When I was a child I loved to hear stories. Many of these stories had a moral to them- you know they taught us something that gave us value. Like 'the Little Engine that Could.'
Stories are supposed to teach us things about how to live our lives. What it teaches is called the moral of the story.
I'm going to tell you a story and it can teach you something too. It isn't a bedtime story or a fairytale. It is a real story-A Family Story.
Once upon a time--- a family moved here to the U.S. for a job opportunity. They moved here from Russia. Of course that isn't anything new, unless we are of American Indian heritage we all moved here from somewhere.
This family did very well. They were quite successful. They created different businesses and made their fortune. But that isn't the end of their story.
When the family got here the mom noticed that lots of foods came from factories and were packaged in brightly colored boxes. She wanted to try them all, and she did. She also gained about a 100 extra pounds. She didn't necessarily like these foods at first, but after trying them several times she got hooked on them, like most people here are hooked on these processed factory foods.
She also tried things like a chain of popular donuts, that she added to their diet.
Now, her family began to discover that they were sick. Her husband discovered he had a serous thyroid problem; her daughter developed asthma, and would pass out some times on exertion like when she ran. The mom, Virginia found out that she was more than just overweight, she had developed a heart condition just like her dad-but she was much younger than her dad so her faulty genes were showing earlier.
Then she discovered that her little boy had type 1 diabetes. He ate Halloween candy and went into a coma. At the hospital the doctor said he could never get well- or actually be cured. It could only be controlled if he learned to give himself daily shots.
Virginia became very depressed, and she cried and cried. She wanted to stop and take time to figure this all out.
What was Virginia going to do? Don't stop now--continue reading to find out what happened next.
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