The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health: A Complete Guide to Naturally Preventing and Relieving More Than 200 Chronic Conditions and Disorders

This book is a great guide if you want to take control of your own health and well being. It covers just about every disease and illness that the average person would need to know of. They are explained in easy to understand language for the layperson. All you need is basic knowledge of the body and how it functions. It will guide you to a path of natural eating in a way to heal illness as well as your spirit. It will tell you what to eat and why as well as what NOT to eat for your condition. There are only a few recipes so it is not a cookbook. There are tables and guides to the types of foods to eat and their preparation for balanced living. Definitely for anyone interested in their own health and a natural and organic way of life.

Fabulous book Who needs doctors?

A macrobiotic dietary approach can promote physical and mental well-being, as well as spiritual harmony.

Very helpful for people who are healthy or have chronic conditions. Great thing about the book is that it has recipes too so you can cook easily.

It isn't written to offer dramatizations or win converts. This is a step-by-step manual for those who seek guidance to healing through macrobiotics. And you don't have to have a "condition" to benefit from the wealth of information found in this book. Use it for deeper understanding of your body's healing potential and see what it can do for you if you care to follow the advice. This book also offers guidelines on cooking and recipes, but buying a good cookbook as a companion will provide you with a well-rounded experience. Go ahead and try it. This is powerful stuff.

Natural Health books come and go, but this is one of the great references that will be used for years to come. A very comprehensive guide with a wide spectrum of health disorders, explanations of their causes and practical recommendations for healing them. Also, you don't need to be ill, to benefit from this book. This is a superb health guide for everyone. Be careful or you may find yourself feeling better than you have in decades!

This is a fabulous resource for education on the macrobiotic diet. I enjoyed the detail information that was helpful in learning how the body can heal by eating the right foods.

This book is well edited and laid out, fairly easy to read through (except I had trouble finding recommendations for Type II Diabetes--and they don't discuss some major cancers.) But the problem is, Kushi and Jack's recommendations for nearly every disease are close to identical--basically the macrobiotic diet--but rather than just saying so, they break the book down into disease-by-disease discussions and recommendations, with maybe minor tweaks for this disease or that one. It doesn't really break any new ground--the books smacks of $$$ motivation. Also, they will mention items, and then not put them in the index or describe them--"amacha" is one such example--mentioned once, but nowhere else to be found, especially not in the index. They also seriously propose that HIV and AIDS are not related, which is lunatic fringe pseudoscience at the very best, speaking as one who has lost many friends to AIDS, when they were first diagnosed HIV+. Also, in another book, I noticed Mr. Jack used macrobiotic principles to "prove" that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare's plays--maybe fun for Mr. Jack but highly shaky at best, given that serious historians credit Shakespeare with writing his own work, as the Bard's contemporaries attest. Better to go with simpler books on this subject that don't get into muddy waters, by fine writers like Kristina Turner, Keith Michell, Craig Sams, and others. I'd also recommend Denny Waxman's Great Life Diet, but his claim to fame is that he helped heal Dr. Anthony Satillaro of cancer, when Dr. Satillaro died of this same disease later on.

I'M USING FOR MY CLASSES &TEACHING THANKS

Livro maravilhoso para começar a entender um pouco sobre a macrobiótica e seus benefícios. Tem um guia de cura através da macrobiótica para as mais várias doenças. Assim como receitas e um cardápio.

Wonderful book full of great information. I first bought this in 2004. Always referring to it. On my second copy- like me it’s getting well worn. I would love a kindle version especially to use the bigger font facility ( failing eyesight) 4th Jan 2003 I’m still waiting for my kindle version

Another Master piece of Michio Kushi ...

マクロビオティックで健康的な生活を送るための実践的内容の本。 3部構成になっており、1部目はマクロビオティック概論。マクロビオティックの歴史から基本的な考え方、 陰陽について、基本的食材の紹介（基本的とはいえ内容は濃い）。 本の1/2を占める2部目は、30の大項目の元、200種の病気の原因、マクロビオティックの食事療法、 その他に生活で改善するポイント、家でつくる薬膳などが紹介されている。 3部目は、マクロビオティック基本食の取り組み方、 治療用の食事3パターン（極陽・極陰・極陰陽改善のため）の取り組み方を紹介している。 また、日常生活のなかの見直しポイント、マクロビオティックメニューの 作り方、食材紹介、家でつくれる薬膳などが紹介されている。 550ページに及ぶ大書には、みんなの心と身体の平安を望む著者の愛情が感じられる。 内容は、かなり実践的で情報が豊富だが、 ごちゃごちゃとした感はなく読みやすい/使いやすい。 2部の病気には、エイズから消化不良、ストレス、糖尿病、神経痛などかなりの多くの病が網羅されており、 いかに食が人の心と身体に影響するかがわかる。 自覚していない症状を発見するチャートなども豊富である。 日本語に翻訳されていないのが残念だが、日本人になじみやすい和食材を多用するマクロビオティックなので 母国語でなくとも読みすすめやすいだろう。私は、久司氏に師事された奥津典子氏の著書を読んでから この本を読んだので、内容の理解がすすんだように思う。