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<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(Reprinted
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<p class=MsoBodyText><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
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<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Slam the door on the doctor's nose.</i>
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(Henry <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wadsworth</st1:City></st1:place>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> as I wriggled through a weed-covered
chink in the metal fence surrounding the old Jackson Sanatorium. No, I was
not an AWOL inmate sneaking back before curfew. It was 1979, and I had been a
natural health lecturer for only a couple of years. When I was promised a
tour of what remained of this grand old five-floor naturopathic hospital in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Dansville</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">New
York</st1:State></st1:place>, I jumped at it. I had little idea of what to
expect. But fortunately Henry, natural hygienist, unofficial caretaker and my
guide this late autumn afternoon, was an enthusiastic (if not to say rabid)
scholar of the works of James Caleb Jackson, M.D. (1811-1895). He undertook
my reeducation immediately. For like most people, I knew nothing of Doctor
Jackson, though he was actually one of the most influential natural health
practitioners of the 19th century. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jackson</st1:City></st1:place>
was a personal friend of both Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, and he
was Clara Barton’s personal physician. It was not by mere coincidence that
the first chapter of the American Red Cross was founded in Dansville. (1) <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jackson</st1:City></st1:place>’s nutritional
health contributions have been largely obscured by his much better known
contemporary, John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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way towards a side door into the darkened hospital basement, my guide filled
me in.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>He first explained to me that
Jackson, not Kellogg, was the true originator of the first dry breakfast
cereal. Basically twice-toasted, crumbled-up whole wheat graham crackers, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jackson</st1:City></st1:place>'s "<span
class=SpellE>Granula</span>" was neither flaked nor as successfully mass
marketed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>We were inside the
big building now. I looked around and there was just enough light to see that
I was standing in what was once a hydrotherapy treatment room. There were assorted
tubs, hot water tanks, <span class=SpellE>sitz</span> baths, and massage
tables, some with neatly folded fomentation towels still hanging silently
beside them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I asked if those
towels had been hanging there since Dr. Jackson's day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"No,"
Henry said, with a faint smile. "The facility was later operated by
Bernarr Macfadden and after his death in 1955, was kept open as a health
resort and spa until 1971.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Ah, yes: Bernard <span
class=SpellE>Adolphus</span> Macfadden, born in 1868, orphaned by age <span
class=GramE>11,</span> and a millionaire by age 35. He was the immensely
successful publisher of long-running popular magazines including "True
Detective,” "Photoplay" and “Physical Culture.” At one time,
Macfadden outsold Hearst on the newsstand; "True Story" is
published to this day. Macfadden was also the founder of the notorious
"New York Evening Graphic," and yet was a personal friend to George
Bernard Shaw. The archetypal "health nut," Macfadden personally led
a mass health walk every year all the way from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">New York City</st1:City></st1:place> to Dansville. Dansville is
upstate near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Rochester</st1:City></st1:place>,
so that is quite a hike.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The 325-mile
health-food-powered marathon was dubbed the “Cracked Wheat Derby.” Macfadden,
a public relations genius if there ever was one, decided to try parachute
jumping while in his 80's. He landed without injury, possibly due in part to
the fact that he was used to routinely sleeping on the bare floor. (2) The
"Father of Physical Culture" was 87 when he died. He is buried in <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Woodlawn</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:PlaceType>
in the <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place>. (3, 4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The image of those
old towels, still waiting to be used, remains clearly in my mind to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>We climbed upstairs
into a cavernous, tiled lobby that looked the part of a once-elegant, formal
ballroom.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I found Macfadden literature
and educational packets in a drawer, neatly mimeographed and slightly musty.
