Atlanta Macrobiotics

Happy 4th of July Everyone!

Join our next Group Cooking Class: Cooking to Restore Natural Beauty ‘n Health

Saturday, July 17               1-4 pm

RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com 770 . 396 . 9413         Limited seating!

Beauty is only skin deep – what’s deep inside us is who we really are, right?

Ok, but in macrobiotic view and oriental medicine, our facial features, coloring, condition of our skin, hair and nails actually gauge our health deep within, and the health of each of our organs.

So, this macrobiotic cooking class examines lifestyle and recipes to actually  attain renewed levels of health. And bring you both compliments & personal delight at how improved you look and feel! A very special class!

The Magic Menu!

Hato-Mugi Salad & Light Dressing

Kool Cucumber Soup

Summer’s Pressed Salade & Yummy Citrus Dress-it-up!

My Favorite Daikon Nishimi with Sweet Miso Dressing

Arame Salad

This Can’t Really Be a Dessert?! Dessert

We will also discuss and include recipes for home remedies to improve our health.

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July welcomes Warren Kramer back to Atlanta! Yep, July 28-August 1

Join our great week, starting Wednesday evening, July 28 at Cafe Sunflower with

our Dinner at 6 PM, and lecture to follow at 7:30 ~ location at the Rueff home.

Five days packed with lectures, cooking classes, private consultations offering you a chance to really streamline the macrobiotic diet and lifestyle to your personal condition at this time. Check Warren’s information at www.atlantamacrobiotics.com, and follow the prompts to the flyer of the week’s events and discounts! Definitely worth the trip to Atlanta! Remember, Warren’s the macrobiotic counselor Alicia Silverstone is suggesting we see whenever he’s available in your city.

A few consultation times are open, morning, afternoon, and evening after the lectures, so call or email me to get your time preference!

Please share with your friends & family!

It’s a Spa! It’s a Pharmacy! No, it’s just my Macrobiotic Kitchen, but I feel like Superman in it, with everything I need already in my glass jars, and equipment to create whatever remedies and dishes best suit! Remember the Boy Scout’s Marching Song! Be prepared, … for whatever comes along! Well, having your well-stocked macrobiotic kitchen, a copy of Michio Kushi and Alex Jack’s The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, your macrobiotic counselor’s cell phone number and you’re good to go! Ready for just about anything!

Like my husband’s oral surgery yesterday. The periodontist prescribed a soft diet including milk shakes with supplements and / or eggs, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc. appropriate. With the additional note: Please do not go without nourishment during the first day or so. Okay, so what’s a macro-wife to do!! It’s all very easy in our macro kitchen-spa! Jump into my shoes – here’s what we did.

Throughout the day before surgery, we served specially nutritous meals: Lunch included miso soup, sardine spread, brown rice and cabbage, squash and onion sauté. Dinner included: lentil soup, brown rice with sweet brown rice, which relaxes nerve endings and muscles, arame with vegetables  – extra minerals for healing, and Hokkaido aduki beans. In the evening, Fred sipped Ume Sho Kuzu drink, the macrobiotic antibiotic, while I prepared food for the day of his surgery.

Knowing a liquid diet was called for, I freshly hulled one cup of short grain brown rice and soaked this with 10 cups of water! Ten cups of water! Did I make a mistake? Nope, this is Brown Rice Cream we’re making. We’ll pressure cook it early in the morning, and using the William Sonoma Food Mill, pour it through 2 of the disks: first through the largest disk, and secondly through the teeniest disk, obtaining a thick liquid, omitting only the small amount of rice pulp.

And I soaked 1 cup of Hokkaido Azuki Beans ~ only the best for this sweet man and tomorrow while the rice is a’cookin’, these beans will too, for a nice Azuki Bean Tea,a nice protein for a liquid diet! Lots healthier and more digestible than the eggs on the above suggested list!

