Who I Am

Who I am and why I can help you find the answers to weight loss, health, and more--that's what this page is about.

Who am I to talk about Diets?

Well, I was born in 1948 and I'm still the same weight I was in high school. Never spent another night in the hospital, after the night I was born. I require no monthly prescription for any condition.

My name is Paul H. Kemp.

My parents were forty-two and forty when I was born. They were fine middle-class upwardly aspiring people, but they and their parents promptly started declining in health when I was quite young. This was a shock to see the most important people in my life being taken from me, but it started me on an unconscious search for the secrets to enduring health.

I have been seeking the answers to health, weight control, optimum diet and performance since I was about ten years old. Since my parents gave me every educational advantage--Encyclopedia Britannica, National Geographic subscription, travel, the opportunity to go with them to work and mingle with all kinds of people--I was able to gain the tools and understanding of the big issues of health, even though I chose not to become a doctor.

Instead, I have preferred to build businesses to pay my way--but occasionally I have worked in agriculture, retail, tourism, and even economic development, all of which gave me the free time to pursue my study of health, the ideal diet, and personal fitness,etc. Life has been my university.

I love to read and this brought me to the wisdom of those who have the answers I was seeking. There is some great stuff happening in the field of nutritional medicine and I'd like to share that with you--if you, like me, have the sense that there is a better way to achieve health and weight control than what our mass media are telling us.

It is obvious to me that there is a great deal of misinformation about what is a healthy diet. This misinformation has been spread among the American people in particular to keep them eating the very foods that are making them obese and ill.

It is my mission, my passion, to expose the lies of advertisers and the food industry--and to encourage the creation of a movement of those who want health for themselves, for all the world's creatures, and for the environment itself. A big project, no doubt, but, with enough help, we can get it done.

An Early Clue to Health

I was "adopted" by a wonderful family in New Hampshire when I was twenty. They introduced me to much of what I bring to you, here, especially Vegetarian Diet and Organic Gardening. They gave me something my parents were never able to figure out and it is probably the reason I am thin and in quite a bit better shape than the average American sixty-year-old.

That's a small part of my story, but I want to keep it short. This site is here to provide the answers I've found to staying thin and healthy. I see that obesity and the poor health and performance that goes with it are the major problems facing our society. I don't mean to brag, but I've got the answer for those special people who are willing to do something about it.

Coincidentally, our environment is suffering from the way we're eating and it is important--no, it is critical--that we change the way we eat so we stop damaging the earth that supports us.

So, that is what I'm about. That is the contribution I'd like to make to the American health care debate.

That is who I am. How can I help you?

I welcome your comments in shaping this Web site.

My Sports Promotion Career -- 1990-2001

During this time I got to see the results of various diets and how they affected athletic performance. Our bike tours usually covered about 70 miles a day on very mountainous terrain, so I had to keep these athletes well-fed.

One interested side-note during this time was helping stage a segment of the Cascade Cycling Classic where Lance Armstrong made his first comeback win after overcoming cancer.

That's me on the left in the photo below, circa 2000. On the road to Crater Lake.

Here's a More Recent Video of Me Showing Off