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By Dr. FRANK McCOY

AUTHOR OF “THE FAST WAY TO HEALTH”

All questions regarding Health and Diet will be answered. Large, stamped, self-
addressed envelope must be enclosed. Write on one side of paper only, Letters
must not exceed 150 words. Address Dr. Frank McCoy, care of this paper.

STOP: INTERFERING WITH HEALTH

The only ones to take up the subject of diet- © using foods in wrong combination.

ing are those who are suffering from some ail- | Of course, it is true, that people often neglect
ment, or whose loved ones have been told they to use food of the right quality, but you will
have some serious disease. Those who have | usualiy find if you study their diet for a week
searched from one method of cure to that they have used a sufficient amount

‘another, and who have failed to gei
results from medicine and surgery,’ fin-
ally turn to dietetic treatment in hope
of a cure. It seems to me that as I
have studied the minds of patients, the
first thought that comes to them in this
regard is to find some food to bring
about a cure; that is, some. specific
article which is needed by the body’ to
effect a cure.

I am more and more convinced that
this is not possible of accomplishment
in most cases, but that the secret lies
in what may be called “negative diet-
ing,” that is, learriing to eliminate those
articles of food which have been used
regularly, and which have interfered
with, health.

Disease is an unnatural condition
which may be said to be smiply “im-
paired health.’

Health writers and dietitians are too
inclined to lay emphasis upon such dis-
eases as beri beri, pelegra, rickets, etc.,
and point out that they are caused by
an absence of the normal vitamins in

of all of these nautral elements for the
body. It is often the case that they do
not get the good from the vital foods
that they do use because of a poor mix-
ture, with so many other foods, which
produces indigestion, and consequently
the good foods cannot be assimilated by
the body.

In my experience as a dietitian, I
have never felt the need: in any one
case of advising a patient to use more
food as long as the food he was eating
was of the right quality.

My advice in almost every disease is
invariably to cut down on the food
supply —to eliminate this—or to cut
down on that kind of food, and if the
patients do this they are sure to get
good results.

Even in such diseases as pernicious
anemia the ‘fast’ cure will be found to
be the most effective. Patients who are
anemic can live for two or three weeks
on nothing but orange juice, and the
quality of the blood will increase stead-
food, and that this absence produces ily during that: time. It is simply be-
diseases. While this is no doubt true ee ae cause the body is free from its burden
in certain parts of the world, such as of: too much food, and can use the

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in India, it is not true that these dis- DR. FRANK McCOY small amount of vital nourishment in
eases exist to any great extent in civi- the orange and convert it into valuak’:
lized countries, as in America or Europe. ® blood cells, where. the body had lost the power

The fault on this continent is that 999 out to do this when encumbered by too much food.
of 1000 eat too much, and are over-nourished After you have tried the milk cure, the but-
rather ‘that under-nourished. termilk cure, the Salisbury diet, the raw food

regimen, etc., and these cures have failed to bring
about the desired results, remember what I have
said in this article and try the “fasting” cure in

much of every kind of food, especially those such nai Shun dnterhacion “wine cae: tan bem

as the starch and sugar foods which contain an :
: be as anxious to build up health as to remove
ae et oa en material not necessary for the obstructions which have interfered with
d y- health. Disease then disappears as if by magic,
It is difficult to think of a single common and you will find yourself once again a radiant
disease which is not caused by over-eating, or by transformer of universal energy.

All of the common diseases, such as fever,
headaches, rheumatism, indigestion, etc., are not
caused by one particular food, but by using too

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