We moved to the main hallway, at the center of which was a massive cast iron
stairway. "It is fireproof," Henry said, "Because the first
Jackson Sanatorium burned to the ground.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>This building was built in 1883, and built to last." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>And so it had.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Up the grand stairway we went, without <span
class=GramE>so</span> much as a creak to be heard. When we reached the fifth
floor, we proceeded down a long, faded turquoise-painted hallway.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>To either side, you could see that each
patient's room had a louvered door, to improve fresh air flow.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I stepped into a room, and the first thing
I noticed was that it was taller than it was wide, with an enormous window
and exceptionally high ceiling. Such high ceilings were to be found on all
floors of the hospital, said Henry, because fresh air and sunshine were as
much a part of "taking the cure" as were mineral waters and fresh,
raw garden foods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>One more flight of
stairs upward and we were on the roof. I am no friend of great heights, and
being way up top on this <span class=SpellE>unrepaired</span> building gave
me the willies. But Henry distracted me with consummate skill. He led me over
to what looked like one of several playground merry-go-rounds, you know, like
the ones Bill Cosby described from his childhood. But these were
different.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Each of the round platforms
looked as if someone had placed a small wood framed, glass-paned greenhouse
on it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Patients sat
in one of these to sun themselves," Henry explained. "And every
hour or so an attendant would rotate the thing so that the patient
continually had the sunlight fully on him."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Much of the rest of
the roof resembled a cross between a dance floor and a high-school gymnasium.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"There were
daily exercises up here, and people stood where these marks are. And yes,
there were dances, too. Over there is a bridge and pathway leading up the
hill to a mineral spring, which opened up after a slight earthquake here in
1798. That spring is the reason Dr. Jackson built here in the first
place."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>There was no way I
was going to cross what was left of that incredibly rickety-looking bridge,
and fortunately Henry didn't ask me to. It was getting dark now, and time to
go. Henry produced an inadequate flashlight and by its weak yellow beam we
managed to make our way back down through a now nearly dark staircase, and
out the way we came in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>As we left, I
looked straight up the side of the massive brick building, now just barely
visible in the twilight. I thought how great it would be today to have a true
choice in <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>hospitals</span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> like people had a hundred years
ago.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If there is a full-service,
public nutrition-based hospital somewhere in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>, it is news to me. Even a
natural-diet nursing home would be a genuine medical milestone. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>THE FACTS OF
FADDISM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Those who would
speak only of the eccentricities of the health "faddists" marginalize
their many lasting medical contributions. Too much of what the public hears
today effectively distracts it from the real success nature-cure advocates
have achieved. <span class=GramE>When<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>we</span> dwell less on the practitioners' personalities, and focus
more on their actual treatments, we see an ahead-of-the-times emphasis on
physical activity and eating right. It is strikingly difficult to find any
modern scientific basis for condemning the essential "health
faddist" lifestyle. Regular exercise and eating high-fiber,
nutrient-rich foods is urged by today's most respected health authorities.
Long ago, <span class=SpellE>Macfadden's</span> "Physical Culture
Creed" specifically called for "Reasonable regular use of the
muscular system" and a "wholesome diet of vital foods." Such
advice is beyond reproach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Poor health may
result from consuming too much of the wrong thing as well as eating too
little of the right thing. It was the health-food "faddists" who
were first to promote abstinence from tobacco, alcohol, junk food, and
overeating. From long before <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jackson</st1:City></st1:place>
to long after Macfadden, what the "faddists" then insisted on is
now universally regarded as part and parcel of good health. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>WATER CURE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Even Dr. Jackson's
emphasis on the curative powers of water has considerable merit. <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jackson</st1:City></st1:place> had been a very
sick young man, and attributed his dramatic reversal to <span class=SpellE>hydropathy</span>.
(5) He was far from alone: in his century, the practice of water-cure was
widespread. While the dietary doctrine that accompanies <span class=SpellE>hydropathy</span>
almost certainly had a major role in the doctor's personal recovery and that
of his patients, much of <span class=SpellE>hydropathy</span> has been
quietly assimilated into conventional medical practice. Bathing, proper
hygiene, Epsom salts <span class=GramE>soaks,</span> <span class=SpellE>sitz</span>
baths, massage, and a keen appreciation of dietary trace minerals and the
importance of proper hydration are now regarded as commonsense medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>President Ronald
Reagan's personal physician, Ralph Bookman, M.D., has long been urging his
patients with allergies to drink lots of water to relieve their symptoms. In
an interview, Dr. Bookman said, "Unquestionably, the single most
important element in the treatment of asthma and other bronchial allergy
symptoms is hydration. Unless adequate fluids are available to the mucus
glands in the bronchial tree, their secretions will be tenaciously hard to <span
class=GramE>raise</span>. In asthma, liquids are medications. . . Liquids
make mucus liquid. They change it from a troublesome solid that makes
breathing difficult to an easy to cough up liquid. I demand that my patients
drink 10 full glasses of liquid every day, and I question them constantly to
make sure they understand how important it is. . . Water is best, of course,
but I tell them to drink what they like. . . Any fluids will work but you
must make a fetish of it." (6) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dr. Jackson would
have agreed word for word.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>LEADING EDGE DIET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Health-spa diets
tended to be simple, fresh from the <span class=GramE>garden,</span> and
low-meat or no-meat. If not exclusively vegetarian, as were <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Jackson</st1:City></st1:place>'s, they were not far removed.
