Weight loss continues to be such a hot topic among most people especially as people age.  Transitioning to a plant based diet definitely helps as well as stopping the simple carbohydrate,  processed and sugary foods.  However, many people have more success with  taking a further step in their weight loss journey by choosing  a macrobiotic way of life which  can offer so much more!   Often time people go on diets and restrict themselves from their favorite foods and later find themselves binging on these very same foods.  In macrobiotics we reco ..read more

Simply by understanding the energy of the seasons you can learn  how your garden can speak to you! All foods from the earth have a magical healing quality about them.  That’s why they are so important to include in our diets.  Ancients knew these healing secrets and developed many food remedies for various illnesses.  The signature of foods revealed by the shape and texture of the food sometimes share its knowledge with us as to what part of the body the food actually helps heal.  For example carrots are good to strengthen the intestines, lotus root the lungs, ground r ..read more

I recently hosted Dr. T. Colin Campbell on my Macro Magic TV show.   See episode here https://rvntelevision.com/episode/macro-magic-with-t-colin-campbell-2/.  Dr. Campbell is a Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and author of many books including The China Study. Dr. Campbell explained how current nutrition is being ignored by the public  and extremely  misunderstood.  He said   often times medical doctors are placed in the position of trying to explain it to their clients without any nutritional training or publications to b ..read more

Our Macro Magic website highlights the importance of helping you increase your vitality through simple, daily,  balanced living practices that help you align with the natural environment.   The absolute, best way to create this is to grown your own garden and eat as many vitally strong. plant based foods that you harvest. In our new film documentary, The Spirit of Rice,  I stated that all we need for creating a healthy garden is sun, fresh clean water, healthy soil and good quality seeds. These all sound simple but presently challenging to find in our present day world!&nbs ..read more

Yesterday, a  friend of mine  was complaining how depressed he was feeling with the cold weather upon us.  While he was telling me this, he was chomping on a candy bar and drinking frozen sugar laden lemonade.  I thought to myself maybe he should be more concerned with not making himself such a host for possible pathogens and low blood sugar through his food choices! We know we are constantly surrounded by germs and bacteria.    Maybe, we should not be stressing out about how to kill and try to avoid all these germs.  Maybe we should be learning how not to ma ..read more

Valentine’s Day is the day to celebrate love and romance.   It also the day we allow ourselves to fill up on delicious sweets and indulge our senses.  What if this holiday we did all of this and supported our health and heart at the same time?   What if we educated ourselves and decided to indulge in better quality sweets? Our bodies naturally crave sweet tasting foods.  They help to open and relax us.  In our tense and fast paced society we tend to crave more and more each year to help us unwind. America is on a sugar binge.  The average American eats between 120 ..read more

Spring time is when the liver becomes most active.  The liver’s natural tendency in the body is to move energy up and outward (same as the energy of spring when plants grow up and outward).   We therefore begin to feel our mistakes in caring for the liver when spring comes.        Of all the organs in the body, the liver is the most susceptible to becoming full of excess energy and heavily burdened by the typical American diet, stress, lack of sleep and over eating, especially before bedtime.   As far as choices of foods go, the liver is m ..read more

  I recently hosted Patricio Garcia de Paredes as a zoom guest on my TV show.  Patricio is the founder and director of the Macrobiotic School in Japan.  I met Patricio at the Kushi Institute when he was a young teenager and I was taking cooking classes from his mother.   Since that time Patricio has developed into an international chef and cooking teacher for many people across the world.  We joined him in his kitchen in Japan and discussed the benefits of eating probiotics (fermented foods such as pickles) and prebiotics (whole grains) daily.  Both ..read more

Welcome to the world of Macrobiotics!   You are brave to take your first step.  The  payoffs I promise will be enormous for you.  We, as humans, all come from nature. Nature is always changing in a balanced way.  Our body has an innate ability to naturally heal itself, that is if we get out of its way and allow it to do so.   Aligning with nature  is the best way to allow this to happen. Beginning a macrobiotic lifestyle supports you in aligning with nature.   Macrobiotics:  from the Greek translation macro (large) bios (way of life ..read more