What is the Macrobiotic Diet?
What is the Macrobiotic Diet? If you are wondering what is Macrobiotic Diet, ask Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow who have adopted it as a life style choice. Watch this video for more details.
Expert: Sari Greaves, RD, CDN Step Ahead Weight Loss CenterNutrition Director
Transcript
Some people believe that simplicity is the key to health, which includes keeping diets as uncluttered as possible. Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow have done a pretty good job at mastering this key principle over the years, under the guidelines of the macrobiotic diet.
Luckily, understanding the macrobiotic diet and getting started is simple as well. This low-fat, high-fiber diet, which is essentially vegetarian, pushes the consumption of whole grains and vegetables while offering a sense of inner peace.
The diet, developed by a Japanese educator named George Ohsawa, was once controversial with its 10 progressively restrictive stages — the final one consisting only of brown rice and water. But today’s macrobiotic diet counselors have shied away from the original plan and devised other versions, all with their own important guidelines.
For example, one version of the modern macrobiotic diet structures each meal so that it’s made up of 40 to 60 percent whole cereal grains such as brown rice, whole wheat berries, barley, millet, rye, corn, buckwheat, and other whole grains. This is where you’ll be getting your daily doses of Riboflavin and most other B vitamins. Just be careful not to overdo it when it comes to rolled oats, noodles, pasta, bread, baked goods, and other flour products.
Last Modified: 2012-11-17
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