Staying Healthy in the Fast Lane

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staying healthy in the fast lane

To Stephanee Killen, senior editor and designer at Integrative
Ink, for guiding me step by step through the last phases of putting
this book together.
To Gwyn Snider of GKS Creative for getting this book print-ready.
To Mark Pitzele of Book Printing Revolution for providing me
the last minute resources to complete this book.
To Konstantin Koryaka for last minute graphics and formatting
changes.
I want to thank the following current book authors, clinicians,
and researchers who have created a vision for a practical and vi-
able healthcare model that can not only slow and prevent chronic
disease but also actually reverse it, while at the same time pre-
serving the ecology of the planet as a whole. James W. Anderson,
MD; Neal D. Barnard, MD; Dan Buettner; T. Colin Campbell, PhD;
Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., MD; Rip Esselstyn; Richard M. Fleming,
MD; Joel Fuhrman, MD; David J.A. Jenkins, MD, PhD, DSc; Daphne
Miller, MD; Dean Ornish, MD; John Robbins; Paul and Barbara Stitt;
Makoto Suzuki, MD; Bradley J. Willcox, MD; and D. Craig Willcox,
PhD.
To Hodan Farah Wells, PhD, and Jean Buzby, PhD, from the
USDA’s Economic Research Service for helping me with the graphs
showing the U.S. dietary consumption patterns over the last
century.
To Dr. David J.A. Jenkins for taking time out of his very busy
schedule to write the Foreword for this book.
Lastly, and most importantly, I am so deeply grateful to you,
Mom and Dad, for inspiring me to try and do good, work hard, and
never give up. I wish you were here...and you are!