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Radio Host: You know, one of the delights of life? Listening to Coast to Coast. Another should be you taking care of yourself and how do you do that the proper way? Susan Smith Jones will tell you in a moment, on Coast to Coast AM.

Radio Host: Well I guess you could say that Susan Smith Jones is one of our nutritional experts. She’s got a PhD, and has assisted thousands of people in becoming more aware of how their food and lifestyle choices affect their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being for 30 years. Susan taught students, staff, faculty at UCLA how to be healthy and fit. She is an author of Recipes for Healthy Bliss, Healing Power of NatureFoods and Healthy Bliss as well. She’s a motivational speaker…motivate us Susan, how are ya?

Susan: George, it’s so great to be with you. Didn’t we have a good time on April Fools’ night with Toast to Toast?

Radio Host: I loved it…I’m still getting emails on them, you know. People are so…one lady hexed me, put a curse on me because of that show.

Susan: Oh really? I bet you’re already thinking of what you’ll do next year as well and I think somebody’s birthday is coming up.

Radio Host: Somebody’s birthday is coming up and I’m not celebrating.

Susan: The big one.

Radio Host: I don’t know, alright.

Susan: But age is a state of mind because if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Radio Host: “Welcome to Coast to Coast”, so is that it?

Susan: Well, yeah, George.

Radio Host: You know what? I have, over three months, I have dropped 15 pounds.

Susan: Isn’t that wonderful!

Radio Host: I was not necessarily overweight, I’ll tell you what happened. My glucose level got out of whack, and my doctor says, “You know, you keep this up, you’re gonna be a diabetic” and he said, “I wanna put you on Metformin.” And I said, “I don’t want to take this pill!” So he said, “Well, go to this other doctor, he’s an expert in this.” And the doctor looked at me and said, “Look, you lose a little bit of weight, stay off a lot of carbs, stay off pastas and white bread and all these things, potatoes, starches, and,” he said, “Watch what happens.” And now it’s almost normal again. Isn’t it incredible?

Susan: Good for you. See? I should be interviewing you tonight!

Radio Host: No…but I also did the supplement things, the cinnamon and stuff like that, and the bottom-line for me is you gotta be healthy as much as you can. I mean, you know, every day you have to treat as if it is your last. And what a waste if it’s gone and you didn’t enjoy it, but at the same time, you should watch yourself and prolong those days, right?

Susan: There is nothing more important than health and it is not just eating the best foods – now that’s important – or just exercising, but it’s the whole balance, body, mind and spirit. Body reflects the mind, and the mind reflects the spirit. You see, if you eat good foods – colorful, lots of plant-based foods, high in antioxidants – and if you reduce in those beige and white foods, then what happens is you have a more positive attitude. And you can exercise an hour or two a day, and then you’ll be more optimistic. And yet I bet all of your listeners now that are listening to us know that you can eat the best foods and you can exercise all day, but if your thoughts are always negative, if you’re always harboring thoughts of doubt and worry and anger and jealousy and hopelessness, there’s no way you’re ever gonna live your highest potential. And because body reflects mind, and mind reflects the spirit, the body is a great place to start and an easy place to start is what you eat. I know you remember from previous shows that I was very much influenced by my grandmother Fritzi, remember? And I was really sick as a teenager, and she took me under her wings. And she was like a healer and lived close to nature, and she taught me how to heal my body, from head to toe, inside and out and as a result, I haven’t had a cold or a flu almost in a quarter of a century. I’ve never taken any medication, and in regards to foods – and because I’m always optimistic, my nickname’s Sunny – so she’d always say to me, “Sunny, always look to nature for what to eat because in nature, you won’t find ice cream trees and potato chip bushes and doughnut vines. But the more natural and colorful your meal is, the more likely it is to have an abundance of healing nutrients that boost immunity, that protects the body from disease and promotes vibrant health.” And George, I still have people all the time come up to me, who recognize me during or before or after my talk, and they’ll say, “You know, I like what you say Susan, but you know, I know I’m headed for a heart attack because my dad died of heart disease, and my grandfather did and it’s just in the family, it’s in my genes!” And I say to people like that, that they will say that to me, just pay attention to that amazing study done in ’08 by Dr Dean Ornish. It was a three month, groundbreaking study and it was demonstrated that the subjects affected changes in activity in about 500 genes including 48 that were turned on, and 453 that were turned off as a result of this, George, eating more healthy foods like you’re eating now, keeping stress levels down, practicing relaxation techniques like meditation, and of course exercising regularly. So in just three months – in 90 days – you can change hundreds of your genes by simply changing what you eat and how you live. That is amazing to me, amazing!

