photo credits: tunachilli

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

photo credits: ambird

with the zits on my face. Yep, I said it, zits. Disgusting, horrible, detestable zits. As a young adult, I had acne and was on and off antibiotics for 2-3 years and in the third year I even took Accutane. It worked and I was clear for a year or so and then the zits returned with vengeance. I was frustrated and depressed. I didn’t want to ruin my liver by overdosing it with truckloads of Vitamin A found in Accutane, so I sought natural alternatives instead.