Why is 'how we cook' so important ?
Few of us remember a time when households cooked over an open fire. But it was not so very long ago. For some of us, our parents, and for some, our grandparents were cooking with fire in a cook stove during their childhood. That would be only a single lifetime of about 80 years ago.
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Today we can still cook over an open flame for those fortunate enough to have natural gas or propane. This is important to know because we absorb the energy with which we cook. So if we use the microwave which vibrates at 2 million cycle's per second or the electric stove which vibrates at 60 cycles per second, this is a huge increase over what we have been doing traditionally for thousands of years. When we cook this way, the cellular integrity of the food actually changes.
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As Macrobiotic Teacher George Osawa said, 'Don't take my word for it, investigate for yourselves'.
Many studies have been done, and are continuing, that examine the effects of eating microwaved food. Some are showing that it affects the blood and lymph in an adverse way. According to Michio Kushi and Alex Jack in their book, the Macrobiotic Path To Total Health, changes in the blood and lymph "include a decrease in hemoglobin, an increase in hematocrit and leukocytes, higher cholesterol, and a decrease in lymphocytes." They go on to say that microwave cooking also has an effect on the food itself, "including increased acidity, damaged protein molecules, enlarged fat cells, and decreased folic acid levels. It can also weaken breast milk." These can all contribute to the damage and deterioration of our body which then make us vulnerable not only to bodily sickness, but mental illness as well. When chaotic energy enters our food and we eat it, it enters our cells, which affects our tissues, which affects our thoughts and emotion. This all spills over into our homes, our families, our workplace. The way we cook can contribute to, or be part of, the destruction of, personal peace and consequentially, world peace. It seems like a small thing, but when you understand the 'natural law of diminishment', that is, that 'the least shall be the greatest', 'the last shall be first', 'if you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could move mountains', then conversely, being small is really very big....
