To Cook or Not to Cook - An Introduction to Different Schools of Thought

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There’s a big food fight going on between the Macrobiotic and the Raw community over differences in their health disciplines- with the Raw foodists emphasizing on beneficial ‘live’ enzymes and the Japanese derived health system- the Macrobiotics emphasizing on the balance of yin and yang.

Macrobiotics also has roots in Chinese medical science. In Chinese traditional medicine, there are 4 different body types:

TAI YANG (Greater Yang): Large, beefy, red-faced, over-developed upper body, under developed lower body

SHAO YANG (Lesser Yang): Healthy mesomorphic, neither fat nor thin, normal muscle tone