Luis Santamassino: A Short Story

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From Real Life Mafioso to 42 year old Freshman at Hostos College, Here I am There is a racist saying I have heard many times in my life. I have heard backward people say that if you want to hide something from Black people,e put it in a library. Unfortunately this bigoted saying seems to hold all too true for the family and the people I grew up with. My name is Luis Santamassino. I was born the youngest of eight siblings into a Sicilian family in the early 70s in the Bronx. Education was the least of priorities in a family focused on survival. I did not grow up in the easiest of environments. I grew up on the infamous Arthur Ave in the heart of the Bronx also known as the Bronx’s Little Italy. Back then there was a saying…show more content…
(And don’t worry this chapter is a lot saner and healthier than the previous.) I again got another wake up call and this time I listened. I love to workout but there is an old saying you are what you eat and boy did I eat. All I did was eat fast food. My middle name soon became McDonald’s To me fast food was my long lost lover, If I didn’t have a cheeseburger or French fries , I would have an ice cream milk shake. I was slowly poisoning my body with these toxics. Fried food was always calling my name. I couldn’t resist I was committing nutritional suicide. As a result I went from 200 lbs to 255. It was not until I had chest pain and got myself checkout that I realized that I had a heart attack. I remember as a kid all the heart problems my mother had. She would take about 80 different color pills throughout the week. Red, blue, yellow pills. I swore I wouldn’t turn out like that. So recently I have been driven to educate myself on nutrition. I suffered a walking heart attack last year. I was 41 headed on heart failure. I know I had to make a profound change in my life. I read such books as Kiss the Fat Goodbye by Gary Null and Life Force: Living on Life Foods by Dr. David Jubb. I used the knowledge I acquired from these books to undo some of the damage I had done to myself throughout my life from poor nutrition and horrible life style habits. It took a lot of discipline . I began substituting broccoli, cauliflower and spinach for cookies, fried chicken and carbonated beverages with smoothies and

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