This is the name of a movie starring Dom DeLouise ("Fatso" 1980). I heard that the movie was about food addiction, so I checked it out.
It's a story about a very nice man living in New York City, beloved by many friends and family who try to convince him to go on a diet. The story begins with all of them at another man's funeral, a friend who was extremely obese and probably died because of it.
We watch our hero, Dominick, as he desperately tries to avoid eating all the foods that he loves and then fails miserably. It seems that the only thing that can save him is his love for a woman.
I kept finding myself looking at the food he's eating and wishing that he knew about Macrobiotics. Because if he did, then he would know why he was craving spaghetti with crusty white bread and olive oil, and then next be craving a whole roasted chicken, and then next be craving cream puffs or chocolate cake. He would understand that Yin is attracted to Yang, and that the size of the attraction is in direct proportion to the size of the Yin or the Yang.
He would learn that white bread and foods with sugar are extremely Yin. And that because they are not a balance of Yin and Yang within themselves, his body would immediately demand something extremely Yang after eating them. Something that would create a balance with the white bread and sugar, something like meat and salt, perhaps.
Unfortunately, sugar is so extremely yin that there is no food that can create a balance with it, not even meat, and certainly not salt, unless you ate a cup of salt for every cup of sugar maybe, but then you'd probably be dead. And so you find yourself constantly hungry, because your body is still demanding that counterbalance. And you eat and eat and eat, trying to find balance. Trying to find peace.
If he knew about Macrobiotics, he would know that whole grains, whole vegetables, and pure, natural water would give him the balance that his body craves. And he would be in control of his own body. He would be able to eat his favorite foods once again, because this time, he would understand what was happening and he would be able to correct the situation.
There is a whole community of people who study and practice Macrobiotics (all over the world), some of who give help by marketing good, nutritious, whole foods for our health and well-being. They offer us new and different kinds of foods to help us regain our balance, like whole-grain miso, unpasteurized soy sauce, and ume plum vinegar. Others grow the food using natural organic methods. Others provide counseling and guidance. And others provide the books, instructional material and a great deal of food for thought. For more information, go to the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation website.
