Macrobiotics Follows Grandma's Recipes

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You probably already heard that celebrities like Madonna, Tom Cruise, supermodels to former President Clinton are fond of the so called "macrobiotics" diet.   Yes, macrobiotics has become a fashionable beauty diet in the past few years and leading to the birth of new businesses such as macrobiotics restaurants, cooking schools and seminars.   

You probably heard about 

macrobiotics from TV or magazines, featuring macrobiotics as the "healthy diet" and effective "weight loss" program.

Macrobiotics involves a natural diet based on grains, such as brown rice and vegetables and in principle to eat only seasonal foods that are locally grown in your area.   Recently Macrobiotics became trendy in Japan because of the patronage of overseas celebrities.   

It is amazing when you explore further that macrobiotics meals are in fact the same as those traditional meals prepared by a Japanese grandma from countryside, for example mainly using naturally farmed vegetables, boiled in broth, the old fashioned natto, brown rice, miso soup with seaweed - all of which are the basic of traditional Japanese cooking.

Who would have thought that an old grandma's recipes would became the internationally well known fashionable dishes of todays.   Here macrobiotics diet is known as the low calorie but expensive diet.    Hm, so Japan is re-importing its own traditional recipes home ....