Living A Blessed Life: Be Love Farm, Cafe Gratitude, and Gracias Madre

Wow! I was following the crumb trail from the movie "May I Be Frank" and ended up at this little gem of a video seen above. It was a few employees and the owner of 'Cafe Gratitude' that helped inspire addictive personality Frank Ferrante get himself on the road to wellness. In order to facilitate Frank facing himself on many personal levels including food, a creative mix of techniques was used over a period of 42 days. Eventually Frank was able to realize a healthier lifestyle. This included removing emotional blocks, stopping medications, getting rid of Hepatitis C, along with the benefits of losing quite a bit of weight. The movie is emotional, uplifting, funny, and sometimes filled with TMI, and that is the nature of a wildly charming personality like Frank. I recommend watching this film as it shows changing one's life is truly possible when others hearts move to action, and your heart is ready and open to receive the gift.

After watching "May I Be Frank," I wanted to see where these heart inspired people in the film actually work everyday which led them to begin this journey with Frank. What I found behind the 'Cafe Gratitude' restaurant was an inspiring couple that lives their life in the highest sense, even in their business model. You can read more about their work philosophy in their book 'Sacred Commerce" as well as the recipe book based on Cafe Gratitude recipes called, "I Am Grateful." 

Living on the East coast I am not able to enjoy the tastes of their fabulous restaurants in the San Francisco area, but I can sure feel the love! This couple expresses so beautifully that eating at organic restaurants can be a communal and spiritual experience beyond being extremely healthy for both the guest and the employee. It does not matter whether the food is served raw or cooked, those healthy meals are a vision that I would like made manifest across this country for everyone to enjoy! Terces and Matthew Englehart are a wonderful example of doing everything in life with love. Enjoy the video above, and may you do everything in your life with passion, gratitude, kindness, and love.

      

The Story Of Cheese... And Salt... Sugar... and Fat... Oh My!

Did you watch the entire video above? So how did you like that piece of information? Lots-o-cheese got shoved into our lives for a different reason than you thought. Put's a new spin on why some of the processed foods are lurking on your supermarket shelves. Cheese became an "ingredient" because the government had caves full of cheese leftover from the dairy industry creating "fat free" milk. So just when you thought you were avoiding fat by drinking fat free milk the dairy industry sold you on the idea you must be eating more cheese! There are many curious stories surrounding the sick sad world of modern industrialized food. The CEO's do not eat their own food. Many of them get their food from organic farms. If you start to watch food documentaries, and read a few food books, you will sadly learn the truth about what you really are putting into your body, as well as the bodies of those you love. Knowledge is power...and to have power over your old eating habits, you need information you can use about the true story behind the "food stuffs" at your local supermarket. Eating does not only involve your mouth, tongue, and stomach. It involves your mind. Mind over matter. Mind over cheese. Is it possible to change our minds about what a friend calls "The gift from the Gods and food heaven" Cheeeeeeeeeeese?

Cheese is such a little thing in life. Or is it? Think about how many foods you have been eating since you were a child with cheese included. Hey, would you like extra cheese on that pizza? I am survivor of eating those cheese stuffed pretzels, peanut butter cheese crackers, cheese steaks, cheese fries, cheese dips, grilled cheese sandwiches, ham and cheese, cheese puffs, cheese omelets, and the list goes on and on. So cheese is not a little thing after all... It was and is, a big freakin' part of our modern lives! The average person now eats 33 pounds of cheese a year. Geezzz Cheeeeeeeese!

