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- •ACQUIRED or INSPIRED?
- •Exploring the origins of the Adventist lifestyle
- •Don S McMahon
- •Appendix 3 – Sylvester Graham – Lectures on the Science of Human Life (early 1850s)
- •Appendix 4 – William Alcott – The Laws of Health (1860)
- •Appendix 5 - Larkin B Coles – Philosophy of Health (1860)
- •+ IX SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
- •Appendix 7 – John Harvey Kellogg – Plain Facts for Old and Young (1888)
- •What 3 - Patent Medicines
- •II. PURE AIR
- •III. SUNLIGHT
- •VII. PROPER DIET
- •What 43 - Heated Butter
- •What 44 - Eating Blood
- •VIII. USE OF WATER
- •What 19 - Tobacco
- •What 26 - Regular Eating
- •What 39 - Open Air
- •What 40 - Plain Food
- •What 45 - Rest
- •What 46 - Woolen Shirt
- •What 47 – Cheerfulness
- •What 6 - Heating
- •What 27 - Tobacco
- •What 28 - Opium
- •What 29 - Tea & Coffee
- •What 31 - Dreaming
- •What 35 - Soft Beds
- •What 45 - Simple Foods
- •What 48 - Salt
- •What 59 - Butter
- •What 7 - The Skin
- •What 20 - Education
- •What 44 - Carbon-Monoxide
- •What 72 - Sleep
- •What 75 - Porous Beds
- •What 92 - Exercise
- •What 97 - Swimming
- •What 112 - Milk - Drinking
- •What 123 - Cooking
- •What 128 - Sugar
- •What 129 - Refined Foods
- •What 130 - Mixing Foods
- •What 134 - How Many Meals
- •What 139 - Regularity
- •What 158 - Dirt
- •What 169 - Obey your Parents
- •What 170 - Cheerfulness
- •What 171 - Emotions and Health
- •What 3 - Tight Clothes
- •What 5 - Phrenology 1
- •V. REST
- •What 21 - Sleep
- •VI. EXERCISE
- •What 25 - Exercise
- •What 26 - Type of Exercise
- •VII. PROPER DIET
- •What 35 - Pig Meat
- •What 36 - Fish
- •What 37 - Fowl
- •What 38 - Milk and Eggs
- •What 40 - Don’t Talk while Eating
- •What 41 - Constipation
- •What 42 - Enemas
- •What 43 - Emetics
- •What 44 - Regularity of Eating
- •What 45 - Eating before Bed
- •What 47 - Hungry
- •What 48 - Nursing
- •What 49 - Nursing at Night
- •What 50 - Children
- •What 51 - Exercise
- •What 53 - Rest before Meals
- •What 54 - Sugar
- •What 57 - Watching our Diet
- •VIII. USE OF WATER
- •What 64 - Amount of Drink
- •What 65 - Personal Cleanliness
- •What 69 - Over Washing
- •IX. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
- •What 70 - Cheerfulness
- •What 71 - Negative Emotions
- •What 72 - Sympathy
- •What 73 - Mothers Character
- •I GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- •What 1 - Lifestyle
- •What 2 - Drugs
- •What 18 - Hair
- •What 20 - Masturbation
- •II PURE AIR
- •What 24 - Breathing Pure Air
- •What 27 - Composting
- •What 28 - Ventilation
- •What 37 - Hard Drugs
- •What 39 - Sleep
- •What 47 - Exercise
- •What 48 - Gentle Exercise
- •What 49 - Exercise Type
- •What 53 - Simple Cooking
- •What 89 - Soap
- •What 96 - Cheerfulness
- •What 97 - Sympathy
- •II PURE AIR
- •V REST
- •What 93 - Tired
- •What 94 - Sweating
- •What 97 - How to Bath
- •What 98 - Drying
- •What 99 - The Head
- •What 100 - Waterless Bath
- •What 101 - Mental Attitude
- •I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- •What 1 – Laws of Health G 2 A 1 C1 J 1 K 2
- •Even though each principle is given an individual score later, I have given an overall score for them as a group, as they represent the fact that lifestyle is important to maintaining health.
