We care about you, not simply because God has commanded us to do so, but also because He enables us to do so. It gives us great meaning and purpose in living.

     2008 was the year for our 80th birthdays. Our names are Gerald (Jerry) and Jean Jacobson.  We grew up in Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota.  Since then we have lived in Mississippi, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Brazil, Oregon, Washington, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio--about 30 different homes.  We have 4 sons and 8 grandchildren and good friends everywhere.  Jean is a registered nurse and Jerry has 3 masters' degrees.  We hope that the following pages will be of significant benefit to you.  We purpose to share with you information that has made our lives peaceful, enjoyable, free of worry, and productive.  We will share with you the factors that have been so important and beneficial in our lives.

     We will refer you to resources that have the potential for assisting you in reaching similar contentment and productivity.

     Our beliefs and relationships are more important to us than life itself.  Your values may be very different.  We don't hold that against you.  We are grateful to be living in a nation where even loving your enemies is accepted.  We believe that each of us is unique, designed and created by a God of phenomenal intelligence for a great and unique purpose.  Jesus Christ is our hero who has redeemed us from ourselves and directs us daily.  You may believe something entirely different. Like I said, we will not hold that against you.  We are here to serve you as much as anyone else. 

     We are happy to be in good health.  Perhaps Jean had rheumatic fever as a youth which resulted in atrial fibrillation and 6 major strokes in 1997, 1998, and 2004.  Since then she has been able to have her medications reduced from 4 to 1.  Jerry takes no medications.  It saddens us to see so many friends in poor health. It is reported that the average American at age 65 is on six or seven medications.  Each generation seems to become weaker.  Perhaps you can learn from our mistakes and from our discoveries.

     During these last 37 years of our married life we have been interested in learning more and more about the causal and remedial factors in disease and health.  Over and over again we have been amazed at the success health professionals have had in showing people how to overcome degenerative conditions. It appears that nutrition has been a key element.  In the next pages of this website you will see how this awareness has affected our lifestyle.  Of course, our lifestyle is not limited to the nutrition dimension.  Besides nutrition we are very committed to the other health-producing factors mentioned.  Perhaps all of this has made it possible for Jean to be at home free of further strokes for the last five years and for Jerry to remain free of medications and physically and mentally able to care for Jean night and day.  We are grateful for the physicians, other medical personnel and caregivers who have helped us.  Above all, we are deeply grateful for the unending grace of a loving heavenly Father.