What steps has Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler taken to help make school lunches healthy for kids?
Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler had been yo-yo dieting for over 26 years. She was the largest of six sisters. Her sisters were sizes six to eight, while she wore a size 16. “I was compulsive in nature, and I surrounded myself with food,” she says. “Over the years, my appetite increased. I grew a huge sweet tooth and became a super-carb and sugar addict.” For Dr. Butler, as the sixth of eight children of sharecroppers growing up in rural Mississippi. There was no such notion as healthy eating. And as a result of her poor eating habits, she led a very unhealthy lifestyle until a drastic wake-up call in 1996 completely changed her life. “I had a headache and I thought I had pink eye. That night around midnight, I looked in the bathroom mirror and my eye was bloodshot.” Dr. Butler was rushed to the hospital at 1:00 a.m. with a heart thumping blood pressure of 200/140 and on the verge of a massive stroke. “I almost lost my life to a stroke from a lifetime of overeating and being unhealthy,” she s