Most people look at me now, living my nutrient dense plant eating lifestyle, and say, "I cannot do that... I cannot give up cheese!" Well let me be honest... cheese was the very very last item to go of my unhealthy favorite foods. Little cans of dripping cheese for nachos was my go to comfort food of choice every week for years. Even when I finally gave up the canned cheese to get off processed foods, I then switched to "organic" mozzarella and provolone for a few months. Still I was loving the cheese, as this was during my transition and learning time, and that is okay. Not only did the eventual knowledge of what I was really eating change my mind, but my new and improved taste buds eventually rejected anything oily. So it was my taste buds that decided there would be no more cheese for me. This was a natural outcome of actually tasting and experiencing real food. When I first went into transition, I would often take the time to ask myself to really experience on all levels what I was putting in my mouth. What was the actual taste? What was the texture? What did I like about it? Those little questions worked every time. Try it yourself! Really experience the taste and the texture rolling around in your mouth and on your tongue. Talk to yourself! haha! Ask your self those questions. You might be surprised. I tried this with fast food chicken nuggets last year. Never ate them again. No problem.

For me cheese started to taste like oily rubber. It was tasteless. A big chewy blobby gob. Liquid cheese became an oooey-gooey oily smear. This was no longer food to me. Now imagine this chewy blob going down through your body. Oh my! Let's not even go into the awful things it does to your intestinal pipes. Surely I don't have to tell you about what it does to your arteries. Let's take a handful of that ooey gooey glob and shove it in a pipe. I definitely think it will stop the flow of whatever wants to move through the pipe. Now that's the picture to keep in your head, as you eat cheese. Your friendly giant corporations and your corporate government would like you to clog all the pipes in your body. This result helps their friend big Pharma. Win, Win, for them. Not so nice for you.

Salt, sugar, fat, Oh My! These ingredients may each be different, but the results are about the same...they are dangerous to your health! Yet you will find them eagerly waiting for you in just about every processed food at the supermarket, and in an over abundance. You are, or were, addicted to this stuff. Yes, that's the trick of it, and that's the corporate plan for you, and your friends. "They" have got to get those chemical laden foodstuffs to last for months or even years on the store shelves. And they have got to get you to buy that old stuff! So "they" just add any of the fat, sugar, salt, combinations they scientifically know you desire, to that cardboard food fakery, and people really do believe it tastes great. The industry calls it the "Bliss Point." Yes food is the drug, and don't bother thinking abut the cumulative effect from doing this everyday for years and years to your body. This magical food is a wonderful convenience too. You have no time to cook, or think... Right?  Well, they count on that. Just grab and go, and believe us that it's safe. They have been convincing you of this idea all your life.

This insider information can be found in a new book titled "Salt, Sugar, Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us" which shares how the food industry leaders have been intoxicating you into a life of unhealthy eating. Ingredients are maximized to addict you to these foods, and get you to be a 'heavy user' of the commodity. The book is written by The New York Times Investigative Reporter and Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael Moss.  It was Michael who made the informative video above about the story of cheese. I love that cheesy video! 

Are donuts and pizza what grew on trees hundreds of years ago? Oh modern packaged foods, why do people think you are the only thing to eat? Alas so many people strangely believe food comes in a box, can, or a bag, and that product which has been on shelves in warehouses for months is better than the real thing. This belief in fake food stuffs has been systematically done over generations. Look at the old ads above. A good documentary to watch about this subject is "Hungry For Change."



Yes I realize there are those who see my new healthy lifestyle choices as extreme or odd. How did we get to the point where people think that the real food that grows on trees, or up from the ground, is the weirdo stuff? Marketing 101 folks. Look...there is an entire aisle in the food store dedicated to soda. Soda is pure empty calories, and diet soda is actually dangerous. In every food store across the nation there are cases upon cases of soda... a mixture of sugar water, high fructose corn syrup...chemicals that rot the brain and cause disease. Watch any sporting event and what do you see? Soda and Beer commercials. Ironically those are the products I literally grew up surrounded by, as my father was a beer and soda distributor. I played among the boxes in the warehouse as a child. We always had a large supply of soda in every flavor at our house, including blue soda. I loved it. As a teen I thought the color was cool and the taste was sweet. Good...right? What did I know, I only learned what I lived. It took informing and arming myself with the truth about the food industrial complex to get unhooked from the monster. This new book talks about a famous company that in its quest to rapidly increase profits would like us to drink more soda than water. No, it's not really to make your life more beautiful, or give the world a hug. It's your money for nothing, money for sickness in a bottle. I am the weirdo for saying that.

