The macrobiotic perspective is that sickness is a progression, and that before symptoms arise, you are already ill. You can be sick before showing symptoms because you're not leading a healthy lifestyle. You are preparing yourself for future illness. If you don't change your way of life, your condition will progress to what we call a disease. The reverse, research has shown, is also true.
People think of macrobiotics as a healing method now.
There are many books written about how the diet and lifestyle have reversed the effects of cancer. The teachings of Macrobiotics help us rediscover what health really is. It means taking a larger view. It's a transformation. You transform your way of looking at things, your diet, your way of life.