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What Ails Me

November 10, 2009 in News, Personal Health by bursty | 1 comment

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I’ve suffered from migraines and serious headaches since I was about 15 years old.  They’re pretty horrible — they usually start in my right neck muscles, spasming and freaking out, and that spasm freak out moves up into the right part of my occipital nerve, and then I have a full blown don’t touch me don’t talk to me turn off the lights I’m going to puke bad headache all of the sudden.  Well - it doesn’t really happen that suddenly - I can feel it coming on, and then the dread takes over.  I’ve seen numerous doctors for these headaches, had neurological examinations, gone to chiropractors (both regular and “alternative“).  I’ve taken migraine medications, preventative medications, excedrin, advil, ibuprofen, tylenol, etc. etc. 

And then we went “whole hog” macrobiotic — and I DIDN’T GET HEADACHES!  Read the rest of this entry »

[Book Review] The Kind Diet

October 27, 2009 in Reviews by bursty | 3 comments

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Jessica Porter posted on her blog, here, a couple of weeks ago that this new book was out — which she cowrote with Alicia Silverstone.  I was so excited to have some more Jessica Porter in my cookbook collection that I ran out and got it. 

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Guestpost: Macrobiotic Cooking–the Next Dimension by Jessica Porter

December 19, 2008 in Guest Post by bursty | 6 comments

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Yes, you read it correctly — the very hip chick herself has graced A Grain A Day with a guest post! Thank you Jessica — we hope to have you again sometime soon! In case you have been living under a macrobiotic rock, Jessica Porter wrote “The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieiving a Radiant Mind and a Fabulous Body” back in 2004, and she single-handedly convinced me (and cooljuice) to go “whole hog.” Her humor, ability to be real, and intelligent explanations are all you need to get [and keep] you going… Please check out her website here (where she also maintains a hilarious and helpful blog), her book here, and her online macrobiotic cooking classes here. So with no further ado - take it away Jessica!

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Conscious Digestion: A lunchtime conversation with a Macro Guru?

December 10, 2008 in Personal Health by bursty | 2 comments


this was our dinner last night… nothing to do with this post: steamed vegetables, udon noodles, and a delightful peanut sauce… mmm…

It’s Tuesday, and I just ate a big bowl of Jake’s Sunday Sunshine Soup with a pyrex full of brown rice, and I had the craziest idea to apply what I’ve been learning. Afterall, as you can see on the top of our blog, A Grain A Day is about “learning to be macrobiotic, one grain at a time.” As with most things, we adhere to philosophies and practices and ideas after learning of them and being passionate about them, and then we tend to forget all of those motivations and we just get into a sort of “groove” [or rut, depending on what kind of day you are having]…

I remember vaguely reading in The Hip Chick’s Guide about chewing your food well, and different sorts of processes that invokes - and for the first few weeks [or, to be more accurate, probably days, sadly], I took Jessica’s advice to heart! I thought about my chewing, for a meal or two I even counted how many times I chewed my brown rice. But, predictably, I’ve veered far, far away from that concept. In fact, before I had a crash of consciousness during my lovely macrolunch today, I was reading a book (a very good book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, but nonetheless, I was reading a book).

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Hip Chick’s Crispy Rice Treats

October 26, 2008 in Recipes by bursty | 3 comments

Made a pan of these this evening as a reconciliation gift to my husband… thought I’d share this video of the hip chick making them - a little out there, but a great recipe and entertaining as well! The first time I made these was probably a week or two into the whole hog macrobiotic experience, and I wasn’t quite prepared for them - I was expecting corn syrup & jiffy peanut butter and I got brown rice syrup & organic unsalted peanut butter. Sometimes those expectations can really defeat the enjoyment of the product. Anyway - this time - now that I’m mostly-macro, they are pretty darn wonderful and I don’t feel disgusting after eating them! Dig in!

“Mom, I Can’t Go To School Today, I’m Discharging.”

August 7, 2008 in Personal Health by bursty | 3 comments

I’m feeling slightly disgusting. So I’m doing some research on macrobiotics and illness. The general theme that I am gathering is that macrobiotic people don’t get “sick”… they discharge. Jessica Porter has a great story in her book (The Hip Chick’s Guide… if you don’t know it, you should) about how after about 6 mos. or so of complete macrobiotics, her body got all funky - she got jittery and had trouble putting keys into locks, and she went all crazy with worry that she was about to die. After being reassured by a doctor that her body was absolutely fine, she started to feel better… And now she understands that this period in her life was some form of “discharge.” Again, it’s about changing your attitude.

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