theunderstanding of the relationships between ourselves, the food we eat and the lifestyles we choose to live. Sickness is viewed as the body’s natural attempt to harmonize itself with its environment.

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It may be an ordinary dance studio during the week, but on Sunday mornings this little room in Toronto’s west end is transformed by the smells of steamed vegetables, seaweed and miso into Anna Rosenberg’s Macro Mornings cooking class. Here Rosenberg provides her students with a basic introduction to macrobiotic cooking.

Many of Rosenberg’s students come to her cooking classes to learn how to prepare a wide variety of meals that will help them start the healing process and recover from such diseases as cancer.

“The first factor of health is what you eat. It determines how you react, how you think,” says Rosenberg, a macrobiotic chef, teacher, councillor and founder of the Macrobiotic Living Whole Foods Cooking School.

Macrobiotics Defined
In macrobiotics health and longevity is believed to be achieved through theunderstanding of the relationships between ourselves, the food we eat and the lifestyles we choose to live. Sickness is viewed as the body’s natural attempt to harmonize itself with its environment.

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Mornings cooking class. Here Rosenberg provides her students with a basic introduction to macrobiotic cooking.

Many of Rosenberg’s students come to her cooking classes to learn how to prepare a wide variety of meals that will help them start the healing process and recover from such diseases as cancer.

“The first factor of health is what you eat. It determines how you react, how you think,” says Rosenberg, a macrobiotic chef, teacher, councillor and founder of the Macrobiotic Living Whole Foods Cooking School.

Macrobiotics Defined
In macrobiotics health and longevity is believed to be achieved through theunderstanding of the relationships between ourselves, the food we eat and the lifestyles we choose to live. Sickness is viewed as the body’s natural attempt to harmonize itself with its environment.

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y of meals that will help them start the healing process and recover from such diseases as cancer.

“The first factor of health is what you eat. It determines how you react, how you think,” says Rosenberg, a macrobiotic chef, teacher, councillor and founder of the Macrobiotic Living Whole Foods Cooking School.

Macrobiotics Defined
In macrobiotics health and longevity is believed to be achieved through theunderstanding of the relationships between ourselves, the food we eat and the lifestyles we choose to live. Sickness is viewed as the body’s natural attempt to harmonize itself with its environment.

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a macrobiotic chef, teacher, councillor and founder of the Macrobiotic Living Whole Foods Cooking School.

Macrobiotics Defined
In macrobiotics health and longevity is believed to be achieved through theunderstanding of the relationships between ourselves, the food we eat and the lifestyles we choose to live. Sickness is viewed as the body’s natural attempt to harmonize itself with its environment.

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theunderstanding of the relationships between ourselves, the food we eat and the lifestyles we choose to live. Sickness is viewed as the body’s natural attempt to harmonize itself with its environment.

All foods consumed in macrobiotics help the body achieve this harmony by aiding in the digestion and absorption of nutrients.

“Macrobiotics is basically a whole grain and vegetable diet, it’s really simple,” Rosenberg says. “It’s about looking at an individual and seeing what they need.”

In macrobiotics food preparation is just as important to human health as are proper food choices.

“I’m trying to teach day to day cooking,” Rosenberg says. “Most people think it (cooking)is just a matter of ingredients but it’s also the energy of the food, the pots the food is prepared in and the type of dish. Is it a fast or slow dish?”

By going to fast food restaurants she says we give up our control over what we eat to others who might not be concerned with whether the food they are preparing is healthy.

“By putting orde