Can An 85 Year Old Benefit From A Raw Food Diet?
My mother-in-law (Carla LeComte) is 85 years old, she slipped while getting the mail, and broke her hip about a year ago. She’s been in and out of hospitals and rehab for months and finally made it home about 2 weeks ago. My wife and I came up from Florida to Connecticut a little over 2 weeks ago to help her try and regain a measure of health. We’ve been feeding her 95% raw food, getting her out in the sunshine, helping her to exercise and the transformation in only 2 weeks is nothing short of amazing. When she first got home from rehab she would basically want to sleep all day. She could not go to the bathroom on her own and would get extremely tired and winded (she is on oxygen) as Jo Ann helped her to the bathroom . She would converse very little and it seemed she had very little desire to keep living. Well, all I can say is, it’s truly a wonder how well the human body responds to a whole food, plant based diet, with very little fat. We’ve been giving her fruit for breakfast and lunch, and start her off with some fruit for dinner followed by lettuce and vegetables. She has had a little heated food (we heat very slowly at low temperature) when she first came home, she wanted something warm, we made her some vegetable soups (potatoes, carrots, celery, leeks, tomatoes, sun-dried tomato), just vegetables and distilled water, no condiments or fat. Right now she’s eating raw only and enjoying it .
