Michio Kushi (1926-2014) arrived in the US in 1949, built the East West Foundation and the Kushi Institute (Brookline, 1979), and published prolifically: The Book of Macrobiotics (1977) laid out the dietary system inherited from George Ohsawa, and One Peaceful World (1987, with Alex Jack) extended it into civilizational prophecy, biological evolution of humanity into a planetary 'one peaceful world' order. His cancer claims for the diet were rejected by mainstream oncology and criticized by the American Cancer Society; the macrobiotic diet itself is documented, the cure claims are not supported.
American memory files Kushi as a health-food personality, the era of miso, tamari, and whole grains he genuinely helped normalize in US supermarkets. The prophecy layer, world federalism by dietary stages, mostly dropped out of the retelling.
Kushi's system is a ladder masquerading as a menu: grain-based diet aligns body, aligned body aligns society, aligned society triggers a biological transformation of the species. It is Ohsawa's Zen macrobiotics extended into full eschatology, yin-yang as physics, history, and prophecy in one frame.
If a diet theory ends in prophecy, which part was the payload?