Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

Herbert M. Shelton

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An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Herbert M. Shelton

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"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane. by Herbert M. Shelton

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

Herbert M. Shelton

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Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

Herbert M. Shelton

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In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then build... by Herbert M. Shelton

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Herbert M. Shelton

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So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

Herbert M. Shelton

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At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Herbert M. Shelton

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Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so... by Herbert M. Shelton

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

Herbert M. Shelton

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We cannot be damaged into health. by Herbert M. Shelton

We cannot be damaged into health.

Herbert M. Shelton