Page 17 - Eat The Fat Off (John Rowley) : Flip It & Read It

First I got bored. Bored of the strict diet and insanity-level

workouts. So naturally I started eating like a madman.

Soon the Western fast foods wrapped their tentacles around my

soul. A new food addiction set in...and later kicked into high gear.

I got fat and sick, just like

most other Americans. I

put on over 60 pounds.

But that wasn’t the worst

part.

I developed heart disease

in my 40s. So serious that I had to have surgery to undo the
damage of nearly 25 years of a Western diet. They actually had

to crack my chest open.

I was “this close” to death’s door, but I wasn’t about to knock…

My personal miracle was delivered in a magazine...

I started trying to eat “better”...whatever that means. It was so

confusing. I had eaten my way to near-death after all.

I went back to the low-fat “healthy” diet and workouts because

that’s all I knew. Months later I was weak. Fat. Sore all over. I just

assumed my best days were behind me.

Then one day I picked up a travel magazine. Inside there was an

article, The Island of Long Life with the picture you see below.

What is this magical place called?