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Hi! This is Diana Walker, the Cravings Coach and lifelong student of Dr. Paul Bragg, world-famous Naturopath and Author.  Yoga and exercise on the beach.  Dr. Paul Bragg is famous for his book “The Miracle of Fasting”. (Jack Lalanne Dies January 23, 2011 – See below)

I started my quest for vibrant health when I was in my twenties.

In 1974, Dr. Paul Bragg came to Vancouver to give a lecture on nutrition. Dr. Bragg, who was 94 years old at the time, was a world-famous Naturopath and Life Extension Specialist.

UPDATE: – January 23, 2011 – Jack Lalanne Dies

I have just heard that Jack Lalanne, who was mentored by Dr. Paul Bragg, has passed away at the age of 96.

Jack LaLanne, a one-time sugar-holic who became a television fitness guru preaching exercise and healthy diet to a generation of American housewives, died on Sunday at age 96, his daughter said.

LaLanne, who became U.S. television fixture in his close-fitting jumpsuit starting in 1959 and came to be regarded as the father of the modern fitness movement, succumbed to pneumonia following a brief illness at his home in Morro Bay, along the California’s central coast.

“He was surrounded by his family and passed very peacefully and in no distress … and with the football game on Sunday, so everything was normal,” Yvonne LaLanne, 66, told Reuters.

Well into his 90s, LaLanne exercised for two hours a day. A typical workout would be 90 minutes of weightlifting and 30 minutes of swimming, changing his routine every 30 days.

He preached the gospel of exercise, raw vegetables and clean living long after his contemporaries had traded in their bicycles for nursing home beds.
LaLanne said in 2007 his focus was always to help people the way Paul Bragg had helped him.

“I can’t die,” LaLanne would say. “It would ruin my image.”

Read more here—> Jack Lalanne Dies
I did not meet Jack LaLanne in the 1970s, but Dr. Paul Bragg did talk about him and had photos of him in his book. I will miss him as I often watched him on his Juicing segments on television and I found Jack Lalanne inspiring, and he was a connection to my past mentorship by Dr. Paul Bragg in Hawaii.  They both impacted the lives of countless people throughout the world and will be remembered with love and gratitude.
NOW BACK TO DR. PAUL BRAGG:  When he was 16, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and given 3 months to live.
Fortunately, his parents were able to send him to a private health clinic in Switzerland.

At the Clinic, they gave him good nutrition from whole foods and pure water. They taught him the benefits of exercise, deep breathing, sunshine, and positive thoughts.

Within a few months, he was able to leave the clinic, free of tuberculosis.
He devoted his life to teaching health. He pioneered the health message in North America and lived to age 96. At that time, he was still traveling, lecturing, and leading exercise classes on the beach in Hawaii.

So – back to the lecture I attended in 1974.

This was a turning point in my life. Dr. Paul Bragg stood on stage with a large loaf of white bread, and kneaded it down to the size of a golf ball.

This gave us a visual demonstration of how devoid of nutrition processed foods can be.

Listen here for my story on my Cravings Coach Podcast:  Diana Walker and Paul Bragg Audio

I was enthralled. I received his autograph on two of his books. 
Diana Walker Paul Bragg Autographed Books Video

Soon after that, I wrote to the address on the books. (There was no internet then!) Within 4 weeks I was over in Honolulu, Hawaii, studying under and working for Dr. Paul Bragg.

He provided a scholarship for me and in 1980, I received my Naturopath Diploma.
I lived a vibrantly healthy lifestyle. I led exercise classes and yoga classes on the beach with 60 to 100 people attending. What an amazing time! But then, later in my 30s, I found it harder and harder to follow all the health principles I had been taught.

Various habits like drinking 8 cups of coffee a day, diet sodas, chocolate bars, wine and even smoking crept back into my life. I felt like such a hypocrite.
Knowing so much. But not living it.

Dr. Paul Bragg taught me about fasting and how to detox the body, cleansing the body with water, and not eating for several days at a time.

My intense study of Cravings, what causes them, and how we can control them, has led me to today, and now for the past 12 years, I have once again lived a vibrantly healthy lifestyle, free from cravings for all the wrong things for my body.
I would love to help you on your path to freedom from cravings too!

Diana Walker, Cravings Coach
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