MACROBIOTICS for LIFE by Simon G. Brown

MACROBIOTICS FOR LIFE

by SIMON G. BROWN



North Atlantic Books
Berkeley, California

 

A Practical Guide to Healing for Body, Mind, and Heart

Macrobiotics for Life presents a complete, holistic approach to health that can be applied to the body, mind, and soul. Combining the concept of a healthy, natural foods lifestyle with a philosophy of self-love, macrobiotic expert Simon Brown explains how food, exercise, and bodywork can create greater physical health. He takes readers through simple steps that show how to bring macrobiotic practice into everyday life by suggesting ways to heal the mind (letting go of assumptions and judgments), heal the heart (listening to one's emotions), and heal the body (caring for one's skin, energizing one's organs, and creating a healthy digestive system).


The book also offers extensive information about macrobiotic foods-tips for eating out, saving time in the kitchen, dealing with food cravings-and a variety of menu plans to help readers get started. A range of recipes- snacks, entrees, desserts-provides essential resources for enjoying macrobiotics and striking color photographs illustrate meals that are both nutritious and delicious.

"This comprehensive guide to natural living is perfection. Simon Brown gives readers a great place to begin their transformation, with understanding and clear, gentle examination of the theories that are the foundation of macrobiotics. He has left the dogma behind and placed his focus on the beautiful wisdom that makes macrobiotics one of the most powerful life journeys you can imagine. This book is for anyone and everyone with an interest in creating their best life."
- CHRISTINA PIRELLO, Emmy Award-winning host of Christina Cooks, best-selling cookbook author, and macrobiotic teacher





"In Macrobiotics for Life, Simon Brown speaks with a gentle, personable voice and offers readers practical wellness strategies that inspire and educate. He also includes delicious, easy-to-follow recipes by Dragana Brown and takes a much-needed body, mind, and spirit approach."

- VERNE VARONA, author of Macrobiotics for Dummies


Wow! What a fantastic book. It's inspiring, thought provoking, and practical. Simon Brown takes macrobiotic living to a new realm."
- MELANIE WAXMAN, macrobiotic teacher and author of:
Eat Me Now!: Healthy Macrobiotic Cooking for Students and Busy People


Further praise for Macrobiotics for Life

"In Macrobiotics for Life Simon Brown presents macrobiotics from his own perspective as well as the different viewpoints of the major world teachers and what the practice means to them. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about macrobiotics and anyone who has been practicing it for many years. Macrobiotics for Life conveys an open and embracing attitude toward macrobiotics and life in general. Brown is a prolific writer who has once again done an excellent job."

-FRANCISCO VARATOJO, macrobiotic teacher, author, and consultant, and director of the Macrobiotic Institute of Portugal

"In Macrobiotics for Life, Simon Brown provides a non-dogmatic, holistic view of healing. From beginning to end, his conversational style allows readers to view him as a fellow traveler down life's road- a trusted friend providing gentle guidance. The sections on emotional healing provide a significant addition to macrobiotic literature and fill a long-standing void. The depth of understanding and the numerous analogies, examples, practical exercises, and useful summaries at the end of each chapter make this book a must-have for anyone interested in health and well-being."
-CARL FERRE, president of the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation
and author of Pocket Guide to Macrobiotics and Acid and Alkaline Companion

"At last-a book that in a very clear and direct, simple and sincere way leads you into the depths of the macrobiotic way of life. This is 'the best of' the most precious insights and experience gained from a lifetime of macrobiotic philosophy and practice. Simon Brown has shown us the wholeness of a macrobiotic approach to life, the indisputable bond that exists between emotions, attitude, eating habits, breathing, exercising, and healing on all levels of our lives. He fills the void in literature on macrobiotics and provides an excellent compass for anyone who wants to take a healthier and happier road to a great life."
-JADRANKA BOBAN, macrobiotic teacher and award-winning cookbook author
"Simon Brown brings macrobiotics into the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the mental, emotional, and spiritual areas of our life, he shows how these intersect for each of us, especially in our way of eating. By inviting you to reflect on these issues, he helps lead you to a profound level of self-discovery. He gently educates you on the key concepts of macrobiotic principles so that you will find them easy to embrace. There is no dogma of good versus bad; instead, Simon provides the tools to understand balance through your experience. This book excels by opening the door wide for lifestyle changes that will influence you, your family-especially children-and your relationships in new, exciting, and healthy ways.
-MICHAEL ROSSOFF, LAc, macrobiotic teacher, counselor, and founder of Macrobiotics Today