Radio Host: You have to do it, and this hour, I’m going to ask you about some super foods, a super food that you say can help promote weight loss.

Susan: Oh yeah.

Radio Host: Why is it that extra weight hurts the body?

Susan: Well, sadly, you know – and it’s an epidemic in America and in most of the world – but when you’re overweight and especially if you’re obese, it brings with it major health problems like heart disease, certain cancers, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, like you know, diabetes, gout, stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis. They are all associated with obesity, but you know I’m a positive person so to put it in a more positive way, losing even a little bit of weight, significantly will improve your health and your well-being.

Radio Host: Well, that’s a good point. That is true. You know, most people though, are not totally happy the way they look. Why is it that the foods that are no good for us taste the best?

Susan: That’s a good question. In fact you are so right George because surveys indicate that most people are not happy with their weight or the shape of their body. And the sad thing is, that a majority of these people are going about in a wrong way, the hard way, by dieting which never works. So you wanna throw away any diet book that tells you, you can lose weight and keep it off without moving a muscle…

Radio Host: What do you mean dieting doesn’t work?

Susan: No. Dieting doesn’t work. Dieting, you usually change all the foods you eat, and you eat much less, and that slows down your basal metabolic rate, your metabolism. When you slow that down then your body, as a safeguard, starts using some of your muscle as a fuel source. And, as I’ll talk about in a little bit, you wanna have as much lean muscle tissue in your body as you can, so…and foods that really taste good, those beige and white foods that have lots of sugar and saturated fat, they are almost like – it has been proven scientifically – like morphine in the body.

Radio Host: Yeah, I used to love chocolate-covered doughnuts. Not anymore. Used to love ‘em. They’re the best! I miss one. A nice one. Chocolate on it.

Susan: And they’re good to use as a little baseball to throw, like to your grandchildren now, you know, because they’re soft and you can catch them easily. Or if you want to have a little more bit upstairs, the women, you know, want to have a little bit more, you know, that you can use those instead of tissue to stuff your bra. That’s what those are good for.

Radio Host: I don’t wear a bra.

Susan: Yeah I know, I was told you didn’t

Radio Host: I’m thinking of a glazed doughnut now.

Susan: Yeah…great!

Radio Host: But they are! The crummy stuff for your body tastes the best.

Susan: Seriously, I’m gonna disagree with you. I know initially it tastes the best, but as you clean out your body by eating better foods and exercising and getting enough sleep and drinking enough water, you actually change your taste buds. And you gotta have a little discipline in your life to be able to…

Radio Host: You have to…

Susan: …stick with it, that’s right. And discipline to me, is that ability to carry out the resolution long after the mood has left you, that mood or enthusiasm. And keep this in mind – Ben Franklin said whatever you do for 21 days will make or break a habit and behavioral sciences have discovered that if you do something, George, for 21 consecutive days in a row, like exercise or drinking more water or eating fresh fruits, or you give up something like the white flour pastas and ice cream every night for dessert, and 21 days you’ll no longer crave for what you gave up, or you will have established a new habit, and it really does work. I’ve taught this for 35 years in my work, and it really comes down to this: you’ve got to make your word count. See, your life is a reflection of how you feel about yourself.

Radio Host: It’s critical. 6 months ago, my little grandchild Mia called me up and said, “Papa, it’s Girl Scouts’ cookie time, are you gonna order from me? So I ordered a whole bunch of boxes of Tagalongs from her. Those are those peanut butter Girl Scout cookies. They’re the best. I can’t eat one, I eat the whole box. And so she bought…I ordered 6 of those, 6 boxes of those. I came back to St Louis a couple of months ago, and there they were waiting for me on the kitchen counter, and you know what I did? I gave them all away. I gave them all away. It wasn’t easy! I gave one box away to a guy and then I pulled it out of his hand, but he took it. It wasn’t easy. It takes willpower. Once you get there, you feel guilty if you cheat.

