DAD'S FORMULA FOR HEALTH |
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Dad was always reading about ways to stay healthy. Some
would describe him as a "health nut". Mom and dad
subscribed to a number of health magazines and
frequented the health food stores. I remember that mom would always fix me a really healthy breakfast every morning before school. I would have orange juice mixed with brewer's yeast, a bowl of hot cereal, eggs with toast and vitamins, including vitamin C, multiple B vitamins, and others. Sometimes I would have wheat germ on top of my cereal. I know it sounds like it would taste awful, but it was really good. And, it appears that it works. I was rarely sick and missed very few days of school. |
Dad's latest discovery for well-being is L-carnatine, a
nutrient that promotes high energy, weight loss, heart
health, brain wellness and longevity. The book, The
Carnatine Miracle, describes the benefits in
detail! |
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Dad gave me the following article in the summer of
1991. He said that I should read it very carefully
because it contained, in a nutshell, the basis for his
formula for health. I know for a fact that he uses the
information contained in the article to keep his
health. He is especially adamant about the
effectiveness of vitamin C. When coming down with a
cold or just not feeling well, he will put himself on a
rigid routine for taking vitamin C and water-soluble
vitamin A. (See the "Anti-stress formula" at the end of
this section.) It appears to be effective. So, read and think. There is a lot of truth to the following information! INDEX The Effect of Stress Vitamin C can perform near miracles Protein cannot be overemphasized Vitamin A and infections Prevent acidosis Diet during an infection The amounts of vitamin C needed Special problems of particular infections The Anti-stress Formula The Anti-stress program The Ultimate Goal Footnotes The Book: Lets Get Well NIP INFECTIONS IN THE BUDWhen attacked by bacteria or viruses, the healthy body mobilizes its army, navy, air force, and marines so quickly that no infection occurs. These armed forces consist of white blood cells, lymph cells, and antibodies, or globulins, which are ineffective without a co-worker, the complement. When this standing army is sufficiently large, it destroys bacteria, viruses, and their toxins by engulfing and digesting them with the aid of enzymes or by combining with them, causing them to settle out, or by other means. An adequate diet can quickly increase all of these defenses even after an infection gets a foothold provided various nutrients are given in generous amounts the minute the first symptoms appear. The body's armed forces are identical regardless of the location of the infection or the types of viruses or bacteria involved. Because a physician is rarely consulted until illness is advanced, each individual should know the immediate steps to take to fight an infection. |
| The Effect of Stress | Return to Index |
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The adrenal hormone DOC mobilizes the body's defenses.
This hormone is so completely held in check by the
excessive amounts of cortisone produced during stress
that the body often cannot protect itself, and
infections may become rampant, as they frequently do
when cortisone medication is given. In this case, an
anti-stress diet is needed to increase the production
of DOC. If the adrenals are too exhausted to produce an
adequate amount of cortisone, however, DOC is not
sufficiently held in check, and lymph glands, such as
the tonsils and adenoids, become enlarged; the white
blood count soars; and inflammation at the point of the
infection is marked by redness, swelling, pain, and
fever.1
To eliminate these symptoms, cortisone production must
be stimulated at all possible speed. When one is under
stress, therefore, whether too much or too little
cortisone is being produced, the body becomes
susceptible to infections unless the diet is unusually
adequate. During most infections, too little aldosterone can be produced, salt (sodium) is lost from the body, cells become more permeable, or sieve-like, and water accumulates in the inflamed area, increasing the swelling and pain. This fact has raised to scientific status our grandmothers' favorite remedy of giving one-half teaspoon each of salt and soda in hot water for colds, sore throats, intestinal flu, and any localized inflammation in which water (swelling) accumulates in a given area. After the blood sodium has thus been replaced, swelling often goes down in a few moments; a stuffy nose becomes clear and other symptoms disappear. Unless small, frequent meals are eaten, however, the blood sodium soon drops again. The lymph glands