Cheryl Got Off of her Diabetes Medication

Have you ever learned something so valuable and life-changing that you wanted to share it with everyone you know so they, too, can benefit from it? My life-changing moment came on Thursday, January 7, 2016. A wonderful internist in College Station, TX, Dr. Philip Alexander, who was not my doctor, said without hesitation, “the only way for a person who eats our rich Western diet to lose weight and keep it off is to read and follow The Starch Solution. As soon as I heard the word “sta

This little girl is my daughter, Ashlynne, and she has been my running buddy since age 3. She ran her first 5k a week or two after she turned 4, and has run several since. A few weeks before her 5th birthday we ran another 5k. She was super fast and absolutely loved it. However, she complained of knee pain after the race. Concerned, and thinking she might have overdone it with training and racing, I decided to give her a week or so to rest.  When she was still complaining a couple of days la

Our family has been eating WFPBNO at home since our son Jenison was 6 years old. This past August our family decided to do the 12-Day McDougall Program as a refresher. Jenison and his older sister participated some, while we, his parents (and even grandparents a couple months later) enjoyed the course in its entirety. During the 12-day, we were reminded about calorie density. We opted to cut out extra fat (all the whole plant fats we loved and ate quite a bit of - nuts, nut butters, avocado and