 

Oh I can hear the naysayers now. Don't say I can't eat soda, diet soda, cheese, and my salty n' sugary snax (also owned by the same soda companies). For goodness sakes, how will I live? "No, I cannot. I will not. It is not possible." 

Transitioning off of processed foods is a continual process of letting go of the old ways, it is not all or nothing, done at one time. Don't give up on 'you getting healthier' for a false idea of 'what you think' the restrictions will be. Use my 'Substitution' and 'Avoid' pages to get started, and help you to move away from addictive processed food stuffs. How about saying, "I cannot live being fat and sick everyday," or "I cannot live sticking myself with an insulin needle," or "I cannot live taking copious pills everyday to live," or "I cannot live having my chest cut open by a surgeon," or "I cannot live with the huge doctor and hospital bills I will have to pay from eating cheap junk everyday," or "I can not live... if I am dead..."

We do need to change our 'mindset' about sugar, salt and fats. These are the ingredients that damage all parts of our bodies, cause disease, and eventually kill people. After my cancer diagnosis Dr. Furhman told me no more dairy, sugar, salt, oil, or meat products. I had serious disease, and I have to get serious with what I eat. It was not hard for me, because I had already been transitioning off of these addictive foods for months. Perhaps if I had gotten my breast cancer diagnosis months before, it may have seemed like a devastating thought to not eat cheese anymore from that point on. Fortunately I had already replaced the old salty and sweet snacks with many new options, and that list keeps growing! Since I already knew and experienced far tastier foods, I had no problem with his statement. One out of three people will get a cancer diagnosis, perhaps it would be good for you to consider making changes now before you endure a medical crisis. So hang in there! Just give yourself time to try the new things to eat that are the healthier options. Try something new each week, and get rid of something old each week. I have been there and done this, over time it gets easier. The first week or two may be difficult. Just get yourself a bunch of new options to put in your pantry and refrigerator. Eventually you will actually be craving the new whole foods too. Instead of processed foods being 70% of our diet, how about making them just 20% instead. Does that seem doable?

Less cheese is a start. I use nutritional yeast and hemp seeds on my veggie filled naan pizzas now instead of the old style cheese. We love it! For my hubby's part, he now mostly eats goat cheese with crackers when he feels a need for cheese. This seems to be a better alternative for those in transition, as it's drier and not oily like processed cheese foods. Dairy from cows contains too much fat, hormones, antibiotics, and possibly GMO's from the feed they ingest. Dairy creates inflammation in the body. Since the body has to deal with the inflammation, the body does not have the time to do the work of keeping you well by fighting off other things...it's too busy with cheeeeese.

Anyway after 14 months if I eat any products with fat or oil in them. I can now feel the oil coating my mouth. You know, it's that same feeling you get in your mouth after you've eaten some greasy fast food fries, especially if they were cold. As the body becomes clean, I have found that it will let you know the dirty low down naturally! Certainly makes it easy to get yourself to eat even cleaner. I had to recently stop eating my favorite lentil chips, because I can now feel the oil.

Sugar and salt and fats! Oh my! So how is your food future looking? Do you think it is time for you to stop the corporate madness, and your addiction to their fake foods? Knowledge is truly your power. Read about how they got you hooked, and give up the conditioning. Watch some food documentaries. Begin cutting back, and then eventually eliminating, and replacing these unhealthy choices. Start substituting alternatives each week for your family, till you have only the healthy choices in the house. It works. I was in the grocery store with my four year old grand daughter recently. I pointed out the display of big Honeycrisp apples. She walked right over, picked one up, and took a big bite out of it! Right there in the store! THAT is exactly how a child is supposed to react to seeing healthy real food! I loved it!