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Minor)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Verified
- •S. G. page 139 – “The endless variety of medicines in the market, the numerous advertisements of new drugs and mixtures, all of which, as they say, do wonderful cures, kill”
- •Comment – It was not only conventional medicine that was using dangerous drugs, so were the many alternative medical treatments that abounded at this time.
- •Score – Significant
- •What 5 – Hypnotism
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Minor
- •Score - Verified
- •In The Ministry of Healing, Ellen White quotes current literature to back up her claim about dress.
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 4 - Tight Clothing 1 – Circulation (What 7)
- •Why 6 - Clothes Hanging from the Waist (What 7)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 7 – Consumption (What 7)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 8 - Cleansing of Blood (What 7)
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 10 – Wet Nurse
- •Why 11 – Wet Nurse (What 10)
- •Score – Verified (for M. of H. only)
- •II. PURE AIR
- •Score – Significant
- •What 12 – Ventilation R 7 G 23 A 42 C 14 J 28 K 34
- •Score – Significant
- •Comment - It was not until the 1980s that the dangers to health from passive smoking were proven. The smell of alcohol is not regarded as a health hazard, just unpleasant.
- •Comment – Even though sunlight and fresh air can be transmitted indoors, I still feel that it is correct and significant to exercise outdoors if possible.
- •Score – Significant (1960 –Minor)
- •What 15 – Clean Yard (G 24) (A 60) (J 27) (K 36)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 15a – Clean Yard G 24 A 60 J 27 K 36
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •IV. ABSTEMIOUSNESS
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •M. of H. page 326 – “many suppose that their tea or coffee is doing them great good. But this is a mistake. Tea and coffee do not nourish the system.”
- •Score – Unverified (1960 – Verified)
- •Score – Verified
- •What 19 - Intoxicating Drink R 8 G 26 (A 67) (C 16) J 34 K 42
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 18 - Intoxicating Drink (What 19)
- •Score – Verified
- •What 20 – Opium G 28 (A 68) C 18 J 37
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Why 19 – Circulation (What 23)
- •Why 20 – Wellbeing (What 23)
- •Why 21 – Exercise and Excretion (What 23)
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 22 – Walking (What 24)
- •Score - Verified
- •VII. PROPER DIET
- •What 25 – Simple Food R 40 G 45 A 132 C 31 J 53 K 81
- •S. G. page 129 – “and be satisfied with plain, simple food.”
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 27 – Digestion (What 26)
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •1868, Testimonies for the Church Vol. 2, page 68 – “Fine-flour bread cannot impart to the system the nourishment that you will find in the unbolted wheat bread.”
- •Comment - This is a true statement.
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score. – Significant
- •Why 30 – Variety of Foods & Mixing Fruit with Vegetables (What 29)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 31 – Fermentation (What 29)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Why 32 - Flesh Foods (What 32)
- •M. of H. page 313 – “People are continually eating flesh that is filled with tuberculous and cancerous germs. Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseases are thus communicated.”
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 33 – Second Hand Food (What 32)
- •Score - Verified
- •Why 34 – Battery Fed Animals (What 32)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 35 – Faintness from Meat Eating (What 32)
- •Why 36 - Excitation of the Nerves (What 32)
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 37 – Pigs (What 33)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 38 – Fish (What 34)
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Why 41 – Future of Eggs and Milk (What 38)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Why 43 – Olive Oil (What 41)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Significant (1960 - Unverified)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 45 - Changing needs with Time and Place.
