Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.