Cathy's Personal Experience

When her mother took ill in the fall of 2001, Cathy rushed back to Philadelphia to be by her side. Not knowing much then about health or natural healing, Cathy spent several months researching alternative ways to fight for her mother's life. After two operations and two months of steroids, her mother was diagnosed with final stage lung cancer. Cathy immediately put her mother on a strict organic and vegan cooked food diet with fresh juices and herbal teas. They sought counseling from many herbalists and alternative doctors world-wide. They also experimented with non- traditional therapies such as high dose vitamin c treatments, d-worming and the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. These treatments seemed to help somewhat but the conflict in her mother's body was much too catastrophic and her mother ultimately lost her battle with lung cancer by late summer of 2002.

Immediately after loosing her mother, Cathy searched desperately for answers. What went wrong? How did she fail her? Was there anything else that she could have done? This feeling of failure and desperation led her to a close friend, Lonnie G., for comfort. She went to visit her friend often in New York. On one of her now normal, early (4 AM) and restless morning visits there, he gave her a book to read to relax her. It did just the opposite. The book sparked a fire for more knowledge. It also changed her life and her outlook on natural healing. It ultimately answered so many of her questions about what went wrong on her mother's journey to health.

This book based its credence on all cooked food as being poisonous for your body! Cathy reflected on her journey with her mother to heal her body and even though they had adopted a vegan diet, they still ate cooked food which is considered by the book "dead food". The food is considered dead because all of the living nutrients are cooked out of it. Our bodies are living and living bodies require living food. And if Cathy and her mother were trying to restore her mother's living body, they should have only been eating living food! Could this be true? Cathy continued to read more books, attend lectures and research studies on this raw, vegan, organic living food diet.

Later that year, Cathy experienced some major health concerns of her own. The more prominent of these concerns was multiple sclerosis. She was told she had a tumor in the base of her brain and a deteriorating spine. She was also told that she would always be in pain, that she would one day soon wake up and not be able to walk and the only treatment that was available to her was steroids. Steroids! Knowing the harmful effect of steroids on Cathy’s mother’s body (the steroids were prescribed by doctors for the treatment of her lung cancer), Cathy decided against the traditional medicine. Instead, she completely turned her life over to God and a 100% raw, vegan (meat and dairy free) food diet. Months later, Cathy completely reversed all of her symptoms! nd now over six years later she has no evidence of this disease and feels better than she did when she was a teenager!