: is the time when the outcropping of drums is it dries, the nature you will discolor and leaves you dry. There is associated with the color white and the spicy flavor.Cooking methods slightly longer: begin with stews and soups. Sauteed food. Start with sweet rice and mochi. Continue with round vegetables and desserts such as pumpkin, cabbage, onions, carrots, etc. a little over cooked. Increase oil cooked. Condiments and more abundant. Most full and rich flavors and variety of colors.Energy flows and flows.The Watermetaphor: is the period of the cold, the complete withdrawal of nature itself to rest the seeds in its belly. There is associated with the color blue/black and salty flavour.More prolonged cooking methods, warm and hearty: nishime, long jump, boiling, stewing, baking use. Increase grain and introduce more FRY. Soups and soup creamier and dense. Dessert heating.           

Lungs: what say Yes and no!

Respiratory problems such as asthma, bronchitis, colds, flu, sore throat, allergy.

Milk and dairy products (especially not as salty butter and yoghurt) alter the composition of that layer of mucus that protects the lungs making it degenerate the quality stringy substance and yellowish, where it is also easier for bacteria to lodge.   The rice is, by far, the best representative of metal element, then strengthens the lungs and Crassus and represents the best care.MU is a tea beverage cure-all for the energy of the lung, i.e. its vitality. To use every morning in autumn and winter.Sugar (same as FAT) and alcohol, are very expansive, cooling and therefore extremely yin. Weaken the respiratory and immune systems, especially when – sweets – are in combination with milk and dairy products.The ice cream are cold concentrates, dairy products, sugar, additives, colorants, etc!Green leaves.Preparations containing Lotus roots.Styles of cooking autumn and winter, heating.Smoking is notoriously harmful to the lungs, because nicotine is a new!Promote diaphragmatic breathing(the one with the belly!).Everything is extremely expansive.Refined products. Tropical fruits, juices, coffee, honey, ingested amount of drinking liquids.The Gomashio provides the right contractor energy needed to dry the body moisture.WARNING:Attention to everything that indirectly creates problems, i.e. makes me thirsty of liquids in quantities, such as flour and baked goods.The spicy taste is "metal", so you can add a little to encourage this energy ginger : especially to add from soups to desserts, wherever you want ...

… and intestine Yes and no!

stessissime indications that apply to the lungs, also:

For many it is the beginning of many diseases. Caused by excess animal foods and refined foods such as sugar (= FAT), as well as excesses of bakery products.Shortage of cereals in grain chewed and vegetables.Excess yang foods such as meat and cheeses.Foods containing fibres: foodstuffs of animal origin and refined products to 100%, which contain sugar, pasta, bread, white rice.Excessively fat-rich foods such as dairy products (that block, with the mucus they produce also the lungs).Reduce excess salt (one species in all industrial products).Fibres contained in vegetables cooked al dente.Use of oil in cooking (laxative effect).Bio grains whole grains, well chewed. Green-leafed vegetables. Roots. Ginger. Azuki, oats and algae.Remedy: use fruit as a dessert fruit kanten.

Although they are often not contemporaries these two disorders have in common, because of their origin there is excess energy expansive in the presence of lack of fibre and fat.

tropical fruits and alcoholic beverages, dairy products without salt, fruits and raw and cold foods, spices, coffee, vegetables and roots well cooked and well rounded brown rice and kuzu masticatoumeboshi specificicereali specific remedies are: short-grain brown rice and azuki migliofagioli plantains with roots and vegetables help round the intestine.

Le Livre de la Vie Macrobiotique. George Ohsawa

The book that I present to you today is almost unknown to macrobiotic closer and their detractors. Yet would very much like each of the two formations of thought. Has not yet been translated in Italy and I hope that whoever owns the rights, I think it's Mario Pianesi, macrobiotic pioneer in Italy and creator of the circuit called A Macrobiotic Point ", soon it will available in our language.

Let's see why you should read a book that critics of the Macrobiotic Diet, those who say that it is a model food too close without concessions to foods that this discourages in everyday life. You must first take a step back and recall briefly the history of Ohsawa. This outlandish and exceptional Japanese scientist and humanist, would die as almost his entire family of around twenty, exterminate himself from a bad disease. He chose however to heal themselves with food and relied to a Japanese army doctor who taught him those macrobiotic principles that, then, Ohsawa himself would studied and thoroughly to bring them up in Europe. Used the macrobiotic closer only to heal and agguantata once again health and caused her to nudge, granted to eat sugary sweets, fruit, French cuisine, coffee, chocolate, whisky and wine Moscato is my favorite ... but with a great gift, worthy of his intelligence and creativity: …apparently not everyday... in fact two capital measures, in my opinion, the second the clarifies: and anyway I take these foods in the order of Yin/Yang.

First of all that is just a fattoide what the macrobiotic "prohibits" absolute certain foods such as coffee and sugar. All you can eat, as long as you are careful to preserve the consumption of which is less suitable for health to moments of occasional nature, periodicity, saltuarietà, infrequency.  Secondly, when you were eating more toxic than you should be careful to offset the force of yin (more cooling and expansive) with that of yang food (more heating and subsequent contractile function). What does it mean? I do a simple example. Mexicans, when drinking tequila boum boum (extreme yin), before you jot down the shottino, in the hollow of the hand between thumb and forefinger – a little salt (extreme yang). Popular wisdom. Wisdom "macrobiotic"!Everything here! To limit the damage of alcohol are at the same time a little salt. Try it, if they share, to explain this concept to a doctor, a dietician, a dietician: the concept that food there are vital forces that defy categorization Biochemistry and obtuse calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals!

If those who practice the macrobiotic, even after years and although he regained health, continue to choose to not taste "never ever" certain foods that in choosing foods are not recommended in everyday life, then these people, who respect and esteem must be attentive to the dangers of orthorexia! I do not wish to add more, because I know and many of them. The concept that I expressed it seems very clear even if some do not wish to share it.