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How Nature Cures, Comprising a New System of Hygiene, Also the Natural Food of Man; A Statement of the Principal Arguments Against the Use of Bread, Cereals, Pulses, Potatoes, and All Other Starch Foods

Publish date:

January 2, 1892

How Nature Cures, Comprising a New System of Hygiene, Also the Natural Food of Man; A Statement of the Principal Arguments Against the Use of Bread, Cereals, Pulses, Potatoes, and All Other Starch Foods

Excerpt from How Nature Cures

Much of the matter contained in this book is not new; it is nowhere assumed that it is. The doctrine that food and dietetic habits are the chief factors in health and disease is as Old as Plato, and received a new and powerful impulse through the life and writings of Louis Cornaro more than three hundred years ago. The doctrine that the use of bread, cereals, pulses and vegetables is not only unwholesome, but is at the very foundation of nervous prostration and modern diseases, is, however, sufficiently novel and startling. The value of fasting as a method of Curing disease has been previously fairly well stated. The author only hopes by this book to call the attention thereto Of many who have not before been aware of its great importance. That catching cold is always caused by errors in eating has also been well stated in the writings of our friend Dr. C. E. Page. This is a matter, in our opinion.

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Authors

Image	Author	Author Website	Twitter	Author Location
	Emmet Densmore	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_Densmore		Deceased

Topics

	Meatritionist	A doctor or medical professional who studies or promotes exclusive meat diets
	Diseases of Civilization	Common diseases that appear in civilization - such as cancer, diabetes, IBS, gout, heart disease
	Carbotoxicity	The harm of eating carbohydrates.
	Facultative Carnivore	Facultative Carnivore describes the concept of animals that are technically omnivores but who thrive off of all meat diets. Humans may just be facultative carnivores - who need no plant products for long-term nutrition.
	Type 2 Diabetes
	Carnivore Diet	The carnivore diet involves eating only animal products such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs, marrow, meat broths, organs. There are little to no plants in the diet.
	Ketogenic Diet	The ketogenic diet involves eating high fat, low carbs, and moderate protein. To be in ketosis, one must eat less than 20 grams of carbohydrates per day.