Macrobiotic pioneer Kushi dies at 88
New York
MICHIO Kushi, a Japanese scholar who popularised the macrobiotic diet in the United States, helping to change the way health-conscious Americans eat, died on Dec 28 in Boston. He was 88.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Alex Jack, general manager of the Kushi Institute in Becket, Massachusetts, a 242-hectare macrobiotic education centre that Mr Kushi founded in 1978 with his wife, Aveline.
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