Some people choose veganism for ethical reasons.
John Hayes embraced a lifestyle herb back to defective genes that threatens their health.
On the way, they also benefited from lower cholesterol, blood pressure and body weight, found and stored to meet new people, even their marriage.
The nurse residents Clarks Green uses its expertise and personal experience to marry the benefits of eating throughout Northeast Pennsylvania as a professor and head of the group of units of beets Scranton.
Mrs. Hayes based on his studies and his career when he explains the health benefits of food choices, but found on Netflix documentary that inspired his first trip.
Keystone College and graduated from Geisinger Medical Center School of Nursing, where she continued her RN and the University of Scranton received, where he received a BSN, Mrs. Hayes discovered his passion in the industry of health care.
After the first season at Memorial Hospital Tyler and a kindergarten in State College, he returned to Scranton and worked as a nurse in the former Mercy Hospital for 13 years.
Finally he went to recently closed, which allowed him to reach the starting point for the Regional Hospital of Scranton, where she is a RN Case Manager in the Commonwealth Home Health NEPA.
"I have the birth to death and everything else looked," Hayes said. "But most of the time I work with adults with chronic diseases."
Throughout her career, Ms. Hayes noticed a frustrating trend in how the system works patient.
"In spite of the dollars we spend on the care and treatment of health, came too late to prevention," he said. "People think that early detection is prevention, but what about before catching the disease?"
A friend in the animal rescue involved, Mrs. Hayes said in the movie "Forks Over Knives", which examines what happens when the consumer has processed Decline and animal foods. His curiosity aroused, looked home and said that forever changed.
"I'm surprised," Hayes said. "I always had the mentality that chronic (disease) meant irreversible. It was very exciting for me to learn something, but. The myth for me was shocked.
"We all believe that we are doomed by our genes, but research shows that we are not," he said. "We can control whether the switch for this gene causes. I was totally condemned, after seeing how he talked about the science behind it."
In his own family, saw Mrs. Hayes suffer 14 parents to cancer, including her mother, who died of metastatic melanoma. Mrs. Hayes experienced fear of cancer, and was prepared to take a proactive approach to protect their health.
"Part of my motivation is, the cancer spreads to prevent," Mrs. Hayes said. "There is hope that my lifestyle plays a very important role."
With the support of her family, Mrs. Hayes has a regime fully accepted herbs. She bought cookbooks specialty, read many books and articles, and completed extensive research to help your transition. He saw almost immediate results, strengthening its commitment.
When he focused his contribution on whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and lentils, remarked Mrs. Hayes started the food taste better.
"It's delicious. Change your palate," he said. "If it. Just about the same as us healthier, it would not be stuck
"If you told me it was ten years would be as steamed cabbage in front of a big bite, I would say:" You're out of your mind, "Mrs. Hayes was." I suppose they trusted foods and herbs. Is not that a confiscation diet, plenty. "
His health showed improvement, also. Thirty pounds melted away, and she could stop taking heart medications.
Facing an empty nest for their children, Ben, 27, and Annabelle, 24, left the house, Mrs. Hayes and her husband, Gary, the new rules say more calm and patient to be it has the other, as it began to feel better.
Now Mrs. Hayes feels determined to spread the word about the diet of the plants in the region.
She was certified T. Colin Campbell Centre of eCornell nutritional studies and published a column in the magazine Nature Awakenings in March.
Your local group Scranton beets, is a branch of basic Nation Plant Pure and tries to educate people around the NEPA through workshops, cooking classes, conferences and monthly meetings. Mrs. Hayes also maintains a blog, theplant basednurse.com, the exchange of information and advice.
Scope keeps busy every time she is not at work, and April, in particular promises to be a busy month for events. As a member of the Advisory Board of Preventive Medicine Commonwealth Medical College, Mrs. Hayes tries like-minded people to unite and find a network of live herbs to create.
"Never try not to push all the same. The people see you as you are from Mars or hippies," he said. "I'm waiting for the traditional medicine to join.
"There are pockets of people who eat plant-based the" Hayes said. "We have to go and connect with the people and to develop, talk".
Its network includes representatives from the University of Scranton, TACC, the project greenhouse Nay August Park and P-BEG, a group based in Tunkhannock suit. She also works with local restaurants to develop menu items that are included.
to win an important element of converts, people is convincing that the diet is not expensive or isolation.
"You should not buy gourmet" Mrs. Hayes said. "And what is more important, the opportunity to eat what you want in a social function, or stay out of the operating room?"
But she recognizes the fear a barrier creates its whole relationship with food to reshape. The benefits are too great to ignore, and the downside is almost non-existent, he said.
"Who knows why, when I saw the film, you clicked. Maybe five years ago I would have thought I was crazy," Mrs. Hayes said. "All I know, the more open I am, the more fun than I am. I feel much better."
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Meet John Hayes
At home: They live in Clarks Green with her husband of 29 years, Gary; He has two children, Ben and Annabelle.
At work: You RN Case Manager at the Regional Hospital of Scranton. In her time, she is a blogger and lawyer and professor of plant-based diet.
Inspiration: People who are not afraid to take risks, make a change and to improve their own health.
Aspiration: To combine your passion for nursing with their lifestyle herbs in a paid job.
Detours: cooking, crocheting, writing, teaching in the school and the annual mission trips Clarks Green IMU in Appalachia
Aversion: People who say that they are too old to change.
Quote: "No one can feel without your permission to make inferior."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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