Re: Natural Health was born out of Food Faddism

TC wrote:
Mr. Natural-Health wrote:
TC wrote:
Kellogg had nothing to do with health and everything to do with
profiteering from idiots who think that he has something to do with
health.

Kellogg was before his time. He was a wellness pioneer.

You do NOT have an excuse, TC.

Just thought that you might want to know.

Read this:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/KelPlai.html

and tell me about what a genius he was.

The man was an abject idiot like you.

Some Sayings of Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943

This book is obviously not the best choice for studying Kellogg.
However, the last two chapters do make a good start.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=KelPlai.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=25&division=div1

"AS a man eateth, so is he."

"AN unstimulating, abstemious diet is the strongest of all the allies
of virtue."

The push for eating a healthy diet did not come from scientific
research or from the American Heart Association during the 19th Century
in America, but from some religions, such as the Seventh Day
Adventists, which pushed a vegetarian diet as a means of controlling a
person's animal passions.

And, YES the sex connection to vegetarianism is well established. So,
what is your problem, TC. Do you like to masterbate? Hung up on sex?

Over time, scientific research would prove that the diet of the Seventh
Day Adventists was a longevity diet. And, that vegetarianism was on
the right track in regards to a healthy die.

"QUACKS thrive upon the ignorance and gullibility of the people. The
only remedy for quackery lies in the education of the people in those
medical facts and theories, which will lead them to see that there is a
scientific foundation for rational medical practice."

"WHEN we hear a man extolling this or that remedy for disease, and
claiming that he has been cured in some magical way of a disorder
generally conceded to be incurable, let us remember that there is a
very great difference between being well and feeling well. There is a
very large class of remedies the sole effect of which is to make a sick
man feel better, but which have no real influence upon the progress of
a disease, unless it be to hasten it by using up the patient's
vitality, and deluding him into foolish expenditures of strength under
the belief that he is well, when he is really no better, but only feels
better.

"Coffee Poisoning. -- A leading French journal calls attention to
twenty-three cases of chronic caffeism. These were the leading symptoms
noticed: Loss of appetite, inability to sleep, trembling of the lips
and tongue, dyspepsia, neuralgia, pain in the stomach, giddiness,
convulsions, and obstinate constipation. The coffee drunkard has thin
features, drawn and wrinkled face, and a grayish yellow complexion. His
sleep is troubled with anxious dreams. His pulse is weak, frequent, and
compressible. This same writer asserts that evil effects upon the eyes
and ears of people are more frequent from coffee than from tobacco or
alcohol. It does not absolutely destroy vision or hearing, but it
induces very annoying functional troubles. That coffee is the efficient
agent, appears from the fact that, upon the entire discontinuance of
its use, the symptoms complained of disappear."

"Diet for Diabetics. -- All physicians of experience are agreed that in
the treatment of this disease, by far the most important measure is the
regulation of the diet. Sugar, starch, and all foods containing them,
should be, as far as possible, excluded from the dietary. This requires
that the patient should abstain from the use of sugar in any form, from
bread, potatoes, peas, beans, rice, oatmeal, corn-meal, and other
grains, chestnuts, and all other farinaceous articles of food. Sweet
fruits also must be avoided with equal care. The diet should consist
chiefly of meat of different kinds, including fowl. Greens, green
beans, lettuce, yellow beets, asparagus, cucumbers, and radishes may
also be eaten. Most acid fruits may be taken in moderate quantities,
such as lemons, oranges, strawberries, peaches, and currants. In many
cases skim-milk, sour milk, or buttermilk may be taken without
increasing the proportion of sugar, and hence without injury. Several
eminent physicians claim to have cured a number of cases of this
disease by means of an exclusive milk diet, the patient being confined
to this one article of food for several weeks. The milk should be
carefully skimmed. The quantity required per day is from two to three
quarts. By the employment of a diet free from sugar or starch, sugar
may in many cases be made to disappear from the urine. When this is the
case, it may be looked upon as a very favorable indication, and often
so long as the patient continues to abstain from those kinds of food
which occasion the production of sugar, the disease will be held in
check. Many so-called gluten flours and gluten breads are manufactured
and sold to persons suffering from this disease, which are shown by
chemical analysis to contain no more gluten than the best whole-wheat
flour. It is, in fact, impossible to make a flour which will contain
much more than the ordinary percentage of gluten obtained in
whole-wheat flour, as it is impossible to separate the starch and the
gluten by any process of milling. The Sanitarium Health Food Co., of
Battle Creek, Michigan, are the only manufacturers of pure gluten with
whom we are acquainted in this country. The gluten manufactured by them
has for many years been largely used for diabetics, with excellent
results."

These are hardly the writings of an idiot.

Who says so? I do. :)

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