And once we come home, we’ll make Michio Kushi’s awesome Happy Liver Drink, with napa cabbage, granny smith apple, cucumber, sprouts and celery! Who wouldn’t be happy with that! Cooling, refreshing, light ~ instead of the milkshake with supplements! Following this with stellar dishes from my Macrobiotic Cooking Class on Home Remedies when I studied at the Kushi Institute: brown rice cream, aduki bean tea, barley tea, leafy green tea.  Fred felt very nourished without compromising the quality of his food. Enjoying the the same ingredients we often eat, only in a liquid form.

Fresh Miso Soup daily and repeating Ume Sho Kuzu throughout the next 10 days, and we can confidently ignore the antibiotic prescription for Amoxicillin 500mg and all side effects. In lieu of Lidocaine and Peridex rinses, we use Weleda products created by Rudolf Steiner with it’s healing effects, and Dentizyme by Natura, Bio-active Botanical Complex of extracts & essential oils – all organic. Very healing to the gums. We actually use it quite often.

The doctor gave Fred one Ibuprofen before he left the office, and prescribed Vicoprophen 7.5mg/200mg Ibuprophen. So Fred really felt fine, and though I bought a box of over-the counter Ibuprophen for just-in-cases, this can be returned, or donated  away. The warnings list on the box is pretty scary, yet this is supposed to be the mildest pill for pain. We’ll use Dentizyme & eat sweet brown rice any day over that long list!

All the recipes mentioned are in Michio Kushi and Alex Jack’s book, The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, and today food mills are also available on-line. I wish every home had one! Whenever Fred or I are the least bit under the weather, we make brown rice cream for each other, and bingo, we just get over whatever that problem could have become. It’s so amazing. I’ve even made it for clients to receive intravenously at the hospital. It truly nourishes us with nutrients without taxing our digestive system one iota! How perfect a food is that!

I say, Vive la Food Mill! Hope you’ll have one in your kitchen too! This is one item you don’t want to be having to find when you do already are needing it! Be that Scout, and have it in place! And your kitchen too will be the Spa, the pharmacy ~ and you get to be super-don’t-have-to-take-medications-macro-food healer too! A great investment for yourself and your family is taking a private or group macrobiotic cooking class on macrobiotic home remedies. These are my favorite macrobiotic cooking classes because I know my clients are knowledgeable for whatever comes along, just like the scouts!

Footnote: Three days later, Fred was ready for more solid food. Our mini Cuisinart food processor did wonders with greens, creating a pesto consistency, and letting him enjoy steamed or sautéed greens, even blanched veg sooner than if he would be able to chew them as usual. All through the week Fred often applied the Dentizyme drops and thanked me again and again for discovering these. Hope you add this to your repertoire too!

Back to Basics

A Special Macrobiotic Cooking Class

Saturday, February 20               1-4 pm                       just $45 per person

This is a very special Macrobiotic and Vegan Cooking Class!

And just may be worth the trip to Atlanta!

You may be on a Macrobiotic, Vegetarian or Vegan Diet,

and still not reaping and the most health improvement for all your cooking efforts!

This is the class for YOU to learn about the Great Life Diet*

Based on Michio Kushi teaching 6 years ago, upon discovering Kushi Institute teachers had developed their own way of teaching, and ventured away from traditional cooking methods. We will cover basics explained in The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack.

Learn the unique tips Mr. Kushi feels are important for each dish.

*Menu*

Miso Soup

Special Drink for Liver Health***

Really right way for Pressure-Cooking Brown Rice!

The Pressed Salad – Learn how it relieves PRESSURE!!!!

Kinpira Soup – the Mac-Daddy Strengthener of all Times!

Nishimi Vegetables awesomeful delishious with Kuzu Sauce!

Roots and Tops the perfectly Balanced Vegetable Dish!

Blanched Vegetables & Dressing for Expeditious Energy

Ame Kuzu, the drink to relax & sleep well through the night

Ume Sho Kuzu, the Macrobiotic Antibiotic for Immune System, Jet Lag, & Dental Appointments

Flying into Atlanta for this class? Easy Marta accessibility!

