With more than 100 members, Get Healthy Rockwall has about 15 to 20 regulars at its potlucks. Like the Marshall group, Get Healthy Rockwall has a group Facebook page where folks can share recipes, tips and monthly potluck dinners allowing each member to bring a healthy plant strong dish to share. I felt like I had been given an opportunity to improve my health, and I wanted to help others do the same," said Miskin. “I started Get Healthy Rockwall because I wanted to share what I had just learned with others. Miskin immediately decided that Rockwall needed a support group, too. While doing research online, she discovered Get Healthy Marshall, a group that also promotes a plant-based junk-free diet, started by Marshall Mayor Ed Smith and his wife after he was able to beat cancer with lifestyle changes. I learned to eat more whole foods, less processed junk as a result.”Īfter watching the documentary Forks Over Knives, she also cut out all animal products, sugar, oil and salt, which is advocated in the film as a way prevent and reverse heart disease, cancer and diabetes. “I was shocked to see how many foods that I ate on a regular basis contained preservatives, artificial colors and GMOs. “It really got me thinking about what I was putting in my body for nutrition,” she said. Miskin’s journey to a healthy diet began when she tried to kick processed foods in 2013 and started scrutinizing food labels. “I knew I needed to improve my eating habits.” Both of her parents died from cancer at young ages and she wanted to live to be 100 years old. The 59-year-old says she started the Rockwall group after she'd already adopted a whole foods, plant-based diet to offset her family history. Now Carol Miskin, the founder of Get Healthy Rockwall wants to grow the movement in North Texas. Last year, an East Texas mayor made headlines in the New York Times and Texas Monthly for his success starting a plant-based healthy-eating trend in the small town of Marshall. Carol Miskin launched Get Healthy Rockwall, a whole foods and plant-based diet support group, in 2014, after reading about Get Healthy Marshall in East Texas.
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