Heralded by New York magazine among the city’s most popular diets, macrobiotics has become the most recent style in dieting, because of high-profile supporters like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Speaking to the generation of young women seeking to expand their healthy life-style beyond yoga exercises and Pilates, macrobiotic chef and instructor Jessica Porter offers fresh, contemporary, and accessible insight into one of the world’s oldest, yet most popular, diet programs. She points out that by consuming good quality whole foods, any girl can knowledge physical, sensory, emotional, and intellectual freedom.

The consequences of eating a macrobiotic diet can extend beyond basic health to weight loss, beauty, better sex, and satisfaction. Cooking tips and dishes are combined with Jessica’s no-nonsense school of thought and witty anecdotes to make a lifestyle book that will inspire women going to the kitchen with an understanding of how to strengthen their thoughts and systems through food.