Steve: Changes to Starch Based Diet, Regains Health
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Steve regained health after changing to a starch based diet.
Steve was a body builder and martial arts instructor and felt he was eating a healthy diet. But when he was 60 years old he was rushed to the hospital for colon cancer. At that time a test showed dangerous calcification in the arteries near his heart. He looked for a better way.
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