Michio Kushi

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Michio Kushi ( Japanese 久 司 道夫 ); (Born May 17, 1926 in Japan , † December 28, 2014 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was a Japanese nutritionist , an important exponent of macrobiotics in the United States and author of numerous books.

Life

After the Second World War , Kushi studied with the macrobiotic teacher Georges Ohsawa in Japan. He studied law and international relations at Tokyo University and continued his studies at Columbia University after moving to the United States in 1949.

Michio Kushi and his wife Aveline founded Erewhon Natural Foods , the East-West-Journal, the East-West Foundation, the Kushi Foundation and the Kushi Institutes in Becket and in Europe, including Lisbon , Zagreb and Amsterdam .

Aveline and Michio Kuchi have published more than 70 books together or as individual authors. After Aveline's death in 2001, Michio Kuchi married a second time. He last lived with his second wife in Boston, Massachusetts, where he died of complications from pancreatic cancer on December 28, 2014 at the age of 88 . He left four sons, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Awards

Kushi received the Award of Excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers . In 1999 the Smithsonian Institution opened a permanent collection on macrobiotics and alternative health care on his behalf.

For their contribution to nutrition, health and peace in the world, Kushi and his wife received the Courage of Conscience Award from Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts on October 14, 2000 on the grounds that they were more conscious of people who set a good example live and work for world peace.

Selection of works

  • Michio Kushi: The book of macrobiotics . 5th edition, Verlag Bruno Martin, 1984, ISBN 3-921786-17-7
  • Michio Kushi: Do-In book, exercises for physical and mental development. 6th edition, 1987, Verlag Bruno Martin, ISBN 3-921786-20-7
  • Michio and Aveline Kushi: The Great Book of Macrobiotic Diet and Lifestyle . ISBN 3-924724-25-3
  • Michio Kushi: The macrobiotic medicine cabinet. Medicinal foods . Ost West Bund, 1999, ISBN 3-924724-32-6
  • Aveline Kushi, Michio Kushi and Monika Seidl: Child and family health through macrobiotics . Ost West Bund, 1990, ISBN 3-924724-37-7
  • Aveline Kushi: Aveline Kushi's big book on macrobiotic cuisine . Ost-West-Bund, 1987, ISBN 3-930564-0-76
  • Aveline Kushi: Cooking with miso . Pala 1986, ISBN 3-923176-27-9
  • Michio Kushi: The dimensions of marriage . Mahajiva 1986, ISBN 3-924845-1-31
  • Michio Kushi: Macrobiotic prevention and treatment of AIDS. Mahajiva, Holthausen / ü. Münster 1997, ISBN 3-924845-3-36

Web links

Wikiquote: Michio Kushi  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tamar Lewin: Michio Kushi, Advocate of Natural Foods in the US, Dies at 88. In: The New York Times, January 4, 2014 (English, accessed January 5, 2014).
  2. ↑ The Courage of Consience Award ( Memento from February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kushi, Michio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 久 司 道夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese nutritionist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Japan
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2014
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts , United States