Save the Elderly!

Quality of Life for the Aged Among us

What is the current health status of the elderly among you? Are they able to walk unassisted? Are they free of popping pills? Are they able to lift weights or run marathons? Enjoy an active sex life? Avoid the nursing home? Travel actively?
Do they have high cholesterol? Osteoporosis? Type 2 diabetes? High blood pressure? Arthritis? Dementia? Cataracts? IBS? Any recurring cancer battles?

Think: How is the quality of their life? Now ask yourself: How much do you love them? Do you think disease is a natural companion to aging? Is this your perception? Do you think a 70y.o. should be able to run? Do you think an 80y.o. should be able to climb stairs? Do you think a 90y.o. should still be sexually active? What do you actually believe about the quality of life of the aging?

Do you not believe the elderly should be able to live vibrant lives? Key word BELIEVE - because believe is an action word. If you have an elderly family member who is living a debilitated pill popping life, and you have not intervened to pass on the knowledge of nutrition I have diligently preached to you, then I hold you accountable for their painful, miserable existence.

 I remember telling a doctor once that as a vegan I intend to live well into my 100s. He quickly exclaimed: "I don't want to live that long." I know why he responded that way - do you? His perception of the aged among us is that of a frail, weak, sickly, bed-ridden, nursing home living, debilitated individual. Nutrition allows us to THRIVE as we age. We aren't supposed to be weak, out of breath, and feeble.

Y'all, listen: All major diseases are DIRECTLY - do you hear me - DIRECTLY connected to what we put in our mouths - to how we nourish our cells.

 Don't want cancer? Then stay away from creating and cultivating an acidic body. Eat more alkaline foods. Simple. You don't have to cross your fingers and pray that you don't get cancer. Just don't eat foods that cultivate an acidic body.

Don't want to drop dead of a heart attack or a suffer the damages or even death of a stroke? Then of course don't smoke - but more importantly, don't eat foods that introduce cholesterol into your body. You don't just wake up at 65 with heart disease - you ATE your way into heart disease - starting as a child when your parents shoved animal proteins down your throat. You just weren't informed. Now you are.

 If there is any one sickly among you, especially the elderly, do not let them die this young. 70s? YOUNG! 80s? YOUNG! 90s even? YOUNG! Let 2015 be the year you reclaim the HEALTH of the elderly among you. You are responsible for their health with this knowledge I have given to you. People perish for a lack of knowledge except you are no longer uninformed. If you are still reading this, you are informed. Don't let Mom die on your watch or continue to pop pills on your watch. Don't let Dad die on your watch. Don't let Grandmom die a sickly death on your watch. Begin to feed them foods that have no cholesterol. Feed them foods that offer plenty of fiber. Feed them foods that create an alkaline environment in their bodies.


I don't know ONE elderly person in my family who died of natural causes. My loved ones suffered from heart disease, pancreatic cancer, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. It is in their honor, that I live a life to raise awareness so that you can SAVE your family members.

 This new year isn't just about you. Give Dad oatmeal for breakfast (without cow's milk or butter). Fix Mom greens without hammocks and pork.(Yes, Black folks, I'm talking to you). Prepare nice big salad and vegetable soups. Let your Aunts eat potatoes, rice, beans, and fruit. It's never too late to reclaim their health. (Refined/processed sugar is acidic; keep them away from it. Focus on whole foods).

Here's the good news: Most diseases are reversible by diet. In 30 days you will see a new Mom, a new Grandpop. If they won't go for a complete diet overhaul (I know how stubborn they can be), just encourage them to DECREASE consumption of all animal products. I know folks who brag that their kinfolk live long lives - well, duh, it ain't too hard to live long, the question is HOW ARE THEY LIVING? Are they running marathons or sitting on a couch? It's not difficult to age - the body wants to live. The trick is to eat so well that we THRIVE as we age and live vibrant, sexual, active lives.

And even if fate happens that we don't live beyond 100, let's live healthy lives until we  die as we can't control accidents that occur - but we can make sure we enjoy living in a healthy vibrant body while we're here. We can't stop car accidents, senseless murders, or plane crashes - but we can ensure that we were our healthiest self until the day of our demise - because we all know - none of us gets our of this soap opera alive anyway. The winners of this game are those who die without disease.

If you take nothing else from this post, take this: Aging and living sickly and debilitated do not go hand in hand. All the feeble elderly folks among you have mostly eaten their way to disease. Now, you must help them eat their way back to health so they can enjoy the fruits of decades of labor.  Enjoy all their progeny. Enjoy all the money they worked for all their lives. Enjoy the sights to see. Continue to spread their love, their witness, their recipes and hot dance moves to younger generations.

We are supposed to enjoy this ride, y'all until that final sleep overtakes us in peace.

SAVE The Elderly! Let them eat fruit too! :-)
Love y'all,
Lisa