Free Recipes : Tips and Great Ideas! Macrobiotics for a healthy and holistic diet and lifestyle. This is partly due to a small faction of the main movement that got rather fanatical, which gave it a bad name in some circles.
They obviously did not understand it, because the macrobiotic way is one of non-fanaticism, and it is still extremely valuable and helpful throughout the world. The actual word macro-biotic originates from the Greek and means "great or large life". It is based on The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the oldest-known book of Chinese medicine. It is attributed to Huang Ti, the legendary Yellow Emperor (born c. 2704 b.c.), but was probably not written down until about 500 b.c. The Yellow Emperor is believed to have ruled China during a golden age and is considered the ancestor of all Chinese people.
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