Flicking through the first few pages of Michele’s new book, there is a chapter about no matter what we do and how healthy we are, sometimes life just has other plans for us. Her younger brother Greg wasa firefighter, and found himself at the scene of the World Trade Center tragedy on September 11, 2001. Three years later, despite his healthy lifestyle, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only months to live.
Given Michele is both a qualified nutritionist and an ambassador for Cure Cancer; one might naturally expect that the story to follow would be of how his cancer was cured with the power of nutritional medicine. But that isn’t what happened at all.
The turning point
“After the diagnosis, I would tell Greg that we were going to have a green smoothie, but he would say, ‘No Michele, we’re not. I’m going to have a beer and you’re going to have a martini, and this is how we are going to play this out,’” she says. “It was a really big turning point in my life and how I thought about health. “Previously, I would say to people that if you practise yoga, do meditation, drink green smoothies and stay hydrated, the stats will tell you that you will have better wellbeing and a longer life. But that isn’t the full truth, because my brother Greg was as healthy as a horse, he just happened to be exposed to toxins. It doesn’t matter if you’re living the healthiest of lives, sometimes things just happen beyond your control.”
Life is to be enjoyed
Her new book, Eat, Drink & Still Shrink, honours her belief that while a healthy lifestyle is essential for feeling at your best, life is meant to be enjoyed. A life of “no” is no life at all, and a healthy lifestyle doesn’t need to feel like punishment or deprivation.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 2019 من Good Health Magazine Australia.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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