Macfadden, regarded by traditional vegan natural hygienists as a milk-diet
revisionist, nevertheless offered menus that were nutritious, low fat, low
cholesterol, low sugar and high fiber. Though <span class=SpellE>Macfadden's</span>
expansive claims for such a diet continuously got him into trouble with
regulatory authority, this is a therapeutic diet no matter who puts it in
front of you. Recently, rather strict vegetarianism has been shown by Dean <span
class=SpellE>Ornish</span>, M.D., to be a highly effective way to prevent and
even reverse serious cardiovascular disease. This is a therapy straight out of
Dansville, and, as Dr. <span class=SpellE>Ornish</span> acknowledges, far
more ancient sources. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The following
publisher's description of one of <span class=SpellE>Ornish's</span> books
sounds similar to, and enthusiastic as, a Macfadden health pamphlet, and I
mean that to be compliment to both men:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Dr. Dean <span
class=SpellE>Ornish</span> is the first clinician to offer documented proof
that heart disease can be halted, or even reversed, simply by changing your
lifestyle. Based on his internationally acclaimed scientific study, which has
now been ongoing for years, Dr. <span class=SpellE>Ornish's</span> program
has yielded amazing results. Participants reduced or discontinued
medications; their chest pain diminished or disappeared; they felt more
energetic, happy, and calm; they lost weight while eating more; and blockages
in coronary arteries were actually reduced." (7) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I think much of <span
class=SpellE>Ornish's</span> diet prescription invites comparison with
"Bernarr <span class=SpellE>Macfadden's</span> Culinary Creed," an
original copy of which is in my possession. It reads, in part:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"For saving
money, cutting down food costs and building better health:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Use lemon
juice instead of vinegar for sauces and salad dressing. Use lemon in all
salads with fish dishes and wherever possible. Do not discard the green outer
leaves of cabbage or lettuce.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Do not use
chemically-bleached white flour or sugar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Never discard
left-over vegetable pot juices. They can be used in soups, or served as
vegetable cocktails with lemon and tomato juice added. Place left-over juices
and pot liquors in refrigerator, in tightly covered containers, to prevent vitamin
spoilage. Cook carrot and beet tops with your soups. They contain valuable
minerals. Fresh beet tops can be used as a green vegetable. Add parsley,
mint, pimento, watercress and lemon wherever possible to salads and dishes.
They are <span class=SpellE>relishable</span> and provide you with minerals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Throughout
winter months, continue to use as many fresh fruits and vegetables as
possible to procure. They are the protective foods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Watch fruits
and vegetables for residues of insecticide sprayings containing poisons
(which) frequently account for diseases of an insidious kind, difficult to
trace. (If there were a better foretelling <span class=GramE>of multiple
chemical sensitivity,</span> I am yet to hear it.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Food must be
thoroughly masticated and mixed with the saliva.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Use vital
foods only, those that contain all necessary vitamins and minerals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Use salt
sparingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"All raw
vegetable juices are especially recommended.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>"Eat plenty of
dandelions found in fields during many months of year. You can make teas
containing valuable nutrients from grass, alfalfa or clover leaves dried in
your own kitchen."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The foods mentioned
above are far better sources of vitamins and minerals than are highly
processed factory foods, and before the advent of food fortification, they
were the only sources. Compared to orthomolecular medicine, food-based doses
of many of the major vitamins are low. Nutritional supplements were
completely unavailable a century and a half ago. Vitamins were not discovered
until 1895, the year Dr. Jackson died, and not synthesized until the 1930's.
