On The YoJo Diet!
Smashwords Edition
Copyright J. Sutherland 2011
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Forward
If you've already read the best-selling book “The YoJo Diet” then you know that I am an avid health nut, mostly due to my finding out late in life that I was suffering from acute Type 2 Diabetes. After having lost my mother at a very young age to Diabetes, and then my brother some years later, something snapped inside me. I knew that obesity and all its' related problems were rampant in most western countries. We spend more and more each year on fad diets and dangerous pills, just hoping to happen upon the “magic bullet” that will blast the fat off our bodies without having to work at it. It scares the hell out of me that so many people are just waiting for that easy-way-out. That's why I buckled down and came up with “The YoJo Diet” which works on the simple principle of replacing a meal with a super-nutritious and delicious concoction that will lower your daily caloric intake and will still be loved by the average person.
Now, let me tell you what really scared the hell out of me and inspired me to write this book to help people who are using the YoJo Diet to lose weight faster and more efficiently so they can become healthy more quickly...and why I offered this additional help for free.
Just before I managed to rein-in my blood sugar and managed to control it, just a little too late, I found out that I had a severe testicular abscess. At first the doctors weren't sure that it wasn't cancer, and at the age of 44 with cancer having been in my family, I was actually relieved to find out it was an abscess. That is, until I had it removed and found out that it was so bad that I nearly died from its toxicity. My doctors told me I had less reasons to survive that surgery than the alternative. After the surgery I was left with a 3 inch open incision that needed to be packed and dressed by a wound clinic twice a week. Once day while I was in the clinic, I asked the clinician if he saw many people with “my sort of wound”, meaning testicular. His answer will stick with me forever. He said...
“Most of my patients are in for Diabetic ulcers and they are dying a little bit at a time. I see them one week and they have a sore on their foot that needs dressed. A few weeks later, the foot is gone and I am dressing their calf. Next it's gone just below the knee, and so on, until they don't come back any more, because they couldn't get a handle on their health and their eating habits.”
Please, dead reader, whether or not you choose to use the information in this book, or to buy “The YoJo Diet”, I ask only that you will give me a silent promise to get your health under control and to keep it in check. Your health is the very first thing you have when you enter this world, and it's the very last thing you will hold dear to. Whether you do this for yourself or for someone you love, taking that first step, making that silent promise and holding yourself to it, starts here and now. I can wish you nothing better than the best of health.