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at the bus stop drinking Pepsi. Before school I bought candy and chips to keep me satisfied before buying donuts for lunch. After school I ate toasted pop-tarts, and another Pepsi. My taste buds liked the sweet sugary sensation because I was addicted to sugar and caffeine. Candies, cakes and cookies filled our cupboards and kitchen counters; we even had a drawer in the kitchen called the junk drawer that was always filled with processed snacks for the taking. Sound familiar?

When I was young, eating this way did not phase me, I was a top runner in track, arm wrestling champion for the girl's middleweight, and won several presidential awards for my athletic ability.

But soon this all changed. I got married and had three children, and started eating a little bit better, only because my husband was more health conscience than I. About eight years later, my athletic and muscle-toned body began taking on a new shape and feel. I didn't like the way I felt. At thirty years old, I had persistent nagging lower back pain; I could barely sit down or get up without looking like the hunchback of Notre Dame. For two years I carried around a consistent throbbing in my lower back. I was fearful for my health because I didn't know what my health problem was.

I had huge pimples on my shoulders even though I scrubbed them vigorously with a loufa pad every day. I wasn't fat, but I began exhibiting a potbelly, and for several days I would go without a bowl movement. My back, obviously being the weakest part of my body was severely getting worse. I went to the doctor, and was told, I was healthy as an ox, and nothing was wrong. He told me to do several exercises that would help lessen the pain in my back. He also informed me that lower back pain runs in 70% percent of the population at sometime in their lives, and is something most people just learn to live with. This wasn't good news.

I tried the exercises, and it helped for a little while, but soon the throbbing came back. With two babies and a toddler, I certainly couldn't lay on the floor all day doing exercises. At this point, besides always being tired, I became frustrated, edgy and nervous, but I was still determined to find the cause. I eliminated all processed foods from my diet, and bought a juicer and drank fresh-juiced vegetables and fruits daily, my three boys, and husband were enjoying the variety of fresh fruit juices and they were getting healthy as well.

I bought diet and herb books, and I even grew my own herbs and

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