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When we vacationed in the mountains, THE SAD DIET Forty-one
Mom would get us farm-fresh raw milk from Marriage brought me to the U.S. in 1975.
the Käserei, raw cream from the mountain I adopted the SAD diet as my husband did not years later
farms (which we ate with wild picked moun- want to eat my diet of liver, onion and pigs he credits
tain blueberries) and farm eggs. They tasted so feet—it took him twenty years to realize that raw milk,
wonderful! Although mom was (and still is) an food may contribute something to health—stub-
incredible cook, there was too much sugar in the born! Forty-one years later he credits raw milk, cod liver oil
house, which may have caused a roller coaster cod liver oil and the Wise Traditions diet for his and the Wise
effect on our health! energy and well being. Traditions
Overcrowding of my teeth was not an is- I went from ninety-five to one hundred
sue—no wisdom teeth had to be removed. My twenty-five pounds in my first year in the U.S. diet to his
eyesight was good until I turned fifty, but then I as I adapted late night snacking, which I was energy and
needed glasses. When I attended elementary and not accustomed to. well being.
middle school in Switzerland in the 60s and 70s, Fortunately my pregnancy was uneventful
all children were forced to take fluoride tablets and I gave birth in June 1978 to our beautiful
daily during morning class. I received my first seven-pound-ten-ounce daughter Miriam—but
mercury fillings at age nine; my tonsils were not without troubles: I was very slow dilating
removed at fourteen. and endured over thirty-eight hours of labor; the
Still, I credit the present good health of baby had to be turned as she came upside down.
my parents (both born in 1925, ninty-one years I was torn and had many painful stitches—in
old this year!) to their now-daily intake of raw fact, I could barely sit, stand or lie down for
morning eggs, raw milk, raw cream, raw cheese seven weeks! On the third day after the birth, an
and raw garlic cloves among other healthy infection set in, and I was forced to quit nursing.
foods. Cheating still happens, but Mom did The doctor put me on antibiotics for ten days
clean up the margarine-and-sugar diet! Never while I pumped my breasts, desperately want-
too late!!Recently they both went on two well- ing to go back to nursing. I remember looking
deserved six-day cruises on the Rhine and a through the hospital glass window watching
seven-day Mediterranean cruise. I did worry my husband bottle feed our baby a conventional
about their food intake there! formula as she vomited that awful stuff right
back up. I felt so bad.

Sixteen-month-old Cole is eager to help in the kitchen and enjoys serious bites of butter.
Besides mom still nursing, he loves the wonderful Wise Traditions diet!
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