The macrobiotic diet is the only thing that helped me when all the other health solutions I was trying prior had failed. I went to an accupuncturist naturopath doctor. He was not asian, he was American. He told me the main thing he's seen in all his practice that reverses chronic health problems is when people eat according to their blood type. My sister just took her daughter to a naturopath doctor who gave her a list of foods that were right for her blood type and told her to stick with the Blood Type Diet to really see improvement in her health. I am not asian either. I think there is a blood type connection as well when it comes to health.