Student Spotlight
Spice Williams-Crosby, Candidate for M.S. in Holistic Nutrition
She’s a professional actress, stuntwoman, martial artist and an eternal student, a motivational speaker who freely gives her time and expertise in a crusade toward nutritional discernment: “Holy Cat’s Claw, Batman! What we stick into that hole in our face really IS a matter of life-and-death,” she yowls.
When this Super Hero talks, people learn. Spice Williams-Crosby has a commanding presence and a compelling story. She lives in Los Angeles, and frequently encounters models who care nothing about their food’s nutritional value, only about how to survive on less and less of it in a day. It’s a trait she can recognize because Spice has lived through eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, severe accidents and illness.
“When you get yourself into trouble and try to fix yourself, you learn a lot about what your body needs,” she says.
Spice has always been an avid reader and an equally avid participant in life. She grew up on a ranch, and her forward-thinking father was California’s first bioanalyst. She became a Vegan vegetarian at a young age, and learned about food combining by understanding its biochemistry.
Her first book, Diet For A New Age, reminds people that God has given us the perfect fuel for our body – fuel that grows in the ground, and that doesn’t have a face. “I’m not trying to make a statement about eating meat, but I am trying to teach people that meat is hard for our bodies to digest. One way we take care of our bodies is to help them work at their optimal performance so that we don’t overwhelm them needlessly.”
If Bing Crosby were still here, Hollywood’s favorite crooner might sing out that his granddaughter-in-law “Ac-cen-tu-ates the positive and e-lim-i-nates the negative.” Bing would be pleased that, through a largely organic diet that includes juicing and customized supplements, Spice is raising a nine-year-old son whose diabetes can be managed more naturally and less medically, with relatively fewer insulin shots.
As a former cover girl for Vegetarian Times, Spice’s celebrity status lends to holistic nutrition her clear and far-reaching voice. “We live in a polluted world, but we can’t live in fear,” she says. “What we can do is consciously support and replenish our body’s ability to stay strong, and to heal more easily. Through meditation,” she adds, “we can consciously get our soul’s healing in sync with our body’s healing.”
Over the years Spice remembers picking her way through many quick lunches with other actors on movie sets. “They didn’t want to sit with me because I would eat only healthy foods, nothing artificial. If there was nothing I could eat, I would just be quiet and meditate. Nowadays,” she adds, “some of these same folks have developed nutrition-related health problems, and now they seek me out to ask my advice.”
Of course Spice is always happy to help people develop dietary discipline. But her answer begins with a question that she has asked so many people, so many times, that she now intends to make it her next book title: Are You Sure You Want to Live, Cuz Dying Is So Much Easier.
Visit http://www.jonhair.com/ to see a Spice that is bigger than life! Spice Williams-Crosby recently posed for a 30-foot bronze sculpture for the U.S. Olympic Headquarters in Colorado. Fans can purchase a limited edition 44-inch replica.
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