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490 BCE
Pythagoras Ethical Vegetarian570 ~ 490 BC
In addition to mathematics, promoted vegetarianism.
“DO NOT NEGLECT THE HEALTH OF THE BODY, KEEPING MEASURE IN EATING AND DRINKING, AND EVERY EXERCISE OF THE BODY, AND BY MEASURE IS MEANT WHAT WILL NOT LATER INDUCE PAIN.” -
460 BCE
Hippocrates (b. 460BC)The Father of Western Medicine
“Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Thy Food”
Original Hippocratic Oath: “I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick … I will neither give a deadly drug…I will not use the knife…” -
Period: 460 BCE to
an overview of macrobiotic diet throughout history
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4 BCE
(Huang Di) The Yellow Emperor ~ 4,000 BC
“People and nature are inseparable”
Explains uses of Yin/Yang classification in healing, disease and remedies
Presents energetic view (meridians and Ki energy) of the body for assessment and treatment -
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Kashruth (Kosher Dietary Laws)
The Lord instructs Moses and Aaron on what are clean and un-clean foods to eat
Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink. -
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Maimonedes(Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon) (1135-1204)
Famous Jewish philosopher, physician and jurist, born in Spain.
Known for promoting a “golden path” of moderation or balance in everything in order to stay healthy -
1464
Luigi Cornaro (1464-1566)
Lived to the age of 102 after discovering the health benefits of a moderation
Carefully measured his food intake to 14 ounces per day and he noticed a drastic decline in his health when he increased this to 16 ounces -
Namboku Mizuno (1757-1825)
A soothsayer told him he had only two years to live and suggested he live an ascetic life as a monk
After being accepted to work in temple he changed his destiny by following simple diet of grains and vegetables
Devoted his entire life afterward to study the human body by becoming a barber, a masseur, and working in a crematorium. -
Horace Fletcher (1849-1919):The Chew-Chew Man
he discovered the benefits of chewing when he experimented on chewing every bite of food and lost 60 pounds in six months.
Wrote “The ABC of Nutrition” in 1903
“I choose to chew, Because I wish to do, The sort of thing that nature had in view, Before cooks invented savr’y stew, When the only way to eat was to chew! Chew! Chew!” -
Dr. Sagen Ishizuka (1850-1910)
Promoted traditional foods as remedy for most illnesses
Known as “Dr. Anti-Doctor” for going against the advice “modern” Doctors -
George Ohsawa
Physical-(15pts Total)----------
Good Appetite (5pts)
No Fatigue (5pts)
Good Sleep (5pts)
-----------Mental-(30pts Total)----------
Good Memory (10pts)
Quick in Thought and Decisions (10pts)
Good Humor (10pts)
------Can You Guess What #7 Is?------
7. Never Lie (55pts)