Being that this blog is for people in various stages of transitioning from the regular supermarket processed foods, I will not leave you with a broken heart about your processed snack love-life. You will still find on my recipe page a naan pizza that uses organic cheese. On my shopping list page I included a list of package foods at the bottom of the post that we have used. There are organic non-GMO chips and crackers you can eat on occasion, or during your transitioning phase. For example I happen to like Garden of Eatin blue sprouted chips, Seedlander crackers, and Mary's flax crackers when I need some crunch. For sweet snax I like Kind brand bars, Kits Organic Fruit and Nut bars, and Go Raw's mini Carrot Cake Super Cookies. So your packaged snack life is not over! But it is not a pass to gorge on this stuff either. When you visit your local organic snack aisle be sure to read the back labels of even the organic processed foods. Look out for the sugar, salt, oils, fats, chemicals, soy, carrageenan, and msg. The least amount of ingredients the better. Big corporations are behind many national organic labels. Make sure it has the green USDA organic label and hopefully says Non-GMO as well. Always be aware of what you are putting in as the fuel for your wonderful body. This is what gets you around in life, you would not run your car on soda and fat.

Having fresh fruit, and a small handful of unsalted nuts everyday is a healthier alternative to cheesy puffs. Instead of cheese, use salsa or hummus with your chips. Instead of chips use celery and carrots for dipping. Need ice cream? Freeze a ripe banana for 24 hours, mash it up, and add berries or nuts. You can be sure that I will be eating a vibrant colorful helping of fresh high nutrient organic plants, enjoying fresh green smoothies, and green juices too. That's deliciousness for real. No chemicals. No extra salt, sugar, or fat needed. Natural sweetness! I hope you consider giving up the excess salt, sugar and fat in your life, and getting out of the unhealthy corporate paradigm! Eat real whole foods most of the time, be healthy, and glow. If we are what we eat, ...I'd rather be a peach than a blob of sugary, salty, fat, any day! 

Food Is The Problem, Food Is The Solution

Gardening is a subversive activity! Take the power back over your health, and your money, by growing your own food. Say no to bottles, boxes, and cans! Dig in, and create your food freedom! Let's lower the toxic effects of the industrial food model on our bodies and grow our own. Live in the city? You could get involved in local community growing groups and take back those wasted vacant city lots. Below are a few excellent video TED talks about this revolutionary garden subject. Time to get down and dirty!

Since we just moved to a different home, our goal will be to utilize planters, containers, and perhaps some raised beds. There are many ways to grow food even if you don't have the standard yard garden plot space. For example: you could cover a wall with old gutters, poke a few drainage holes in plastic contractor buckets and kiddie pools, or plant directly on concrete as seen in John Kohler's video about Urban Adamah's many diverse container ideas. Right here on this blog you can check out my "Dirt" page filled with information, videos, and links for where to purchase seeds, worms, rain barrels, rock dust and other related supplies for getting started with your own organic home garden. 

Some people complain about the cost of organic foods, or the lack of availability of fresh produce. This is your chance to start your own 'Victory Garden' movement... which is about your 'Victory' over bad industrial chemically laden processed foods, and then reclaiming your good health in a less expensive way. You will be getting outdoors into the sun, moving your body, feeling zen in the dirt, happy to see your bounty grow, and eating healthy. Certainly a powerful mix of goodness just for you! Earth magic!

Below is a video from Ron Finley, a guerrilla gardener from South Central Los Angeles. He has an uplifting, yet real approach. Where he lives wheelchairs are sold on the corner, and dialysis clinics are popping up as quick as those fast food joints in the city. Read more about Ron and his "put a shovel in your hands" approach here.



Below is a video talk from Roger Doiron from Kitchen Gardens International. This website was built to help you create your own garden areas. A great go to resource for all your small gardening questions and needs. Seriously check that site out!

