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Hi everybody. Welcome back to the Wellness Wonderland Radio. I am super excited for today's

episode to have Sid Garza Hillman on the podcast today. Sid is such a cool guy. He's a

certified nutritionist, health coach, and the staff nutritionist

and programs director at the Stanford Inn, an eco resort in California. He's an easygoing guy

with an easygoing style and fresh approach to health, happiness, and well-being, and he's just way

cool. I discovered him through the Rich Roll podcast,

and then I whipped through his cool little book approaching The Natural, a health manifesto.

And it's a way cool book where he takes some health principles and really takes his own original philosophy on nutrition,

movement, the mind, the body, the family, the whole thing, and really brings it together

in a really easy to understand great way.

And so I want to read a little bit from the book that really stuck out to me, and it's funny because

this is actually on page one, but I really liked the introduction of this book.

So I'm just going to read a little bit.

A few years ago, I had an idea for a diet book.

It was to be about 200 pages long and on the cover be incredible claims like

the diet to end all diets and 100% guaranteed weight loss.

Upon opening the book, the reader would find the following instructions on the very first page.

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