Dallas County Living Well Magazine Fall 2014 | Page 41

in fact, she never mentioned a single vegetable (other than
French fries) in her entire diet. I also cannot remember a
single food she reported that was not teeming with gluten.
Here’s the bottom line: not one of us is getting any
younger; recently a nutritionist put it to me this way: “The
classic way of thinking is that, if life is like a hallway, we
walk down with many doorways on both sides: a doorway
to diabetes, one to heart disease and many others to chronic
diseases. At one end of the hallway is a big door that says,
DEATH, and at the other end, OPTIMAL HEALTH. If we
choose to accept one doorway ov