News the Stars Bring Today

I remember early this year, when I was studying the “Raw” diet, meeting Philip McCluskey. Now this gentleman was almost 400 pounds and considering having a surgical procedure done.  Fortunately he came across the “raw food” diet.

I believe he lost at least 200 pounds and revolutionized his life as well. He was involved in marketing and went on to become a successful nutritional counselor, who is very much involved with the other Raw pioneers, like David “Avocado” Wolfe, etc. He’s also been on CBS. Now in essence, his diet is strictly vegan and very green.

Let me give you an example of one of his smoothies, and I have several on my raw section in veggiebliss.us:
2 tbsps unsweetened chocolate;
3 handfuls of spinach;
one sliced frozen banana;
one bottle spring water.
Put this in a blender and you will have a great nutritious smoothie and you can watch the pounds and inches fall off.

Now contrast this with the following story that is not as infrequent as you might assume. In a very unusual Russian malpractice trial, two doctors have been charged with killing a former Russian beauty queen, Ekaterina Sumina, according to Alina Kalinina. Apparently, Laser Inc. did not perform any tolerance testing for the young woman in terms of the type of anesthesia used. However, I find that hard to believe, because usually all patients fill out a questionnaire before any surgical operation.

However, what actually did happen is that she stopped breathing. Now, when that happened, of course, they should have taken some immediate steps. However, they seem to have waited.

Again, another unusual practice is that she was not apparently connected to a breathing apparatus the whole time. This I find rather odd, as I believe that when a patient is “under anesthesia” he/she needs to be under artificial respiration. However, medical examiners say that she may not have been breathing for more than 20 minutes.

In another crazy news story, which some are calling a hoax, Beverly Hills Dr. Craig Alan Bittner was using the fat of his patients from liposuction to fuel his bio-diesel car, according to Walletpop.com.

Does it make you feel that possibly cosmetic surgeons do not have the highest standards? That it might attract greedy, unethical types? Apparently Dr. Bittner is being investigated on other charges and the Russin doctors have had their medical licenses suspended for 2 years.

The moral of the story is: run, eat raw, and don’t lipo.