""You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become…"

"Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.""

"He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never rea be helped. It is…"

"Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carr…"

"Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming …"

"Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances."

"Ohsawa liked to shock people in order to move them to action. Thus, his writing can be extreme at times."

"His writing on diet was written with the French in mind. Ohsawa had observed that no matter how limited he made his d…"

"Help resolve conflicts and guide decision-making."

"Preserve cultural knowledge in a simple, memorable way."