"Simon Brown has created a broad and highly accessible platform by eliminating much of the conceptual dogma and rigidity that has plagued macrobiotics for so many years. He has opened a new front by examining the role that our emotional life plays in terms of overall health. To his credit, he is also unafraid to venture outside the artificial constraints of macrobiotics by citing other bodies of work that can complement one's practice. This book is equally useful for those wanting to launch their own macrobiotic practice and more seasoned practitioners."
-GREG JOHNSON, macrobiotic teacher and director of the Concord Institute, London


"Living a healthy life is quickly becoming a revolutionary act. Simon Brown's book brings practical insight and broad vision to the transformative study and practice of macrobiotics."
-BILL TARA, macrobiotic teacher and counselor

Best-selling author Simon Brown

has been practicing a macrobiotic lifestyle for nearly thirty years. In the early 1980s, he studied under leading macrobiotic experts Mishio and Aveline Kushi and Shizuko Yamamoto and, from 1986 to 1993, ran the Community Health Foundation in London, where he organized macrobiotic cooking classes, courses, and international seminars. This led to a successful career as a macrobiotic teacher and consultant.

Currently the chairperson of The Macrobiotic Association of Great Britain and the Feng Shui Society, the author also runs a thriving macrobiotic clinic that offers a range of courses and is part owner of a macrobiotic health food store and cafe. He is the author of Modern-Day Macrobiotics and has written several best-selling hooks on feng shui, face reading, and natural health. Inaddition, he is a highly regarded practitioner of shiatsu and a feng shui consultant who has advised thousands of individual clients as well as corporations like The Body Shop, British Airways, and various airports. Brown lives with his life partner, Dragana, and four sons in London, where he runs a popular international macrobiotic discussion group.

• Title: Macrobiotics for Life
• Author: Simon Brown
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN 978-1-55643-786- 1
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Pages: 353
• Publication Date: Copyright© 2009 by Simon Brown

Health/Macrobiotics

Gluten-Free Cranberry Banana Nut Bread

Cranberry Banana Nut Bread to Satisfy a Gluten Allergy

You Won’t Know it’s Gluten Free

It is such a challenge to find bread that is GLUTEN FREE and doesn’t tell you by the way it tastes. Well the following recipe is so worthwhile because, well because it’s delicious! In our home my daughter was found allergic to glutens two years ago at the start of fifth grade. The symptoms in her case are heavy congestion, dizziness upon exertion, and growth inhabitation, (could be a coincidence but when we took her off gluten she grew like a week.) So if your gluten intolerance is more sensitive than this please consult your doctor before trying this recipe, thank you.

The following is a revision of a recipe found in one of the best cook books on the planet, called The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. The people at America’s Test Kitchen have put their life’s fervent work in a red binder for our consumption and dining enjoyment. The compilation holds over 1,200 kitchen-tested recipes no-nonsense equipment and ingredient ratings [like who makes the best heatproof rubber spatulas or the best tasting Peanut Butter], tips [like roasting your unripe bananas at 350 for twenty minutes for a speedy ripe fix,] and shortcuts [like a buttermilk substitute.] I have eaten so much better since I’ve owned this one cookbook alone. However, while their recipes yield some of the tastiest and most delicious food you will be proud to eat, proud because you made it, they don’t offer a Gluten Free version in the many baking projects included. So for the sake of my daughter’s pallet I found this adaptation to be most satisfying.

Finding a Gluten Free flour substitute that tastes close to what we are used to eating has been a challenge. There are so many products like coconut flour, rice flour, corn flour, almond flour, and you get the idea. Anyway after trying many we find that Pamela’s Products All Natural Wheat-Free & Gluten-Free Baking & Pancake Mix works well in pancakes, waffles, muffins, and Cranberry Banana Nut Breads!

Ocean Spray Craisins—sweetened dried cranberries are a great variation to banana nut bread because it adds another layer of flavor. In this recipe I soak one half cup of the dried cranberries to soften the fruit and add moisture. Thanks for trying this, and let me know how it went!

It’s worth keeping ripe bananas in the freezer so you can make this Cranberry Banana Nut Bread whenever you’re ready—it’s that good!

Cranberry Banana Nut Bread

• 2 Cups Pamela’s Baking & Pancake Mix
  
• ¾ Cups Sugar
  
• ½ Teaspoon Salt
  
• ¾ Teaspoon Baking Soda
  
• 3 Ripe Bananas [This is the key ingredient]
  
• 1 Cup Chopped Walnuts
  
• ½ Cup Ocean Spray Craisens Sweetened Dried Cranberries, Soaked to 1 Cup
  
• 5 Tablespoons Butter (salted, unsalted—your choice) Melted
  
• 2 Large Eggs
  
• 1/4 Cup Vanilla Yogurt
  
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Ready? Set the oven at 350 and Go get two bowls for mixing.

• In one bowl mix all the dry ingredients; Pamela’s Baking Mix, sugar, salt, baking soda, walnuts, drained cranberries.
  