produce antibodies and lymph cells needed to fight infections.2 If cortisone is being synthesized normally, the proteins in these glands are broken down and the glands shrivel during the stresses that have preceded and are imposed by the bacterial or viral attack. Swollen lymph glands, such as those under the chin and behind the ears, or enlarged tonsils or adenoids always show that cortisone is not being produced in adequate amounts. Although the swollen glands are trying to fight the infections, the defense mechanisms are weak at the very time they are needed most. To recover from an infection, therefore, the first step must be to stimulate adrenal function. Since pantothenic acid is essential for cortisone production, low resistance to spontaneous infections is the first sign of an under supply of pantothenic acid.3 Infections appear long before other deficiency symptoms can be detected and more quickly than if any other nutrient were missing. Animals even mildly deficient in pantothenic acid or vitamin B6 show an immediate marked reduction in antibodies, complement, and white blood cells; and if "vaccinated," immunity is not increased.4,5,6,7,8,9 Some strains of rats--and also certain families or individuals10 --require many times more pantothenic acid than others and are far more harmed by a deficiency.3 In volunteers lacking pantothenic acid and vitamin B6, so few antibodies and white blood cells could be produced that they had continuous infections, particularly sore throats, or acute pharyngitis;11,12,13 and when vaccinated for tetanus, typhoid, and polio, showed no increase in antibody production.14 When stress has not harmed the adrenal or lymph glands too severely, giving 40 milligrams of vitamin B6 to persons with infections increased both the white blood count and the antibody production within three hours.15 Recovery was slow, however, even when such huge amounts as 4,000 and 600 milligrams of pantothenic acid and vitamin B6 respectively were given daily to volunteers who had been deficient in these vitamins for several weeks. In fact, 17 out of 18 patients lacking vitamin B6 showed an "absolute decrease" in white blood cells in five days.16 A diet under supplied with vitamins B1, B2, folic acid, biotin, or niacin inhibits the production of antibodies, white blood cells, and the complement, though less severely than when pantothenic acid or vitamin B6 is limited. A lack of any of these vitamins also prevents the body's defenses from being stimulated when antitoxins and other forms of immunization are given.17,18 |
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A tremendous amount of research has proved that vitamin
C is vitally important in overcoming infections, but
the use of antibiotics--and greater profits made from
their sale, I suspect--has largely kept this knowledge
in mothballs. In a single year no less than 45 research
projects reported that vitamin C rendered harmless a
wide variety of bacterial toxins, and inhibited the
growth of whatever bacteria it failed to
destroy;19,20,21 that its action was
non-specific in that it was deadly to all types of
viruses22,23,24,25,26,27 and
bacteria;28 and that while small amounts could
bring some immunity29,30, huge doses were much more
effective. When large quantities were given to guinea
pigs already injected with bacteria, 99 percent of the
body cells showed evidence of bacterial destruction in
a single hour.31 Multiple protective functions are performed by vitamin C. It not only aids the adrenals32,33, but also stimulates the production of antibodies34,35,36, white blood cells37,38, and the complement39,40,41, and increases the bacteria-destroying ability of white blood cells.42,43 A count of approximately 5000 white blood cells in considered to be normal. A high white blood count shows that an infection exists and also that the body is fighting it; a low count indicates that the body has no resources with which to fight. When 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C have been taken daily during a cold, the white count has promptly risen form far below normal to 9,000 or more.44 No amount of this vitamin or any other, however, can cause an excessive production of white cells, such as occurs in leukemia. During the past two decades, Dr. Fred R. Klenner, of Reidsville, North Carolina, has used massive quantities of vitamin C in treating successfully patients of all ages suffering from such serious illnesses as encephalitis, meningitis, poliomyelitis, virus pneumonia, tetanus, or lockjaw, and many other infections.45,46,47,48 Usually these patients had an extremely high fever, were unconscious, and many had been given up earlier by physicians who believed them to be beyond help; some appeared to be dying, and in one case