Thus one cannot give any kind of blanket recommendations about what and how to eat if you live in any particular climatic zone. So, the first task when we are living in any locality is to find out what the indigenous native dietary habits are. However, even in major cities with the corporate food chains sprouting up everywhere there are still farmer's markets and the like where the local natives living outside the cities bring their fruits, vegetables, grains and animal products for sale. These are the places to go and start doing your research to find out the local, traditional native culinary choices. Then, having obtained this knowledge and learned about the native vegetables, grains and fruits that grow in the area of the world where you are living, about how the natives have traditionally cooked these foods and so forth, you then apply macrobiotic principles to what you have learned.
Supplementary foods are fish, fruit, beans and seaweed.
This is one of the most significant mistakes people starting out on a macrobiotic way of life make. This way of approaching macrobiotic living will only be helpful for a short period, perhaps 3-4 years. The reason this principle is significant is that our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual condition changes as we continue our early narrow, circumscribed way of eating. The bodily functions change such that bowel movement improves, we lose weight, the toxins long stored in various and sundry organs and tissues of the body are gradually eliminated, our vitality increases, organs and tissues revitilize and regenerate, we experience deep and refreshing sleep, all the various aches and pains we have disappear. Thus we have to begin to learn how to read our condition as well as spend a great deal of time learning and studying the principles of yin and yang .