Interview Raw Foodist Dennis Age 63
This amazing man offers inspiration and encouragement for a life well lived. I know you’ll enjoy meeting him in these videos and be inspired to achieve your best.
Raw Foodist Dennis, healthy and fit at age 63, demonstrates how he makes a current favorite “raw foods” salad recipe…
Cary’s Reflections…It’s always exciting to share health growth with friends to keep us filled with positive inspiration and encouragement
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. We met when I was co-directing a wheatgrass institute in Michigan in 1981. He was at the time running hundred mile ultra-marathons, while 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 drew me to include some warming soups, grains, beans for winter with a high percentage of raw.
We became great friends and have encouraged each other over thirty years. Discussion and dialogue about our growth and lifestyle give us great positive reinforcement. I hope you have good friends to keep you inspired also.
Around 2004 Dennis committed to stick with the totally raw vegan lifestyle. After a visit to Dr. Gabriel Cousin’s Tree of Life retreat in Patagonia, Arizona he was further inspired. At the time of this video he was 63, and he continues to be incredible specimen of good health, well being and aware living, now retired, hiking 10-18 miles a day and into playing pickle ball!
ABOUT THE HIPPOCRATES 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.
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!