To put things into perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before I attended Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job at a butcher. I was a delivery person and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness as no change ever came then, despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After earning a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to the city of Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged based on the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a ‘plastic’ community would be an understatement.
Livingston and superficiality have finally gotten to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear that she needed to be close to her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
In late 1974 I was living with a lady in Aspen when one day she said, “let’s become vegetarians.” I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, “Okay”! At that point, I went to the freezer and pulled out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week, and then the girl broke up with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a few weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or even how to prepare anything. For about a month I had to survive on carrot sticks, celery sticks and yogurt. Fortunately, when I became vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, while walking around the town of Aspen, I saw a little vegetarian restaurant called “The Little Kitchen”.
Let me take a step back for a moment. It was April 1975, the snow was melting and runoff from Ajax Mountain filled the streets with knee-deep mud. Now Aspen was great to ski in, but it was a shame to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to quit and I needed a warmer place. I’ll explain that in a moment.
But now back to ‘The Little Kitchen’. Knowing I would be leaving Aspen and essentially becoming a new vegetarian, I needed help. So I walked into the restaurant, told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them that in return I would do the dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, “Let’s make a deal. You file our taxes and we’ll feed you too.” So for the next few weeks I filed their taxes, washed the dishes, took out the trash, and learned as much as I could.
But like I said, the mud started to get to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a man named Foder. The name of the book was “Hawaii”. As I was looking through the book, I saw that in Lahaina, Maui, there was a small vegetarian restaurant called “Mr. Natural’s”. I decided at that moment that I would go to Lahaina and work at “Mr. Natural’s”. Long story short: that’s exactly what happened.
So I’m working at “Mr. Natural’s” and learning everything I can about my new nutritional lifestyle – it’s been great. Every afternoon we closed for lunch around 1pm and went to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka’anapali to play volleyball while someone stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Being the new kid on the block and not really being able to cook, I never thought I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon that’s exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I had gotten to the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically walked up the creek without a paddle. Luckily a friend of mine was sitting in the restaurant’s gazebo and I asked him if he could cook. He said the only thing he could cook was enchiladas. He said his enchiladas do not contain beans or dairy. I told him I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I wanted him to show me because it was my turn to make dinner.
Well, the boys came back from playing volleyball and I was asked what we were having for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner was not happy. I told him mine were bean-free and dairy-free. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble man that I was, I smiled and said, “You expected something less”? Apparently it was so delicious that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu, and people were walking around Lahaina broadcasting ‘enchiladas at “Natural’s” tonight. I never had to cook anything else again.
A year later the restaurant closed and somehow I was drawn to a small health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically downgraded myself to a truck driver. The guys who ran the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize themselves and form one company, they could probably lock down the state. Then they discovered I was an accountant and ‘Down to Earth’ was born. “Down to Earth” became the largest health food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their largest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started a weekly radio show to try to expose people to a vegetarian diet and stop them from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors so as not to compromise my honesty. A bit tricky was the fact that I was forced to get a master’s degree in nutrition to silence all the doctors who came by asking for my credentials.
Doing this radio program allowed me to see through endless research the corruption that existed within the major food industries, the major pharmaceutical companies, the biotechnology industries, and the government agencies. This information, however unconscionable, allowed me to realize how broken our healthcare system is. This will be discussed in more depth in the introduction and throughout the book. When you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, became nationally certified as a Sports Injury Massage Therapist, and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys who were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years, I finally returned to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii’s top fitness clubs. There I met the love of my life, with whom I have been together since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. She said, “If you want to be with me, you have to stop working on naked women.” So I went back into accounting and was Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was a baby, I had no idea what a “chicken” or “egg” or “fish” or “pig” or “cow” was. My nutritional blueprint was forced on me by my parents, just as theirs was forced on them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things into perspective, improve my health and raise my consciousness.
The path I started on in 1975 eventually led me to the point where I wrote my book: ‘A healthy diet for an insane world’. Hopefully the information in this document will be enlightening, motivating and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do from conditioning is not always the best course of action. I hope that, by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective on which path is the best path to take, not only for your health but also for your consciousness.
Last but not least, after being vaccinated as a child, I developed asthma, which I suffered from all my life. In 2007, I was exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which cleared my asthma in three days and has not returned for over a decade. That’s the tip of the iceberg and has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraines, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis and more. Due to its detoxifying effects through the release of oxygen that penetrates and heals all cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals and all the other junk pushed onto us by the big corporations in the environment. .
For more information, visit www.healthtalkhawaii.com and www.asanediet.com.
Namaste!
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