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Congratulations on your progress :)

Ilya

Les Smith wrote:
>
> Greetings, All.
>
> I'm a male, 52. I know little about diet and nutrition. I have much to
> learn. However, I'm an expert on being a multiple stroke victim living
> in a wheelchair. Late last year, after 2 1/2 years in a wheelchair and
> after hearing yet another neurologist tell me that there was nothing
> more that medical science could do for me, I decided to take matters
> into my own hands. I had nothing to lose.
>
> Acting on the advice of Susan Kline, a good friend, I severed a _long-
> time_ addiction to "doctor approved" Diet Pepsi (and all products con-
> taining aspartame) and fully embraced Ray's NeanderThin diet. Very
> quickly, things began to  happen for me. Today, I am in the process of
> battling back from a place from which few people ever return. At the
> moment, I'm winning. The wheelchair is gone. I am walking every day now.
> This past Teusday I walked a little over a mile. 20 minutes later my BP
> was 118/75. Very simply, NeanderThin is working for me.
>
> I conclude with the following perspective: A Hunter(ess)-Gatherer in
> today's world is definitely one of the Few, not the Many. This can be
> disquieting. It's like going down a road in one direction and noticing
> that all the traffic seems to be in the opposite lane, going the other
> way. You begin to wonder what they all know that you don't. I have no
> such self-doubts. You see, as I make my way down the path I have chosen,
> I'm not traveling in a wheelchair anymore, I'm walking. However, I have
> not thrown away my cane. I plan on tying a hook and line to the end of it
> -- the next stream I come to -- and going fishing. :)
>
> Les Smith

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