I first met a smiling, healthy-looking Emily Boller in 2009 in an airport after she had lost more than a hundred pounds following my Nutritarian diet-style. We had never met before, and she did not consult me about her weight and health issues. She also had done it without any local friends or family to support her, and she had significant obstacles thrust in her path, yet she persevered. Emily had read my book, Eat to Live, and applied the information on her own with fierce determination. I had seen her photos and corresponded with her by email, and she was at the airport to be a success story on a television interview I was doing.
She kept journalistic documentation of her transformation with great photos and verbal accounts of the transformation that took place, as she essentially became a different person.
Since then, Emily has spoken at my Health Getaway events, has written wonderful, uplifting and insightful blog articles, and has interviewed scores of others who have also transformed their lives. She has learned a lot and is now a scholar in this field of health transformations. I am not only grateful for her sharing her impactful health makeover in my books and television appearances, but also grateful for her insight and motivation through her writings that she has given to so many thousands of members at DrFuhrman.com and on my blogs.
Losing more than one hundred pounds in one year can be hard, but it can be made so much easier when you have the right information at your fingertips to help you navigate the obstacles in your path. The secret to success is to develop fluency in these advances in nutritional science and understanding of food addiction that forms the body of knowledge supporting a Nutritarian diet. A Nutritarian diet is a style of eating that focuses on healthy foods that prolong the human life span. However, the same anti-cancer and longevity-promoting diet-style is also the most effective way to achieve reversal of chronic diseases (such as diabetes and high blood pressure) and the attainment of a healthy weight that you can maintain for the rest of your life. For successful adoption and full enjoyment of this lifestyle, education and training is essential.
Emily has been there and has triumphed in spite of incredible obstacles and personal tragedy. She has managed to collect gifts of wisdom that she has compiled and earned along the way, gifts that she now bestows on you. The gifts are given with the hopeful expectation that you will benefit in some way from her experience, insight, and knowledge.
I am grateful for the opportunity I have been given to be useful in some way to so many people, too, but both Emily and I know it is not just about the number of people; it is about the profound and lifesaving effects that have occurred and can occur for many who are struggling to be set free from the mind-controlling effects of processed foods and the deadly American diet that leads to incredible human suffering and kills people needlessly every minute. I hope you will study her words and continue your quest for knowledge, as that is truly the only road to great health and lasting happiness.
Emily has demonstrated her remarkable desire to extend herself to help others in need over and over, asking nothing in return. She sets a standard of ethics and compassion to emulate, and I am proud to be her friend.
— Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Board-certified family physician specializing in nutritional medicine
President, Nutritional Research Foundation
Six-time New York Times bestselling author