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Laura Smitherman’s Sunrider Story of Health and Wellness

Sunrider Independent Business Owner

November of 2009 I ate something that caused me to have an allergic reaction.

Thanksgiving with my relatives around my stress increased and I ended up with swollen and painful ankles, feet, wrists and hands.  My husband bought me ankle braces and I slept with ice packs on my feet and ankles.

January 2010 I went to a REIKI master for help.  She put me in a deep relaxation which helped tremendously.  She also told me to start eating organic foods.

In February one of the Ahwatukee (where I live in Phoenix, AZ) newspapers had an article about a woman named Christine Marek who was holding health and wellness classes at the local library.  She introduced me to Sunrider Herbal foods.

The Sunrider Herbal foods are so much more than just eating organic foods.

Dr. Tei-Fu Chen, who grew up in China, had become a pharmacist and learned about food combining and created the whole-food product line of nutrition called Sunrider.  These products truly provide beneficial effects on our bodies.

In 1986 I had stage 4 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma that had spread from a mass under my sternum to my lungs, kidneys, gallbladder, intestines and eventually my spine and cerebellum.  I received chemotherapy and radiation for one year.

Now in my 50’s, drinking Calli tea has increased my brain function and clarity.  Fortune delight has helped me to loose weight and maintain a more efficient digestive system.  I no longer have heart-burn and have regular bowel movements.  I also do not suffer from frequent headaches and my hair and skin are in better, healthy condition.

God gave us an immune system to keep us healthy, but we have fallen for the lies about nutrition from the Beef, Dairy, Carbonated beverage, Vitamin and Pharmaceutical industries.

When we learn about and experience Whole Food nutrition and feel the effects in our bodies and mind, we realize we can have the health God intended.

Sincerely yours in wellness,

Laura Smitherman

March 2011

Colleen Seton sent me this testimonial on 5.31.11  Thank you!

My name is Chiquetta Jarman (Trish).  I have a very unusual intro to SR story. A friend of mine told me of this place that was offering a yoga class, a massage, and a sauna for 5$ and said she was losing all sorts of fat… I couldn’t believe it and asked what the catch was…. She said, well you have to listen to this lady go on and on about her foods. I asked what those foods were and she said SR.

She did not know but I had been having a secret love affair with SR for 20 years. My father had brought me SR foods when I was pregnant with my first son. He didn’t know anything about them just told me to eat them and I did. I felt fabulous. I was in a religion that discouraged intake of caffeine and I was sure these foods had caffeine or something, somehow they had to be bad for me, I just felt so good. So I talked myself into not thinking I could afford them after father quit buying them. But being a weak mortal, I snuck them for the next 20 years. But, I would just allow myself to have maybe one guilty fortune or calli a day.

So,  I called this lady the moment I got off the phone with my friend and set up the appointment. I loved the offerings, but mostly I loved hearing about my secret love, SR foods. The second night I went, I found myself in the sauna with Colleen. We talked for  a while and I told her of my secret love, she assured me there was no caffeine, and asked why I wasn’t eating it 3 times a day….. I told her, “I can’t afford it.” She told me, “Don’t ever say that, you can have anything you want.” At that moment I knew it was true, I went away with the determination whatever it took I would have these foods. I realized the truth was, I could always have afforded the foods, I didn’t think I deserved to feel so good.

This time I learned about the foods, I learned about the Philosophy of Regeneration. I was hungry for information. I felt like the prodigal son coming home and realizing I should never have left. I had needlessly struggled and suffered for an extra 20 years. During these years I was in a constant search for answers to my lifelong health problems. Spending a small fortune on supplements and treatments. I have always sought out Organic foods and did not indulge in the standard American diet at all.

• Well, after about 3 days on SR , what I would say was my lifelong depression, was gone. It has been over a year now and there has been no return.
• My horrible hormonal imbalances, including horrific monthly cycles, with intense pain, bloating, and deepening of the depression was gone completely in about 3 months.
• I have lost 23 pounds and 19 of them are fat pounds, which are usually the last to leave on a standard diet.

