Kickstarting Your New Year’s Resolutions
The week after New Year’s, I agreed to be a volunteer coach for a national website, VeganBodyBuilding.com. Anytime someone asks me, as they frequently do, “Where do you get your protein?” after I flex my biceps and say to their look of shock, “Do I look like I have a protein deficiency?” Read More →
There’s No Money in Broccoli
Upon the advice of many, I am launching a blog to provide information based on the concepts in my new book, Eat Vegan on $4 a Day. And to help you get there faster and easier than I did. I'm a former TV investigative reporter and financial consultant with a huge family history of breast cancer (mom, aunt, and both sisters), heart disease (sister, both parents, all grandparents), diabetes (sister, parents, all grandparents), and more. I almost died of a colon blockage at the age of 28 the same year my sister got breast cancer for the second time. ER docs told me I would need to be on medication the rest of my life unless I made some major changes to avoid our family's fate. I didn't get all the good genes and my life as the media have reported over the past 30 years has been an experiment to beat the odds. I continue to place in 5K races for my age group and ran my first marathon last year. Read More →
