With a friendly and enthusiastic tone, Gundry explains his view that eating a healthy diet can turn off genes in the human body that lead to weight gain and chronic disease. Gundry's rather complex three-phase diet plan focuses on reducing or eliminating grains and sugar, in favor of lean protein and large amounts of vegetables. The initial phases of Gundry's eating plan bear some similarities to the Paleolithic or caveman diet, as presented in books such as Ray Audette's NeanderThin or Loren Cordain's The Paleo Diet.
John Glenn: First American to Orbit the Earth. On the morning of February 20, 1962, millions of Americans collectively held their breath as the worldâs newest pioneer swept across the threshold of one of manâs last frontiers.
Glenn was one of America's first and most celebrated astronauts and had a long public career that included two space flights, 24 years as a senator from Ohio and a run for the presidency. He was born July 18, 1921. He will go down in history as the first American to orbit the earth, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. On Feb. 20, 1962, he climbed into his Friendship 7 capsule, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, circled the earth three times in five hours â and became a national hero. Zero G, and I feel fine, he said from his spacecraft.