Comedian and activist Dick Gregory first met Dr. Alvenia M. Fulton during his 1967 campaign for mayor of Chicago against the incumbent, Richard Daley. Fulton came by campaign headquarters and dropped off some salad for Gregory and his staff. Someone at the headquarters informed him that a really nice black woman “‘brought all these salads here for you’; I had been a vegetarian,” says Gregory. When he went by to thank her, his encounter with Fulton turned “my whole life around,” said Gregory. They sat and talked and Fulton heard that Gregory was going to go on a forty-day fast in protest of the war in Vietnam. “And she thought I knew something about fasting, which I didn’t! And she taught me from day one to day forty what was going to go on in my body.”During the fast Gregory went from 350 to 98 pounds and ran twenty-five miles a day before and after sun up. After the fast, his weight returned to 148 pounds, he was totally healthy, and he began to fast on a regular basis. Over the next several years, Gregory and Fulton became close friends as she shared her knowledge about fasting, herbs, and nutrition with him. Here is a smoothie recipe I use when I fast like many maybe doing during the Lenten season. Dr. Fulton mantra was good health begins in the colon, that’s why she championed the merits of regular fasting using natural colon cleansers like psyllium husk and raw foods.
Ingredients
1/2 cup of frozen strawberries or your favorite fruit
1/2 cup of frozen bananas
Cup or more of vanilla soy milk or use fruit juice if you prefer
1 scoop of a good protein powder supplement
2 table spoons of psyllium husk
1/3 cup of soy yogurt
¼ cup or more of honey or maple syrup
Method
Combine fruit, milk, and yogurt in a blender and turn on high until the ingredients is mixed, add more soy milk if necessary. Next had the dry ingredients and sweeten to taste. Be sure to not overload your blender because you could burn out the engine on that bad boy!
Appearances
Sunday February 21, 2010
11 am Service The Hollis Presbyterian Church, “4 Essential Prayers for Our Children” Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie
12:30 soul food sampling
1:45-3:00 Lecture, Book Sale, and Book Signing, Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie
Directions
Throgs Neck Bridge and stay toward your left all the way to the end of the Clearview Expressway and stop at the light at Hillside Ave . Make a right turn on to Hillside Ave. and get in left lane. Go several lights and turn left at Francis Lewis Blvd. Come all the way down FL Blvd. until you get to 104th Ave. and make a right turn. Come down to 196th street and see church on corner of 196th and 104th Ave.
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Triboro Bridge to the Grand Central Parkway. Stay to your left on the GCP and exit at Francis Lewis Blvd. South. Make left at the stop sign and go to FL Blvd. and turn right. Come all the way down Francis Lewis Blvd. to 104th Ave. and turn right. Come down to 196th street and see church on corner.
The Hollis Presbyterian Church
100-50 196th Street
Hollis, New York 11423
Tel: 718-776-4646
Email: hollispresbyt@msn.com
Friday February 26, 2010
3:30-5:00 pm
Connecticut College
Student Center Connecticut College
New London, CT 06320-4196
http://www.conncoll.edu/
Lecture, Book Sale, and Book Signing, Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie
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