I don’t think I ever thought of my physical form as a prized race horse. I never even thought of it as pony. It didn’t really dawn on me until I got in my 40’s that maybe there was more going on than I thought. Someone told me long ago, before I dyed my hair, that I would live a very long life and that I had to take good care of my health because I would hate to be trapped in my body later in life. The thought of being stuck in there like in the lung machine of a polio patient gave me pause for what that could be like. It was a very scary thought.

I was blessed earlier in my life by meeting Adele Davis who was one of the early pioneers of healthy eating. It was she who said go ahead and eat your eggs …