Macrobiotics 101 - Chapter 4: Suggestions for Good Health

[alfreda89]

These are not Alfreda’s suggestions - these suggestions came to me from Leslie, the macrobiotic chef who first taught me how to cook whole grains, nourishing teas, and beans that did not argue with me. She wrote up a list of “rules” to help us benefit from the freshest, healthiest food possible

Comments

[originalkitsune]

Great tips!
I try to make it 5 hrs from the last meal before bed if you eat a "complex meal" or large meal.

And did you know that watermelon doesn't count as a melon?

[alfreda89]

That's good advice -- I find now that after a large or complex meal, I don't want any food for five hours. Heck -- I don't want any food for five hours after eating a big bowl of teff or rice for breakfast!

So is watermelon all water, so it's not a fruit? ;^)

[originalkitsune]

Melons in general are closely related to cucumbers and squash. They are all vegetables but are treated as fruit. "Melons" like canteloupe and honey dew are "musk melons". They have smells and a hole in the middle where the seeds are. Watermelons do not. Their healing properties are totally different from one another. So yeah you don't have to eat watermelon by itself. Also one of the most healing parts of the watermelon is not the red part, but it is the whitish-flesh outside the red part. It has healing properties!

[alfreda89]

Would that be considered the pith? I know from a friend that the pith of oranges actually carries away extra calcium where bones have healed -- a friend got rid of a lump on her finger that way. Took a month or more, but she just was sloppy peeling oranges for a while, and it slowly went down. An Iranian doctor told her about that, when she was in Iran back when we had a base there!