AL SCHMIDT IS ENJOYING LIFE AT 88!!!

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At the age of 80, six years ago, I was practically a full-time cardiac patient, on death’s door. I had already suffered decades of cardiac events: three heart attacks, five-vessel bypass surgery, and the implantation of three stents. Due to my severe angina, I could not climb stairs, and could not walk to my neighbor’s house without severe and frightening chest pains. I could not take the trash out. I installed in my house as I could not climb stairs. My existence was limited to sitting in front of the computer or the TV—and I hate TV. I had become depressed. I kept a daily diary of my medical events, and the most overused word in the diary was “pain.” I knew that he had reached End Stage Heart Failure. In my diary, he made a note to look into receiving End of Life Counseling.

“Grasping at straws,” I signed up for a cardiac rehab program at Kaiser. I could barely walk to the meeting room. A dietitian made a presentation advocating the plant-based diet. I had nothing to lose, so I decided to try it. They advised me to read three books: Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, MD, How Not to Die, by Michael Greger, MD, and The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Thomas M. Campbell II, MD. I read all three books and they changed my life, or rather saved it.

After four weeks on a whole food, plant-based diet, I went to Lake Tahoe and walked for over a mile, at an elevation of 6,000 feet. I then climbed two flights of stairs to return to my car, without effort. Once back home, I began to resume my long-forsaken habit of walking over a mile and a half. My serum cholesterol fell from 250 to 149 in two months. It is now 115. In the same time, he lost 30 pounds, going from 180 to 150. (He’s 5’11”.) Again after 6 years it is now 135. My kidney function went from 40% to normal. The dark blue skin on my ankles, caused by the pooling of blood under the skin due to chronic venous insufficiency (the blood failing to flow upward as it should) disappeared in less than a year. His angina pains went away. So did the dizziness, weakness, disorientation, and recurrent falling.

After all of these improvements, I returned to see his cardiologist. In fact, instead of taking the elevator, I walked up four flights of stairs to see her. When she saw how improved I was, she asked if he would be willing to share his story, and arranged for me to speak before 100 medical professionals!

Today, I am enjoying life, enjoying food, and feel full of energy. I am never tempted to stray back to the way I used to eat. Why would I? I had no energy, could not do anything, and was afraid of dying.

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ESTHER LOVERIDGE HAS KEPT OFF 140 POUNDS!!!

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Esther has a passion for sharing the secret of her dramatic weight loss story. She says "It is never too late to begin a journey toward health". She took her first step at the age of 72 by following "The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss", a plant-based diet.