Facts And Fancies In Health Foods | by Axel Emil Gibson
I have come to the conclusion that more than half the diseases that embitter the middle and latter half of life are due to avoidable errors in diet, and that more mischief in the form of actual disease, impaired vigor and shortened life accrues to civilized man from erroneous habits of eating, than from the habitual use of alcoholic drinks-considerable as I know that evil to be. Sir Henry Thompson, M. D., F. R. S., Once we have mastered the laws and principles of Diet, we shall find ourselves in the possession of a key that will open to us every dietetic complexity, equipping us with knowledge of how to select a practical course of diet, at once gratifying to taste and health, beauty and strength, satisfaction and efficiency.
| Title | Facts And Fancies In Health Foods |
| Author | Axel Emil Gibson |
| Publisher | Axel Emil Gibson |
| Year | 1921 |
| Copyright | 1921, Axel Emil Gibson |
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By Dr. Axel Emil Gibson, Los Angeles, California
Preface- IN our struggle with disease, the organism needs just one thing to hold its own-more fighting power. But this power can be obtained and rendered available only through the reciprocal association with ...
- I. Basis For Longevity - True Or False
- RECOGNIZING the fact that catarrh has its basis in alimentary fermentation, and that fermentation in its turn arises from starchy foodstuffs, the adherents of the mucous-free or raw-food diet aim at...
- II. The Failure Of The Calories
- THE question which sooner or later must rise in every logical mind is where to place the limit for food mixtures, so as to insure the health and efficiency of the individual consumer. For, as is well ...
- III. Food Mixtures That Disturb Digestion
- IN a study of diet it is well to realize, that all natural foods are in themselves wholesome to a healthy organism; while on the other hand, all foodstuffs, even when in themselves most nourishing and...
- IV. The "Psychic Factor" In Digestion
- PROF. Pavlow does not limit his dietetic factors to the purely physiological field of individual digestion; he finds in mental attitudes a still stronger determination in the efficacy and specialty of...
- V. Does Bran And Hull Cure Constipation?
- IN a cure of constipation our health-food specialists unanimously recommend mechanic irritation as a proper treatment for the exhausted bowels. In place of the justly condemned chemicals and condime...
- VI. Temperament And Human Nutrition
- AS a further failure to cope with his problem, the health-food dietitian in most cases ignores the temperamental aspect of his subject. Yet Pavlow, backed up by such authorities as Prof. Gauthier of...
- VII. The Psychology Of Meat-Eating
- AS meat should be regarded as a pass-ing expediency in the order of indi-vidual evolution rather than as a fixed and permanent necessity, its indulgence in most cases is far beyond the physiological n...
- VIII. The Law Of Individuality In Diet
- AFTER all, is it not a mere juggling with dietetic principles for a physician to . attempt to prescribe a rational diet unless he takes into due account the mode of living and the type of food indulge...
- IX. Acid-Free Diet More Important Than "Mucous-Free" Diet
- FROM a standpoint of biology, there are no reasons why a perfectly healthy human organism may not acquire the power to sustain the highest degree of strength and usefulness on a diet of nuts, fruit an...
- X. The "Bulgarized" Milk Indulgence
- THERE is a tendency in the ordinary appetite-governed mind to continually question the integral value of natural foodstuff, and the adequacy of unadulterated nature to sustain human life. In our stagg...
- XI. The Magic Of Fleischman's Yeast
- AND what is true about the Bulgarized milk preparation, is equally true about that other all-cure remedy known as Fleischman's yeast. In either case we meet the agencies of decay and degeneracy in...
- XII. Sugar - Food Or Poison?
- THE popularity of sugar has been quite strengthened by its recommendation by the food administration for the soldier in the last war. Yet this recommendation has its basis in the expediency of the abn...
- XIII. The Right And The Wrong Side Of Coffee
- DURING the four hundred years coffee has been recognized in the western world as a popular beverage, its power to control the minds and palates of its devotees has constantly increased. Its immense po...
- XIV. The Use And Misuse Of Honey
- AMONG the great temptations which, like the fabulous Sirens of old, try the self-mastery of the individual, we find honey - the chief representative of the sweetness of the earth. The persuasiveness...
- XV. "Health Foods" That Spell Health
- TO insure integrity and health to physiological life a certain care with regard to food combinations is indispensable; and as a general, and mostly safe line of food-mixtures we may suggest combinatio...
- XVI. The Scientifically Balanced Bill Of-Fare
- Dried Fruit Salad DRIED prunes, peaches, pears or apricots, soaked over night and simmered some 15 minutes in the morning. Enjoyed with nuts or eggs and lettuce salad. Fresh Fruit Salad (1) Orange,...
- XVII. Things To Be Avoided
- EXCITEMENT, worry, nervousness, hurry, temper, despondency, criti-cising attitude, heated discussion at meals affect the system as positive poisons. No unkind word should ever be spoken at meals. The ...
- XVIII. General Constructive Therapeutics
- IN the knowledge and application to the human body of the laws and principles that operate in the pharmacopoeia of nature, lies the only guaranty for a safe adjustment and cure of bodily ailments. And...
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- Sugar and Salt Popular Edition, $1.00 Dear Mr. Gibson: .... You have written a splendid book which ought to give you a lot of well-earned reputation. The public needs a clearly defined understand...
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