What I want the world to know……
I wrote this book to document my search for the truth about
food. It started out as soon as I was old enough to understand
that my father died, quite suddenly, in a diabetic coma when
I was just 3 years old, leaving me to grow up fatherless.
My mother always warned us to avoid sugar because of this.
This led me to cement a belief about eating and survival.
My enquiry led me to study cell biology and understand that
my offspring and I have this genetic link to diabetes. In
my quest for the truth, I developed a passion for food, gathering
information on all kinds of food, cooking, and even growing
my own herbs. As time passed by, I would give food hints to
my relatives who were, in my opinion, having symptoms of aging
related to diet. And it worked, especially in the case of
gout, diabetes, joint pains and high blood pressure and cholesterol.
I am lactose intolerant. There are no recipes that contain
the milk sugar lactose, so this book works for people with
this genetic symptom.
This book happened because one of my grateful relatives urged
me to write down my recipes, before I get to old to remember
them. This also serves posterity.
This book is designed so that anyone who has made, or desires
to make a shift in consciousness about nourishment, sustenance
and choice of foods, can have a head start. They can start
by daily choosing natural fresh food , following the menu
section and choosing mostly to prepare the recipes in this
book. The glossary and introduction at the top of the menus
will help them to get a keener understanding of vital substances
in food. Choosing these foods will help them manage there
own aging process, so as not be bothered by non pathogenic
symptoms of aging.
–Celia Westberry |