outstanding!!  the best is yet to come.
-----Original Message-----
From: Les Smith <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [P-F] paleo


>On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Susan Kline wrote:
>
>> At 06:23 AM 4/2/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> >I have given Neanderthin to friends
>> >and relatives and they all say "interesting" but don't follow through.
>>
>> My Mom said "interesting" but didn't follow through. However, Les Smith
>> followed through and is doing great .... <snip>
>
>Knowing that I was still in a wheelchair, two and a half years after my
>last stroke, Susan sent me to the website to read about the individual who
>had cured himself of MS through diet alone. I din't have MS, but many of
>my symptoms were similar. Her hope was that the diet might be able to do
>for me, what it did for him.
>
>Frankly, at first reading, the Neanderthin diet did seem rather strange,
>but faced with the prospect of spending the rest of my life in a wheel-
>chair, I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Plus, I believe in
>Susan. So I gave it a shot.
>
>I should add here that I am highly atypical to this list. I have NEVER
>experienced any of the cravings, withdrawl symptoms, food allergies, nor
>any of the myriad other problems with seem to plague virtually everyone
>else here. Simply put: I read NeanderThin; I committed to the diet; then,
>I just DID IT. For me, the results were almost immediate and dramatic.
>
>I have abandoned my wheelchair in a "No Parking -- Tow-Away Zone". I am
>now walking a mile a day; I can play the piano, again; I can write long-
>hand, where before I had been reduced to signing my name with an "X";
>I can speak more distinctly; and I now wear real clothes with buttons and
>zippers, along with shoes that lace up.
>
>My objective in adopting NeanderThin was not to lose weight -- this
>is just an added side benefit, for me -- but to reclaim my life which
>had been taken away from me by the stroke.  My gratitide to Ray and Susan
>is boundless. Between the two of them, they have given me back my life.
>So, all in all, I guess one could characterize my progress as "great".
>
>> It's a fantastic book, no doubt about it!
>
>You certainly won't get any argument from me on that point, however, I
>do have one reservation. It's that "naked wih a sharp stick" rule.
>Candidly, I don't know how early man ever ate raspberries. Personally,
>when I'm out gathering, all those sharp barbs give me fits! :)
>
>Les Smith