 

Propaganda gardening! Oh yes! More revolution! See your resources differently! Look at this town in England that invented a whole new way of changing the look of a city! Enjoy Pam Warhurst talk about the simple steps it took to create the sharable 'Incredible Edible' gardening. You will love her, and their creative result! Lot's of ideas!



No post on gardening would be complete without a video from the always enthusiastic John Kohler, one of You Tubes biggest advocates for 'Growing Your Greens!' You will be amazed as this video progresses at the size of the greens grown in a garden John visits! You will find John to be a resource of unending information on this channel which helps in all areas of growing organic food and plants!

 

Now it's your turn, as the growing season is now upon us. Get your food revolution on organic gardening citizens! The Sun, Earth, and plants await you and your beautiful growing Spirit. Thrive and stay alive!

UPDATE April 19 2013: I found this wonderful related article at the Jay Kordich Blog here.

     

Now Is The Time To Organize Your Healthy Whole Foods Refrigerator

Since I changed the foods I eat to organic whole foods and not processed foods as much as possible, when people come over to our house they want to look in my fridge! Kinda funny! So what exactly 'IS' in my fridge? Lots of plants, nuts, and seeds of course! Yes, I have other stuff in the refrigerator too! So let's find out what is in the Queen's refrigerator, and freezer today! Inquiring minds want to know!

Visitors to my home have told me that I am very organized with my new food lifestyle. Since others have commented about my fridge and pantry, I thought I would share my method of food storage with you in case it helps you to eat more healthy too. I think my 'fridge feng shui' helps me to eat better! This post will deal specifically with how I am arranging items in the fridge and freezer only. I will do the dry pantry in another post. We moved to a different home this past fall that we call our little 'Hobbit House.' I took that opportunity to start fresh with my refrigerator and come up with ways to have quick access the foods I use most often in making smoothies, green juices, and healthy meals. 

I realize everyone may have a slightly different fridge and freezer model. Regardless of your configuration, you might pick up a few ideas here for your situation. I have done this system in the smallest refrigerator that I have ever used. I am sure those with bigger cold storage units could do even better than me. I used to have the standard American diet refrigerator, which looked just like everyone's inside, kind of a mess. Here's what I do now! Let's peek inside my fridge the day I took the photos for this organizational post.

My main secret is using clear bins for those items I use daily, and so the bottles and jars cannot fall over. It makes life so much easier to just pull the bin out a bit, or all the way to get to what you need. There is no spillage or bottle run off rings on the shelves either! Since it was a new refrigerator, I first lined all the shelves with ribbed liner sheets. You can see for yourself that the top shelf of the refrigerator is all clear bins. There is just enough room left to slide the nut milk in between the bins too. One bin is for the squat jarred foods, another is for my smoothie superfoods, and the other is tall bottled items. No these things are not on the door, you will see that area is utilized for other things.

I previously did a post you can find here about my smoothie superfoods organization, and there is a nice close up photo of that handy little bin below. While in my morning zombie mode I simply slide this out of the fridge every day, and set it on the counter next to the blender! So easy, especially since I do not have to dig around the refrigerator and locate the four superfoods that I need add to my smoothies while in my fog. One pass in and out! Not four! Such a great time saver!

I highly recommend you get these clear organizing bins! If you live near a 'Bed Bath and Beyondo' you can get the supplies there, and don't forget your coupons! If you prefer to purchase these items online, I will post links at the end of this article for you, so you can order them while you are thinking about it. We know how that goes...

The second shelf in my refrigerator is for foods that need to be used first, are more perishable, or are recent leftovers. I can see those foods quickly and they do not get lost or forgotten under all the bags of fresh vegetables. I then know just what needs to be used in the next salad or meal. Hubby also has his free range organic fed chicken eggs on this shelf, and I keep my boxed sprouts that I use in smoothies and salads here as well. We got rid of all plastic food containers, using only glass containers for our leftovers now, and they stack nicely on this shelf too. The pullout white drawer below is generally for hubby's goat cheese or small bag items. If you still need to have bit of dairy for a snack, goat cheese would be the healthiest of those choices. Hubby used to store his organic lunch meat here, but he recently gave that up. Eventually you do change your mind about some of the foods you still hang onto when you are getting healthier.