• In the second bowl mix eggs, butter, mashed bananas, yogurt, and vanilla extract.
  
• Now combine the dry and wet ingredients and scrape the batter into a prepared 9x5 inch loaf pan. Bake until golden brown and the toothpick test passes (stick a toothpick into the middle of the loaf; if it comes out clean it’s done,) about fifty-five minutes.

African Mango Plus

African Mango Plus

Promotes a Healthy Functioning Body

Featured on ABC, African Mango has taken the weight loss industry by storm. For hundreds of years, an extract from the seeds called Irvingia Gabonensis have been used among Cameroon villagers for its wide-ranging medicinal benefits.

African Mango Weight Loss - Despite the recent frenzy surrounding African Mango and its weight-loss benefits, the fruit has actually been used as a diet aid for centuries in Cameroon, Africa—the only place in the world where African Mango is grown. The brightly colored tropical fruit is found exclusively in Cameroon's west-coastal rain-forests. African mango, or bush mango, differs from other mango fruits in that it produces a peculiar seed, which natives of Cameroon refer to as "Dikka nuts." For hundreds of years, an extract from the seeds called Irvingia Gabonensis have been used among Cameroon villagers for its wide-ranging medicinal benefits.

2011's Highest-Rated Weight-Loss Diet Product

After one of America's most respected medical doctors called it a "miracle in your medicine cabinet" that can help you quickly lose 10 pounds on his Emmy award-winning daytime television program, sales of African Mango have skyrocketed, making it now one of the most popular weight-loss products in America today.

The active ingredient in African Mango Plus is called Irvingia Gabonensis (IG). The Irvingia tree, commonly known as bush mango, dikanut or African mango, is found in West Africa.

From interviewing over 100 African Mango customers, as well as reviewing the clinical research studies, this product has become the #1 recommendation for 2011.

According to a new study published by Lipids in Health and Disease, stated “Compared to the placebo group, the two active groups showed a statistically significant difference on all six variables by week 10. The magnitude of the differences was noticeable by week 4 and continued to increase over the trial period.” This extract caused an average weight loss of 12.3 pounds in 30 days without diet or exercise.

What's more, subjects supplementing with this extract experienced significant decreases in bad LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and glucose levels. No negative side effects were reported in the clinical research.

African Mango Plus Benefits

• Proven to Burn 12.3 lbs. and 2” of Belly Fat Every 30 Days
  
• Top Medical Doctor Recommends African Mango for Safe Weight Loss
  
• Decreases bad LDL cholesterol
  
• Decreases triglycerides, and glucose levels.
  
• No negative side effects were reported in the clinical research
  
• Promotes a healthy functioning body

Maqui Berry Health Benefits

Maqui Berry Health Benefits

Rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and protein

The Maqui Berry is the hottest new berry on the market and is one of the most nutritious foods of the Amazon, rich in omega-3 fatty acids, minerals, B vitamins, protein, and fiber.

Until only a few months back there were limited choices for curing obesity using herbal medications. Out of them all just a few, including the one sourced from the Amazonian rainforests were available. But now the Maqui Berry is available to help you overcome your obesity problems. Those who have taken supplements from the extracts of the Chilean maqui berry are sparing no words in its praise.

It’s agonizing to live with the fact that you are obese. Have you for a long period of time you neglected your body? What about over eating? Do you indulge in sweet or salty snacks even though you were not hungry? Do you find in hard to resist yourself whenever you see some tasty treat? Have you developed such a bad habit that you would raid the fridge immediately after lunch… just because the fridge contained some of your favorite treats?

The Maqui Berry is quite possibly the best thing you could add to your diet. The berry is a purple colored fruit found in the Patagonia region of South America. Apparently, Mapuche Indians consume this special berry as a medicine.

Maqui Berry Health Benefits

- You'll be hearing a lot more about this rain forest fruit going forward. Maqui benefits are off the chart for almost everything that kale is, in addition to naturally occurring Omega-3, 6 and 9 oils. It's not only good for you, but many world class athletes drink it while training because it's so loaded with nutrition and protein it can be a complete meal. The Maqui berry is so rich vitamins, minerals, fiber, and protein that most people don’t realize all the benefits they can get by taking supplements made out of the extracts of this Chilean berry.

Product Information

• Highest amount of antioxidants of any berry on the market
  
  
• Antioxidants purge the body of toxins
  
  
• Toxin free bodies become healthier.
  
  
• Often, weight loss is a result of a healthier body
  
  
• Helps strengthen your immune system
  
  
• Helps promote healthy aging
  
  
• Serves as an anti-cancer and a natural COX-2-inhibitor
  
  
• A great source of vitamin c, calcium, potassium, and iron
  
  
• Has anti-inflammatory properties
  
  
• Promotes a healthy functioning body