If you follow any diet, you have to make sure you are getting the right amount of nutrition. The same is true with macrobiotics. If you are closely following a macrobiotic diet, of course you need to find out exactly what foods you should be eating in order to have the right amount of nutrition in your diet. There is no evidence of people succumbing to malnutrition if the diet is followed carefully and you are eating the right foods. What are the right foods? A macrobiotic diet calls for the elimination of meat, dairy, eggs, sugars, and processed foods. It is a diet that recommends that you eat 50-60% whole grains, 20-30% vegetables, 5-10% soups, 5% beans, and 5% or less of sea vegetables. Meat, dairy, eggs, sugars, and processed foods have been identified as being the causes and contributors to various diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Therefore natural, organic, and whole foods are recommended. Many people have cured themselves of cancer by adopting a macrobiotic lifestyle. A book that I highly recommend is The Cancer Prevention Diet by Michio Kushi. Not only does Mr. Kushi write about the specific dietary causes of roughly 25 cancers, he also writes about the specific macrobiotic cures and has scientific proof and many testimonies to back up his claims. Macrobiotics is not looked upon kindly by doctors for a variety of reasons, but they are slowly being forced to admit that there are many benefits to adopting a macrobiotic lifestyle. Many will claim that there is little scientific proof to back it up. However, there is definitely a large amount of scientific evidence to back it up (in books that I can recommended for people who are curious). I obviously cannot ask or expect you to have blind faith in my claims. If you are interested in this, you have to do research yourself. I would be more than happy to give anyone a list of books on macrobiotics, both personal stories of recovery as well as books that contain scientific evidence to support all of their stories. If you would like to see the short versions of several recovery stories, I recommend going to youtube and entering "diet saves their lives vol. 1" in the search bar. Other recovery stories are listed on the side of the screen. I personally have not heard of anyone you has strictly followed a macrobiotic diet who has not been helped/ cured by it. It is definitely something worth looking into. I would be happy to try and answer any questions you might have if you are interested, although a macrobiotic counselor would be better equipped to answer your questions than I am. I pray that this gives those interested some hope. My E-mail is --Message edited by CancerCompass staff. For personal protection, email address removed. Consider private reply. Please review CancerCompass Member Guidelines at http://www.cancercompass.com/common/guidelines.html--. Good luck with whatever you decide to do! Grace