Sondra Berk, in her own words.
Sondra Berk suffered with Crohn’s Disease for years and years and years…after many surgeries, psychoanalysis and drugs she found healing by simply eating the diet human beings are designed to eat.
Sondra Berk: Suffered with Crohn’s Disease for Years
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Success Stories
- Star McDougallers – Video Interviews
- Maralyn Millar: Pain & Discomfort Free from Rheumatoid Arthritis
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- Tim Kaufman: Changed His Diet & Changed His Life
- Peggy Fought Ovarian Cancer by Changing to a Starch Based Diet
- Mark’s Cardiologist Told Him He Wouldn’t See His 64th Birthday
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- Stacy: Lost Over 50 lbs. and Stopped 3 Medications Simply By Changing Her Diet
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- Jeff: Lost Over 100 Pounds, No Longer Suffers from a Long List of Health Problems
- Phyllis: Changed her Diet in 2001 After She Was Diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Paul: Lost Weight and No Longer Suffers from Severely Painful Intestinal Issues
- Jerry: Cured his Heart Disease by Switching to a Starch Based Diet
- Evan: Got Rid of his Fatty Liver and Lost Weight
- Nancy: Lost Weight and Lowered Her Cholesterol
- Judith: Needlessly Suffered from Many Chronic Illnesses for 40 years
- Sharon: Loves Trying Recipes in the McDougall Cookbooks and Has Lost Over 30 lbs.
- Tarver: Lost Weight & Regained His Health by Eating a Starch Based Diet
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- Peggie: No Longer Suffers from Acid Reflux
- Valerie & Ed: Lowered Cholesterol & Blood Pressure
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- Paula: Tells why she had to come to an Advanced Study Weekend
- Daniel: Has taken back control of his health
- Dan: No longer needs blood pressure meds
- Brett: Lost weight and regained health
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- Randy: Lost over 70 pounds and is off all medications after 2 Transient Ischemic Attacks in 6 months
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- Frank: Whole Foods Market Team Member Lost Nearly 160 Pounds
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- Roberta Joiner: lost weight and no longer suffers from severe pain
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- Bill Zahlar: Suffered Massive Heart Attack
- Norm Weinstein: Lost 250 Pounds
- Jackie Swoboda: Cured Rheumatoid Arthritis
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- Karen Barrow: Lost 100 Pounds & Kept it Off
- James Brown: High Blood Pressure & High Cholesterol
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- Barbara Leary: Suffered from Type-2 Diabetes
- Mary Duffield: Cures Obesity & Hypertension
- Sondra Berk: Suffered with Crohn’s Disease for Years
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- The Weaver Family: Conquering Ulcerative Colitis, Family Heart Disease & Finding Vibrant Family Life
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- Karen Cooper, MSW, LICSW: “I Can’t Have MS!”
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- Amy Fewel: Cures Herself of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Ron M: How One Man Put an End to All of His Problems
- Ryan Schultz, DVM (veterinarian) Cures Himself of Crohn’s Disease
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- Karen Barrow: Lost 100 Pounds & Kept it Off
- Phyllis Heaphy: Cured of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Ellen Jaffe Jones: Beating the Genetic Odds
- Juliea Baker: Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
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- John Staley: Lost Half a Person 22 Years Ago
- Stinker: Overweight, Cholesterol
- Dan Brotherton: Overweight, High Blood Pressure
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- Uncle Buck: Permanently Cures Obesity
- Joyce Shank: Cures Obesity, Arthritis
- Lars P. Lidberg: Painful Arthritis, Cholesterol
- Anneliese Moore: Breast Cancer Treated with Diet
- Cheryl M. Lambert: Cures Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Christine Sorenson: Cures Obesity, Weightlifter
- Pat and Marge Luyk: Elderly Recover with Diet
- Mike Wilson: Cures Obesity: 450 pounds down to 185 pounds
- Sabrina Nelson: Cured Relapsing Polychondritis
- Ruth Heidrich: Defeats Cancer and Osteoporosis, Breast Cancer
- Jean Brown: Cures Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Jessica Parsons: Sheds 90 Pounds, Cures Obesity
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- Jan: Better Health, Overweight
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- Rich Richardson: Heart Disease
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- Mayra: Almost Lost to Lupus
- Lassie Nelson: Lost 135 Pounds: Cures Morbid Obesity
- Kelly G.: Cures Morbid Obesity
- Kathy Roberts: Model – No Longer Overweight
- June Ziegler: Depression, Heart Disease, Overweight
- Joseph Wysoki: Physician, Cholesterol, Overweight
- Jon Hess: Reversing Heart Disease
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- Howard Bartner: Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension
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- Jim Ettinger: Heart Disease, Cholesterol, Hypertension
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