About Me

Sustaining My Life Plant-Based

Hi and welcome! I am Corinne Brown, a cultural explorer who loves reading, writing, history,
music, art, gardening, camping and traveling.

I particularly like the great outdoors, which is an essential part of my healing process as a person
living with cancer and other chronic diseases that I am remedying with a Whole Food Plant-
Based diet instead of conventional medicine such as chemotherapy and surgeries.

My basic plant-based dietary philosophy is:

Step 1:

Keep It Simple and Starch-powered

(About 50% of my plant-based diet is composed of carbohydrates that make me
feel full since they have resistant starches, which are not absorbed when they pass
through the digestive tract. I eat rice, beans, whole grains, boiled green bananas,
boiled and roasted breadfruit, boiled and baked potatoes and sweet potatoes.)

Step 2:

Drink remedial herbal teas.

Of course, fruits, spices and other vegetables come into play.
Are you considering a plant-based lifestyle?

Do you want to prevent and/or remedy chronic diseases such as arthritis, cancers,

diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, obesity, kidney disease,
indigestion, acne, menstrual cramps, endometriosis, dementia, lupus, multiple sclerosis?

Do you wonder if a plant-based diet is right for you?
Do you intend to make your health a priority and take responsibility for your well-being,

that includes what you do and do not put in your mouth?

Do you need to reinforce your why for adopting a plant-based dietary and fasting

lifestyle?

If so, then read on to find out how I came to live my life plant-based.

MY STORY

I grew up in Jamaica on a farm that supplied chickens and eggs to hotels frequented by tourists
from North America. As such, I ‘benefited’ from a 40-year-old catchphrase attributed to
President Herbert Hoover whose 1928 Republican campaign slogan was “A chicken in every pot.”

That idea emerged three centuries before in France where Good King Henry VI, allegedly
envisioned that poor peasants would have a chicken dinner every Sunday.

When I moved to the U.S., I adhered to the government’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. I
followed the recommendations because its stated purpose was to promote health and prevent
diseases. The 2005 USDA Food Guide recommended the daily consumption of 3 cups of dairy
products, which include milk, cheese and my favourite treat - dairy ice-cream. With regards to
the ubiquitous question, “Where do you get your protein?” the guide recommended eating 5.5.
ounces from the meat and bean group. So, chicken remained a part of my diet to which I added
pricier meats such as roast beef, spareribs and seafood. When I moved to Toronto in 2010, I
followed Canada’s Food Guide, which was similar to the American.

In 2019, three years after my cancer diagnosis, I learned – via YouTube videos - that meat was a
known carcinogen. I then did a lot of research before I fully accepted the scientifically proven
fact that cancer and my other chronic diseases could be remedied with a Whole Food Plant-
Based diet.

Over the vigorous objections of my oncologists, I adopted a WFPB dietary and fasting lifestyle.
It has been a tremendous challenge because I am not supported by my oncologists or primary
care doctor; and my family, friends, and social community are not plant-based. This situation is
particularly distressing because I have two cancer support groups, and even though group
members know about the positive results I have with a WFPB diet, they continue to eat animal
products and byproducts – and the result is their deteriorating health and cancer-related deaths.

I am tired of this situation.

So, I hope MyLifePlantBased evolves into a support system that enables me as well as others to
develop and sustain a truly healthy plant-based lifestyle essential for well-being.

Mission

Build a supportive plant-based community where people are:

motivated to learn about a healthy lifestyle
employ their capacities to grow in a positive way
able to sustain an effective plant-based lifestyle

Vision

Create a supportive plant-based community that enable people to live their best life in good health and well-being