Well we are almost at the end of August and the short Canadian summer, but it has been a wonderful hot summer, so I will not complain!  The end of August always reminds me of my first few days working for Hallelujah Acres Canada.  I started August 28th, 1998 when HA Canada was just starting, so this year we are celebrating our 13th Anniversary!  We started back in Shallow Lake, ON with Bev and Dorothy Shouldice as the Canadian founders.  It has been a wonderful 13 years and I still feel that this diet and lifestyle was been the beginning of a new life for me!

For those of you that have not heard my personal testimony I will give you just a glimpse of how my health life has changed in the past 13 years.  First my daily headaches (which I had for over 15 years) stopped after just 3 days of eating all raw and juicing, I was taking 6-8 extra strength pain killers every day just to get through my days, but after just 3 days I did not need them and have not had to use any pain killers since then!!  I had lost 8 lbs after just 10 days and over 30 lbs after 6 months.  My bone mass was that of a women in her late 60’s when I was just 46.  I started this new diet when I was almost 49 and after 3 years my bone mass was that of a woman in her 50’s and then by the time I had lived this lifestyle for 10 years I had the bone mass of a women in her late 30’s and I was 60 at that time!  Just before starting my work with HA Canada I had been told by my doctors that my polyps in my uterus were cancerous and they were recommending drastic measures but after 6 months of again just eating raw food and lots of juicing, my doctor informed me these polyps (which had been a concern for over 5 years) were now gone and they have not returned since then!  I have not had a cold or the flu in the past 12 ½ years and I have been able to work 6 days a week teaching classes and keeping up with my staff over the years, who have all been 20-30 years younger than me!

So to those who are wondering if this diet and lifestyle is for them all I can say is try it and see what it can do for you.  I would never go back to eating the Standard American Diet, the SAD diet, because I do not want to be sick!

We had a wonderful 13th anniversary celebration last Saturday and we are starting another new year at HA Canada with lots of new things on our horizon so I welcome all of you who have just started and want to say “Just Do It!” and see what you too can do.