Beyond Vegan Dr. Betty Smith’s 80th Birthday

FOR A FREE COPY OF THE MAGAZINE PLEASE EMAIL DR BETTY AT [email protected] Dr. Betty H. Smith She is the all organic—whole food--plant-based—distilled water—(no vegan junk food)—vegan. She began her lifestyle change program 50 years ago back when she was a 200+ pound, inactive, overweight, emotional meat-eating, junk food-loving, couch-sitting, smoker. She uses nature’s wisdom as her guide to functional eating and functional movement. This means that she eats and moves according to nature’s laws for a healthy and fit human body. Because of her vegan and fitness lifestyles, now, nearly 50 years later, at nearly 20 years away from 100 years old she’s a highly fit ultra-marathon runner (an ultra-marathon is any distance beyond the 26.2-mile marathon distance.), her fitness age is 32 years old, her resting heart rate is a strong and fit 29-31 beats per minute, her VO2 Max is 41, her blood pressure is around 106/70, she eats when her body tells her to, not according to the clock. Last year she ran another 6-day ultra-race on only 40 minutes of sleep over the six days with no need for recovery after the race. As a vegan and an athlete for nearly 50 years, her overall health proves the benefits of strict vegan diets and highly fit lifestyles—the bottom line is that the human body does not need meat and junk foods to stay healthy and fit. Her top rankings in the national ultra-running community continues even as she ages. She is in the USA-Track and Field permanent record books for the age-group rating for 6-day and 48 hour ultra-races. She is founder and coach of the “Abandon Your Limits” land and deep-water running programs. Fifty years later at 80 years old, because of the Coronavirus: She just completed (08-2020) a 901 virtual race (Tip-To-Tip, The Great Florida Traverse Race) running her usual 60 to 100 miles per week. And is now reversing the fun for a return 901 miles!