THE SECRETS OF STAYING HEALTHFULLY YOUNG: THE SCIENCE OF MACROBIOTICS
A great physician, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, who lived in Berlin about 150 years ago, wrote a book to which he gave the title Makrobiotik—”The art of prolonging human life.” Now, after 150 years, macrobiotics have become suddenly very popular in the United States. What are macrobiotics?
Hufeland’s definition of macrobiotics was “the art of living longer.” In the present technological and atomic age, macrobiotics means more than just “living longer.” It is the study and application of fundamental factors essential for optimum health and longer life free from disease. Due to improved sanitation, reduction in infant mortality and modern surgery, man’s average life expectancy has increased. But simultaneously, with the advance of technological and chemical sciences, the harmony between man and his natural health-giving environment has become disturbed. This disharmony has brought upon man a host of so-called degenerative diseases. Denatured, devitalized foods, a polluted and poisoned environment, the mental and physical stresses of the competitive world, have resulted in a gradual deterioration of health which has now reached catastrophic proportions.
It is hardly worthwhile to learn how to live a long life, if you have to live a life of miserable suffering from one agonizing disease after another. A long life would make sense only if it could be lived in vibrant health, enjoyed in the active productive pursuit of one’s most treasured interests. The fact is that very few people now really enjoy perfect health. Most are sick, semi-ill or “fictitiously healthy.” living in a chronic state of mesotrophy, or half-health. Therefore, the modern meaning of macrobiotics is “the art of living longer in good health” or, in other words, the art of living younger longer!
I have referred previously to the International Society for F-e-search on Nutrition and Vital Substances. The Scientific Counsel of this Society is composed of over 400 great scientists from 75 countries, representing doctors of medicine, bio-chemistry, nutrition, natural sciences, etc. A great many of these are Nobel Prize Winners. This most authoritative scientific forum conducts objective, scientific studies and research, and through its annual conventions disperses recommendations to various governments and their health organizations, as well as to the World Health Organization.
This Society has conducted a seven-year study of macrobiotics, or the fundamentals of healthier and longer life in our modem technological society. Its findings and conclusions in regard to macrobiotics were adopted at the Society’s 7th International Convention.
Note this: you may read any number of popular health books or listen to the subjective, personal opinions of this or that health lecturer—usually with each one of them offering a different road to glorious health and long life—and you are no wiser in the end. But here is the united consensus of a large body of responsible and respected scientists, based on the objective study and research of all available scientific data. It would be wise to listen to them.
The following resume is based on Resolution No. 25 of the International Society for Research on Nutrition and Vital Substances.
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