The bottom area of the fridge is for all the fresh produce, either from the CSA or the market. The bottom drawers are my salad, juicing, and root veggies. Since this is a small fridge I cannot fit the cucumbers and carrots in there so they go on the shelf above, just under the lighter produce. If you have a larger refrigerator with bigger drawers you could arrange things differently. There is another clear slide out bin down there that I use for the little bags of seeds, nuts, dried fruits, or grains. Keeps them from getting lost in other places. Yes these things need to be refrigerated, we don't want to eat rancid seeds.

Okay next up is the door! Now you can see the door is filled with mason glass jars filled with whatever nuts, seeds, or grains that I am currently using. I also keep my coconut water for smoothies on the door. Hubby likes cold water so he usually has a bottle of spring water in the door too. Instead of butter in the door we have fair trade dark chocolate! I think that is an excellent switch up don't you?! On the day this photo was taken there were two kinds of probiotics and some maca powder in the door. I also keep any bottled supplements like vegan dha, vitamin D drops, and my recent probiotics in the bottle bin located on the first shelf of the fridge. That works out nicely. You can see I also have a handy hemp seed shaker that I made from my old Parmesan cheese shaker. This is located on the top of the door for easy pullout. I use this everyday on salads and when I am finished I just cover it with a small baggie and rubber band. I love hemp!

Now into our crazy freezer area. This area kept changing, because we no longer eat meats. So as the old grass fed organic meats get used up they are not replaced. Hubby will have some chicken or fish when we eat out, or when he is on a gig, Generally at home he is not eating meat. I also found that I do not use as many grains as I thought I would either. If you are going to have grains and baking flours around for months it is best to keep them in the freezer. I think in anticipation of starting this new food lifestyle I just assumed I would need this stuff. Turns out we rarely use it because I do not do much baking. Since I am trying to eat as many raw fruits and vegetables as I can, there is not that much cooking to do as before. No greasy pots and pans to clean up either! Gotta love that! Don't really use ice cubes so that container is better used for broth or pesto cubes. In the warm months leftover smoothie mix would be a better use for ice cube trays! Feel free to click on any of the photos in this post to see them larger.

So for those of you starting into transition, I would say do not overbuy flours and grains, and just get what you need to use for now. You will find your own happy medium. Lately I have been freezing very ripe bananas and having them as ice cream like treats! Oh yum! Along with the spouted and whole grain seed breads, we also keep a supply of organic frozen vegetables and mushrooms handy in the fridge.

The freezer door is for my daily cancer fighting berry supply. In the winter frozen organic berries are the norm in smoothies. When berries are in season I will have them fresh in my daily morning smoothie. Coconut flakes and veggies may end up on the door too.

I hope sharing how I store my produce and organic perishables in the refrigerator and freezer has been of help to you in arranging your healthy life! Let me know if anything you do may be of help to the rest of us too! Soon the weather will change and even more goodies will be ready for us to eat! So now is the time to organize and get your refrigerator and freezer ready! As promised, I am listing a number of the products available on Amazon that are similar to what I purchased to do my organizing in the fridge. Hope this helps too.

Check out whats in my pantry!
Check out how to organize super-foods for morning smoothies!

OMG I Chatted With Dr. Joel Fuhrman!