Susan: No, I know. And you see, what you’ve just proven is that you can tell by your daily actions what you are committed to. They always reflect your self-esteem and you could have eaten them, and you didn’t and you gave them away so you can tell that you’re making your health a top priority in your life.

Radio Host: How important is exercise, water and eating right in losing weight?

Susan: Oh my goodness. Absolutely you wanna exercise because with exercise you’re gonna build more lean muscle tissue on your body, and you do that through weightlifting, strength training, resistance training, whatever you want to call it. And when you add – you’re gonna love this, George, when you add 10 extra pounds of muscle to your body, you’ll burn approximately 500 extra calories a day. You’d have to jog 6 miles a day, 7 days a week to burn the same number of calories. 10 extra pounds of muscle on your body can burn a pound of fat a week. That’s 52 pounds a year. And I know everyone listening now, you’re all thinking, “Sounds good, how do I build 10 extra pounds of muscle on my body?” Well, you do it by engaging in some type of strength training and weightlifting and it will take…if you work out two-three times a week, it will take four to six months to build those 10 extra pounds of muscle on your body. But what happens is when you have the extra muscle, you burn more calories than someone who doesn’t, even when you’re both sitting still.

Radio Host: That’s right.

Susan: Now, in terms of looking younger – oh, this is so fantastic – Duke University did a series of studies and if everyone out there…let’s just say if anyone out there wants to look 15-20 years younger in one year from tomorrow, scientifically proven, there is a simple way to do it.

Radio Host: How?

Susan: Two times a week, for 30 minutes, you need to engage in weightlifting. You can go to the gym, you can do it in your home, you can go to the park and take some weights with you, and it works most effectively in people from their 40s to their 90s. It works better for them than even younger people, and so in one year from tomorrow, if you started lifting weights two times a week, you’ll look and also physiologically be 15-20 years younger than you are right now.

Radio Host: That’s it?

Susan: Yeah, that’s it. See, this is the beauty of health. It’s the simple lifestyle choices like what you eat, how you deal with stress, how often you exercise, how much sleep you get and water you drink, what you think – these have the most enormous impact on your longevity and quality of life and George, changes that wereonce labelled milestones in growing older such as high blood pressure, fragile bones, weight gain, significant vision and memory loss, these are no longer considered inevitable. And I think probably because we’re so time-poor, and even out of laziness, well-proven anti-ageing measures like diet and exercise and sleep and looking after our mind and spirit, often go unheeded. Yet it is most important to note just how simple looking and feeling younger can be achieved naturally by working from the inside out.

Radio Host: Susan, what’s the one superfood you say would help promote weight loss?

Susan: Oh, if you said I could only have one food to promote weight loss and to look younger and have the energy and have beautiful skin, without a doubt it would be green vegetables and here is why. There was a review of 206 humans, not animals, but human epidemiological studies, and it shows that green vegetables have the strongest protective effect against cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, high blood pressure, than all other foods. But the sad truth is only one in 500 Americans consumes enough calories from vegetables to assure this defence. So the cornerstone of any heart-healthy, cancer-protective, longevity-favorable diet, which should be to eat as many raw and steamed and cooked vegetables as you can, because they’re true superfoods with so much nutritional value, they are nutrient -dense.

Radio Host: Alright, what’s the culinary spice you love to promote?

Susan: Well, I know yours.

Radio Host: Mine is turmeric, of course.

Susan: Turmeric, of course it is, yeah. Of course it is and that’s such a good anti-inflammatory…

Radio Host: Yes sure is, and that’s why I take it.

