MACRO MELLOW
By Sherry Rogers, M.D.
Happy Bodies® is pleased to offer Macro Mellow by Dr. Sherry Rogers.
Macro Mellow is a book designed for 4 types of people: (1) For the person who doesn't know a thing about macrobiotics, but just plain wants to feel better, in spite of the 21st century. (2) It solves the high cholesterol/triglycerides problem without drugs and is the preferred diet for heart disease patients. (3) It is the perfect transition diet for those not ready for macro, while another family member must eat it in order to clear their "incurable" symptoms.
It shows how to convert the "grains, greens, and beans" strict macro food into delicious "American-looking" food that the kids will eat. This saves the cook from making double meals while one person heals. The delicious low-fat food meals designed by Shirley Gallinger, a veteran nurse who has worked with Dr. Rogers for nearly two decades, use macro ingredients without the rest of the family even knowing. It is the first book to dove-tail creative meal planning, menus, recipes and even gardening so the cook isn't driven crazy.
Most likley your kitchen contains a plethora of cookbooks. But you owe it to yourself and your family to learn how to incorporate healing whole foods, low in fat and high in phyto-nutrients into their diets. For who you have planning and cooking your meals is proven to be as important if not more important that who you have chosen for your doctor. For medical research has proven the power of whole food diets to heal where high tech medicines and surgery have failed.
DESCRIPTION:
The macrobiotic way of life is based on living in harmony with the natural environment. The environment has a profound influence on our health. The quality of air that we breathe and water we drink directly influence our condition, as does the human environment around us. A noisy, high-stress environment, for example, can interfere with our efforts to be healthy, while a quiet, natural environment supports well being. Daily food is a condensed form of the environment that we internalize each day, and thus has a decisive influence on health and well being.
Between this book, Tired or Toxic?, You Are What You Ate, and The E.I. Syndrome, Dr. Sherry Rogers explored the relationship between diet, environment, and human health and sickness. She explains how an unnatural, overly artificial diet contributes to a variety of health problems, and how certain aspects of the modern lifestyle, including the use of artificial substances in our surroundings, can also weaken health.
It was through her study of environmental illness that Dr. Rogers discovered the macrobiotic approach. She has since deepened her understanding by participating in special seminars for physicians presented by the Kushi Institute, and by attending and assisting at the Macrobiotic Way of Life Seminars in Boston. She has also begun to offer macrobiotics to an increasing number of patients, and has witnessed numerous improvements in health as a result.
With her study and personal experience as a background, Dr. Rogers explains in her books how the macrobiotic diet, based on unrefined whole grains, beans and bean products, fresh local vegetables, sea vegetables and other whole natural foods, can prevent illness and restore health. She offers the case histories of her patients as proof of the efficacy of macrobiotics. Dr. Rogers also includes practical guidelines and suggestions designed to help readers embark on a new way of eating and living.
Dr. Rogers is a pioneer in the development of a new approach to healthcare, based on the synthesis of traditional and modern approaches. By emphasizing diet and way of life, she is pointing the direction toward and understanding of the most fundamental causes of sickness. And by presenting the macrobiotic diet within the context of prevention and recovery, she is furthering the development of a comprehensive system of healthcare that can solve society's most fundamental problems.
Like Dr. Rogers, hundreds of physicians throughout the world are pursuing the macrobiotic way of life, both in their own lives and as a solution to the modern health crisis. Macrobiotic study programs and seminars for doctors have been presented in the United States, France, in the Central African Republic of the Congo, and in Hungary and Yugoslavia.
Dr. Rogers is a leading member of the international network of macrobiotic physicians, and her efforts are supported by colleagues around the world. It is my hope that these ongoing efforts, including the publication of this book, will serve for the development of a medicine of humanity that will contribute to the health and peace throughout the world.
