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From
Cancer to Living Foods
by
Brenda Cobb
On
February 13, 1999, my life changed forever. I went
to the doctor for a check-up and was shocked to find
that not only did I weigh 190 pounds, but that I had
a lump in my breast about the size of a quarter and
a large cervical tumor. My mother and her sisters
had cervical and breast cancers. They chose the
mainstream medical route which included surgery,
chemotherapy, and radiation. My doctor recommended
immediate surgery and that I go to another doctor
for a second opinion, hospital tests, and blood
work.
The
first thing I did when I left the doctor’s office
was go to the health food store and ask for books
and information on curing cancer without surgery and
drugs. They recommended How I Cured Cancer
Naturally by Edie Mae. That little book
confirmed that surgery and drugs were not for me.
When I read Edie Mae’s story of healing herself
through the use of living foods, which she learned
at the Living Foods Center run by Ann Wigmore, I
knew immediately that this was the way I wanted to
go.
I
contacted the Ann Wigmore Foundation in New Mexico
and reserved a place for the first available class
in May. To help me begin my healing right away, they
recommended I read The Wheatgrass Book, Be
Your Own Doctor, and Why Suffer? by Ann
Wigmore. They also recommended that I drink as much
wheatgrass juice as I could and eat living raw
organic foods. I bought the books and started
immediately.
Then
came time for my next doctor’s appointment. I
spent two entire days at the hospital and the
doctor’s office. After getting all the tests back
their consensus was that I definitely must have
surgery. They set up a time for my surgery and
talked with me about signing the consent forms. By
this time my head was spinning. The doctors made me
think I had no time to think it over, that I had to
act fast. They were alarmed at what they saw,
especially considering my family history, and they
did their best to alarm me too.
I
let the doctor schedule the surgery, but when it
came time to sign the consent forms I changed my
mind. I decided not to have the surgery, but rather
to heal my body the natural way through the Living
Foods Lifestyle. They were not supportive of my
choice and put pressure on me to go through with the
surgery, but I had made up my mind and I stuck to my
decision.
I
began drinking wheatgrass and lots of fresh juices
everyday. I ate a lot of organic raw vegetables.
From the middle of February until the middle of May
I lost twenty pounds, my energy increased, my
bleeding stopped (I had been bleeding heavily every
day with the cervical tumor), and my breast tumor
began to shrink.
Through
reading, I learned that in addition to eating the
right foods, it was also important to clean out my
colon of toxic waste by receiving professional
colonics and doing personal enemas and wheatgrass
implants at home. I booked an appointment for my
first colonic. I was uncomfortable just thinking
about it because I didn’t know what to expect, but
the whole experience was very dignified, and I was
amazed at all of the old impacted fecal waste that
came out of my body.
I
continued having colonics once a week and eating
mostly raw food until it was time to go to New
Mexico. During my stay there I learned how to do
enemas and implants. I also learned the importance
of and how to make Energy Soup (a cleansing,
detoxifying, and healing soup/smoothie), Rejuvelac,
and Vege-Kraut. At the time I was thinking how hard
it was to have to eat this stuff and that I wished I
could have some cooked food. It’s not easy to give
up an addiction, and I was addicted to the wrong
kind of foods. I learned about fasting and I did my
first juice fast.
Detoxing
was rough! Every toxin and poison in my body began
to release and I had the "headache from
hell" for two full days. I also experienced
nausea, exhaustion, sleeplessness, depression,
anxiety, aches, pains, facial breakouts, dry, itchy
red patches all over my thighs, hips, and butt, and
I felt like I had the flu. It was probably the most
miserable I had ever been. Besides feeling awful, I
had all these emotions surfacing to deal with. I was
angry for allowing myself to get in this bad shape.
I didn’t like the living foods and I wondered how
I would be able to do without Thai food, french
fries, pizza, chocolate, potato chips, and all those
other foods I had become so attached to. How would I
ever go to a family holiday gathering again and be
able to eat anything there since everything would be
cooked? I resented that all this had happened to me.
I cried, then I sobbed, then I cried some more. I
felt real sorry for myself and then I kicked myself
in the butt. I released old feelings that I had
suppressed for years. Things came up for me that I
didn’t even realize had been bothering me. I was
changing inside and out, but through all these
miserable feelings I stuck with the program.
At
the end of two weeks in New Mexico I had lost 23
additional pounds. I was feeling better than I had
felt in years because I had released so many of the
toxins, but I knew I still had a long way to go.
When I flew home and my husband met me at the
airport, he could hardly believe his eyes. I had
lost a couple of sizes while gone.
I
came home a totally different woman. I celebrated my
fiftieth birthday a couple of days after I returned,
and realized that all my goals and dreams for the
future had changed. All I could think about was
opening a Living Foods Center in Atlanta so I could
share this incredible healing information with
others
I
was completely overwhelmed at the thought of having
to learn to prepare foods without cooking. There
were so many new things to learn and do. How would I
ever learn everything I needed to know? I struggled
with making and drinking the Energy Soup everyday. I
ruined four or five batches of Rejuvelac before I
learned how to sprout the berries properly. I craved
cooked food and I cheated by going to a Thai
restaurant. I worked everyday to continue to do the
things that I knew instinctively would help me, and
then something miraculous occurred.
As
my body became cleaner, free of all the toxic waste
that had built up over fifty years, and as I became
less deficient by eating enzyme rich, living foods,
my tastes began to change. The Energy Soup and
Rejuvelac that I had once loathed now tasted good. I
even began to crave it! I lost all my desire for
sugar— no more chocolate bars, cakes, pies, or
cookies. I didn’t even like the smell of sweets
anymore. I noticed that tofu, which I had once loved
as my favorite meat substitute, made me tired and
bloated and gave me gas. Eating living foods made me
feel lighter, more energetic, focused, and calm.
Things that had once bothered me now just rolled off
my back. Through self-examination I couldn’t
detect any tumors in my breast or on my cervix. My
life had been transformed. I had been lifted up
mentally and spiritually by this wonderful new
lifestyle.
My
mission in life became very clear: I had to open a
Living Foods Center in Atlanta and share this
incredible knowledge with others so they could heal
themselves too, the natural way. I told my son,
Richard, about my dream, and he agreed to help me.
Together we opened The Temple Of Health And Beauty.
It is so rewarding to see people who come into the
center sick and begin to heal their bodies and their
minds. I know it’s radical and different than
anything we’ve ever been taught. It isn’t easy
to give up the foods that we have become addicted
to. But, I believe that without these changes many
of us will continue to get sicker and sicker, and
live less than a full and happy life because of
health problems that have been brought on by a diet
of mostly cooked, dead food.
The
good news is that we can change that by changing the
way we think, what we do, and what we eat. Nature
intended that we get 100% of our nourishment from
whole, live fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and
grains. This is not a new age diet. This is the
original diet that we were intended to thrive on.
Now is the time to get back to our roots, to embrace
a way of living that promotes total and perfect
health. As we heal ourselves, one person at a time,
we will then heal our planet.
Everyday
I thank God for opening up the door to Living Foods
for me. I give thanks for Ann Wigmore who dedicated
her life to teaching the Living Foods Lifestyle, to
Edie Mae for writing her story so that others like
me could know that there are better ways than
surgery and drugs to heal the body, and to all the
Living Foodists who have gone before me to pave the
way for this lifestyle. I have a whole life ahead of
me, a life that I will spend teaching others about
this wonderful, natural, healing lifestyle.
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Brenda
Cobb is the Nutritional Director at the Living Foods
Institute
1530 Dekalb Ave., Atlanta, Georgia.
http://www.livingfoodsinstitute.com
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