What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

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.

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

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.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.