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Minor)
- •Why 44 - Over Eating 1 (What 46)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 45 - Over Eating 2 (What 46)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 46 - Over Eating 3 (What 46)
- •Why 47 – Over Eating 4 (What 46)
- •Why 48 – Over Eating 6 (What 46)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 49 – Fasting (What 47)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 50 - Diseased Stomach (What 47)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 51 – Under Eating (What 48)
- •Score - Verified
- •Why 52 – Sugar (What 49)
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 54 – Spices (What 51)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 58 - Exercise 1 (What 57)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 59 - Exercise 2 (What 57)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Minor (1960 – Unverified)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 61 – Sleep – 2 (What 58)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 62 - Mental Activity (What 60)
- •Comment – We often feel sleepy after eating which can effect mental activity, but not the other way round unless it is accompanied by stress.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 63 – Fluid with Meals 1 (What 61)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 62 - Mastication R 31 G 51 A 104 C 39 K 71
- •Why 65 – Mastication (What 62)
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 66 - Under Cooking (What 63)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 67 – Food that is Disliked (What 64)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 65 – Clean Food
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 69 – Pure Drinking Water (What 66)
- •Score -Verified
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 71 – Hydrotherapy (What 68)
- •What 69 – Personal Cleanliness R 25 G 102 A 156 C 65 J 81 K 89
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 72 – Personal Cleanliness (What 69)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 73 - Indoor Cleanliness (What 70)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 75 - Wet House Sites (What 73)
- •What 74 - Quarantine
- •Comment – I can find no earlier statements about quarantine, however it was a normal practice from antiquity to cope with infectious diseases.
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Minor)
- •Why 76 – The Mind (What 76)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Minor)
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Unverified)
- •Score – Significant (1960 – Minor)
- •Cool air at feet causes disease
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Good ventilation is required for health
- •Score - Significant
- •Comment – Jackson regarded alcohol as a narcotic. This what is also found in Ellen White’s summary of her heath vision, written on June 6, 1863
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 11 – Pig W 33 A 121 C 35 J 60 K 76
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Significant
- •Comment – Ellen White in limiting, but not banning the use of salt is more correct.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Drink water freely.
- •Score – Significant
- •Drink soft water
- •Comment – Most soft water is safe, but some contain contaminants that should not be drunk in large amounts. This what is also found in Ellen White’s summary of her heath vision, written on June 6, 1863.
- •Score – Minor
- •II. Other Health Articles published in the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald from 1861 until June 1863, when Ellen White had her main health vision.
- •Comment – Similar articles continue throughout the study period by a number of authors.
- •Score - Minor
- •Score - Significant
- •What 20 – Clean your Teeth
- •Score - Minor
- •June 16, 1863 – "Suggestions for Health-Preservations". It may be set down as a general rule that ordinary disease can not obtain a foothold where only pure air is inhaled” -Sel
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •June 16, 1863 – “let the last meal of the day be light and easy to digest” -Sel
- •Score – Minor
- •What 24 – Loose Clothes (W 7) (G 12) (A 9) (C 3) (J 12) (K 25)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Minor
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 29 – Good Diet W 26 G 52 (A 105) (J 51) C 29 K 79
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - 1
- •Score - Minor
- •August 25, 1863, page 99 – “rubbing the skin very hard;” Dr. Dio Lewis
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 33 – Cold Bath G 103 A 162 (J 85) C 66 (K 91)
- •Comment – Usually there is no disadvantage in a cold bath as long as the body temperature does not fall. If it does fall then there are health dangers.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 35 – Stamping and Shaking the Feet
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Significant
- •Score - Significant
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Significant
- •Score – Significant
- •Published from lectures delivered in the 1840s
- •Comment – Body heat does come from a chemical reaction of the oxygen we breathe.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 2 – Basics of Disease W 1 A 1 C 1 J 1 K 2
- •Comment – The basic principles are true, but there is some over-statement of the effects on the mind and passions.
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 4 – Inheritance (What 2)
- •What 3 – Ideal Climate
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 6 – Drugs (What 7)
- •Score - Verified
- •What 9 – Phrenology (W 5a) C 5 J 22
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 7 – Dress – 1 (What 11)
- •Why 8 – Dress – 2 (What 11)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •What 13 - Nakedness
- •For health we should go naked.
