 I think the spark for many kids to want to become a doctor when they grow up is seeing a grandparent get sick or even die, but for me it was my grandma getting better. Back in the 70s she went to Pritikin Center, early lifestyle medicine, a pioneer. They wheeled her in and she walked out. I'll never forget that. Healthy diets can prevent, successfully treat, and in many cases even reverse many of the chronic diseases that are killing people today. The food and beverage industry spends billions of dollars every year contributing to the public's confusion about basic accepted principles of nutrition. Dr. Dean Orange proved you cannot just slow down heart disease, our number one killer, not just stop it in its tracks, but actually reverse heart disease, open up clogged arteries without drugs, without surgery. It's like the miracle of modern medicine yet hardly anyone knows about it. The goal is to get this potentially life-saving information to the greatest number of hands possible and that's how nutritionfacts.org was born. There are six or seven thousand new articles published on nutrition in scientific journals every year. And what we've needed is someone to sift through all that, you know, pick out the most groundbreaking, interesting, practical findings, translate it into some user-friendly form and then get it out to the public. People need to know. Diet and lifestyle changes can reverse our number one killer. This lack of awareness results in millions upon millions of totally unnecessary deaths. There are accepted basic nutrition principles that haven't changed in decades yet people still aren't aware of the power of nutrition to improve their lives.