rigor mortis had actually set in. To extremely ill patients Dr. Klenner gave the vitamin by injection in amounts ranging from 2 to 4 grams (2,000 to 4,000 milligrams) approximately every two to four hours around the clock, the amount and number of injections depending on the progress of each individual. Sometimes he gave antibiotics or other medications in addition to vitamin C, although these drugs had usually been given by other physicians before the patients had become so desperately ill. An amazing number of these persons regained consciousness quickly, were able to drink juices within a few hours, took further vitamin C by mouth, and were discharged from the hospital in three to four days. Dr. Klenner has found that the vitamin is more effective when given with some form of calcium. He emphasizes that the amount of vitamin C required varies with the seriousness of the illness. Because viruses and bacteria not destroyed quickly multiply, bringing a recurrence of symptoms, and because this vitamin is not toxic49, he believes it is better to err by taking too much rather than too little. He has said, "Ascorbic acid in proper doses can and will save countless individuals once physicians awaken to the real value of this vitamin." Other doctors have shown that massive amounts of vitamin C compare favorably with antibiotics, but have no toxic effects50,51; and that the vitamin was particularly helpful in speeding recovery from mononucleosis and infectious hepatitis52,53, even after all medication had proved futile. Since learning of Dr. Klenner's work, I have known literally hundreds of persons who made remarkable recoveries after taking large amounts of vitamin C. One man had such severe mumps that his physician wanted to hospitalize him; he refused, knowing that vitamin C would not be allowed him. The following morning the same doctor declared the diagnosis had been wrong. The patient's wife claimed that only a computer could calculate the amount of vitamin C he took. Several children have had one-day measles; and in a single week four men with prostate infections consulted me, all of whom had taken antibiotics for weeks, yet each returned to work a few days later. Perhaps four dozen persons with mononucleosis recovered in a week when large amounts of vitamins B6 and C and pantothenic acid were taken around the clock. |
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Antibodies, the complement, white blood cells, and
lymph cells are all made of complete protein; hence a
lack of this nutrient can prevent recovery from
infections regardless of the amounts of vitamins
obtained. Of single amino acids, methionine and
tryptophane, generously supplied in eggs and milk, are
particularly valuable.54,55,56 When a low-protein diet
has been replaced by one high in protein, the
production of antibodies has increased a hundred fold
within a few hours. Of single proteins tested for their
ability to build body defenses, liver, yeast, and
especially wheat germ proved most valuable.57,58
Egg yolk, meat, milk, and full-fat soy flour, in this
order, particularly increased the production of white
blood cells. Although the stress of the infection itself tremendously increases the need for protein, the protein requirements are made even higher during many infections because albumin from the blood is lost in the feces.59,60,61 Physicians frequently give injections of gamma globulin--one form of antibodies--to persons suffering from infections, but unless the patient is too ill to eat or has severe diarrhea, his own body can produce far more gamma globulin than can be given by injection provided he obtains adequate protein.62 When the nutrition is improved, the production of all defense mechanisms increases simultaneously. |
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Deficiencies of vitamin A are far more widespread in
America than we like to believe.63 This
vitamin plays a particularly important role in
preventing or clearing up infections of the skin, the
cornea of the eye, and the mucous membranes which line
all body cavities, although it is also necessary for
the production of antibodies and white blood cells.
When vitamin A is under supplied, millions of cells in
the lower layers of the skin and the surface of the
mucous membranes die quickly and accumulate; cells
lining the body cavities can no longer secrete mucus,
which normally washes the tissues and carries the white
blood cells.64 Whether in the skin or the mucous
membranes, the accumulation of dead cells serves as
