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Judith H. Swartz

Healthy Eating is Simple: 'A Stroke of Health' Author's Personal Struggle with Weight Ended When Her Husband Had a Stroke and She Discovered the Diabetes Food Pyramid

Published in Fitness and Wellness Business Week, October 28th, 2009

Friday the 13th in June 2008 started out as a normal day for Bob and Judi Swartz, but the day would end as anything but ordinary. Bob would suffer a serious stroke and Judi would take the first steps in a year-long journey of recovery and discovery.

Doctors said Bob's Type 2 Diabetes and high blood pressure coupled with weight problems were contributing factors to his stroke. Judi knew that she would have to learn healthy eating and make lifestyle changes to facilitate his recovery. What she didn't know was that her lifelong struggle with weight would all but disappear, a surprising result that some might call the silver lining.

"We were always...

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