Lifestyle by Nature: One Woman's Break from the Unhealthy Herd to Roam Forever Healthy in Nature's Lifestyle Change Herd

by Betty Holston Smith

How are you? If your truest first thoughts in pondering this question are something like “I could be better,” this nature-based lifestyle-change book might help. To be healthy, you must take care of all of you because the total you is made up of your entire self, including your body, mind, spirit, soul—your everything. If one part of you is not up to par in some way or another, it’s impossible for your everything else to be totally healthy. You have tried everything your friends, your doctors, and even the advertisement industry recommended for improving your health. But nothing has worked, except to make you a frustrated person. Close your eyes right now and allow your conscious mind to contemplate your health situation. Be honest. You are not the healthiest that you can or should be. In fact, you are in dire straits according to how you feel and what your medical team says about your health. I know all of this about you because I was you so many years ago. Like you, for years I followed the same type of diet herd that you have been following. And like you, after trying everything, I had no clue about what to try next. However, I found a clue. Over forty years, I lived the importance of and learned to replicate nature’s wisdom on nutrition and movement in my unhealthy lifestyle. Her focus was on naturally changing lifestyles, not on temporary quick fixes. And in the process, she provided me with all types of support to do so. I carefully recorded her step-by-step wisdom and provided the details inside. Ditch your next quick-fix cosmetic diet, and put your trust in nature’s simple but trustworthy lifestyle-change wisdom.

199 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 6, 2019

About the author

Dr. Betty Holston Smith, Ed.D. (Nova University, Early and Middle Childhood Development and Education; MBA/MPA, Southeastern University; B.S., Education, D.C. Teacher’s College), was among the first students to integrate Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (Maryland) in 1956. After stints at the Department of Labor and Walter Reed Hospital, she was denied acceptance into Georgetown medical school on the basis of both her race and gender. She went on to establish and operate the BH Smith Education Consulting Company.

She keeps and advises a strict vegan diet and a fitness regiment that has her running 60 to 100 miles per week every week for the past 50 years. She set the USA-Track and Field age group record for the 48-hour and 6-day ultra-marathon races. As of 2020, at age 79, she had logged over 100,000 miles, including 85 marathons and 29 ultramarathons. Dr. Smith also holds the patent for the Chick Pee device to allow female runners to “stand and go”.