Notes from a lecture delivered by Michio Kushi, student of George Ohsawa, founder of the modern-day Macrobiotics movement. Macrobiotics was a health practice that stressed the importance of good diet and balanced lifestyle. The lecture took place in Boston on March 22, 1987. Robert makes his lecture notes in a bound sketchbook, filling six pages with neat, well-spaced handwriting and diagrams. The notes begin with the statement that “relying on remedies is not macrobiotic.” Under a diagram showing the forces of yin and yang pressing an individual on two sides, is the statement that “healing does not occur until you are totally centered.” The concluding point is that “once good individual health is achieved, this can be shared with family, community, country, world.”

Though today it has largely disappeared from practice, Macrobiotics was important as a precursor of such things as the local food movement, green medicine and the idea of approaching health through nutrition.