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Do You Read? A Whole World is Waiting for You!
Do you read? may sound like a strange topic for a column on health, but please stick with me on this one.
There’s a world of information out there just waiting for you to take hold of, explore and learn.
Even if you don’t like to read or believe you don’t read well, there are audible books you can enjoy anytime…even while you’re folding clothes or commuting to and from work.
Here’s the connection to the health part. The way I got started down the path to real remission from my chronic depression and the way I lost twenty pounds without dieting was by reading a book. Really…it was! This book gave me a new life, and I had no idea the way it would play out. It changed my life in so many ways and started me down a new and exciting path!
In 2012, I just happened to watch a PBS special that featured Dr. Mark Hyman, a functional medicine physician based in western Massachusetts. He had just published “The Blood Sugar Solution”, and the program we watched was based on that book. The information seemed to fill so many aspects of a potential solution to a real-life dilemma my husband Rob and I were dealing with. Rob was being pushed toward Type 2 diabetes by a statin drug he had been taking for years to “help” with a family history of high cholesterol.