Susan: Yeah, not only that, it helps maintain healthy cholesterol levels, it’s one of the best antioxidants you can take, and what I do is I have them in capsule form for when I fly…fly places or when I sleep and I fly. And then I also have it as a liquid tincture because then it gets into my system really quickly and I’ll take a drop or so, in a glass of water, and it turns it all orange and gold – it’s so beautiful – you drink it down and it’s still kinda… the glass remains a little orange and gold. But cinnamon, cinnamon is great if you’re diabetic, pre-diabetic to balance out your blood sugar levels, but also to lower your LDL, the bad cholesterol, lipo, yeah, and also lower triglycerides and blood pressure and to raise your high density lipo-protein a little bit, but then the one to help you lose weight, you’re gonna love this –

Radio Host: Drumbeat… bumbumbum

Susan: What you say? Oh yeah, wait, *tapping sound* there you go. It’s cayenne pepper. See, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?

Radio Host: That’s right.

Susan: And see, cayenne provides a three-pronged attack against obesity because number one, when you eat cayenne or any hot chili peppers, like the jalapeno peppers, they fight off food cravings. You know, scientist have discovered when you eat these sharp-tasting foods, they overwhelm the taste buds, cutting off craving. Then secondly, cayenne helps you eat less. You’re gonna love this one. There was a study in the Netherlands where they gave a group of men, .9 grams of ground cayenne pepper, either in a pill or mixed with their tomato juice, and then 30 minutes later – so envision this – they turn these men loose at an all-you-can-eat buffet. And then compared with the men who were given a placebo, the men who had the cayenne reduced their food intake by up to 16%. And then third, it requires lots of energy to eat hot, spicy foods. In other words, it burns calories to eat them. So here’s what I recommend: you don’t always want all the foods you eat to taste like cayenne pepper, so I also have them in capsule form and if I’m having an extra sweet dessert or something that probably has more calories that I know I need, then before I eat it I’ll take a couple of capsules of cayenne and that will help burn a few more calories.

Radio Host: You want more information on Susan Smith Jones, just go to her website which is linked up right now in coasttocoastam.com, Susan Smith Jones. When we come back, we’ll get a few more tips from her, talk to you about some of the things she has been doing and what we will do is open up the phone lines, we give you an opportunity this last half an hour to ask her a question or two about your own health, and I know she’s done some work again with apple cider vinegar, I’m obsessed with that stuff! Let’s find out what it does. If you need to email me, any time, any place, it’s george@coasttocoastam.com.

We’ll be back with final calls with Susan Smith Jones, on Coast to Coast AM. On our next Coast to Coast program, we’re going to talk about the truth of 2012 and then get into open lines on Coast to Coast AM so make sure you’re part of that program. When we come back, we will take phone calls and continue the dialogue with Susan Smith Jones, right here on Coast to Coast AM.

Tell us about your best-selling three-book series, Blissful Living.

Susan: Oh, uh, I definitely will. You know, for 30 years, you know, I taught at UCLA and I took the program that I taught – and it’s a 30-day program to look 10 years younger, lose weight, boost self-esteem, heal your body – and so it’s the program I taught there and that I’ve also given all over the world. in seminars and workshops, and I’ve put it into one three-book set, you know. You can buy them individually, but Hay House is doing something really wonderful for your listeners to the end of the month – if you get the whole threethree-book set together, they’re giving the listeners almost 40% off. And it’s my program that I have lived, you know, for my whole adult life, on how to feel your very best, create your best life, and you can find out more about it on your website, or on my website.

Radio Host: Alright, super. Susan, we’re gonna take some calls tonight.

Susan: Okay

Radio Host: Right here, let’s go to Jason in Farmington, Maine, you’re right up with us. Hey Jason, welcome to the show.

Jason: Good morning.

Radio Host: Good to have you with us. Go ahead.

Jason: Just um, I grow garlic, hard-neck garlic, and I thought maybe Susan can just give the listeners some information on the health benefits of consuming garlic and using it raw, while you’re cooking it, just maybe she could…

Susan: Well Jason, I’m telling you, and George, I can speak for hours on garlic. First of all, it is known around the world as a natural antibiotic. You know, Popeye might have eaten spinach for strength, but in Ancient Egypt the slaves who built the great Pyramids were given garlic to give them endurance. In Greece and Rome, in Ancient Greece and Rome, athletes take garlic before competitions. It helps lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, triglycerides, it’s a powerful antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal. It is so good for you. It helps to prevent colds and flus and infections and it’s also excellent for your heart. It’s one of seven spices, in addition to your favorite one, George, turmeric, fenugreek, cloves, cayenne, cinnamon and ginger, really good for heart health. And you might be spending a lot of quality time alone if you eat too much of it but, you know, who cares, it will keep you healthy.

