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.