Strict adherence to fresh, raw or unprocessed sanatorium dining, extreme as
it might superficially seem, was the only sensible orthomolecular regimen of
the day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Sanatorium diets
(and you can pick any sanatorium you wish, from <st1:City w:st="on">Battle
Creek</st1:City> to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Tijuana</st1:City></st1:place>)
were and remain quite high in vitamin C (from fruits, raw milk and sprouted
grains), relatively high in vitamin E (from nuts, seeds, whole grains and
wheat germ), and very high in carotenes (from fruits, vegetables and
vegetable juice). Macfadden emphasized all such foods, and the man surely
loved carrots more than any person known to history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>FASTING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Because Macfadden
happened to be on a short fast when he died, his death has often been wrongly
attributed to fasting. That he completed innumerable fasts throughout his
entire long and doctor-free life is generally downplayed. As a matter of
fact, for decades he routinely fasted every Monday, year after year, with
many additional extensive fasts. Macfadden was known to all for his long
workdays and notorious for his physical stamina. This is a man who could rip
a deck of cards in half, twice over, and repeatedly lift 100 pounds overhead
with one hand. (8) No wonder a young man named Angelo <span class=SpellE>Siciliano</span>
became a Macfadden protégé and would later achieve his own fame as Charles
Atlas. (9) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Upton Sinclair was
another Macfadden supporter. After fasting for seven days, Sinclair wrote,
"I have been about and busy every minute of the day and until late at
night. I have walked miles every day and have felt no weakness to speak of. I
shall continue the fast until I feel hungry."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>He did so, and
after 12 days concluded: "The fast is not an ordeal, it is a rest."
(10) The Pulitzer Prize winner, who fasted frequently, lived to be 90.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>While he did
suggest one- or two-week fasts in some of his writings, Macfadden primarily
endorsed short fasts and, in particular, habitual <span class=SpellE>undereating</span>.
In his Creed, he wrote: "If no appetite at meal <span class=GramE>time,</span>
wait until the next meal" and "To prolong life, do not eat to
repletion. Stop when you could enjoy more, or better still, fast on water
alone or fruit juices for one day each week." These are hardly reckless
recommendations. Indeed, widespread adoption of the overall mindset of
therapeutic fasting ("when in doubt, leave it out") would do our
overfed, overweight Western society much good. <span class=SpellE>Geriontologist</span>
Roy <span class=SpellE>Walford</span>, M.D., recommends systematic <span
class=SpellE>undereating</span> (with the addition of high doses of
supplemental vitamins) in order to increase human lifespan by as much as 40
years. (11) Other physicians, notably Alan Cott, M.D., have authored how-to
books recommending fasting for weight loss and also to promote general health
and wellbeing. (12, 13) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>MEDICAL POLITICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>While Macfadden endured
harsh attacks from medical-political forces of the mid 20<sup>th</sup>
century, Dr. Jackson operated what his grateful patients affectionately
called "Our Home <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>on</span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> the <st1:place w:st="on">Hillside</st1:place>"
the century before, during a time when allopathic medical associations and
the pharmaceutical industry were yet to gain the exceptional governmental and
media influence which they maintain to this day. Between the end of the Civil
War and the start of World War I, there was still freedom of choice in health
care in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Homeopathy, <span class=SpellE>herbology</span>, naturopathy, hydrotherapy,
the brand-new profession of chiropractic, and, of course, all manner of
patent medicine men competed shamelessly for your body. It was an ideological
open season, when no one delivery system had preeminence. I am not sad to see
the passing of the covered wagon medicine-show quack.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(Well, maybe he did not so much pass as
relocate to magazine ads and television commercials.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>It is a great loss
that most countries of the world have since invested so very heavily, and often
exclusively, in pharmaceutically based healthcare. Such a single-party system
inhibits a patient’s choice and, in my opinion, inhibits a patient’s recovery
far more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>How different
things must have been when the 122-bed “Home on the <st1:place w:st="on">Hillside</st1:place>”
was not only the health center of the Northeast, but "was once the
largest hygienic institution in the world." (14). The sanatorium even
had its own rail spur. What made the nature-cure hospital so popular, even in
a location as remote as Dansville? Perhaps it was the water, or the huge
organic vegetable gardens. Perhaps in the beginning it was Dr. Jackson’s
personality, which by all accounts was impressive. In later generations,
certainly <span class=SpellE>Macfadden's</span> charisma was an important
factor. But perhaps it was simply the sanatorium’s success rate that brought
in the crowds. Nutrition-based therapy works. It worked then and it works
now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The times have
changed since <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jackson</st1:City></st1:place>'s
and even McFadden’s day.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>People no
longer flock to grand health hotels to "take the cure." But there
is nothing stopping us from making our homes into our own personal health
retreats. Daily routines can be the same health-boosting program of
whole-foods diet and life-affirming exercise that once led thousands to their
"Home on the <st1:place w:st="on">Hillside</st1:place>" in Dansville,
where the roots of orthomolecular medicine literally sprung from the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>“Founded on rock.
