Health via Food

Little known masterwork of a physician-turned-nutritionist who, after more than one brush with death nearly a century ago, discovered that the aim of the art of practicing medicine results merely in masking the symptoms of underlying illness. Some of the more remarkable ideas are: • prompt elimination is central to immune health. • common overemphasis on concentrated protein intake is anathema to proper elimination. • combinations of foods, for instance, sugars and starches taken with concentrated proteins, can, as a byproduct of the way the stomach metabolizes protein, result in fermentation and putrefaction within the intestinal tract. • as a result of persistent misconceptions about nutrition, a vast majority of people raised with the belief that a "meat, bread, and potatoes" diet is hearty and healthy suffer from chronically high pH imbalance ('acidosis'). • when left to its own devices, the human body is capable of amazing feats of self-restoration. Required reading.