We Get To Know

We Get to Know... Carmen Sturdy from health food blog, Every Last Bite. Carmen grew up in Vancouver Canada with a family who loved to eat. She spent a lot of her childhood in the kitchen watching her mom prepare inventive dishes. After graduating from University, Carmen moved to London, England where she started a career in investment banking. However, she spent every weekend in the kitchen cooking for friends or traveling around Europe and trying new cuisines. Carman chats about how at the age of 26, she was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis which is an autoimmune disease similar to Crohns Disease. She spent months in and out of hospitals and doctors offices and was prescribed an endless amount of medication with terrible side effects. She began to research other options for treatment and came across the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, which lowers inflammation in the body, allowing it to naturally heal. The diet is very restrictive and she was heartbroken at the limited number of bland and boring complian