Goodall Hospital

MEG WOLFF
8:30am/Rm4

Transitioning To Healthy Living: It’s Actually Pretty Simple

Meg frequently hears ... “I’d like to eat better, but I have no idea where to start...” In this session, Meg will briefly describe her own experience and journey back to health after breast cancer and then offer many easy steps that people can take that demystify and simplify improving your diet and health. She applauds the small steps people take, and believes that these small steps can build on one another. Meg Wolff, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, has survived cancer-twice. Meg was diagnosed with bone cancer (and had her leg amputated) at age 33. Seven years later, at 40, she was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Meg went through a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation, and doctors still told her to “make your peace with God.” At just that time,Meg learned that some women with breast cancer had been helped by eating a macrobiotic diet. Willing to try anything that offered hope, Meg embraced the diet, which is based on whole grains, vegetables and beans. In very short order, she started feeling much better. Nine years later, she’s the picture of health. Meg believes that dramatically improving her diet was a life-saving decision. She also believes that millions of people’s health and lives could be better for understanding the vital link between diet and health.

Immediately following her talk, Meg will be signing copies of her memoir, Becoming Whole: The Story of My Complete Recovery From Breast Cancer—describing her journey back to health—and the recovery of her marriage and happiness. Becoming Whole also contains healing menu plans, easy-to-follow recipes and an extensive directory of helpful Web sites, reading materials and macrobiotic professionals. Meg’s second book, Breast Cancer Exposed: The Connection Between Food and Survival, shows through Joyce Tenneson’s photographs, the results of Meg’s mastectomy, and succinctly explains the diet she credits with saving her life.