I am fussy about my diet and straining my voice. I know sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show – very dehydrating for the vocal cords and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.
For four to six months at a time I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast carrots and black coffee.
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I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system – one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
