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All that happened about 20 years ago, back before Amer- ica’s obesity crisis was really out of hand. I was someone unusual – a young woman with a serious weight problem and lots of impending health issues to go along with it. Now, I see that stressed, binge-prone girl in so many of my patients, and my colleagues and I agree that this may be the first generation to live shorter, unhealthier lives than their parents. Anyway, I digress. By the time spring break arrived a year later (I was a junior) I was 30 pounds into the “obese” cat- egory. I did well on my semester finals, but not well enough to satisfy the perfectionist inside me; in fact, I lost my mind and binged on everything in sight. During one memorable binge session, I gorged on a huge pizza with loads of meat and cheese. I downed cheesy garlic bread, along with buf- falo wings and the blue cheese dressing that came with them. Then, I drank an entire two-liter bottle of diet soda. In my craze, I thought that would somehow make things better. The more I drank diet soda instead of having nourishing foods like the ones I’m about to introduce you to, the worse I felt. In fact, the hungrier and more crazed with cravings I became! Although I looked and felt like a python that swal- lowed an entire goat, I was still hungry. I kept on eating. In the morning, I felt like I had survived the worst day of my life. Yes, I’d survived, but things were about to get even worse. I decided to go on a college-sponsored summer trip to Peru, a place I’d always wanted to go. I was bursting out of my Red Smoothie Detox Factor | Elizabeth Swann Miller [email protected] 21