Nearby hotel, motel accommodations available!

Cooking class at the home of Marsha and Fred Rueff

1130 Trailridge Lane

Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

770 . 396 . 9413              cell: 678 . 643 . 5662           email: marsharueff@mac.com

Please RSVP asap! Your check holds your spot!

Hurry, space is limited!

*The Great Life Diet, by Denny Waxman greatly enhances your practice of Macrobiotics, and is additional text material for our classes.

Summertime, and travel to other time zones may be on your agenda! So how do you make the most of your trip, and eliminate the jet lag issue, truly enjoying each and every moment of your stay? Especially if you’re like me, with so much to do before leaving, it’s hard to get to bed on time that final departure week.

On a Macrobiotic Diet it’s so easy! Three simple, magical words: ume sho kuzu!

What’s that? A very soothing drink, easily made, in about 7 minutes. Three ingredients plus water: umeboshi plum, shoyu – a special soy sauce, and kuzu – the harvested root of the kudzu plant. Yes, the very plant that grows throughout the southern states, covering huge trees along the highways. Imagine the strength of that hardy plant’s root, harvested for this drink, and coating your intestinal walls. No wonder this drink boosts our immunity! We love teaching this in macrobiotic cooking class because it is helpful for so many health conditions.

• Just dissolve 1 teaspoon of kuzu in 1 cup cold spring or filtered water.
• Bring to a boil, stirring continually to avoid lumping.
• Add one-third umeboshi plum
• Once the water becomes transparent, add 6 drops shoyu.

Drink while hot. Enjoy this drink daily two days before the trip, and the day of travel, and if possible the following two days. You may also repeat for your return home.

Especially at this present time with concern about the swine flu and travel, the ume-sho-kuzu drink becomes a no-brainer for travel because it is considered the Macrobiotic Diet Antibiotic!

*Top quality ingredients can be ordered from Natural Import Company at 800 . 324 . 1878

• 89500 Sakurazawa Shoyu 5 oz.
• 89333 Mitoku Umeboshi Plum 6 oz
• 89408 Mitoku Kuzu 3 oz

For more information on benefits of Ume Sho Kuzu, and macrobiotic cooking classes, please check our website:

www.atlantamacrobiotics.com or email: marsharueff@mac.com

Books: The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack    See the section on Home Remedies

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Macrobiotic Counselor

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lecture and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues.

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Saturday, July 18, at 5:00 PM please join us for a Macrobiotic Lecture, Application of the Five Transformations, How to Discharge Sweets & Dairy, following the Wrap it Up! Awesome Sandwiches & Wraps Macrobiotic Cooking Class at The Rueff Home, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

We learn studying macrobiotics how the effects of food we’ve eaten in the past does not just exit our bodies when we stop eating it. We all wish this were the case! Clients often say, Oh, I haven’t eaten cheese for over a year, how can you think it is affecting the arthritis in my knees? So, what do we do to expedite a change in our health, and reap the benefits of eating on a Macrobiotic Diet?

Just wait til you hear Warren’s lecture, How to Discharge Sweets & Dairy Applying the Five Transformations. His information will absolutely astound you! Applying macrobiotic principles, makes so much sense, and as Warren explains the energetics of the food, everything falls into place. Learning how to draw the effects of food out of your body gives you such freedom to restore your health, melt tumors, look and feel younger, and increase your energy tremendously. And you’ll understand the why of it all. I always introduce Warren as our why man – because he takes the time to explain and chart the rudimentary basis of this structure. The yin and yang of it all will surely play into this too!