Radio Host: You know, I wish I knew then, what I know now. My gosh! The things we could have done when we were in our 20s and 30s!

Susan: I know. But George, it’s never too late to start , never. In fact, you know that song you played, what was that song? Bridge over…

Radio Host: Bridge over Troubled Water

Susan: Yeah, that made me think about attitude…

Radio Host: Simon and Garfunkel

Susan: …and affirmations, brought me back to my younger years as well but I wanted to mention to you because it’s so important. My grandmother always used to say to me that attitude is the mind’s paintbrush, it can color anything and when you have a good attitude about yourself and when you learn to love yourself and honor the miracle that is your body, then love will come to you in forms of vibrant health, happiness, success, and prosperity and peace. And I’m a big believer in affirmation to keep your whole energy positive, and I know your listeners know this, but just as a quick review, affirmations are those positive words and declarations of truth of who you really are, and what you want to create in your life. And I think the queen of…I call her the queen of positive thinking and affirmations is Louise Hay. And I bet most of your listeners know who she is. She is my dear friend and mentor, but she is the publisher extraordinaire and the author of many books including that big international best-seller called Heal Your Body. But I thought I’d let you know that today she has a new book that just came out, it’s all about affirmations. It’s so beautiful, I have it right here in front of me, it’s got a CD at the back of the book. It’s called Experience Your Good Now and if you go to experienceyourgoodnow.com, you’ll get lots of gifts from Louise and a chance to win a cruise to the Caribbean which will make you look younger and take away stress!

Radio Host: Absolutely. What do you think of organic peanut butter? Is it any good?

Susan: Well, organic is always better than non-organic, but what…if you like nut butters, I think what’s better than nut butters – and I know if you taste it, you’ll agree with me – would be almond butter. Almond butter.

Radio Host: Where do you find almond butter?

Susan: All the health food stores have them.

Radio Host: They do?

Susan: And you can get it roasted or raw, even better raw.

Radio Host: What does it taste like?

Susan: It’s in the nut butter section.

Radio Host: What does it taste like?

Susan: Taste like almonds.

Radio Host: How do you eat it?

Susan: Well, you eat it just the way you would with peanut butter. You can use it as a spread on celery or apples or spread it on your toast. I make…you know, if you have ever had peanut sauce on Indian or different kind of foods, I use it in dressing,

Radio Host: Yeah, yeah.

Susan: So people that want to gain weight, you know, the few of you listening who might wanna gain weight…

Radio Host: Gain weight?

Susan: Yeah, you can put it in your smoothies to thicken it up and to give you extra calories. Now, it is a concentrated food so you don’t wanna overdo it. A little bit goes a long way but almond butter, hemp butter, sesame butter or cashew butter is so delicious.

Radio Host: Our scale’s good to loo—

Susan: You’re talking about scales on cysts?

Radio Host: No, scales to lose weight.

Susan: I know. No. See, people, people get upset about weighing themselves and this is a good point to bring up. When you add extra muscles to your body, it weighs more than the fat.

Radio Host: So you got to go by the mirror.

Susan: Yeah, go by the mirror or take measurements and how your clothes fit. I think it’s good to weigh yourself about once a week, just to give you an idea of how you’re doing because if you’re on a good fitness, health, good eating program, you should be losing weight every week but if you keep increasing then you need to…I mean the whole program is in my three-book set, everything you need there, all the foods, herbs, spices and all the lifestyle choices to look 10 years younger in 30 days, unless George, you’re in the worst shape ever and you’ve never embraced any health practice in your life…

Radio Host: Well, you have to go slow.

Susan: …then it might take about three months.

Radio Host: Marion in Dayton, Ohio, east of the Rockies, you’re up with us on Coast to Coast, good morning, Marion.

Marion: Good morning. Thank you very much. I’m sorry I have chronic deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary emboli. I’m on a wheelchair. I’m on Coumadin. I’m not allowed to eat spinach and all the green goodies, and I can’t hardly walk because most of the clots are in my legs. I don’t know what to do about exercise. I love to be able to get your books. Do you have any capsules or anything that I can take?

