One of the greatest joys to be garnered from exploring new kinds of diets is that by removing certain options from play, fascinating new combinations will emerge. Here is a really fun and interesting and delicious completely Macrobiotic recipe from the out-of-print book Macrobiotic Desserts by Sandra Lynn Shuman.  (I have a hand-me-down-photocopy of the […]

The macrobiotic diet replaces simple carbohydrates with more complex, slower-burning ones like brown rice, quinoa, barley and millet.  These complex carbs release a continuous stream of glucose into the blood at a rate of about two calories per minute whereas the sugar from a chocolate bar burns significantly more quickly, releasing thirty or more calories […]