the best that they could
at the time. There wasn’t
that kind of information
and there weren’t
alternatives to dairy back
in the early 80s when
I was first diagnosed.
There weren’t any
alternatives to anything
and nobody really read
ingredients on boxes.
We lived off on a lot of
processed food and then
by high school, I was
working and I started
eating a lot of fast food
then I became a radio DJ a
month out of high school
when I was 17 years old
and that was basically
60-hour work week so
I lived off of fast food.
I was living on my own
from about 17 on. I never
really learned how to
cook. I ate really poorly.
I got pregnant with my
first daughter when I was
23. I decided I wanted to