macrobiotic diet
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pescetarian diet fixed on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism
Key facts
- Claims
- Health effects from a diet avoiding refined foods and most animal products. Specific effects on cancer
- Related fields
- Diet
- Original proponents
- Sagen Ishizuka
- Subsequent proponents
- George Ohsawa , Michio Kushi , William Dufty , Edward Esko
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
135 papers- The macrobiotic diet in cancer.The Journal of nutrition · 2001
- The macrobiotic diet in chronic disease.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2010
- The Effect of Diet on Breast Cancer Recurrence: The DIANA-5 Randomized Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024
- Ma-Pi 2 macrobiotic diet and type 2 diabetes mellitus: pooled analysis of short-term intervention studies.Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews · 2014
- Macrobiotic diet nutritionally adequate.Postgraduate medicine · 1986
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Encyclopedic overview
A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics) is a restrictive dietary regime based on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism. The diet tries to balance the food elements classified as yin and yang, a practice that also extends to cookware. Major principles of macrobiotic diets are to reduce animal products, eat locally grown foods that are in season, and consume meals in moderation.
There is no high-quality clinical evidence that a macrobiotic diet is helpful for people with cancer or other diseases, and it may be harmful. Neither the American Cancer Society nor Cancer Research UK recommends adopting the diet. Deaths have been reported from malnutrition on strict macrobiotic diets.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “macrobiotic diet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.