Loraine Holden
MS
CA, USGrowing up in Colorado I learned about science and nature from my forester father. I went mountaineering at Colorado State, where I majored in chemistry and biology. During a summer job I climbed three 14,000 ft. peaks alone at night.
I got a teaching fellowship at Iowa State, but was depressed. A week-long solo hike in March weather near the Lake of the Ozarks raised my spirits. Then researching enzymes and working on cytochromes was exciting. I wanted to study cellular chemicals in humans.
I was a research assistant at the University of Rochester and at Hahnemann Medical College and did library research at Smith, Kline and French Pharmaceuticals.
As a medical student at the University of Colorado, I had money problems. I broke my leg falling off a glacier which cancelled a summer job. I had to work week-ends in hospital labs. Health problems in my third year, then severe hepatitis kept me from an M.D. degree.
As a medical technologist at Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco I saved money, hoping to get accepted for the last two years in a California medical school.
Instead I got married and moved to San Diego. There I taught science, physiology and anatomy in community colleges and at San Diego State. I learned diving and other water sports.
I studied real estate to invest a small inheritance when my father died. After my mother's death I bought and managed more rental property. Profits enabled a friendly divorce.
I moved to northern California and wrote magazine articles about my adventurous trips to exotic parts of the world. Then, after overcoming arthritis, I researched other ailments that were preventable or curable by helping the body heal itself. This became my book: "Don't Get Thin Get Healthy". I have spoken to dozens of groups about health, discrediting myths and half- truths that contribute to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other ailments.
Nature can help you be healthy and active through your eighties and beyond.
Growing up in Colorado I learned about science and nature from my forester father. I went mountaineering at Colorado State, where I majored in chemistry and biology. During a summer job I climbed three 14,000 ft. peaks alone at night.
I got a teaching fellowship at Iowa State, but was depressed. A week-long solo hike in March weather near the Lake of the Ozarks raised my spirits. Then researching enzymes and working on cytochromes was exciting. I wanted to study cellular chemicals in humans.
I was a research assistant at the University of Rochester and at Hahnemann Medical College and did library research at Smith, Kline and French Pharmaceuticals.
As a medical student at the University of Colorado, I had money problems. I broke my leg falling off a glacier which cancelled a summer job. I had to work week-ends in hospital labs. Health problems in my third year, then severe hepatitis kept me from an M.D. degree.
As a medical technologist at Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco I saved money, hoping to get accepted for the last two years in a California medical school.
Instead I got married and moved to San Diego. There I taught science, physiology and anatomy in community colleges and at San Diego State. I learned diving and other water sports.
I studied real estate to invest a small inheritance when my father died. After my mother's death I bought and managed more rental property. Profits enabled a friendly divorce.
I moved to northern California and wrote magazine articles about my adventurous trips to exotic parts of the world. Then, after overcoming arthritis, I researched other ailments that were preventable or curable by helping the body heal itself. This became my book: "Don't Get Thin Get Healthy". I have spoken to dozens of groups about health, discrediting myths and half- truths that contribute to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other ailments.
Nature can help you be healthy and active through your eighties and beyond.