food for bacteria. A five-year study of 1,100 people revealed that individuals whose blood was consistently low in vitamins A and C contracted by far the most infections.65 The blood vitamin A drops sharply during many infections,66,67,68 is often lost in the urine69, and may disappear completely during measles and high fever.70 Moreover, cortisone and a number of drugs rapidly deplete the body of its vitamin-A stores and tremendously increase the need for it. Unless vitamin A is generously supplied, the body is left susceptible to more serious infections. Well known examples are kidney infections following rheumatic fever, encephalitis following measles, and endocarditis following a strep throat. Vitamin A given to groups of patients has shortened the duration of such infections as measles, scarlet fever, pneumonia, and infections of the eyes, middle ear, sinuses, kidneys, intestines, ovaries, uterus, and vagina.71,72,73,74 The vitamin has proved valuable, too, in clearing up impetigo, boils, carbuncles, and open ulcers, particularly when applied locally.75,76 Though vitamin A is usually well absorbed during infections, a water-dispersed preparation is preferable to that dissolved in oil when an illness is acute or diarrhea occurs.77 Physicians have given 2000,000 units daily for six months with no signs of toxicity being recognized, though rarely are more than 50,000 units needed daily.78 Unless vitamin E is amply supplied, however, the vitamin A obtained from foods or supplements, the vitamin A already in the blood, and that stored in the liver and other body tissues is quickly destroyed by oxygen;79 therefore, what appears to be a lack of vitamin A may in fact be a deficiency of vitamin E. |
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If a person feels too ill to eat, the blood sugar
quickly drops and acidosis develops, causing
irritability, headache, nausea, and vomiting, often
mistakenly considered to by symptoms of the illness
itself. Acidosis can be completely prevented if,
immediately at the onset of any infection, some food
containing sugar is taken every hour or two: sections
of orange, bits of cooked fruit, sips of fruit juice,
eggnog, milk sweetened with honey, or any food
containing starch or natural sugar. If vomiting has already set in, it can usually be stopped if a few tablespoons of sweetened orange juice or teaspoons of honey are taken every 15 minutes and continued even though the vomiting persists for a time. As soon as vomiting has stopped, milk, juices, and other liquids should be given to replace the fluids lost. Feverish children can sometimes be tempted by popsicles made of undiluted frozen orange juice and yogurt. Because the nutritional needs at this time are so great, a patient should not be given soft drinks. |
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Aside from preventing acidosis, the diet should meet
the increased nutritional demands of stress, mobilize
all defense mechanisms, detoxify any drugs used, and,
if antibiotics are taken by mouth, replace the
intestinal bacteria destroyed by them. When these
requirements are met, recovery is often remarkably
rapid. For example, a 19-year-old girl with mononucleosis--she wished to remain anonymous because it is called the kissing disease--was heartbroken last spring when her physician told her she could not finish the college semester. In addition to the medication he was giving her, she started on Tuesday to take every two hours she was awake a half cup of highly fortified milk with the anti-stress formula and 500 extra milligrams of vitamin C. Because she soon felt better, she took the vitamins only haphazardly the two following days. By Thursday night, however, her sore throat had become worse and she could scarcely talk or breathe, an experience, which, according to her mother, "made a Christian out of her." For the next three days she obtained the full quart of pep-up with the supplements; and her physician permitted her to return to college Monday morning. An almost identical report came recently from a young man who had taken the anti-stress formula, extra vitamin C, and fortified milk every two hours during an attack of rheumatic fever. Although previous attacks had lasted six months, he too returned to college in a week. When the throat is ore or if a child is too young to swallow tablets, supplements should be obtained in powder form or the tablets dissolved in water. |
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The severity of an infection should determine the
quantity of vitamin C to take; and unless huge amounts
are obtained, a deficiency can quickly occur, causing
bruises, bleeding gums, nosebleeds, and hemorrhages
even when the intake seems adequate. The largest amount
of vitamin C I have ever known a person to use over a
prolonged period was that taken by a Texas attorney who
had such severe phlebitis that his doctor wanted to
amputate his leg at the hip. Later he wrote me,
"Instead, I took 25 grams of vitamin C a la Dr.
