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Can you really get high off brown rice?
Early students of Michio Kushi were hippies looking for enlightenment, Warren Kramer says, and Kushi tried to show them that you can get high from eating brown rice.
Those macrobiotics folks aren’t lying when they say what they eat is as much about spirituality as it is food.
People may scoff at the idea that eating brown rice will get you high, but I doubt anyone can say they haven’t felt that sublime, head-in-the-clouds feeling after eating something exquisite. (Sushi, for example, always gives me a physical and mental buzz.)
Science proves that food directly affects our bodies and our brains. Why do you think we all go for soup when we’re feeling under the weather? The warm, savory liquid has as much power over us psychologically as it does physically. For some, the mere smell of cookies baking will release relaxing chemicals in the brain. How many of us have a special breakfast we eat to prepare us for a particularly challenging day?
What about that feeling after you eat a giant salad for lunch? Your belly feels good because it is digesting healthy nutrients and your mind feels good because it knows you’ve eaten well.
Macrobiotics acknowledges the power of one’s actions while cooking as well. How many of us have said, “You can taste the love in this _”? While making this video on how to make miso soup, chef Morna Neal did a few interesting things: She lovingly washed each vegetable by itself, and then after cutting the carrot or celery very slowly with a knife, she wiped the cutting board to honor the integrity of each vegetable, she said.
The best part about my job is getting to know not just people who love to eat, but people who love the food they eat with every molecule of their body.
If you do that, you are already living the “Great Life,” even if the word macrobiotics never comes out of your mouth.
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By Cyn
November 6, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up!
I love the picture that accompanies this entry. Visual power of food means a lot as well - so many times things go uneaten because they are not visually stimulating to people. Keep the colors and shapes in mind, too.
And after I eat a large salad, I am usually just still hungry.