Macrobiotics offers a simple way this goal can be achieved. Protein, being a larger, more complex molecule than carbohydrate, is more Yin than the carbohydrate found in whole-grain. Therefore, carbohydrate from whole grains must be the basis of our daily diet if we would recover our vitality and freedom from allergic sensitivities or chronic illnesses. The following is a reply I wrote to someone who had heard some people have not fared well, or have even become sick, after practicing what they thought was Macrobiotics for many years. If we are, we will inevitably suffer, and life will pass us by.
Life is constant change.
Rigidity breaks under the strain of change. Change is more powerful than our attempts to resist it. If we change with change, we will adapt and survive. There is nothing fixed in this universe, everything is constantly changing. We must learn to change with the requirements of the seasons, climate, etc.