One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.