Klenner, and the swelling was very much less the
following afternoon. I got completely well in 3 weeks
and in fact only lost 2 weeks from my office. I had 2
other attacks of phlebitis, and commenced taking
vitamin C in 5-gram doses and continued taking it until
I had taken 1,600 grams; and I am well aware that a
gram is 1,000 milligrams. I finally broke out in a rash
from too much C but this did not come until I had taken
1,600 grams at the rate of 15 to 40 grams a day." A woman in Maryland had much the same experience when she took approximately 25 grams (25,000 milligrams) of vitamin C daily for phlebitis, although half that quantity had not brought improvement. She wrote, "In 5 days the pink stripe and the terrible looking bumps and discoloration between my knee and ankle disappeared and my leg is as beautiful as when I was 17. My doctor, who had wanted to operate, says it was bed rest and not vitamin C which did it, but when I asked him why 4 months of bed rest earlier had not cleared it up, he had no answer." Massive amounts of vitamin C have been used without toxicity in a wide variety of illnesses, including certain mental conditions. One physician gave a forty-five-year-old woman with schizophrenia 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C every hours, and at the end of 48 hours, by which time she had taken 45 grams, she was mentally well and remained so until she died some time later of cancer.80 The largest quantity of vitamin C I have known to be given in a short period was to an eight-year-old girl who had been unconscious from encephalitis for 36 hours and whose physician had been unable to get her into a hospital. Because vitamin-C solution spilled when her mother and I tried to give it, we froze it in an ice tray; almost continuously throughout an afternoon we slipped tiny bits of this "sherbet" into the child's slightly opened mouth. That evening she was admitted to the hospital and put in a ward with other children who had been unconscious from ten days to five weeks. The following morning, however, this child was alert, free from fever, and ate a hearty breakfast. She was permitted to go home at noon after tests showed that her brain had not been damaged. Her mother and I had each dissolved 100 tablets of 250 milligrams each, a total of 50 grams--50,000 milligrams--and we had given her this amount in a single afternoon. Far less vitamin C is needed when pantothenic acid and vitamin B6 are given simultaneously, but this fact was not known at that time. In general, the more serious the illness, the larger should be the quantity of vitamins obtained, particularly at first, and the more frequently they should be taken. For example, at the onset of an infection, one might take 2,000 to 3,000 milligrams of vitamin C, 100 to 300 milligrams of pantothenic acid, and 10 to 30 milligrams of vitamin B6, and then take half these quantities every two or three hours thereafter. If the infection is acute, the vitamins should be given every three hours during the first night, always with fortified milk. as the symptoms subside, smaller amounts can be taken, but if a relapse occurs, the quantities should be immediately increased. When recovery is complete, the anti-stress formula may be discontinued. Provided the vitamins are consistently taken with a highly fortified drink, the quantities suggested here have brought excellent results to persons suffering from such a wide variety of infections as sore throats, pancreatitis, shingles, rheumatic fever, flu, infections of the sinuses, eyes, ears or kidneys, and any of the respiratory infections. I have yet to know of a child whose tonsils or adenoids had to be removed after he was given the anti-stress formula with an adequate diet. Unless the illness is extremely mild, however, each individual should be under the care of a physician, and the vitamins and milk drink taken with whatever medication is prescribed. The rashes that occasionally occur when vitamins are taken are apparently caused by the filler holding the tablets together and usually disappear when a different brand is purchased. Extremely large amounts of vitamin C will sometimes cause diarrhea, indicating that more is being taken than is needed; if this tendency is noticed, the amounts should be immediately decreased. When not under stress, 75 milligrams of vitamin C daily is considered to be ample. |
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Some infections cause the requirements for certain
nutrients to be unusually high. Thus, during and after
rheumatic fever, nephritis, and many other infections,
vitamin E should be generously supplied to prevent the
formation of scar tissue, which may be more damaging
than the illness itself. Measles cause the need for
vitamin A to skyrocket, and if not supplied, the eyes
or kidneys may be permanently harmed. In polio, which
still exists, the requirement for all the B vitamins is
markedly increased; and paralysis can apparently be
prevented if these vitamins are taken in generous
amounts. Undulant fever is said to clear up if
above-adequate amounts of magnesium and manganese are
given. All nutrients helpful in stopping infections and
rebuilding bones are needed when pyorrhea exists.
