Strong Medicine – Blake F Donaldson – 1962
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Bread addiction is little different from that of alcohol or cocaine or heroin addiction, and sometimes it seems even more dangerous.
Did you even see a fat man praying for the soul of some poor alcoholic or drug addict? Yet he couldn’t stop his own helping of whole wheat toast for breakfast to save his soul.
Most organs in the body are built seventeen times stronger than they need to be.
So that you can damage a heart a lot and then, if you have the good sense to live within your limits, you can still carry on.
Never envy the aged. Life is a real battle to keep comfortable after the age of sixty-seven.
Everyone has an obligation to keep as young as possible.
That implies useful work no matter how humble, and some serenity of mind, and normal weight, and daily outdoor exercise, and enough amino acids in fresh fat meat to do a good job of repair on breaking-down arteries.
And that is a big order. If it can be fulfilled a lot of other things can safely be left to nature. She was practicing medicine a long time before anyone heard of physicians.
During the millions of years that our ancestors lived by hunting, every weakling who could not maintain perfect health on fresh fat meat and water was bred out.
There are probably only two perfect foods—fresh fat meat and clean water.
Any food used in the treatment of obesity should be normal to begin with, and only fresh fat meat and water come within the strict limits.
To my thinking the greatest advance in recorded medical history is the thirty-minute walk before breakfast.
A sterol called cholesterol is supposed to be guilty of making us grow old before our time. But there is no proof of this.
Because some of it is found in the broken-down material in rotten arteries, and some families with a tendency to coronary artery disease show increased blood levels of it, cholesterol has been made a whipping boy, which is unjustified.
Talk about cholesterol is old hat, forget it.
The ability to live well on meat and water is the common inheritance of mankind. It is only in the last eight thousand years since man turned to agriculture for a stable food supply that we have had trouble with eating.
