Hi community, I am posting this thought here because WFPB diet is the most similar dietary approach to macrobiotics which has been quite forgotten already but is in my opinion the most intelligent way to eat for us humans.
So, because of some health issues in the past year I have tried this season for the first time to eat mostly raw vegan diet (with one partially cooked meal a day). I have started with it in the spring (mid april) and lasted until early autumn (late september). I have to say I wanted to continue throughout the colder season as well but just after a few days of cold and ugly weather I have been done with it for good despite my total dedication😀 I live in an old house so my room temperature is about 18-20C max and I sit by the computer for living. In short I got so cold both inside and outside and the more fruit I ate to cover calories intake the bigger headache and pain I had. This convinced me I need different approach.
Let me say it out loud – I come from psychedelic background so my approach to life, reality and universe in both religion and filosophy is psilosophical (influenced by psilocybe mushrooms). Macrobiotics is the only dietary system which thinks about food relatively to environment and has a profound taoistic cosmological system behind it which is very similar to my approach to reality. So of course I went back to macrobiotics after my raw vegan trial period was over. And that brings me to the thought I am pondering about lately which is why I started to write this post. That is the question whether there is something as a righteous diet for humans resulting from our biological nature (that we for example emerge from apes) or whether no matter what we eat it, it will always be our invention. Raw vegan/Fruitarian community would swear that we as furgivore apes from tropical forest should be eating mostly raw fruits and tender leafy greens. Which would mean to move out of colder climate if we want to stay healthy.
Lately, I dont believe in it anymore. We are not apes but humans. In my opinion correct diet has to be always related to environment, otherwise we may suffer when the food does not agree with it. As humans left ape ancestry with its natural habitat, it became natural to eat food natural to newly explored habitat etc. And as humans are species which thinks, food has also became invention. For example milk – it is not natural for adults to drink milk, however it is the triumph of human mind to thrive as a sheperds on milk in endless plains of cold siberia where food is prescious. So to conclude, no matter what we eat, I think there is no such thing anymore as natural diet for humans, but we can learn from past civilizations and find the most energetically balanced diet for our environment where we live.😊 What are your thoughts on this? Sorry for the long post. I attach my dinner – home made bread with tofu/garlic spread and some fresh vegetables…
by castanea_sattva