Vincent's disease, or trench mouth, and canker sores
are often corrected when 100 milligrams of niacin amide
are taken at each meal.81,82 The need for vitamin B6
appears to be particularly high during any infection of
the alimentary tract, and a lack of it even causes
rampant tooth decay.83 If the adrenals can produce cortisone, the lymph glands immediately decrease in size when the body is under stress; therefore enlarged lymph glands, whether tonsils, swollen adenoids, the lymph glands in the neck, or anywhere in the body invariably show adrenal exhaustion and an increased need for all body requirements. Pantothenic acid and vitamins B6 and C particularly should be given until all swelling has subsided. During prolonged infections, such as tuberculosis, undulant fever, or subacute bacterial endocarditis, no fewer than 500, 50, and 2 milligrams of vitamin C, pantothenic acid, and vitamin B6 respectively should be taken with each meal and between each meal, or six times each day. When stress is unrelenting, it becomes vitally important to see that every body requirement is amply supplied; and a full quart of fortified milk should be obtained daily. When the nutritional needs are met, recovery can sometimes be unbelievably shortened. Once I planned a diet for a young woman suffering from severe tuberculosis. She asked me how long it would be before any healing could be expected. My estimation was four months. She then told her physician that I said she would be well in four months. He answered that such a thing was impossible. I not only agreed with him but was annoyed at being misquoted. Yet exactly four months after starting her nutrition program, she insisted on a thorough examination and was indeed pronounced well. When we were building a new home some time later, the chief carpenter turned out to be this woman's husband; and because he as deeply grateful, probably no nails have ever been driven with more tender loving care. Some "infections" are psychosomatic. A number of so-called infections, which include some--but certainly not all--colds, postnasal drips, hay fever, sinus "infections" and puffiness around the eyes, are psychosomatic in origin and stem from an unconscious need to cry. Literally hundreds of times during early childhood when the desire to cry may have been intense, many of us herd such expressions as "Don't be a crybaby" or harsh "If you don't shut up, I'll give you something to cry about." Such experiences, though forgotten, are permanently recorded in the brain. When current happenings unconsciously remind us of similar earlier experiences and tears are still held back, the need to cry seeks a socially acceptable form of expressions. For this reason the common cold will probably never be conquered. In our culture we prefer than a man writhe with hemorrhaging ulcers rather than shed a tear. Lucy Freeman in her book Fight Against Fears tells how her chronic sinus "infection" cleared up when she was given the freedom of tears while under psychoanalysis. I was repeatedly embarrassed during my own psychotherapy by developing what appeared to be extremely severe colds, which no amount of good nutrition would budge; and persons who consulted me at the time understandably lifted a heal-thyself eyebrow. Yet invariably all symptoms disappeared immediately after I permitted myself to cry or the analyst pointed out why I was "crying." Such "infections" are impossible to distinguish from those induced by viruses or bacteria, but obviously cannot be helped by the best of nutrition. An elderly unmarried woman who had had a lifelong stuffy nose and postnatal drip once consulted me. She assured me she could not cry, but she was so eager to cooperate when I suggested that she cry freely that she peeled onions daily, which of course was of no value. Eventually, after reading about some children who had been frozen to death while lost in the mountains, tears flowed copiously; she herself had been "frozen" from lack of love early in life. When she could once more cry without shame, her postnasal drip disappeared. Every nutrient is important. In attempting to overcome infections, it is particularly important not to overemphasize any one nutrient to the exclusion of others. Even during illness it is best not to put all your eggs in one basket, nutritious eggs though they may be. ************************************************************************ |
| The Anti-stress Formula | Return to Index |
During acute illness, take with each meal, between each
meal, before going to sleep, and approximately every 3
hours during the night if awake, always with
fortified milk to supply the necessary protein:500 milligrams of vitamin C These vitamins can be obtained separately or in a single tablet. They should be continued until improvement is marked. As soon as the acute state has passed, decrease the amounts. For mild abnormalities, half the foregoing quantities may be taken 6 times daily, although larger amounts of vitamin C would be needed during infections and/or if medication is used. A friend with a limited budget obtained excellent results in clearing up an allergy by taking only 250 milligrams of vitamin C and 10 milligrams of pantothenic acid 6 times daily, and 5 milligrams each of vitamins B2 and B6--she cut 10-milligram tablets in half--every morning and evening. Unless these vitamins are supplied in larger-than-normal amounts, however, recovery cannot be expected. |
| The Anti-stress program | Return to Index |
When possible, have daily in addition to the
