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This impressive hardcover edition of Bernarr Macfadden's 1900 classic captures the look of the original. Covering fasting, hydropathy (water therapy), and exercise, this early health publication reveals Macfadden, the "Father of Physical Culture," as an outspoken advocate of robust health through whole foods, exercise, and natural means. Macfadden wrote, "If you are free from the slavery of prejudice this book will give you food for thought. It will teach you that weakness is a crime—that it is the result of plain, easily avoided causes—that if your body is weak, or diseased, there is not the slightest excuse for remaining so—that health and strength of a high degree is the natural heritage of man and woman, and if this superb condition is not possessed, this book will clearly and concisely furnish the knowledge necessary to acquire it."