How not to die of heart disease..

What you eat today has to make your heart beat tomorrow…

… and create new blood, renew your bone marrow, fuel your brain, ease your mind, make your lungs work, support your immune system, heal your skin (including that tattoo you had done yesterday), keep your digestive system working smoothly, lubricate your joints, repair and build your muscles. What will you eat to do all that?”

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Green Smoothie

Green Smoothie Recipe

Green smoothie for my breakfast in my garden.

Green smoothie for my breakfast of celery, kale, lambs lettuce, cucumber, some mixed bean sprouts, a small banana and some water. Actually delicious! If you want it sweeter try adding some fresh pineapple!

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Big juicy ripe cherry

A Reluctant Raw Foodist is Born!

(Or the day that my life as I knew it came to an abrupt end……)

Scenario : Consulting room. Me and Consultant Biochemist: Me on a voyage of discovery as to why I was putting on weight at a rate of knots but, by accident, who was actually more interested in the plethora of things going wrong with my body. Things to which I had largely given up trying to find any answers. He was convinced that all my symptoms were linked. I had never been told this before and had consulted specialists for different symptoms. Having sent bits of me away for lab testing (blood, urine, faeces, skin..) and duly having received the results …

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New Mindset New Results

My Condition, My Responsibility. Note to self…..

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

Written a few years ago when I was first diagnosed……

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Living-on-the-edge

Living on the Edge?…..

“Come to the edge.

We might fall.

Come to the edge.

It’s too high!

COME TO THE EDGE!

And they came,

and he pushed,

and they flew.”

– Christopher Logue

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