I feel like a ditz today, although my husband said I sounded like a normal intelligent person last night. A mutual friend called yesterday evening, and passed his cell phone to Dr Joel Fuhrman so we could have a quick chat! OMG OMG OMG! I knew this phone call was a possibility if they both had time during a recent trip out west. I had a couple of questions in my head all ready to go. Did I ask those questions? No. Why? Honestly I became a freaking nervous wreck inside! When Dr. Joel Fuhrman asked me what I put in my fresh made juice I stammered out a few items, and forgot the simple everyday answers like celery and cucumber! My mind would go white...yes completely blank...then I would try to recover some bits and pieces of my brain matter to spew forth thoughts in some reasonable sentence. Really? Really! I'm the juice Queen for goodness sake! What's happening to me?!!!???

I have been in the presence of rock stars, I have worked for celebrities, and most of my clients when I was a mural and faux artist were doctors. I saw all of them as human and had no trouble speaking to any of them. What happened last night??? To me Dr. Joel Fuhrman is bigger than a rock star! He is the real definition of hero, because he changes the lives of people for the better everyday. He is serious about his work and his mission in life, believes in research and results, and brings the message to the people clearly in his books and DVD's. Some of you may know I was a documentary junkie when I started down my own healthy food journey, and Dr. Fuhrman is in nearly all the top food documentaries! When I watched Fat Sick & Nearly Dead  for the first time I could not have imagined that I would one day be speaking to the actual doctor in that film! This is the doctor Sir Paul McCartney called to speak with and invited to come back stage at his big NYC concert. Hey, I am one degree of separation from the Beatles here! (Although that is not the first time.)

Wow! The Universe is a beautiful and surprising place, where we can manifest the most wondrous things! So here I was in awe of the man I was speaking with, because his work affects the lives of people around the world!!! Yes, I was suddenly gobsmacked! My mind was in overdrive trying to remember the simplest answers to his questions about my situation. Geez I actually almost forgot to tell him I had had a breast cancer diagnosis 6 months ago. All in all, I guess I did not want to sound like an idiot, or a patient that was not doing the correct protocol for my condition. 

I am grateful to my friend giving me the hook up. I am grateful for a busy man such as Dr. Fuhrman to take the time to have a conversation with me. In my new 'healthy food world' this event is a biggie, and perhaps only those of you who read this blog would really understand why I am so excited today! Dr. Fuhrman ended our conversation by saying perhaps we will meet in person when he comes to town! I told him I would bug the heck out of my friend to make that happen! I thanked him for all his work, and let him know how much I really appreciated his efforts. I surely do!

I have been a phone consultation patient at Dr. Fuhrman Medical Associates, and had a consultation with Dr. Benson in Princeton, N.J. after my cancer diagnosis. Dr. Fuhrman does not see patients in person any longer, because of his traveling schedule, research work, and book writing. For the patients of his practice, he does an 'Ask The Doctor' forum Q&A, where you can interact with him online for a few months. That is how I got my cancer protocol, by talking with Dr. Fuhrman via the forum. Although last night's chat was not an official doctor call, he let me know I was doing great, and reemphasized a few things I should be sure to do everyday. My husband promises me I did not sound like a complete fool and I did fine while speaking to him. So I will let you know when that future in-person event occurs between us for sure! 

I have learned my lesson and I will write down all my questions on paper beforehand, therefore having them ready to go in the future! I dedicate this exhilarating song called "Question 67 and 68" to Dr Joel Fuhrman who inspires the excellence in nutrition that reverses disease in the body. This song also speaks to making people happy! That is what happens after those long sad days of constant illness...you get the right information to change your life, and are so happy to feel fully alive again! 

Here is something cool that I must share with you! 'Chicago Transit Authority' played in my high school gym at the same time this footage below was shot of that group. The view of the band onstage is nearly the same as I remember it after I scrambled down off the bleachers, and took my place cross-legged on the floor directly in front of the stage. I was not messing around with that opportunity! I also remember bringing a thermos of lemonade to drink during the concert. Although that was not what many of those around me were doing! haha! Yes, this is another moment in time I am grateful to have experienced! The video below is silent before the song begins. It is not the "Outer Limits" controlling your sound!