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When food is macrobiotic, it is mostly whole grains — especially brown rice — and vegetables, cooked in a simple way, with no added chemicals. People who eat this way often also use beans, , and a little fish, and they try to eat food that is in season rather than food from a factory. It is an adjective: a macrobiotic diet, macrobiotic cooking. The matching noun, macrobiotics, names that way of eating. You will meet the word in health-food shops, café menus, and books about natural living, not in everyday talk about what most families had for dinner. Though actually, people stretch it. Some just mean “very healthy and not processed,” even when the meal is not a strict macrobiotic one. The old idea behind the word is food for a long life, not merely “green” or “light.”
長壽飲食的（台灣自然飲食圈也常直接說 macrobiotic；不是泛稱的「健康餐」，較接近全穀、蔬食、少加工）
組成From macro- (“large, long”) + -biotic (“about living things”). Both pieces come from Greek: makrós “long, large,” and a piece related to bios “life.” So the older idea is “for a long life.”
同家族的字
- antibioticshares -biotic, about living things
- macrocosmshares the Greek piece macro- meaning large
- biologyshares the Greek piece for life
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
macrobioticadj
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Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
- You let somebody move in with you, you make all these little compromises to smooth things along, and the next thing you know, you're on some macrobiotic diet, you're listening to Joni Mitchell!
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Long-lived.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。