The 73-year-old woman who defied the ageing process and grew decades younger
Woman in gym. In her conscientious book 'Cash in on Cashews', Babette chronicles the secrets on how to reverse the aging process, with a message that centres on self-love and the vitality of a positive mental attitude.
What you need to know:
- Chef Babette Davis overcame a traumatic childhood of abuse, addiction, and drug dealing to transform her life at age 38 through a plant-based diet centred on watermelons and fresh produce.
- Her dramatic health transformation eliminated asthma, eczema, and allergies while making her appear decades younger than her 73 years, leading to viral social media fame.
Born on December 7, 1952, Chef Babette Davis grew up in Washington Boulevard on the east side of Los Angeles. She was diagnosed with asthma, eczema and a plethora of allergies during her tumultuous childhood. She was raised by a single mother who worked three different jobs to sustain a decent income for Babette and her younger sister.
While at work, her mother would delegate her children's care to caretakers and at the age of five, Babette became a victim of defilement that was perpetrated by her baby sitter. At seven, her mother's Italian husband molested Babette daily in his car and when she was a teenager, Babette paid $83 to a woman who used IV Liquid and Pine-Sol to perform an illegal abortion on her after she was raped and impregnated.
Her adversities, afflictions and tribulations led to depression, a fractured self-esteem and a myriad of unhealthy relationships. She indulged in chain smoking, before her boyfriend introduced her to narcotics and she began snorting cocaine at the age of 13. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High, Babette married at 21 and had a child with a toxic man who was a heroin addict. She subsequently divorced him and plunged into another viciously abusive relationship.
She consequently drifted into a different vitriolic relationship with a boyfriend who taught her the illegal trade of processing and merchandising crack-cocaine in Denver Colorado, while she worked for Republic Airways. Her life digressed, she became an addict and a crack-cocaine dealer and resigned from her occupation while coping with a compounded Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
In 1990 at the age of 38, she met her future husband Ron Davis. A studious and intriguing man who instigated her self-awareness and encouraged her to be observant about her nutritional ingestion. His optimistic influence and love for vegan foods profoundly intensified her urge to transform her eating habits.
In one of their dates, Ron took Babette to Griffith Park in San Fernando Valley and gifted her three books, Mucusless Diet Healing System, Fit for Life and Fit for Life ll. The instructive books demystified every syllable about the knowledge of food which Babette possessed. The dietician literature had a tremendous effect on her life, enabling her to embrace an incomparable journey of age reversal and embedded her with a resolve to transform her life.
She eliminated wheat products including bread, pizza, burns and burgers from her diet. She also negated all dairy products inclusive of milk, yogurt and cheese and discarded potato chips, French Fries and other oily health damaging foods. She further exterminated the ingestion of ice cream, sodas and other processed sugary substances while focusing on fresh organic produce and fruits, especially watermelons.
She discovered that watermelons, which consist of L-citrulline that the body converts to nitric oxide, increased the circulatory of blood to a vibratory rate and cleansed her cardiovascular system. The magical fruit exterminated the harmful effects of decades of perpetually consuming poisonous and contaminated substances.
She began a fresh fruit diet and the potassium, Vitamin-C which contains ascorbic acid, magnesium and the electrolyte content in watermelons, healed her asthma, eczema and her multitude of allergies and aneurysms.
She began a daily workout regimen and permanently eliminated animal products, seed oils, all refined cooking oils and foods laced with processed sugar and replaced them with a plant-based diet. Babette blended smoothies consisting of oranges, ginger, beet root and garlic and integrated cashew nuts, walnuts and peanuts into her daily staple, due to their nutrient rich profile of essential fatty acids, antioxidants and polyphenol anti-inflammatory components.
Babette's significant nutritional adjustments had a blistering impact on her body, her bloating dissipated and her wrinkles were gradually dispelled. The fibre, protein and essential vitamins in peanuts prodigiously increased her energy levels. Her memory and mental capacity were astronomically elevated by the Omega-3 fatty acids in Walnuts and the flavonoids in citrus fruits, leafy greens and berries. The cashew nuts she ingested helped manage her blood sugar and she shed off an excessive amount of weight and started emanating the same juvenile vitality she'd radiated in her 20s.
In her conscientious book Cash in on Cashews, Babette chronicles the secrets on how to reverse the aging process, with a message that centres on self-love and the vitality of a positive mental attitude.
In 2008 at the height of the worst Recession since the Great Depression in the US, Babette took a leap of faith and opened an atmospheric plant-based restaurant named Stuff I Eat, in the South Bay city of Inglewood. The intention of the vegan restaurant was to provide healthy food options to underserved communities within her vicinity, and foster the indoctrination of healthy living.
Her unique gourmet artistry was nestled by a breath-taking array of culinary cooking which included pantry construction of organic dishes, which taste similar to conventional foods, combined with raw salad accompaniments. Her restaurant dishes were cooked under 46 degrees Celsius, to preserve the nutrients and maintain the live enzymes that spark age reversal.
Clients flocked the restaurant eager to sample Babette's unique delicacies of plant-based meals, and it morphed into one of the most popular food outlets in Inglewood. As a 73-year-old who could easily be mistaken for a 40-year-old, Babette became a viral social media sensation. She received requests to make countless television appearances and started hosting a myriad of cooking shows, to educate the public on how to harness longevity and preserve the fountain of youth. She has become the most coveted chef in American television networks and podcasts and has ascended into a distinctive poster girl for healthy living.
Jeff Anthony is a novelist, Big Brother Africa 2 Kenyan representative and founder of Jeff's Fitness Centre @jeffbigbrother