- •Page 637-1610 – “It is entirely certain that no kind of clothing is strictly natural to man;”
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 9 – Nakedness (What 13)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 14 – Woolen Undergarments
- •Comment – Coarse woolen garments can irritate, but fine wool is usually comfortable.
- •Why 10 – Woolen Undergarments (What 14)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 15 - Shaving
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 11 – Shaving (What 15)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 17 – Hair Styling
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •Page 274-692 – “the cultivation and crowding of large numbers of fragrant flowers and plants together in gardens and houses is decidedly unfriendly to the physiological welfare of our bodies”
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 16 - Strong Smells (What 22)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Verified
- •Why 18 – Compost Heaps (What 24)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 19 – Breathing Oxygen (What 25)
- •Score – Unverified
- •III. SUNLIGHT
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 20 – Alcohol (What 26)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 23 – Opium (What 28)
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 24 – Tea & Coffee (What 29)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •V. REST
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •What 35 – Soft Beds A 76 C 23 J 45 K 49
- •Comment – The problem with soft beds is if they sag or the material is allergenic, otherwise if they give a sound sleep, they are good.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 26 – Soft Beds – 1 (What 35)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 27 – Soft Beds – 2 (What 35)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – If they sag or are allergenic then they are no better than a soft bed.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 28 – Exercise (What 38)
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •VII. PROPER DIET
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 30 – Organic Sense of the Stomach (What 42)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 32 – Concentrated Foods (What 43)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 33 – Prepared Foods (What 45)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 46 – Strongly Flavoured Foods
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 35 – Spices (What 47)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 36 – Excitation of the Stomach (What 47)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 49 – Herbal Teas
- •Comment – Herbal teas are in the main safe to drink.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 41 – Mastication (What 51)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 43 – Vegetarian – 2 (What 52)
- •Why 44 – Vegetarian – 3 (What 52)
- •Comment – A vegetarian diet does not aid strength, but does increase endurance.
- •Why 46– Vegetarian – 5 (What 52)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 52 – Meat – 3 (What 55)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 53 – Meat - 4 (What 55)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 55 - Meat – 6 (What 55)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 58 – Meat – 9 (What 55)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 56 – Raw Meat
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 60 – Raw Meat (What 56)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 57 – Cooked Meat
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Comment – Ellen White does not distinguish cream from milk so I have put cream with milk in Graham’s writings. He rightly limits the use of these products, as does Ellen White. Cream is only marginally less objectionable than butter.
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 64 – Cream (What 63)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 70 – Blood (What 70)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 71 – Variety and Mixing of Foods W 29 A 130 C 55 (J 52)
- •Why 71 - Mixing Foods (What 71)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 73 - Concentrated and Variety of Food (What 71)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 75 – Tooth Decay (What 72)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •What 75 - Drinking with Meals W 61 A 110 C 62 K 85
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 76 – Hot Food or Drink W 54 R 36 A 148 C 61 J 80 K 74
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 80 - Hot Food 2 (What 76)
- •Comment - Rapid changes in temperature can cause small cracks in enamel and increase the chances of tooth decay.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 81 – Tooth Decay – 1 (What 76)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 82 – Tooth Decay – 2 (What 76)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 85 – Eating before Bed (What 78)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 86 – Don’t Eat while Working (What 80)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •What 83 - Missed Meal
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 87 – Demand Feeding (What 84)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 85 – Eating before Weaning
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Comment – If a child is not overweight, then there should be little restriction to the amount they are eating as long as the quality is good.
- •Score – Minor
- •What 88 – Children Eating
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 88 – Over Eating (What 89)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 89 – Food in Old Age (What 91)
- •Score - Minor
- •VIII. USE OF WATER
- •What 93 – Pure Water W 66 A 151 J 75 K 87
- •Comment –Fruit juice has the fibre removed, so it is not as good as eating fruit and drinking water.
