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...needles. While on a tour through Communist China, New York Times Columnist and Vice President James Reston, 61, was flattened with appendicitis. He permitted local surgeons to operate, then with journalistic bravado let them try to relieve the pain by acupuncture-an ancient method of rerouting the forces of yin and yang by sticking needles into parts of an ailing anatomy, but not necessarily near the site of the operation. At week's end, Reston was reported to be recovering nicely...
...does scientific nutritional balance, a concept that in the Age of Aquarius seems to carry little weight. "The only nutritional rules we disregard are modern ones," airily explains Elaine Mensoff, 21, who cooks for a Boston macrobiotic commune. Instead, macrobiotics concerns itself with those ancient complementary and opposite forces yin and yang, into which everything in the world is divided, including food. Sugar and most fruits, for example, tend to be very yin, while meats and eggs tend to be very yang. The trick is to balance one's menus to maintain a 5-to-l proportion of yin...
...rarely going off Macrobiotic Regimen No. 7 (only whole grain cereals), which is prescribed for special healing purposes and is intended to be followed for only about ten days at a time. Other fatal cases of malnutrition as well as scurvy have been traced to diet No. 7. Their yin-yang balance notwithstanding, brown rice and cereals alone are deficient not only in protein but in vitamins...
...found in the culinary columns of underground newspapers, where readers are routinely warned against eating too much meat, dairy products or sugar. A columnist in the Los Angeles Free Press, for example, recently speculated that the University of Texas massacre a few years back was caused by too much yin-in this case sugar-in the killer's blood. The clue that supported his conclusion: chocolate candy was found in the pockets of the slain sniper...
There are sexual ramifications as well. "If I eat yang I slip into my desire body," says Michael Bobier, owner of an organic restaurant and food shop in Marin County, Calif. "Yin food makes me more ethereal. Women often find what is soft and gentle in a man most appealing about him. It's much easier to be tender on a yin diet...