A couple of months ago in my Intense Stretch Yoga
Class, a student stopped by to drop off an immensely rich German
Chocolate cake that she prepared for the teacher’s birthday surprise
gift.
Suddenly, after an hour and a half of extreme
poses, the faint smell of dark chocolate fudge beckoned me to check it
out. I found out that this student, who seemed to have pretty good
flexibility, was a gourmet chef. She works with top celebs, ceo’s and
leading edge medical doctors. A graduate of eCornell, and culinary
instructor, this former stand-up comedienne appeared on all the
late-night talk shows (including a 10-minute interview and stunt on
Johnny Carson). My interest was peaked. Who is this lady who claims she
bakes without any of the standard ingredients and prepares unprocessed,
mostly raw food? (Vegan)
In fact, the initial cake was prepared for our yoga instructor without
wheat, dairy, salt, oil sugar (the SOS) and most of all no animal
products.
Video: The Chef and the Dietician
I decided that if Sixty is the new Sexy, then I
was going to have to find a way to enjoy food and the sybaritic
pleasures of life, once and for all.
Chef AJ invited me to her raw food beginner’s class
and after one bite of her ice blended chocolate shake filled with kale
and other greens (which were undetected by my refined palate), I was in!
She suggested that I take her 30 Day Challenge and become a part of “a
live” community of fellow health seeking foodies who were all
discovering a pathway to beating their addictions to the poor excuses of
food. Of course, Chef AJ seduced me with a sampling of that German
Chocolate Cake and I was hooked. Each week we would co-mingle at her
intimate abode and learn about the keys to wellness through eating
whole, unprocessed, alive food. After all, she is a maven who works with
the top MD’s from True North Health Center (a detox clinic in Santa Rosa, CA), with notable names such as Dr, T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Doug Lisle (Forks over Knives, the movie) Dr. John McDougal, Dr. Goldhammer and Dr. Fuhrman (check out PBS for his special on vibrant health, www.drfuhrman.com/). Many of this information were based on The China Study.
Chef AJ is the fulcrum to their programs where she
leads the way to how to eat well, by demonstrating ingenious ways to
health via her magical recipes. Just like the mesmerizing lady in the
movie, Chocolat, who spins a web of magic and brings people
together to enjoy the sweetness of life and discover the realm of the
senses. Chef AJ is the Pied Piper to feeling great and losing weight.
In our thirty day Challenge, we have the support of
daily e-mails and the bonding of strangers who are now special friends,
where we share our deepest secrets and celebrate the victories of
overcoming addictions to processed foods, sweets, salts and fats. We are
taught that the food industry spends millions of dollars
to make sure we become addicted to their products, compacted by the
Pharmaceutical Drugs that keep us addicted to their quick fixes (where
the side effects are sometimes worse than the curative effects) Many in
the group are on their second round, and have beaten the clock with
eliminating life threatening diseases through detoxing from the poisons
they were consuming. Chef AJ was one of us, and cured herself of a
precursor to cancer, so she is living proof that this works and
committed to helping anyone and everyone who is willing to take on this
challenge. From diabetes to high blood pressure, depression to severe
addictions to salt, sugar (alcohol) and fats, many of her students go on
to further their education and become the leaders of their own groups.
As America becomes one of the fattest countries
on the planet, we are also the most malnourished. If each person wakes
up to the toxic world we live in and eliminates just one addiction, they
will marvel at the baby steps and awaken to the miracle of health.
I am on my own journey and although I want to stand
on the rooftop of my townhouse in Hollywood and scream out to my ‘hood’
the benefits of eating this way, I know how it feels to have someone
proselytizing their way to salvation. At the risk of being obnoxious, suffice it to say that I will BE the example. The day will
arrive when I finally can fit into my skinny jeans (the old
non-stretchy kind, circa 1991) without lying down on the floor and
concaving in my stomach, while eliminating my breathing for a couple of
hours. This time I am doing something to eliminate my aches and pains,
from a so-called hereditary ‘bouts of arthritis, fibromyalgia and years
of starvation which left me lacking in nutrients. Now I am eating my way
to wellness, and although this is a thirty-day challenge to detox, I am
convinced I will adopt this way of life as the norm, because I am free
of cravings and satiated beyond desire.
For many of my friends, eating meat and dairy is
still a ‘necessity’, so I will not preach this way. Every BODY is
different and one must follow their own inner guidance on the road to
wellness. After all, this is the 21st century! I keep hearing the line
from Jim Morrison, "She’s a Twentieth Century Fox” and I’ve changed the
word to Twenty-first.
As we become more pure with our eating,
consuming LIVE foods that are energized, we become more vibrant. You
will find people noticing that you are radiating health. As you become
more vibrant you will feel AGELESS.
Here are a few links to explore:
1. Chef AJ:
READ her book, Unprocessed: How to achieve vibrant heath and your ideal weight,
JOIN her facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/chef.aj1
2.CHECK OUT Bill Clinton’s new diet, which saved his life.
3. READ the book Forks Over Knives by T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., watch the groundbreaking movie,
4. True North Health Center
5. The China Study
www.thechinastudy.com/
6. Optimum Health Institute, in San Diego, CA
The first step for Chef AJ to help her cure herself, and “where
I was able to detox without having the pressure of being at work at the
same time. So while I did go through some withdrawal, I was in an
environment where I was actively learning about what foods caused
disease and being nourished with the foods that could reverse the
disease.”
7. Laugh your way to Vegan with Chef AJ
Explore the vast network of wellness sites and you can change your life right now!
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