From 55 years of practiced experience in macrobiotics, the most profound takeaway is the glorious result of pure whole grain being the centerpiece of one’s diet. It quickly improves one’s blood and thinking. Whole grain gradually strengthens vitality, constitution, and intuition. The personal freedom potential of a whole grain diet can only be realized over decades, and reach full potential over multiple generations. It is not glorious immediately, but it becomes so. Whole grain becomes ambrosia.
Significant diet change, even the most intelligent, requires gut biome (intestinal ecosystem) improvement to effectively create and assimilate new nourishment. Developing a gastrointestinal biome or microbiota and healthy, efficient organ tissue to draw a person’s need from a whole grain diet, happens over time.
America’s most popular snack food is the whole grain popcorn.
Body and Mind are One. Food is Energy. Food is Medicine. Food is Spirit.
Today’s nutrition and diet analyses are one-dimensional and misguided. They ignore the invisible energy inherent in the food we take, as well as the condition of the food itself. The energy and its nature are fundamental to us. They create our thinking. Food choices energize and harmonize with various aspects of our being.
This knowledge was deeply understood and central to previous societies and civilizations. This understanding consciousness is suppressed and scorned by government, science, industry, and media today.
Food for Improvement
A carbohydrate from sugar cane and a similar carbohydrate from brown rice are quite different in nature. Even though atomically and chemically the same (the limit of a modern nutritionist’s perspective), they impart different energies and effects within us. Simply counting amounts of chemicals and ignoring their context and energies in scientific evaluation of nourishment is amateurish, yet it is the end-all be-all ‘science’ we are expected to accept.
Nutritionist-mentality diet fads come and go constantly. Their suggestions are contradictory, ever-changing, and driven by misguided social, political, and industrial agendas. Managing diet using macrobiotic principles and cooking methods is the most efficient and effective way to ensure that efforts to improve ourselves are not wasted. Persistence, patience, faith, and work are called upon to cause personal development. Macrobiotic principles to guide diet and food preparation are a reliable compass.
Appropriate dietary adjustments require some study and deep thought. Through experiment, experience, and adjustment, they become efficiently effective in encouraging our human development. Exploring yin and yang food dynamics, together with the five-element theory of life force energies, becomes inevitable in seeking vitality and balance. This is a very different mentality than that of a pill-taker mindset. An ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus said, “If one is unhappy, it is their own fault.“ The mind’s condition reflects what has been consumed.
Improve judgment
Seven levels of judgment, from lowest to highest — blind, sensory, sentimental, intellectual, social, ideological, and supreme.
Brown rice is known as the epitome of whole grain, being the only one that does not have that deep cleft dividing it down the middle. An acquired taste that appreciates it is directly tied to the development process of thorough chewing of food. Through chewing, a 50% whole grain diet is deliciously satisfying, everyday. In general, chewing food well is a foreign concept to Americans. Our teeth are perfectly designed for chewing whole grain. Digestion of whole grain should largely happen in the mouth when the alkaline saliva breaks down complex carbs into delicious sugars. Good chewing habits can be easily developed. They are essential, especially when restoration and rejuvenation are sought.
A powerfully nourishing fermented soyfood is miso. It came to American culture as part of macrobiotics. One’s first experience with miso may cause a negative reaction; but, tasting it again, even on the following day, may result in the exact opposite, i.e. it tastes delicious. Acquired taste experiences and processes vary with people.
Selection and preparation of food are immensely important. Our thinking and emotions are greatly determine by them. If thinking manifests as reality, and diet determines our thinking, then food selection must be of the highest priority.
EDEN foods are macrobiotic-quality, real organic, pure & purifying.
A good target is an authentically organic whole grain diet at 50% whole grain and 50% other food. In today’s toxic environments the cleansing nature of whole grain is more important than ever. Eating in harmony with the order of the universe energizes intuition and improves judgment. Nature is flexible, our diets must be.
Efficiently Doable
A pantry of EDEN foods whole grain, beans, fermented food, pasta, snacks, fruit, cereal, ready meals, oils, vinegars, condiments, and tea, coupled with a will to succeed and creative thought results in uplifting nourishment, growth, and improvement. A challenge overcome brings satisfaction.
Beans Benefits
Beans are some of the most nutritionally complete foods. George L. Hosfield, Ph.D., a plant geneticist, told Reuters Health that “Beans are probably the best human plant food there is. With the additional bonus of their antioxidants, you have almost the perfect food.“ He explains that beans are full of protein and fiber, low in fat, and contain essential vitamins and minerals like folic acid B9, iron, potassium, and zinc while providing steady energy from their complex carbohydrates.
Ancient Fast Food
Although Italian style pasta reigns supreme in the West, Japanese Udon and Soba noodles have rapidly gained popularity in the U.S. Pasta was one of the original fast foods. Originating in China, noodles were taken to Japan by Buddhist monks where they are a favorite food and have been for over 1,200 years. More noodles are eaten in Japan today than any other food except rice.
Eden makes real whole grain, organic pasta in Detroit.
Easy, Efficient Recipes
Eden Foods provides hundreds of free, quick and easy recipes for home, work, school, and travel for every season. Visit edenfoods.com/recipes to find what appeals and makes meal prep manageable and enjoyable.
Eden Foods Company Goals
1.) Provide the most pure, high quality, life-supporting food and accurate information about them, their uses and benefits.
2.) Creation and maintenance of a healthy, respectful, challenging, and rewarding environment for people involved with the Company.
3.) Development of the ability to produce and disseminate the foodstuffs and information we create and handle.
4.) Cultivate sound relationships with like minded people and organizations involved in like pursuits.
5.) Cultivate adaptability to changes in economic, social, and environmental conditions to allow Eden Foods the opportunity to survive long term.
6.) Have a strong, positive impact on farming and food processing practices used in the world.
7.) To contribute to peaceful development of life on Earth.