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Eating Like I’m in France or Japan To Fight Cancer
When I get healthy enough, I’ll exercise like I’m back in Colorado
I grew up in New York City. I’ve had friends tell me it is the most European style American city. The reason? People rarely use cars to get around.
When I was a kid, I walked or biked everywhere. To school, the library, to visit my friends or my favorite field near La Guardia Airport. I’d bike there, then lie in the grass watching the planes fly overhead.
When I got to high school, I took the Subway to my high school. So I walked to the subway station, which as about a mile away, then often had to stand on the crowded train, then ran to school. I walked between classes and then, after school, I often walked around Manhattan before heading home.
I’d go with friends to the Village or wander by myself up to bookstores on Fifth Avenue.
I also did ballet until junior high, and then ran cross country my junior year of high school.
Until I left New York, I never had trouble keeping the weight off even though I ate plenty of food. But most of it was my mother’s home-cooked Indian vegetarian cuisine, though I also got pizza at least a couple of times a week and Mom often gave us a scoop of ice-cream for dessert. But most of my diet…