Susan: You know what? And I have worked with many people with disabilities or in wheelchairs…you know, I was the first fitness trainer, and remember I started the UCLA when I was three, George…

Radio Host: Yeah, exactly, so sorry about your football team.

Susan: …I was the first fitness trainer, and Marion, there is so much you can do on a wheelchair, where you can lift weights. You know, or even if you don’t have weights, you can take cans of soup or bottles of water, and put your arms out to the side and put your arms forward and…can you lift your feet up and extend your leg?

Marion: There are clots behind my knees, in my knees, I lost about 50% of my, the bend…

Susan: Alright, so I’m gonna say you can absolutely work out your upper body but as crazy as this sounds – and I want you to keep an open mind about this – I want you to practice visualization. Because studies have found when you visualize yourself getting in better shape and feeling better and looking younger, within 21 days – because your mind, the subconscious part of your mind has the reasoning power of about a 5 year old – and you put those positive affirmations and visualizations in your mind and you’ll see that your body begins to change. You know they’ve used visualization with all kinds of healing modalities or to get rid of cancer. So visualization would be good for you.

Radio Host: Apple cider vinegar, what do you think?

Susan: Ooh, I love it! I love it! Now that’s been a healing agent since Biblical times and Hippocrates, you know, he was the father of medicine 2400 years ago, he said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” But he relied on apple cider vinegar as a standard remedy. Now, it’s filled with enzymes and potassium and studies have found that it helps to relieve high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, acid reflux, achy joints, allergies, yeast infections, even sore throat. But here’s a key point: there is a difference between raw, organic, unfiltered and undistilled apple cider vinegar – so primarily in health food stores – and the distilled, clear vinegar that turns up on the grocery shelves, that’s good for cleaning your house.

Radio Host: That’s right. Big difference.

Susan: But see, this latter one, the distilled white stuff lacks the mother of the vinegar, that cloudy sediment that we all know contains most of the health promoting enzymes, the acetic acid, the friendly bacteria, minerals and other nutrients from the apple. So even though it lacks the eye appeal to the general public, you want to go to your natural food store and look for organic, raw, unfiltered apple juice. And I take about one to two tablespoons – and I’ve done this for almost 40 years, Trixie taught me this – I take it in about eight-ounces of water. Now some people don’t love the taste, I love it, so some people add a sweetener and that’s alright. But you don’t really want to take undiluted…you don’t want to chuggle up, put the bottle up to your mouth and chuggle it down. It’s very acidic and it can damage tooth enamel, and your throat and mouth tissues if residues are left in your mouth. But this effect can be easily overcome by rinsing out your mouth with water after drinking or consuming apple cider vinegar. If anybody listening has arthritis, wants to lose weight, wants to have more energy, wants to digest your food better, you know, have an eight-ounce glass 15 minutes before your meal, with a teaspoon in, before each meal.

Radio Host: And it works?

Susan: Beautifully. Beautifully. It’s that beautiful, long time, time-tested folk remedy that is inexpensive and I look forward to it everyday. And instead of tea sometimes, I’ll take hot water, put in a little apple cider vinegar and maybe even add a peppermint teabag or chamomile teabag. And especially on a cool evening, it’s a warm, soothing drink. It’s delicious!

Radio Host: Next stop, we go to Ken in Knoxville, Tennessee. First-time caller, hi Ken, good morning,

Ken: Hi, George, well I’ve been trying to get you for about two years.

Radio Host: Wow. Glad you got in.

Susan: Well, aren’t I lucky, Ken!

Ken: Yes you are

Susan: Yes I am.

Ken: I just have a question for ya, I won’t keep you long. I’m 81 years old…

Susan: Wow, you sound 30 years younger!

Ken: …yeah, I work fulltime, I’ve been retired four times, I stay at 140 pounds and I eat everything…

Radio Host: Hmph.

Ken: …fat foods, everything.

Susan: I think you should hang up on him immediately, George. (laughs) We ’won’t talk with him. You’ve got a very healthy metabolism.

Ken: Yes, I know.

Susan: Good for you!