But as great as all that is, the best is yet to come… I have had a roommate for the last 5 years. The story starts out as us being best friends. Over the years the friendship had disintegrated into intense animosity on both of our parts. All I wanted was to make enough money to live on my own again. We truly barely spoke to each other for most of the time. After a while he saw another friend of mine while eating the foods lose 25 pounds in one month and my roommate invited himself to an educational meeting. Long story short, he started eating the foods, went vegetarian, changed in such awesome wonderful ways, we are, best of friends again, we are appreciating each other and have entered into a SR business partnership. I can’t believe how different we both are, he also was dealing with severe depression and neither of us knew how to free ourselves. Our lives are both full of hope, joy, and a sense of wellbeing that I never have felt in my life. As a health therapist, I share Sunrider with every person that comes to me, and every person I meet. I am looking forward to spending the rest of my life sharing this miracle of health.

Feel free to contact me if you’d like more information about Sunrider, The Philosophy of Regeneration and more.

Christine Marek- 480.491.9551/ Sunrider Consultant

I was at the Hospital three days ago visiting a friend and the family was telling me that nothing he eats is staying down. . He has an inoperable tumor wrapped around his small intestine and no food will digest at all. I was curious  as to what they were feeding him in the hospital and I stayed for breakfast which was eggs, bacon milk and ensure and I had forgotten my camera so I had to get it and waited his lunch time. this is his lunch Italian sausage PASTA, milk, chocolate milk, a piece of bread, crackers, and and iceberg lettuce salad. Do you wonder why his poor system goes into spasms and all they can do is sedate him to stop the pain? so  I started feeding him Nuplus immediately with some cinnamon calli. He was in ICU for two weeks and yesterday(two days later)  for the first time,he was able to attain a day pass so that he could go home and see his Family!!! 

11.8.2010- My life has changed so much for the better since I have been eating Sunrider foods.

Before I was introduced to Sunrider, I lived an unhealthy life of chronic pain and limitations. Both mentally and physically I felt myself degenerating. My concentration and memory was awful. I lived in a fog from the medication I was taking to numb the pain all over my body. I was tired and depressed with life.

My parents told me to go to the doctor when you are sick and that’s what I did time and time again. Doctors I met with for evaluations said I had a bad case of candida (yeast eating my body). Other doctors told me that my endometriosis was extreme and that I would need to live with the pain. I had three surgeries (ablations) to remove the endometriosis and ovarian cysts that grew and grew back in my body over and over again. More doctors I met told me I had annoying pre-menopause symptoms and suggested I experiment with hormones to help. In the meantime, my hands, neck, knees and back all began developing arthritis and my skin was wrinkling and developing liver spots at an alarming rate.

I was in my early forties and feeling old, already. The recession had taken away my medical coverage and I didn’t have the extra household money to find out specifically if I had fibromyalgia. The pain was getting worse as I hit my mid 40′s. Now I was living with migraines. 

I LOVE to be active both mentally and physically. I hated being overweight and laying in bed with the pain. I had such frustrations just being able to talk, work out details and focus. I had to find a way away from the medication crutches and feel better.  I am not lazy, I am a fighter and I began fighting for my life back.

In March of 2009, I met a client that shared with me her Sunrider foods. I liked them right away. They made me feel so good when I ate them. I’d already known the power of herbs and how they could heal. So I gave then a try. Then I bought the Sunrider SunPack. This is the Nourish, Cleanse and Balance Sunrider package that got me started on a lifetime of Sunrider foods. These are the same foods I eat everyday of my well life now.  The are Calli and Fortune teas, SunnyDew (Stevia), NuPlus (food), and Quinary (food).

These foods made such a dramatic difference in my life and my loved ones lives. By June 2009 I began facilitating community wellness classes to share these foods with others. People came to the classes sharing their wellness stories and exploring Sunrider with me.

At the beginning of 2010, my talented husband created this wonderful website for me, www.GetWholeFoodNutrition.com and since then I give these same foods to others daily.  

It’s such a gift to provide to anyone who wants to see what these foods can do for them. That’s why I give them to people all over the world to try. Just like I’ll do for you!

Today, I no longer live with chronic pain. The Sunrider foods helped me to feel better very quickly. My thoughts are clear and positive. My weight is 118lbs, I am 5 ’2″, 47 years old. I am a body builder, an avid hiker, a business volunteer, business owner, wife, mom, daughter, sister and friend.

I love life again to its fullest and I encourage you to join me to be MaxFit with Sunrider. It’s easy, affordable and the best present you could ever give yourself.

Live don’t diet, be well for a lifetime! As Socrates said so long ago and the truth lives on.. “Let food be our medicine”.

Let Sunrider be a part of your food for optimal health.

Yours in healthy support,

Christine Marek/ Sunrider and Wellness Consultant – p. 480.491.9551

P.S. Ask me how my loved one got off his MS medication by eating Sunrider foods.