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

Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

We cannot be damaged into health.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

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

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

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.