For suffering ones and weary,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>A home, secure from
worldly care and strife;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Nature, the healing
mistress, tends its portals,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Beckoning with
gentle hand to paths of life.” (15)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Notes, References
and Recommended <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Reading</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>1. Clara Barton
Chapter No. 1, founded 1881, is still located at <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street
w:st="on">57 Elizabeth Street</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Dansville</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State>, <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">14437</st1:PostalCode></st1:address>.
</span><span style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://dansville.lib.ny.us/clara.html">http://dansville.lib.ny.us/clara.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>2. <span
class=SpellE>Oursler</span> F. The most unforgettable character I've met.
Reader's Digest, July 1951, p 78-82. Posted at </span><span style='font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://www.riverflow.com/macfadden/mucim.html">http://www.riverflow.com/Macfadden/mucim.html</a>
.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>3. Ernst R.
Weakness is a crime: The life of Bernarr Macfadden. <st1:City w:st="on">Syracuse</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Syracuse</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Press, 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>4. Hunt WR. Body
Love: The amazing career of Bernarr Macfadden. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Bowling Green</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">OH</st1:State></st1:place>:
Popular Press, 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>5. Gilbert D.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Dansville's "Castle on the Hill."
<em><span style='font-style:normal'>Dansville Area Historical Society, </span></em><st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">4 Church Street</st1:Street>, <st1:City
w:st="on">Dansville</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State>, <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">14437</st1:PostalCode></st1:address>. </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://dansville.lib.ny.us/historyo.html">http://dansville.lib.ny.us/historyo.html</a>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, accessed February, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>6. Bookman R. 101
hints, tips and bits of wisdom from the president's allergist: Timely help
for people with allergies and asthma. Emmaus PA: Rodale's Allergy Relief, <span
class=SpellE>Vol</span> 3 No 7, July 1988, p 1-8. Posted at </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://healthandenergy.com/101_allergy_tips.htm">http://healthandenergy.com/101_allergy_tips.htm</a>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>See also: Bookman R. The dimensions of
clinical allergy. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Springfield</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">IL</st1:State></st1:place>: Charles C. Thomas, 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>7. <span
class=SpellE>Ornish</span> D. Dr. Dean <span class=SpellE>Ornish's</span>
program for reversing heart disease. NY: Random House/Ivy Books, 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>8. Bennett J. </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://www.bernarrmacfadden.com/">http://www.bernarrMacfadden.com</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> , accessed February 2004, which also
has an extensive bibliography of Bernarr <span class=SpellE>Macfadden's</span>
books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>9. Bennett J. </span><span
style='font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://www.riverflow.com/macfadden/atlas.html">http://www.riverflow.com/Macfadden/atlas.html</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, accessed February, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>10. Sinclair U. The
fasting cure. (First published in 1911). Whitefish, MT: <span class=SpellE>Kessinger</span>
Publishing Company, 2003. Also: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Pomeroy</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">WA</st1:State></st1:place>: Health Research, 1993. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>11. <span
class=SpellE>Walford</span> RL. Maximum life span. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>: W. W. Norton, 1983. Reviewed at </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/lifespan.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/lifespan.html</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>12. Cott A.
Fasting: The ultimate diet. NY: Bantam, 1975.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>13. Cott A. Fasting
as a way of life. NY: Bantam, 1981.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>14. Burns D. (Ed.) The
greatest health discovery: Natural hygiene and its evolution, past present
and future. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chicago</st1:City></st1:place>:
Natural Hygiene Press, 1972, p 86.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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poem by Dr. Kate J. Jackson, in tribute to her father-in-law's work, as
reprinted in "The Dansville Institute's 1979 Historical Calendar."
In 1979, I toured the house, known as Alta Vista, in which Kate and her
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