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September 26 , 2012
Healthy can be ‘Simply Yummy’
Eric Keith | St. Joseph News- Press/
Melody Prettyman, a gourmet chef and speaker, gives seminars on how she transformed her life by changing her diet.
Melody Prettyman says veganism changed her life By SYLVIA ANDERSON
style and is now feeling great and teaching others how they can do the same. “I had two twin brothers, lost one at 55 and one at Melody Prettyman thought she was living the 45 from congestive heart failure and Type 2 diabeAmerican dream, but she realized it was becoming tes,” she told the audience at the St. Joseph Three a nightmare. Angels Seventh-day Adventist Church recently. Although she was happily married with two chil“I was on the slippery slope with sugar and my dren and earning a six-figure income, she didn’t cholesterol was high. But here I am today at 58 and feel good at all. She had been on heart medicine for my cholesterol level in February was 138 and I am 22 years, was diagnosed with hypertension and had medication free. gained weight to her all-time high of 250 pounds. “As I like to say, ‘Nothing tastes as good as Fearing she would follow in her family’s footsteps healthy feels to me.’” to an early death, she drastically changed her lifeShe drastically changed to a plant-based diet, St. Joseph News-Press
eliminating meats, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, gluten and oil. And she kicked off the new diet by throwing out all of the food she couldn’t eat. “My poor husband was sitting over there with a calculator,” she laughs. “‘Honey,’” he said, “Why can’t we go ahead and eat that stuff, then when it’s all gone we won’t buy anymore and won’t waste the money.’ I thought about that, too. But we either pay for it now or we pay for it with our health later.” Fortunately, Ms. Prettyman enjoys cooking and began creating what seemed like very bland food Please see PAGE 3
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