If we are what we eat, I am a barbecued rib

In my 23 years on the air in Atlanta hosting the morning show, I rarely ate breakfast. People were always dropping off Chick Fil A, McWhatever, and donuts the size of a Frisbee and radio folks do not turn down free food. I have really bad eating habits but still breakfast is only on days off. Sausage, biscuits, gravy, cheese eggs, etc are favorites in the South. My granola and oatmeal friends don't admit it out loud for fear of chastisement from the cholesterol filled masses. We love anything battered and fried. If you battered and deep fried a work boot there is somebody who will show up with a bottle of ketchup and eat it. I watched a documentary this past week called "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" by an Australian film maker who was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. He got healthy by a fasting diet that composed of fresh fruits and vegetables run through one of those juicer appliances you see in stores. He lost about 90 pounds in his almost year long quest for health and vitality. He made juice out of kale, carrots, apples, and other healthy food. No burgers, pizza, biscuits, donuts, chicken. It was a liquid diet that he claims gave him more energy and lowered all the stuff that doctors say need to be lowered like blood presssure and cholesterol. In the documentary that took the film maker across America trying to interest other people in his healthy juicer lifestyle he encountered a 400 plus pounds truck driver from Iowa who was 39 but looked much older. The fellow got into the juice fast and began an exercise regimine. When the trucker started he could only walk for about 10 minutes. He quit his job to work on getting healthy. He lost about 200 pounds and runs and swims for miles everyday. He spends about $24 dollars a day buying the healthy fruits and vegetables at an organic food store in his Iowa hometown. His story was an inspiration to me as I ponder if I could do the fasting program for 10 days. I am going to give it a shot but not this weekend because I am making deer sausage biscuits for the kids. Marcelle at the Bank of North Georgia's husband several weeks ago took down a great big buck and gave me some of the venison. Venison has got to be healthier than meat from a supermarket. Venison has no hormones, lives on an organic diet and is very low in fat. Presley and Callie won't eat it because they think of Bambi anytime I mention venison. Have you ever been scolded by a 7 year old? Eating is something that we do and like most folks I haven't paid much attention to the ribs, chicken, burgers, fries, pizza et al that I have consumed over the years. The Australian film maker made some very valid points about the benefits of his juice fasting regimine. It got me to wondering if the Piggly Wiggly sells kale? Haralson County has a new concert venue that you'll be hearing a lot about. Randall Redding is one of the finest and most trusted builders in the Southeast. His passion is music and the new Mill Town Music Hall will feature Southern Gospel as well as Bluegrass and Country and some Classic Rock. It is in the old Ingle's location across from Plantation Pipeline. There was an open house of the facility the other night and people were most impressed with the entertainment venue. It truly is going to be a terrific family entertainment showcase. I think it is going to be good not only for Bremen but for Haralson County as well. Question dear readers, has winter has been cancelled? It seems more like late March than late January. I have been answering emails from readers and I sincerely appreciate the kind comments. I think I stuck a chord with some of you in the column last week. Your support of the Tallapoosa Journal is important. You can find out things on these pages you can't find anywhere else. How do you like how the presidential contest is going? What do you think of the field of candidates? Is anyone paying attention to what is going on closer to home under the Gold Dome? I don't have to read about it in the Atlanta paper to find out what is happening in the legislature. I just call Lowell White.