- •Score – Significant
- •What 94 – No Water (W 67) (R 16) A 149 C 64 (J 76)
- •Comment – This is exceedingly dangerous. It is safer to drink possibly polluted water than to have none at all.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 91 – No Water – 2 (What 94)
- •Comment – This may prevent cholera, as he claimed, but would damage the kidneys, in contrast with what he claims, the more fluid the kidneys have to excrete, the healthier they are.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 92 – No Hard Water (What 96)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 100 - Distilled Water
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 95 - Washing 1 (What 102)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 96 – Washing 2 (What 102)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Comment - It is assumed that girls don’t go swimming.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 97 – Swimming (What 106)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Contents Home Page
- •Published 1860
- •I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- •Obeying the laws of health influences our health and longevity.
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 1 – Inherited Diseases (What 1)
- •Inherited diseases can be delayed or prevented by lifestyle.
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 2 – Vital Forces 1 (What 1)
- •Vital forces when used up cause disease and finally death.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 3 – Vital Forces 2 (What 1)
- •Vital forces are made in the brain and are transmitted by the nerves.
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 6 – Breakdown and Repair (What 1)
- •During life, we are continually undergoing breakdown and repair.
- •Score – Verified
- •Medicines and drugs must be used sparingly.
- •What 3 – Medicine and Food
- •Medicines should not be taken when there is food in the stomach.
- •What 4 – Anaesthetics
- •Anaesthetics are too risky in most surgical cases.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Venesection or bleeding has validity, eg for heart disease.
- •What 7 – The Skin
- •The application of liquids, oils or other things to the skin is dangerous.
- •Comment – The principle is true, but the application of natural oils, such as lanolin or spirits are not usually dangerous. Mercury on the other hand is dangerous.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 7 – Absorption through the skin (What 7)
- •The skin has the power to absorb many of the liquids placed on it.
- •Why 8 – Ointments (What 7)
- •Treating the skin with ointments or poultices has no value.
- •Comment – Poultices do work to a limited extent so this is not a completely true statement.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Do not use makeup.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 10 – Make Up (What 8)
- •Most facial creams and powders are poisonous and they may be absorbed.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 12 – Tight Clothes 2 (What 9)
- •A mother wearing tight clothes reduces the lung function of her offspring.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 15 – Warm Clothes 2 (What 10)
- •By wearing warm clothing, we lose our ability to generate our own heat.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 16 – Warm Clothes in Spring (What 11)
- •We need warm clothes in spring to stop the conduction of electricity from the body.
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 18 – Round Shoulders 2 (What 13)
- •Round shoulders stop the proper use of the arms.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 19 – Round Shoulders 3 (What 13)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 27 – Elbow on Desk (What 16)
- •Scoliosis is produced by resting an elbow on the desk.
- •What 18 – Bony Deformities
- •Holding a limb in the correct position will correct a bony deformity.
- •What 20 – Education
- •Children’s training should not start early.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 21 – Learning to Walk
- •Babies should not be encouraged or helped to walk.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 32 – Learning to Walk and Talk (What 22)
- •Babies walking or talking early will inhibit the development of other organs.
- •What 23 – Excessive Learning
- •Score – Unverified
- •Light reading causes a drop in body heating.
- •Why 35 – Light Reading 2 (What 24)
- •The study of poetry or fiction is not good for the heart, arteries or blood.
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 25 – Public Speaking
- •Public speaking extemporaneously is good for the throat.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Public speaking prevents throat disease.
- •Squints are caused by looking sideways.
- •What 29 – Spectacles
- •The wearing of spectacles is not advisable.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – Licentiousness is associated with venereal diseases including AIDS.
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •We should avoid strong smells, especially that of cooking.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 43 – Body temperature 2 (What 33)
- •Body temperature is also controlled by the heat produced in the skin.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – Some of his points are correct and others are not.