Pages:
275
Cover:
Soft
Publisher:
Prestige Publishers
Date Published:
1991
Table of Contents:
Dedication: i
Appreciation: ii
Acknowledgement: iii
Disclaimer: iv
Foreword: v
Chapter 1 - You Can't Fight Success: 1
The Phases of the Macrobiotic Diet: 3
How Much Convincing Do We Need?: 5
Causes of Your Condition: 10
The Macrobiotic Visual Diagnosis: 15
Chapter 2 - A Healthy Person Can Eat Anything: 20
Tools of the Trade: 23
Back At the Ranch: 30
Cooking Your First Meal: 31
Breakfast Time: 40
Lunch Time: 42
Dinner Time: 44
Healing Meals Skeleton: 47
A Four Day Plan: 50
Cooking Instructions From Soup to Seeds: 56
Forget It! This Diet Is Too Complicated: 67
The Healing Diet in a Nutshell: 68
Chapter 3 - Crushing Cravings: 72
Give New Meaning to a Mac-Attack: 76
Yin and Yang: 76
Catch-Up Cooking: 78
What You Cannot Have: 80
What is Tightness?: 84
How Strict Do I Need To Be?: 86
What If This Is Still Too Difficult?: 91
What's For Dinner?: 93
The Work Week: 95
Fighting Off Boredom: 101
Chapter 4 - Beyond the Diet: 109
Negative Energies: 113
Organizing the Day: 114
Not Enough Time: 115
Travel Time: 118
Who Will Fill the Need?: 122
Don't Fret! It's Not Good For the Immune System: 124
Playing With a Full Deck: 126
The Cholesterol Hoax: 127
Calcium the Killer: 136
The Psycho-Neuro-Immune Connection: 139
Chapter 5 - Consultation Questionnaire: 141
Special Remedies: 150
Chapter 6 - What If I'm Too Allergic?: 153
The Modified Macrobiotic Diet: 157
What If I Become More Chemically Sensitive?: 159
Mycotoxins: 161
Don't Be Fooled By What Appears to Be Food Allergy: 161
Never Forget The Total Load: 166
Chronic Fatigue Solved: 167
How the Sick Get Sicker: 168
Chapter 7 - The Discharge: 172
Is Macro a Life Sentence?: 175
What If I Get Macro Yellow?: 178
What If I Don't Have a Discharge?: 180
Chapter 8 - Don't Soak the Nori: 183
Why the Physician Should Consider Prescribing a Macrobiotic Diet: 206
Play It Again, Sam: 213
Chapter 9 - Anecdotal Case Histories: 228
Rheumatoid Arthritis: 228
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities with Chronic Dizziness and Exhaustion or Bats in Her Belfry?: 232
Learning Disorder, Chronic Fatigue, Electrical Sensitivity and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: 235
Chronic Fatigue and Anaphylactic Throat Spasms: 241
Multiple Sclerosis: 255
My Battle With Rheumatoid Arthritis: 256
Macrobiotics Brings Light Through a Tunnel of Lifelong E.I.: 260
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia-Clear Cancer With A Diet? Let This Attorney Help You Judge For Yourself: 267
Stage IV Inoperable Lymphoma: 289
The Saga of "C. Weed Ed": 290
Healing a Terminal Inoperable Brain Tumor: 296
Recovery From Metastatic Ovarian Cancer: 299
Chapter 10 - The Salt Solution: 302
Chapter 11 - Politics of Medicine or _ _ _ _ _ _ Why Macrobiotics is Pooh-Poohed: 309
Science Finds Fat Is A Cause of Cancer: 313
The Insurance Game: Medicare - Is It Short for Medical Care or Mediocre Care?: 316
People Power: 319
World and Personal Ecology: 322
The Treatment of Last Resort: 325
Bibliography: 326
Resources: 332
Author's Recent Scientific Publications Not Already in Previous Books
Reader's Notes
About the Author:
Sherry A. Rogers, M.D. is a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice, a Fellow of the American College of Allergy and Immunology and a Fellow and former Director of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. She is a lecturer of yearly original scientific material, as well as advanced courses for physicians. She was the keynote speaker for the International Symposium Indoor Air Quality '86 in which she has described the office method for testing chemical sensitivities. She developed the Formaldehyde Spot Test and published her mold research in three volumes of the Annals of Allergy, and chemical testing methods in the National Institute of Health's journal "Environmental Health Perspectives." She has lectured throughout China and the United States as well as Sweden. England, Canada, and Australia. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and writes monthly articles for health magazines and newsletters covering all aspects of environmental medicine.