anti-stress formula and fortified milk:
fresh and/or desiccated liverand make absolutely sure that all body requirements are supplied in some form. |
| The Ultimate Goal | Return to Index |
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When health is once attained and further stress is
recognized, the diet can be improved before serious
illness occurs. If such a procedure is followed, a long
and rewarding life free from disease becomes a
possibility. |
| Footnotes & Sources | Return to Index |
1 Selye, H., The Stress of Life , McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y, 1956 |
| Lets Get Well | Return to Index |
Excellent reference on nutritional deficiency symptoms. Reviewer: Suzanne Ricketts from Plano, TX�����July 12, 1998 My mother raised 5 children to very healthy adulthood on Adelle Davis' books. Davis was a nutritionist who assimilated a massive amount of nutritional research data, incorporated it into her practice and reported the results, especially in this book. This one in particular I use frequently as a reference when symptoms are observed with no apparent cause. Though my copy was published in 1965 it remains very reliable with current publications. Davis was ahead of her time. One example is her 'antistress formula', a combination of mostly B vitamins which nowadays can be found ready-made on the shelf of any vitamin shelf and called stresstabs. This book is great! I consult it often! Reviewer: Heidi George�����June 17, 1999 Adelle Davis's book Lets Get Well is in constant use at our house. It is the one book I would want to have on hand to consult when one of us is having some physical trouble. For instance: after having a Poison Oak rash for a few days, I looked in the book and found out that vitamin C can help stop the itching (I use the back index). I tried it and it really works! I consulted it when I was pregnant( morning sickness, stretch marks, toxemia, pre-eclampsia, pre-mature births, vericose veins/hemmeroids, delivery, etc.). And there have been times that I have heard new studies on the news about health issues that have confirmed Adelle Davis's information time and again --even though this book was written several years ago! She developed thousands of special diets for people who were sick. Her info. is based on actual experience with people who were sick -not just laboratory experiments (with mice). I've used this book to look up info. on everything from squinting eyes---to kidney stones, and have found out things that we can do at home--nutritionally(or using supplements)--that that can help us solve our problem. It is also a good book to read cover to cover and has information on side effects of prescription drugs and how they increase our nutritional needs. Seeing is Believing Reviewer: Patricia Bussewitz from Babylon, New York, USA�����November 21, 1999 I first read Adelle Davis' book, "Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit" was when I was planning to nurse my children back in the early '70's. At that same time, my husband suffered from chronic dehabilitating backpain. After three different diagnoses and 3 surgeries with no relief, we went to a specialist for arthritic disorders, a highly respected doctor and chairperson of the Arthritis Association for the East Coast. My husband was diagnosed with advanced Ankylosing Spondylitis (fusion of spinal column). His aorta was already compromised. My husband followed Adelle Davis's diet describe in "Lets Get Well" and reversed the aortitis. His doctor, who was just begining to retire, said that in all his years of practice at a major medical institution, and his years of following research, he had never witnessed anything like this. He considered writing it up for the journals, but as I mentioned, he was in the process of retiring. Then my son, at 4 1/2 years old developed Stills Disease, a form of Juvenille Rheumatoid Arthritis, which is genetically inherited from fathers who have Ankylosing Spondylitis. The treatment at a major NY hospital included 96 mg of solumedrol alternate day therapy, weening him with large doses of asprin. He was considered one of the 5 most severe cases in the country. I looked to 'Adelle' to try to reduce the horrific side effects of cortisone and high-dose asprin therapy. For four years my son was in an out of remission because I didn't always follow the diet as doctors felt nutrition was never an answer in those days. When I finally realized that my son needed something in that diet in order to be well, I stuck to it and followed Adelle Davis' suggestions carefully. He went into a permanent remission for 8 years, all the while adhering to the diet. At subequent clinic visits, many a doctor would stand outside the door and read the medical history and expect to see on the other side of the door, a very sick, immobile, inactive boy. Instead they saw an alert, energetic, inquisitive boy. They always wanted to know what I was doing and I told them nutrition. "Hmmm" they said. This was a teaching hospital. I would later meet children who were diagnosed with less severe cases of Stills who were dwarfed, deformed, and sullen...who did not have the benefits of the antistress formula describe in Adelle Davis' book. I will be eternally grateful to Adelle for sharing her knowledge. My son during those 8 years, played soccer and won competitions and scholarships for his ability to play classical piano. What a gift she gave my child. Let's Get Well is available from Amazon.com |
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