- •Score – Verified
- •Rickets is caused by foul air.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 47 – Respiration (What 33)
- •Respiration is required for making and restoring blood, and warming the body.
- •Score - Verified
- •Why 48 – Rotting vegetables (What 33)
- •Methane given off by rotting vegetables is a dangerous poison that causes typhoid.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Comment - Other factors for the lungs in this quote are covered in whats elsewhere.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 35 – Speaking 1
- •What 37 – Crying
- •It is good for the child to cry so they should not be comforted.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Crying strengthens the babies lungs.
- •What 38 – Talking Loud
- •We should talk loud and long.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Jumping with a deep breath is good for the lungs.
- •What 41 – Air Filters
- •People should devise a means of filtering out the dust in air of factories.
- •Score – Significant
- •What 42 – Ventilation W 12 R 7 G 23 C 14 J 28 K 34
- •Ventilation should be available to bedrooms, living rooms and schools.
- •Why 52 – Ventilation 1 (What 42)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 54 – Flatulence (What 42)
- •Gas passed from the bowel contains hydrogen sulphide, which is poisonous.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 44 – Carbon-Monoxide
- •Burning charcoal in a closed room causes death.
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 45 – Carbon Dioxide 2
- •Because carbon dioxide is poisonous we should never re-breath air.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 57 – Carbon Dioxide 2 (What 45)
- •Re-breathing carbon dioxide cause a loss of appetite and disease.
- •Secondhand tobacco smoke is poisonous.
- •What 47 – Air Temperature
- •The temperature of the air we breathe should be as low as can be tolerated.
- •Score – Unverified
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- •What 49 – Hot Air
- •Breathing heated air is dangerous to health.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 59 – Hot Air 1 (What 49)
- •Heating our selves causes weakness of the arteries.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Comments - This only applies in hot weather.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 51 – Cool House
- •We should not heat houses over 62 or 65 F. degrees.
- •Comment – Just because we can adjust to 62 F. degrees does not mean that it is unhealthy to heat the air to 70 F. degrees.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 66 – Warming (What 54)
- •Many diseases are caused by warming in front of a fire when cold.
- •What 55 – Humidity
- •When we heat a room we must moisten the air.
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 67 – Dry Air (What 55)
- •Dry air can damage mucous membranes.
- •Score – Verified
- •What 56 – Plants
- •There should be no plants in a bedroom.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 68 – Plants (What 56)
- •Plants give off excessive amounts of carbon dioxide at night.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Pets give off carbon dioxide.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Outside air is better than inside air.
- •Score – Significant
- •Trees and plants purify the air.
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 71 – Compost heap (What 60)
- •Compost and animal dung give off gases that cause many diseases.
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 62 – Snow
- •Looking at a candle can damage a child’s eyes.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 66 – Increase in Light
- •Turning on the light can damage the eyes.
- •Score - Verified
- •Why 74 – Social drugs 2 (What 67)
- •The social drugs interfere with the circulation.
- •Why 75 – Social drugs 3 (What 67)
- •The social and other drugs disturb the function of the skin.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Comment – Tobacco should not be taken at all, regardless of the constitution.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 77 – Smoking 1 (What 70)
- •Tobacco smoking causes rheumatism, bilious attacks and fevers.
- •Why 78 – Smoking 2 (What 70)
- •Tobacco leads to excess alcohol intake by causing thirst.
- •Smoking damages the sense of taste.
- •Tea and Coffee contain a narcotic drug.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •V. REST
- •What 72 – Sleep W 21 R 44 G 34 C 21 (J 39) K 45
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – If there is adequate sleep and the time of retiring fairly consistent there is no drop in the immune system.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 84 – Time to Sleep 2 (What 74)
- •“Early to bed and early to rise” people are warmer than late risers.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 75 – Porous Beds
- •Beds should have a free flow of air and electricity.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Feather beds are no good for health.
