All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HippocratesInto whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
HippocratesEach of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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