And you can’t even begin to imagine how much better you will feel! Food tastes more delish than ever before! Yes, our taste buds change when we stop sugar and dairy. We develop a gourmet taste for real food and some items we’ve never before enjoyed. Macrobiotic cuisine isn’t bland or tasteless, but flavorful and delicious. We  still satisfy our sweet tooth using Suzanne’s Genmai Brown Rice Syrup and Barley Malt and sweet vegetables. You might even easily slim down in the process. One thing is for sure! There is almost no favorite dish you will have to do without. It’s surely been recreated in a macrobiotic recipe version to please your palate!

Warren will be suggesting actual dishes, and some home remedies, special drinks – certain combinations of foods, and your notes will reflect unique properties of these dishes.You will find this class very beneficial as Warren introduces you to a whole new level of macrobiotic cooking, broadening your understanding of the macrobiotic lifestyle.

Recommended cookbook: Sweet & Natural, by Meredith McCarty for 120 desserts without sugar, eggs, yeast, butter

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lecture and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues  at marsharueff@mac.com .

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Thursday July 16, please join us for a special evening’s lecture, Sweet Seductions – Breaking the Sugar Addiction, July 16, 7:30-9 pm at the Rueff Home, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338. A special topic for Warren is a natural from his intense research on hypoglycemia which earned him great respect from his colleagues and clients. This incredible expertise extends to the amazing material Warren has gathered to speak on sugar addiction. So vital today! Can you believe the average person today consumes 147 pounds of sugar annually? Yes, people are caught in a sugar addiction – as Warren explains, take that morning sugar away, and watch people barely being able to move in the morning. One of the worse foods we can consume, Warren explains how to step off the sugar roller coaster ride once and for all. He will describe the difficulty our health endures when we consume sugar. Knowing this valuable information is very helpful when we are choosing a different and healthier macrobiotic diet and lifestyle. You will learn healthy alternative sweetners as well as satisfying sweet dishes and beverages far easier on our bodies, relaxing and helpful to our health. We will serve a delicious non-sugar dessert and tea recommended on the macrobiotic diet! Maybe you can even guess the source of minerals in this yummy dessert! You’ll find out in Warren’s lecture!

Suggested reading: Sugar Blues, by William Dufty, journalist and husband to Gloria Swanson, writes the history of sugar, and how the ill effects of sugar have been known hundreds of years.

The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lectures and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues  at marsharueff@mac.com .

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Join us for our Opening Event: First, we’ll gather & enjoy a delicious vegan Buffet Dinner at the new Mellow Mushroom Restaurant, 6100 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, at 6:00 PM. Featuring the hummus, amazing vegan pizzas overflowing with fresh veggies, tofu and tempeh hoagies and field green salads! And a most informative lecture,  Supporting a Healthy Heart. The charge for the entire event is specially priced at $20 for the dinner/lecture. Warren’s lecture from 7:30 – 9:00 PM is at the Rueff home in Dunwoody, where a macrobiotic dessert will be served, vegan of course! Warren will share such enlightening information regarding the heart, including visual diagnosis of heart health, healing foods, remedies and activities supporting the heart. He will also discuss how this amazing organ, known as the fire element of our body, increases in activity for the summer  – and what this means to each of us. Especially as we near late summer. And of course we’ll also learn how the heart is the rhythm keeper in our lives, affecting our love and joy.  Warren will answer your questions, and even more special, he always tells us the why and how of everything. That’s one of his specialties, and you’ll hear me introduce him as the Why Man of Macrobiotics!

How special an evening this will prove! And we thank Wendy Steinbaum, long-time macrobiotic supporter for recommending Mellow Mushroom, a favorite of her’s and Aubrey’s! We look forward to seeing you  July 15!

Bonus! Bring a friend New to Macrobiotics and YOU attend 2 lectures half-price Thursday  - Sunday.

Suggested Reading: The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack.

You’re in the dentist chair and your dentist starts asking do you have a heart condition or any implant surgery, and if you say yes, they will only proceed if you have taken antibiotics – or they may give you a high dosage of antibiotics right then so as not to lose chair time. What to do if you prefer avoiding pharmaceutical medicines and their side effects?

