Talk:Macrobiotics

Wading into the fray

As a movement, macrobiotics has suffered from a certain lack of consistency and a perhaps too broad definition. In the past, some counselors, and followers who became essentially zealots, have made extravagant claims and practiced macrobiotics too restrictively, in ways that caused the potentially really helpful aspects of macrobiotics to become discounted by mainstream sources.

The Wikipedia article is a travesty of the truth; it is controlled by an aggressive troll who has dismissed macrobiotics as a "fad diet" and is determined to prevent any other representation about the movement. Here, I hope to provide a more balanced representation. I ought to know--over thirty years, I've read all the macrobiotic sources, undergone the training (or "indoctrination" as some would say), and enough time has gone by for me to begin to view it all with an unjaundiced eye. There is a lot of good there, and there are some cautionary tales. I'll appreciate help from you others to keep this neutral and supported by appropriate sources.Pat Palmer (talk) 00:38, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Notes to self about this article

• In describing the complex business infrastructure that grew up around macrobiotics since the 1960's, it might be useful to figure out how to tie in health coaching (as per Joshua Rosenthal's Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which emphasizes using nutrition to maximize health using traditional approaches to food instead of pharmaceuticals). IIN's curriculam includes macrobiotics (along with ayurveda and other modalities).Pat Palmer (talk) 16:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)