Ken: And people think, you know my kids and myself, “How old do you think I am?” And they’ll say, “Oh I don’t know. 58, 59?”

Susan: Aww…don’t you love that?

Ken: But I’m 81.

Susan: Yeah. Good for you. That’s wonderful. You inspire me, Ken.

Ken: And you know, I don’t exercise, I work full time, you know, in four days, I work 48 hours.

Susan: Amazing! Absolutely amazing! Good for you! I wish we had a video now, George, so we could see him. That is great!

Ken: But thank you, for taking my call.

Susan: Oh, you’re so welcome!

Radio Host: You know, Susan, how did you get involved in this, in health and nutrition?

Susan: Well, it’s all in my three-book set, so I’ll just tell you in a nutshell

Radio Host: Sure.

Susan: I’ve been in a major automobile accident in the 70s, my car was totaled. I was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. The diagnosis was that I’d have to live the rest of my life in pain, wouldn’t be able to carry anything heavier than a purse, and really wouldn’t be very happy for the rest of my life. And I couldn’t accept that prognosis from the doctors. I’d severely fractured my lower back, and with sheer determination and belief and hope, and doing some physical therapy and then my grandmother helped me learn more about foods and everything, I changed my life and within six months, my team of doctors at UCLA claimed it was a miracle although they’d admitted they’d never studied about miracles in med school. But I learned from that and all my experiences through life and all around the world that I’ve written about in this beautiful three-book set, that there are three things that are important. First of all, you want to have a clear vision of how you want your life and your world to be and secondly, you’ve got to be totally committed to that vision. No matter what anyone says, you keep your word, you don’t let your excuses get in the way. And thirdly, always know there is this inherent healing power within you, that is there 24/7. You just call on it to help you, and you live a more faith-filled life, and you put those three things together and, like Ken did in his life, you’ll create miracles in your life. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The whole course of things goes to teach us faith,” and I’ve learned that throughout my life and it’s really not that difficult. I love this little thought that I thought of the other day. Like bamboo, our lives are all about remaining rooted and resilient and flexible, and we’ve got to make the right choices. Pythagoras said, “Choose what is best. Habit will soon render it agreeable and easy,” and you said that George, at the beginning of the show, about the cookies, about the Girl Scout cookies, you did what is best and you’ve gotten into a habit. And really it’s about balance, it’s about relinquishing all the loveless ways that we treat and use our bodies. And it’s about knowledge too, so your decisions in life are only as good as your information so you need good information. And I feel real appreciative to Hay House that, for your listeners, through the end of the month, they’re giving anybody who gets the three-book set, a 40% discount, almost 40%.

Radio Host: Not bad. Let’s go to Vicky in St Louis, we only have a minute left. Hey Vicky, how are ya?

Vicky: Hey hello George, I’m doing good!

Susan: Hi Vicky!

Vicky: I’m a vegetarian now, it’s almost 6 years I gave up all meat, fast food, and I eat great, great salad every night, George, and brown organic rice…

Radio Host: Vicky came up to my book signing in St Louis a few weeks ago.

Susan: Vicky, you’re doing great! Eating as many plant-based foods as you can will keep you really healthy, really really healthy. You can choose to eat delectable foods that just happen to be potent medicines like those vegetables that heal the body and help restore vibrant health. Vicky, here’s a real good way to think of nutritious food, and I think you’d agree. Produce is the most important healthcare that your money can buy.

Radio Host: Super. And Susan, if you take care of yourself, how many years can you add to your life?

Susan: Dozens. Dozens. And it’s never too late to start! You can start in your 80s! And…but how great it is to start children when they’re young.

Radio Host: Absolutely. Susan, thank you so much for being on the program. Her website’s linked up at coasttocoastam.com. Our next program, we’re gonna talk about 2012 with Elizabeth Joyce, fascinating program, and then we’ll get into our open lines. She’ll also discuss indigo children, rainbow children and what she believes is the new human race, so be ready for that and then of course we got a series of great programs next week, including our space program, our program on NASA with science advisor Richard C Hoglan and astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the program as well along with some other guests, so that should be one of those Coast to Coast classics as well. I’ll see you again on Friday, right here, with open lines, with Coast to Coast AM.