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But just be careful how you prepare what you eat.’“As an adult I’d never eaten until I was full.
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My health is never an issue now. Earlier, when he’d told me, ‘I will rebuild your body and you’ll be able to fast,’ I was so hypoglycaemic I couldn’t believe it.”Weight loss was just the beginning of the transformation. I’m so grateful I was humbled to the point where I’d do whatever it took. This was the first diet I’d followed where the instruction was, ‘EAT. Popcorn is something you cannot get raw. I always preface what I say with the proviso that this is just my opinion but my opinion has served me very well.”She adds: “At times I’ve had to say to a family member or close friend, ‘I’ve been really rather patient with you, but if I have to, I’ll put you over my shoulder and carry you to see my doctors.’ Fortunately, my mother was smart enough to look at me and say, ‘If it worked for her…’ She cut out wheat and her bronchitis went away. The reason? I thank God every day on my hands and knees not only that I got this information but that I was forced onto my knees so that I had to listen. “Sometimes the people closest to you are the most threatened by the changes in you,” she observes.“It’s a delicate thing. I like being different! “When I’m hungry at games [her boyfriend is the hockey player Alexei Yashin] I eat popcorn, but I’ll eat it with a lot of enzymes.
But she went raw at a time when there was little available in the way of prepared foods, and remembers, “I lived the first five years of eating raw making my own foods – it was that easy! She’s firm, she looks good, she has energy and sparkle, Carol was clearly not the only one asking this question. Now, if I see two models next to each other, one of whom is thin and nourished and the other thin and starving to achieve that, I can tell which is which in an instant. Fine lines and wrinkles vanished.“Soon after I went raw, people who’d known me all my life were coming up to me and saying, ‘You look amazing.’ Also, people started being friendlier to me.
Some people appreciate my passion about this, some don’t. Miraculously I remembered the number.”When she rang Dr Brantley, he didn’t ask how she was feeling or what was wrong with her. “I lost the weight the only way I knew how. And I’m the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been!”Although she is often in the city when working, home is still on Long Island – a house shared with Alexei, who years ago switched to a very healthy high raw diet thanks to her subtle influence. While serving her tables, the chic girl was noticed by a scout of model agency and soon she starred on the covers of popular issues.Later Carol Alt got a chance to try her hand as an actress too. Only all raw, or mostly raw, feeds you. Carol Alt has written three books on the raw diet and lifestyle: Eating in the Raw: a Beginner’s Guide to Getting Slimmer, Feeling Healthier and Looking Younger the Raw Food Way; The Raw 50: 10 Amazing Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks and Drinks for Your Raw Food Lifestyle; and Easy Sexy Raw: 130 Raw Food Recipes, Tools and Tips to Make You Feel Gorgeous and Satisfied. I made a promise 11 years ago.”Carol grew up in a little town on Long Island, the daughter of a New York firefighter. “I’m not a doctor and this is just my opinion – I always say that first thing out,” she says.“But my life changed, and the only thing I changed was the food that went in my mouth.
If I’m like this at 35, what will I be like at 50?’ I got on my knees and prayed, ‘God, you brought me a little bit of celebrity and I haven’t even been able to use it for anything. I will one day get old and die. You can cut a nerve in a face lift. Now I am healthy, happy and satiated. Her parents couldn’t pay for the girl’s education and she decided to earn some money as a waitress. By age 17 she was working part time as a waitress.One day a photographer dining in the restaurant approached her to tell her she should be a model. “At one early casting I was told, “You’re too fat, your hair looks like s*** and who the hell plucked your eyebrows?’” she remembers.The grooming issues were easily taken care of, but before long the pressure to lose weight had led to an obsession with dieting that was to last the next 17 years of her life.
They’re sick, tired, miserable, growing old, freaking out.
I was falling apart.“I decided, ‘There’s got to be a better way. It’s much easier if you have a guide. Not just people who knew me but strangers in the street. “From the moment I changed my food I’ve never had another sinus infection, never had trouble falling asleep or waking up, never suffered headaches, never taken Tums again – I function like a well-oiled machine.“Pre-raw I was hungry and exhausted all the time, and doing the minimum I had to just to get through work. There’s something for everyone, but it might not be the first thing you try, so give it a chance.”What does she have to say about the social stir this dietary choice can cause? She had hit rock bottom, and holed up in the house in Palm Springs she made her desperate plea for divine intervention.Out of the blue her friend, Steven, called to share an amazing story. Raw food hasn’t only changed my life; it literally saved my life.”It is clear that Carol is as passionate about others’ health as she is about her own. © Copyright Sarah Best 2020 For example, the night before the interview she travelled to the home of a friend who was ill, spending hours there counselling and encouraging her. She informs me that when friends come round she bans them from drinking tap water, telling them, “Not in my house! One thing I know is that it needs good food, but what’s good for one person may not be good for another.”Does she eat exclusively raw food these days? Although her enthusiasm hasn’t always rubbed off on those around her, it is not unusual for friends, family, and even friends of friends to approach her for advice when a health crisis hits.“I’ll give my time and energy to anyone who asks; I’ll clear my schedule for them,” she says.