I love having a friend like Dennis who offers inspiration and encouragement for a life well lived. I know you’ll enjoy meeting him in these videos and be inspired as well.
Raw Foodist Dennis, healthy and fit at age 63, demonstrates how he makes a current favorite “raw foods” salad recipe…
Cary’s Reflections…sharing healthy growth with friends gives positive inspiration and encouragement
Dennis and I met when I was co-directing a wheatgrass institute in Michigan in 1981. Dennis is one of those disciplined people who has always been committed to his physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being, learning along the way. He was at the time running hundred mile ultra-marathons and experimenting with raw foods and vegan dietary practices.
At that time I was a totally raw vegan and remained so for many years, until life in the Rocky Mountains with high elevation winter has drawn me to include some soups, grains, beans, and a small amount of dairy, while still consuming a high percentage of raw.
We became great friends and have encouraged one another on the path over almost thirty years, with great opportunities to dialogue about our growth and lifestyle, and challenge each another in a positive manner.
Around 2004 Dennis committed to stick with the totally raw vegan lifestyle, shortly thereafter made a visit to Dr. Gabriel Cousin’s Tree of Life retreat in Patagonia, Arizona which inspired him further. At the time of this video he was 63, and he continues to be incredible specimen of good health, well being and aware living.
ABOUT THE WHEATGRASS INSTITUTE WHERE DENNIS AND I MET:
Don Haughey was a businessman who had been diagnosed with seven critical illnesses, had gone to Dr. Ann Wigmore’s Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston during the late 1970s and learned wheatgrass and living foods to heal himself.
He got well, and was so inspired he returned to Michigan and opened a branch of Hippocrates Health Institute in a wonderful country setting, which I co-directed for several years with a great crew that helped develop a wide audience for our programs.
It was later re-named Creative Health Institute, and still operates in Union City, Michigan.
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Cutting dairy out of my diet was the best thing I ever did for my health!
Thanks for sharing your experience – everyone’s body is different and at different stages; physiologically there is no animal that consumes milk after weaning – so a gr8 choice – and dairy has been a food that has helped races survive during various times in Earth’s history and may be still useful to some blood types at various stages of dietary transition. I’m glad to hear though that you are following your instincts and living on a cleaner diet!