On a Macrobiotic Diet it’s so easy! Three simple, magical words: ume sho kuzu! What’s that? A very soothing drink, easily made, in about 7 minutes. Three ingredients plus water: umeboshi plum, shoyu – a special soy sauce, and kuzu – the harvested root of the kudzu plant.

And the added benefit: it’s very soothing for your nerve endings, so you are more relaxed for that probing needle, good for the gums – which reflect the condition of our intestines. So we always take this drink before any dental cleansing or other appointments. It just eases our comfort level with the additional probing and vibrational sensations of the cleansing tools and uncomfortable pressure of x-ray filming.

I love teaching this drink in my macrobiotic cooking classes because it is helpful for so many health conditions. The recipe as found in Michio Kushi and Alex Jack’s book, The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, page 505-506:

• Just dissolve 1 teaspoon of kuzu in 1 cup cold spring or filtered water.
• Bring to a boil, stirring continually to avoid lumping.
• Add one-third umeboshi plum
• Once the water becomes transparent, add 6 drops shoyu.

Drink while hot. Enjoy this drink daily two days before your appoinment, and the day of your appointment. If your dentist procedure involved novacaine, carbocaine or other numbing medication, use this drink the following two days.

Since this drink is considered the Macrobiotic Antibiotic we can answer yes to the above questions with confidence of protection, and knowing as well, there are no adverse side effects of our choice of this macrobiotic diet version of an antibiotic. In fact, since it’s good for so many conditions, we always feel better after taking it.

*Top quality ingredients can be ordered from Natural Import Company at 800 . 324 . 1878

• 89500 Sakurazawa Shoyu 5 oz.
• 89333 Mitoku Umeboshi Plum 6 oz
• 89408 Mitoku Kuzu 3 oz

For more information on the benefits of Ume Sho Kuzu, please check our website:  www.atlantamacrobiotics.com

You’ve sipped Green tea at the Chinese and Japanese restaurants, usually in the teeny cups they keep refilling over and over again. And this may or may not affect your sleep depending on your other intake of caffeine for that day. Yes, there is caffeine in this tea, although it’s less than coffee, but present. It’s from the leaf of the plant, and for those of you fortunate to have experienced Japanese Tea Serving you may have learned all about those special green leaves, and seen them crushed into the fine powders.

Well, on a Macrobiotic Diet there’s something even better than that! Bancha Twig Tea! And it has only miniscule caffeine – which means it’s there, but almost undetectable, especially the best Mitoku quality. And it’s helpful for so many conditions. I love covering all the benefits in my macrobiotic cooking classes. Here are a few for you to enjoy!

The loose twigs make a wonderful drink, and actually assists digestion. Just boil 5-7 minutes, to a light brown shade and enhanced aroma. Please enjoy in the morning, and I often take a thermos with me for the day when I’m away from home.

Need a more relaxing drink? Add a little apple juice, and voila, feel the tension melt away in your shoulder blades.

Feel the beginning of a headache coming? Add up to 6 drops shoyu (Macrobiotic Diet recommended soy sauce) to a drinking cup, and pour the tea over the shoyu. Now this is amazing. As the tea disperses the shoyu throughout the cup, guess what? When you drink this Sho Ban Tea, your blood is alkalined and the symptoms of the headache disperse and poof, vanishes! I keep a small bottle of shoyu at my desk, and have helped myself and other clients numerous times.

Do you sometimes get a sore throat or laryngitis? Gargle with salted bancha tea throughout the day, and you’ll nip it in the bud!

Travel with Bancha Twig Tea bags wherever you go! I had them at the beach years ago when I ran into a stingray, and guess what our Senior Macrobiotic Counselor Warren Kramer had me soak my foot in? Yep, Bancha Tea. It took the poison right out of my foot, so there I was the Marco Island Hilton hotel, foot in sink, soaking in bancha tea, while I sipped my Sho Ban for the trauma of the sting, and I was out dancing that very same night!