Mamiko Matsuda, the best-selling author, translator and nutritional expert who divides her time between Japan and Houston, overcame an early struggle with poor health and disease to become an advocate for healthy diets and "natural hygiene."
Matsuda, 63, also had to overcome a youthful fascination with what she calls the standard American Diet.
As a young student from Japan, the dining hall at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, seemed to Matsuda like a "special type of dream."