Congratulations to Elizabeth Holt and Marvin, my brother for making an eternal covenant with God to be sealed together as man and wife for eternity in the Provo City Center Temple. January 6, 2018
In February Dennis took me on a 10 day cruise called Holistic Holiday at Sea. It was actually something that Rachel told me about. Dennis and I were at Education week the August before when she called and said she thought this was something I would like to do. Dennis said he would go with me so I called and reserved a place for us. We left from Miami. It was beautiful port.
We ate in a dinning room where specially trained chefs prepared our healthy food. This was one dinner of baked tofu, bok choy with black sesame seeds, pineapple and wild rice. We were always served a soup or salad and a dessert as well. There were about two thousand plant based diet passengers on board with this Forks over Knives group and one thousand other regular guests who were just there for the cruise. We had many lectures every day plus the port stops.
Rip Esselstyn, son of Caldwell Esselstyn as one of our speakers on the cruise. Rip has written many plant strong books including "The Engine 2 Diet" His father Caldwell wrote, "How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" reporting on his studies of reversing heart disease with a plant based diet. .
I loved the beautiful black sand beach at Basseterre which is the capital of the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
T. Colin Campbell, who wrote The China Study lectured to us. I later took one of his online classes about the benefits of a plant based diet. It was a Cornell University class.
Our ship is in the background. I really enjoyed our guest lectures. Near Barnard who wrote about reversing diabetes, the dangers of dairy and the addictive power of cheese spoke. He also lectures about Alzheimer's and what to eat to preserve your brain. Michael Klaper addressed us several times. Michael Greger who who wrote, How Not to Die also lectured. Joel Khan is a cardiologist and a vegan who owns a whole food plant based restaurant spoke to us as well. After two weeks of eating this way and hearing the lectures about the health benefits of eating vegetables and fruits I am convinced that the Word of Wisdom which teaches the same aspects is the correct way to live and eat.