Definition of MACROBIOTIC

Examples of macrobiotic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web When her mother was struggling with cancer in the mid-1990s, her entire family went on a vegetarian macrobiotic diet to support her lifestyle changes. — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, "Greens is brighter than ever as it soars through its midlife crisis," 3 Oct. 2019 Beth Ann Simon, who died in the East Village in 1966 at age 23 because of her obsession with a rigorously macrobiotic diet, may have been hippiedom’s true Patient Zero. — Tom Carson, Los Angeles Times, "Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie?," 15 Aug. 2019 Other than that, Adventure Nannies is open to all prior career backgrounds, including professional athletes, computer programmers, ex-military, published authors, historians, macrobiotic chefs, to name a handful of previous professions. — Cristina Goyanes, Marie Claire, "The Coolest Six-Figure Job You Never Thought You Wanted: Nannying," 14 Jan. 2019 De Maria chef Camille Becerra has always drawn upon her early training at macrobiotic restaurants and a Zen center. — Christine Muhlke, Bon Appetit, "All Day Cafes Are Changing the Way We Eat Out," 15 Jan. 2018 This macrobiotic food site has a wide variety of premium Japanese ingredients, mostly from the Ohsawa brand, and comes highly recommended by Nancy Singleton Hachisu, author of Preserving the Japanese Way. — Mari Uyehara, Bon Appetit, "These 10 Great Online Specialty Food Stores Have Everything," 19 June 2017 There are six Passion Café locations across the island that each have different vibes, but are all focused on providing vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, and raw cuisine. — Amy Louise Bailey, Harper's BAZAAR, "The Fashion Girl's Guide to Ibiza," 17 Oct. 2017 Lett grew up eating a Japanese-inflected macrobiotic diet in New Jersey, and spent a significant amount of time traveling to Japan while the restaurant was being built out. — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, "Here Comes $20 Ramen: MTN is One of America’s Most Wildly Ambitious Japanese Restaurants," 5 Sep. 2017 The seven-night trip is set to travel from Tilbury, England to the Norwegian fjords and will serve a vegan menu that also caters to travelers on raw, gluten-free, or macrobiotic diets, reports The Independent. — Elaheh Nozari, CNT, "A New Cruise to Norway's Fjords Caters to Vegans," 4 Sep. 2017

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History and Etymology for macrobiotic

borrowed from French macrobiotique, probably adapted from German Macrobiotic, noun (defined by its coiner as "the art of prolonging life"), from Greek makrobiótēs "longevity, long life" (from makróbios "long-lived" —from makrós "long" + -o- -o- + -bios "having life [of the kind specified]"— + -tēs, abstract noun suffix) + German -ic -ic entry 2 — more at macro-, amphibious

Note: French macrobiotique was used by the Japanese author George Ohsawa (Nyoichi Sakurazawa, 1893-1966) in La Philosophie de la Médecine d'Extrême-Orient (1956) and later works that popularized macrobiotic diet practices. He most likely adapted the word from German Macrobiotic (in later spelling Makrobiotik), apparently originated by the German physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762-1836) in Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern (Jena, 1797). Hufeland defined Macrobiotic in the preface (p. vi) as "the art of prolonging life" ("die Kunst das Leben zu verlängern"), and in later editions used Makrobiotik as the title of the book, with the original title as subtitle.

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