During the 1960s, macrobiotic studies gave rise to the natural food industry. During the 1970s and 80s, the natural food industry sold itself out to monied capitalists with no interest in, or understanding of macrobiotics or natural food.
Macrobiotics is ancient knowledge and wisdom.
Natural food is a logical reaction to toxin laced chemical food, environments, nutrition degrading agriculture, sugar, and drugs which destroy people’s health, intuition, and well-being.
Natural healthcare has been propagandized into ‘fringe lunacy,’ despite 80% of Americans involved in ‘alternative medicine’ today vs. less than 1% of Americans participating in it in the 1950s. Eden Foods is a natural food, macrobiotic project originating in the 1960s.
Eden Foods has supplied macrobiotic quality natural food for five and a half decades. Macrobiotic refers to cooking and eating in harmony with our environment, an intelligent and appropriately balanced approach to eating for well-being, resilience, energy, and renewal. Where people intelligently select food, order and balance are created in life. Realization of this took place thousands of years ago in both Eastern and Western civilizations. Chinese healthcare texts date back far before 2,000 BC.
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates 460 BC to 370 BC
Central in the Hippocratic Oath is “…With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage. Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone…”
Balanced, well-rounded diet is the main impetus toward personal freedom and well-being. Whole grain is centrally crucial for this. Good diet derived from the science inherent in the unique principle of macrobiotics, yin and yang and the five-energy theory (a wonderful compass) is a spiral journey through personal development.
Body and Mind Oneness
The Greek word for great or long is makro, and bio means life. Insight and understanding of macrobiotic principles have developed over eons. Generally today, people see some source of revelation associated with it in cultures the world over. Self-care and wellness guidance follow accordingly. Diet (macrobiotic food and preparation), exercise, herbs, acupuncture (moxibustion, Do In, Shiatsu), Chinese herbal medicine, and homeopathy are wise self-care methods for us and the care of others.
Drugs and surgery to address disease should be reserved as last-ditch alternatives. The military-industrial complex’s prevailing combat mindset in agriculture and medicine is entirely arrogant. They see natural elements of life that are severely out of balance and out of sync with healthy natural order as a result of misguided choices, as a battle against malintent invaders, when they are simply a cleansing reaction to previous bad judgement and destructive errors.
Food choice gives rise to thinking processes and content.
Macrobiotic unifying principles demonstrate how maladies of the body, mind, and spirit stem from similar roots of excess or deficiency in various forms. Macrobiotic practices encourage physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health balance. Knowing the unity and interdependence of it all is beneficial and necessary to navigate life smoothly. Observing the interplay of unifying principles from a macrobiotic perspective is entertaining. It leads to the exercise of good judgment in the choices people make.
Eden 55 Years Ago
Eden Foods was a group of young people studying food, spirituality, health, agriculture, disease, lifestyle, history, and sociology during the 1960s. A universal observation at the time was that of a complex, interwoven, intentional degradation of food. Imitation and adulterated food for-profit were the norm. The urgency of creating alternatives to food and medicine for-profit, and a need of truthful sources of information was exceedingly clear. Those realizations caused formation of Eden Foods (Environmental Defense Energy Network) Co-op in Michigan. The urgent necessity of alternatives to military-industrial complex food, media, economic, and political monopolies was profoundly evident. Simultaneously, this same realization-and-results phenomena took place all over the planet. Whether in Holland, Japan, Australia, or the U.S., focused study of macrobiotic principles directly gave rise to the natural food industry.
Gradually, through economic success and mediocre management skill, finance interests took over natural foods and simply created another, completely clever veil of intentional mass deception. Natural foods became known as a Natural Products Industry which today for example, encourages GMOs and chemical farming while pretending otherwise.
Eden Foods is a natural food company that has developed over fifty-five years, a rare survivor. Eden enjoys the same visionary management and goals that caused its creation.
Principled Persistence
One of the best things about Eden Foods is that it is still doing exactly what it started out to do in 1968: Get the best food possible and make it as widely available as we can, doing so in a manner that does not contradict macrobiotic principles.
Whatever it takes to do it right is what Eden Foods committed itself to. Couple that with high-standard moral and ethical business practices, and we will work accordingly.
Eden Foods has been gratified in observing vast improvements in organic food from the agriculture community; in the beauty and exceptional good taste of the food they grow. Organic, biodynamic, and natural farming methods do work at large or small scale. Agriculture need not be chemically and GMO dependent.
Today, more than 240 EDEN foods that include unique Japanese macrobiotic specialty foods, are real and true macrobiotic-quality natural and organic food. They are available on Eden Foods’ website www.edenfoods.com and at discerning retailers in the U.S. and Canada. For free recipes and meal prep tips, visit www.edenfoods.com/recipes which have been thoughtfully prepared according to macrobiotic dietary principles.
The EDEN brand means: No irradiation, untoward chemical additives, refined sugar, genetically engineered ingredients or their derivatives; only the safest, most nutritious, pure and purifying food that can be found. In other words, ‘ancient health foods,’ benefits of which are continually being affirmed in modern research.
Homestyle Macrobiotic Recipes
For free homestyle macrobiotic recipes visit www.edenfoods.com/recipes. Under the Browse box click “Select Diet” and scroll to “Macrobiotics.” There are over 1,000 delicious Eden tested recipes to choose from, including whole grain, pasta, beans, soups, stews, sea vegetables, salads, desserts, and pastries.
A Principled Natural Food Company
Principles that respect, encourage, and contribute to life’s well-being. Principles that encourage commonsensical, straightforward, and forthright dealings between people. Fundamental truth has guided Eden Foods since 1968.
Translating macrobiotic principles into dietary suggestions points to the basic need of pure whole grain being the fulcrum of one’s balanced diet. Once that is accomplished, most everything else will take care of itself at every level; personal, mental, physical, emotional, societal, economic, political, spiritual, environmental, and interpersonal.
Improved judgment results over the long run.
A transition from commercial food to healthy food centered upon whole grain is not an easy process. It is a basic necessity to accomplish freedom, harmony, and to nourish intuition. The transition requires focused persistence. Considerable experience and knowledge about food, its uses, and benefits are available to help those who work to make the change.