Nearly 50 Years of Correlating Diet with Facial Appearances

Perhaps the most powerful tool to enhance your health and beauty is Face Reading. Your facial indicators, like discolored lips, are a readout of an inner imbalance. Identify those clues, make appropriate dietary and lifestyle shifts and regain your health. It’s that easy. Let me tell you how I learned this practical art and how you can use this invaluable information.

In 1969 I studied Face Reading with Michio Kushi, the preeminent macrobiotics teacher who correlated traditional Chinese Facial Diagnosis with diet and wrote Your Face Never Lies. I lived right in his large home with other students and we learned how to prepare whole foods to enhance their energetic and healing properties.

The whole household ate from the same pot and explored the impact of the modern diet on our health. We collectively tracked and correlated our facial transformations with our overall health and diet. It was a fascinating education and I’m deeply indebted to Michio and his wife, Aveline Kushi.

In 1971 the first Western acupuncture school opened its doors, and I was in the front row. From Professor J. R. Worsley we learned the Five Element branch of Chinese medicine, a matrix or organizing principle from which Facial Diagnosis emerged. My primary focus and lifelong work remains correlating face reading with diet and the culinary arts and helping others discover how our everyday foods can be our principal medicine.

For decades I introduced Chinese Face Reading for Health as a diagnostic tool in various seminars and workshops that I offered both corporately and privately. My favorite teaching format, however, was a five-week cooking program offered from my own home. One night a week, I’d fill my kitchen with up to 20 people and prepare a 5-course meal while demonstrating how best to bring out the flavor and medicinal aspects of a particular food.

It’s nothing short of magic how quality ingredients create delicious and satisfying meals. Sharing the feast was fun, but what I most loved was seeing the dramatic changes in my students’ faces as they implemented a healing diet tailored for their specific needs. By the end of the course their faces beamed with greater vitality, clarity and beauty.

To empower students to upgrade their diet, I’d read their faces in a consultation and point out relevant indicators such as: do you see that your lips lack a precise border? However, as we all tend to see our own face in an habitual way, people simply couldn’t see this. It baffled me. In time I realized that by looking at an enlarged self-photo, a person could then see her fuzzy lip borders. In 2009 I started using client photos and this enabled me to extend consultations beyond my immediate circle of culinary students.

A client’s photos, along with her Symptom Questionnaire and diet logs provide me with a clear readout of what’s working in her diet. I’m not aware of anyone else using Face Reading in this way and am happy to share my life work and discoveries with you. I welcome you to give it a try in a Face Reading 

How I anticipate the day when many people employ these simple facial diagnostic tools for DIY preventative health care. You can learn the basics right here in my numerous blogs.

Photo Credits: Kushi Family Estate; Worsley Inc., and Worsley Institute.