I was raised in the Midwest and the kind of diet that I ate was the typical American diet, maybe even a little worse than most people. My parents could afford to serve us all the eggs we wanted, all the white bread, all the steaks, you know. I could drink a gallon of milk a day if I wanted and I did! And we had, you know, plenty of candy, a lot of junk around the house. And that was basically our diet because my parents didn't know any different. And so that's how I was raised.

Of course, it was a difficult childhood. I suffer does significantly because of that food. As a little kid, I was terribly constipated had terrible stomach trouble. I lost my tonsils at age seven because of all the dairy that I used to eat. In my teenage years I had acne pretty bad acne. I was quite lethargic; didn't have endurance, didn't do well in sports.

At 18, I went off to college and I continued all that rich eating at the dormitory. And I ended up with a major stroke paralyzed the entire left side of my body. And it's still week today forty years later! As a young adult, when I was, say 22 years old, I was so fat my mother called me fat. And at 25, I had major abdominal surgery because my stomach hurts so much and so often!

Fortunately, about age 26-27, I started changing my diet. And now, today, at 60, I'm healthier than I was at 18 or 22.