Photos above:

I was always all natural, I never used steroids. This

photo shows what a natural bodybuilder can achieve.

Above middle: This is my "before" photo. I get so many calls from Moms asking about their teenage son who is so skinny and asking me "can he get bigger by working out?"

Well, here's my photo as a skinny teenager just before I started working out.

Yes, working out can do wonders.

Above right: In 1979 I visited the Nautilus Headquarters in Deland, Florida and met Casey

Viator in person and watched him workout. He's huge! Boy did that motivate me!

Quotes

          "Advice: Wise men don't need it, fools won't heed it.

          "Lead by example."

        "Insurance isn't health."

                              -seen on a bumper sticker

     "The distinctive feature of Homo sapiens is the desire to take a pill."

                                                                                                                                            -Anonymous

     "Eat as wide a variety of plant foods in as unprocessed a form as possible."

                                                                                                                                             -Susan Havala R. D.

       "Man lives on one-fourth of what he eats. On the other three-fourths lives his doctor.

                                                                                                  -Inscription on an Egyptian pyramid, 3800 B.C.

          "We spend the first half of our lives wasting our health to gain wealth. And the second half of our lives spending our wealth to regain our health."

                                                                                                    Author Unknown

          "The Standard American Diet is a pathogenic (disease causing) arrangement that is responsible for a long list of diseases. This is evident when a mere change in diet enables SAD sufferers to become free of their problems and lead healthful lives."

                                                                                                    T.C. Fry 1989

          "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the area of the human frame, in diet, and in the CAUSE and PREVENTION of disease."

                                                                                                    Thomas A. Edison, 1900

          "We put drugs of which we know little, into bodies of which we know less, to cure diseases of which we know nothing at all."

                                                                                                    Voltaire, 1750

          "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimension."

                                                                                                    Oliver Wendell Holmes

          "People love to hear good news about their bad habits."

                                                                                                    Dr. John McDougall

          "If you want to know what health is worth, as the person who lost it."

                                                                                                    John Robbins

          "Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."

                                                                                                    Dr. Albert Schweitzer

          "Most people are wrong about most things most of the time."

               "A man's opinion is no better than his information."

               "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always  won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time, and they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.
       --Gandhi

               What is the leading cause of death? Is it heart disease, cancer? No, the leading cause of death is IGNORANCE.  If people took the time to educate themselves on the true causes of these diseases, they would find that that are in control of their health and the death rates from these disease would drop.

"Those who cannot remember and learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."

-- unknown

Links:

Pete has a great site at www.veganbodybuilding.org

The ultimate home - self contained - my wife and I will be building one in Hawaii: www.earthship.org , when it comes to architecture, my favorite quote is: "Straight is the line of duty, curved is the line of beauty." Check out the earthship website for the Hawaii Earthship Seminar July 2006 for the building of our new home, YOU can come and help build it!

Living Nutrition Magazine - all about Raw Foods: www.livingnutrition.com

www.naturalbodybuilding.com  Home of the Amateur Bodybuilding Association, which is an organization with the integrity to test all athletes for steroids and other drugs, and has to guts to suspend those athletes found to violate their anti-drug rules. You can be assured that their contests are on the up and up and worth attending. Here are the real champion bodybuilders, who built their bodies without drugs. Attend one of their contests and get motivated!

Casey Viator has always been my favorite bodybuilder. Check out his website where you can order his training manual and videos at www.caseyviator.com

Recommended Books:

1. Errors in Hygiene?!!?, Vivian Virginia Vetrano ISBN0-9702119-2-9 available in Living Nutrition Magazine

2. The Pleasure Trap - Douglas Lisle, Alan Goldhamer, Learn about the motivational triad and why it takes the human body from 30 to 90 days or more to adapt to a raw foods diet free of foods artificially engineered to be high in sugar, fat, and salt.

3. The China Study - T. Colin Campbell

4. The 80-10-10 Diet, by Dr. Doug Graham, available at www.foodnsport.com This book tells all you really need to know about the raw food diet and being healthy. It summarizes everything in the following Essential Natural Hygiene Course, so if you really want to go into more detail, then you can get the ENF course, if not, then this book is all you need.

5. The Essential Natural Hygiene Course - see it at www.transformationinstitute.org This is the most comprehensive material I have found about the raw food diet and lifestyle. Natural Hygiene is the science of health, the study of the conditions which promote health and prevent disease. I studied this for 3 hours per day for six months to get my Essential Natural Hygiene certificate. It answers many questions and has some great topics such as should you eat salt, molasses, honey, sugar, garlic, herbs. There are chapters with titles such as: Why most supplements are inferior, herbal drugs, human digestive physiology, and food combining - a topic I didn't touch on here, but is very important for your eating. This course is a MUST read, sure it costs a couple hundred dollars, but it was instrumental in my sticking to the raw food diet. Many people only last about 1 year on the raw food diet then drop out. But having this knowledge gave me the information I needed to stick with it. For instance, by knowing exactly how bad eating meat is for you, I'm sure not going to eat it again - and this course gave me what I needed to know. BUY THIS COURSE!!!!