For reference, after graduating from Weequahic High School and before attending Seton Hall University, I worked part-time for a butcher. I used to be a delivery boy and occasionally needed to go to the slaughterhouse to choose up produce for the shop. Needless to say, I had no consciousness or awareness as no change ever got here, despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost each day basis.
After graduating from Seton Hall with a level in accounting, I finally got married and moved to the town of Livingston. Livingston was principally a yuppie community where everyone was judged based on the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a “plastic” community can be an understatement.
Livingston and the self-love finally got to me. I told my wife I used to be fed up and desired to move. She made it clear that she needed to be near her friends and New York. I finally got my act together and moved to Colorado.
I used to be living with a woman in Aspen in late 1974 when in the future she said, “Let’s be vegetarian.” I do not know what possessed me to say that, but I said, “OK”! At this point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 price of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to the welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, every little thing was great for about per week and then the chick broke up with one other guy.
And so I became a vegetarian for several weeks, probably not knowing what to do, the best way to cook or principally the best way to prepare anything. For a couple of month I ate carrot sticks, celery sticks and yogurt. Fortunately, after I went vegan in 1990, it was an easy and natural progression. Anyway, while walking across the town of Aspen, I noticed a bit vegetarian restaurant called The Little Kitchen.
Let me back up a bit. It was April 1975, the snow was melting, and the runoff of Mount Ajax had filled the streets with knee-deep mud. Aspen was great for skiing, but walking was a pain when the snow melted.
I used to be able to call it quits and needed somewhere warmer. I’ll discuss this intimately in a moment.
But now let’s get back to “Mała Kuchnia”. Knowing that I can be leaving Aspen and essentially becoming a brand new vegetarian, I needed help. So I went to a restaurant, told them about my situation and asked in the event that they would teach me the best way to cook. Instead, I told them I might wash the dishes and take out the trash. Then they asked me what I did and I replied that I used to be an accountant.
The owner told me, “Let’s make a deal. File your tax return and we will feed you too.” So for the subsequent few weeks I filled out their tax returns, washed the dishes, emptied the trash, and studied as much as I could.
But like I said, the mud began to get to me. So I reached for a travel book written by a certain Foder. The book was titled “Hawaii”. While searching through the book, I noticed that in Lahaina, Maui, there was a small vegetarian restaurant called “Mr. Natural’s.” I immediately decided to go to Lahaina and work at “Mr. Natural’s.” In short, that is exactly what happened.
So I work at “Mr. Natural’s” and learning every little thing I can about my latest dietary lifestyle – it has been great. Each afternoon we’d close for lunch around 1 p.m. and go to the Sheraton in Ka’anapali to play volleyball while someone stayed home to organize dinner.
Since I used to be latest and didn’t really know the best way to cook, I never thought I can be asked to remain home to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon that is exactly what happened; it was my turn. This was an issue for me because I used to be already at the purpose where I finally knew the best way to boil water.
I used to be desperate, unaware, and principally floating down the creek with out a paddle. Fortunately, my friend was sitting within the restaurant’s gazebo and I asked him if he knew the best way to cook. He said the one thing he knows the best way to cook is enchiladas. He said his enchiladas contain no 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 point out me since it was my turn for the evening meal.
Well, the fellows got here back from playing volleyball and asked me what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner was not thrilled. I told him mine were bean-free and dairy-free. When he tried the enchilada, he said it was amazing. Being the common-or-garden guy that I used to be, I smiled and said, “Were you expecting something smaller?” Apparently it was so good that it was the one item on the menu we served twice per week. In fact, after about per week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people were walking across the Lahaina broadcast, “enchiladas at Natural’s tonight.” I never needed to cook anything.
A yr later the restaurant closed and I someway ended up at a small health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I used to be an accountant and principally relegated myself to being a truck driver. The guys who ran the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many islands. I told them that if they may organize and form one company, they may probably lock themselves out of the state. Then they discovered I used to be an accountant and “Down to Earth” was born. “Down to Earth” became the biggest chain of health food stores on the islands, and for 13 years I used to be their financial director and co-manager of their largest store.
In 1981, I began a weekly radio show by which I attempted to get people to adopt a vegetarian weight loss program and discourage them from killing innocent creatures. I’m still on that show to at the present time. I pay for my airtime and don’t have any sponsors who would not compromise my integrity. It was a bit embarrassing that I needed to get a master’s degree in nutrition to shut up all of the doctors who called asking for my references.
Hosting this radio show has allowed me, through countless research, to see the corruption that exists in the big food industry, large pharmaceutical corporations, the biotechnology industry and government agencies. This information, while ridiculous, made me realize how broken our health care system is. This might be discussed in additional detail within the introduction and throughout the book, and whenever you finish the book you will note it clearly and hopefully it can encourage you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, became nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist, and began traveling the world with a gaggle of men who were making a martial arts film. After about 4 years, I finally returned to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist on the Honolulu Club, probably the greatest health clubs in Hawaii. It was there that I met the love of my life, whom I even have been with since 1998. She made me a suggestion I could not refuse. She said, “If you want to be with me, you have to stop working on naked women.” So I returned to accounting and was the financial director of a giant construction company for a few years.
Going back to after I was a baby in Newark, I had no idea what a “chicken,” “egg,” “fish,” “pig” or “cow” was. My eating plan was forced on me by my parents, just as their eating plan was forced on them by their parents. It is by God’s grace that I even have been capable of put things into perspective, improve my health and raise my awareness.
The path I began down in 1975 eventually led me to write down the book “A Sensible Diet for a Mad World.” We hope that the data contained on this document might be informative, motivating and inspiring to encourage you to make different decisions. Doing what we do without conditioning will not be all the time the perfect solution. I hope that through the grace of the various friends and personalities I even have met along the way in which, you’ll have a greater perspective on which path is best for you, not only on your health, but in addition on your consciousness.
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Namaste!
