You Are All Sanpaku

by George Ohsawa

Book Overview

This book introduced two new words into our vocabulary. The first, a well-known Japanese term, sanpaku, describes a condition in which the white of the eye can be seen between the pupil and the lower... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806507284
• ISBN13: 9780806507286
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Best book I have ever read

You will want Everyone U care 4 to read & reread this amazing book. I read it years ago, now I'm buying it 4 my 20 yr. old granddaughter & to reread, they keep calling the - 10 Day Regime a Diet ,I did it & had a side effect ,I lost 20lbs in 9 days, Eating a ton of brown.

You are Sanpaku

I feel that the introduction portion of the book would give a reader a good idea of the whole concept. Must read!

FASCINATING AND TROUBLING ASSERTIONS

Five Stars!! This book nearly jumped into my hands off the shelf of a second hand bookstore decades ago. The title "You Are All Sanpaku" seemed to indicate that it was a fictional novel, but it is a work of non-fiction that has come back to haunt my thoughts over and over. The notion that people with the whites of their eyes exposed on the sides and bottom are not only ill, but ill-fated? Preposterous!! And a diet can correct it? HogWash!! But.... But when Teddy Kennedy had his woes over and over, and when actress Natalie Wood died in a boating accident of strange circumstances at a young age, an alarm bell went off and I went into packed boxes of books in the closet and found the book. No storm, no sniper, right under the nose of her husband and Natalie was as Sanpaku as they come. This book is one of the few that has survived over the years and pulled me back to re-read those opening pages before it gets down to the diet. Can it be true? The names continue to reverberate on the list of the Sanpaku: John F. Kennedy, RFK, Stan Getz, Dorothy Malone, Adam Clayton Powell, Jackie Gleason, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn, Bette Davis, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Edward G. Robinson, Soyora, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Malone, Willy Brandt, Francoise Sagan, and so on and so on. Some of whom did indeed run up against tough times or even unusual or untimely deaths. I'm not Sanpaku so I haven't really tried the diet. I am surprised that I'm the first reviewer to comment on the physical aspects of being Sanpaku and the part about fate. I'm sure the diet is nice but this is way beyond a mere diet. Read the book and decide for yourself. Just don't throw it away, you'll need it for reference and to update the Sanpaku list. Five SPOOKY Stars!

The brown rice diet will change your life.

After working with all the later books on macrobiotic health practices, I was fortunate to find a copy of George (Nyoti) Ohsawa's book "You are all Sanpaku." He convinced me of the need for the 10-day brown rice regime, and I began the fast gladly. (I had been dragging my feet in this area while learning to cook all over again.)Health versus disease suddenly becomes very clear while turning the pages. If the Standard American Diet - of denatured, processed carbs, meats, and dairy, and foods which have been irridiated, microwaved, and stripped of nutrients - has not ruined your health yet, just wait. Most of us are sanpaku from birth. Once you know what to look for, you will see it in people everywhere. The chapter on sexual health is mind-boggling for all of us who have settled for ill-health. We must start with physical health. Mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being will follow. We can take the necessary steps if we have the understanding. This book creates the understanding. Find out why we are all sanpaku.

Read this 30 years ago and am buying it again.

This is the 'bible' for symptoms of both good and bad health. I read this while working part-time in high school at a health food store, back when patrons were referred to as 'health-nuts'! I am longer in life now and returning to 'Oriental' medicine. This book will change your awareness of your health, if not your life.

The Best-seller that Introduced Macrobiotics in the '60s

The long, fascinating introduction to this Macrobiotic classic was written by the translator, from French: William Dufty, in 1965. The book was originally published under George Ohsawa's Japanese name, by University Press, and has been reprinted by two publishers. It is by far the most readable introduction to Macrobiotics, and is far more accessible than Ohsawa's ZEN MACROBIOTICS, which appeared in its standard revised edition the same year. Dedicated and addressed to 35 named international celebrities, only a very few of whom are still alive in 1999, this was a prophetic book that remains more vital than ever, as the biological degeneration of humanity has accelerated in the last three and a half decades!