From hopelessness to renewal
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| Courtesy Photo York native Rebecca Carlson has been healed by raw food since being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2005. Carlson is now the publisher of the raw food magazine Purely Delicious and founder of online retail website 123raw.com. |
York native Rebecca Carlson finds healing from raw food
By Candace Blomendahl
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part series featuring Rebecca Carlson’s raw food story.
YORK — When York native Rebecca Carlson was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2005, everything looked hopeless.
But Carlson, now a resident of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has discovered hope for herself and has begun sharing it with others through 123raw.comand Purely Delicious magazine.
At the time of her diagnosis, she was working as a creative art director, which was what she called a very stressful, very deadline driven job. The symptoms of MS, including fatigue, vertigo, blurred vision, mental confusion, migraines and hand spasms, “basically turned my life upside down,” Carlson said.
According to her doctors, she was going to end up in a wheelchair.
“Doctors painted a very grim future for me,” she said. “It basically crushed me.”
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YORK — When York native Rebecca Carlson was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2005, everything looked hopeless.
But Carlson, now a resident of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has discovered hope for herself and has begun sharing it with others through 123raw.comand Purely Delicious magazine.
At the time of her diagnosis, she was working as a creative art director, which was what she called a very stressful, very deadline driven job. The symptoms of MS, including fatigue, vertigo, blurred vision, mental confusion, migraines and hand spasms, “basically turned my life upside down,” Carlson said.
According to her doctors, she was going to end up in a wheelchair.
“Doctors painted a very grim future for me,” she said. “It basically crushed me.”
(Click here to continue reading article)
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