- •Comment – As long as a bed supports the back and is not allergenic it does not matter what it is made from.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 86 – Feathers Beds (What 76)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Sleeping on the right side aids digestion.
- •Comment – It would be better to wash the clothes.
- •Score – Minor
- •What 85 – Double Beds 2
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 93 – Cool Room (What 87)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment - The light of a candle usually does not affect depth of sleep.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 89 – Dark Bedroom
- •On the other hand a bedroom should not be artificially darkened.
- •Score - Unverified
- •VI. EXERCISE
- •What 92 – Exercise W 23 R 38 G 38 C 25 J 47 K 54
- •Our bodies need exercise.
- •Score – Significant
- •Exercise helps chronic diarrhea.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Constipation is relieved by exercise.
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 103 – Exercise 9 (What 92)
- •Lack of exercise contributes to varicose veins.
- •Why 105 – Exercise 11 (What 92)
- •If women swam, the death from tuberculosis would be halved in future generations.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 106 – When to Exercise 1 (What 94)
- •Our strength is best mid morning and later on we have a slight fever.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 95 – When to Mentally Exercise
- •The middle of the morning is also best for mind work.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Swimming is a good exercise.
- •Score - Minor
- •What 98 – Employment
- •Exercise from our daily employment is good, but mainly if the employment is useful.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 109 – Excessive Exercise (What 102)
- •What 103 – Excess Mental Activity R 43 G 41 J 50 K 57
- •Comment – Most pleasurable experiences have a health benefit. This does not include the fear response that some confuse with pleasure. Mental activity does not harm our health.
- •Score – Unverified
- •VII. PROPER DIET
- •What 104 – Mastication W 62 R 31 G 51 C 39 K 71
- •Why 110 – Mastication (What 104)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 113 – High Calorie Food 2 (What 105)
- •The metabolism of high calorie foods exhausts the lungs and causes tuberculosis.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 115 – Making Blood (What 105)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 106 – Vegetables
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 107 –Fried Food
- •Score – Minor
- •Comment – The only disadvantage of soft, wet foods is on our teeth and if other chewable food is used there are no problems with these either.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 120 - Fluid with Meals 1 (What 110)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Adults should not drink milk.
- •What 112 - Milk - Drinking
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 125 – Milk & Eggs (What 113)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 127 – Cheese 2 (What 114)
- •Why 128 – Cheese 3 (What 114)
- •What 115 – Fruit and Children
- •What 116 – When to Eat Fruit
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 129 – Nuts (What 119)
- •What 120 - Rice
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 130 – Pig (What 121)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •What 127 – Spices W 51 R 15 G 47 C 56 J 67 K 75
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 136 – Spices 2 (What 127)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 138 – Spices 4 (What 127)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 139 – Spices 5 (What 127)
- •What 128 – Sugar W 49 R 13 (C 54) J 65 K 80
- •Score – Significant
- •What 129 – Refined Foods W 28 G 43 C 32 J 54 K77
- •What 130 - Mixing Foods W 29 G 71 C 55 (J 52)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 142 – Mixing Foods (What 130)
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 145 – Exciting Foods (What 133)
- •What 134 – How Many Meals W 56 G 77 C 46 J 68 K 68
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 149 – Few Meals 2 (What 134)
- •Why 150 – Constipation (What 134)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 151 – Eating Between Meals (What 134)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 152 – Demand Feeding (What 135)
- •What 136 – Solid Foods
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 154 – Over feeding (What 137)
- •Why 155 – Night Feeds (What 137)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 156 – Hunger (What 140)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 158 – Overeating (What 140)
- •Comment – All fruit are good in all seasons.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 146 – Temperament
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 163 – Thirst (What 149)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 166 – Cool Water (What 149)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 167 – Only Water (What 151)
- •Score - Verified
- •What 152 – Rate of Drinking
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Why 168 – Hard Water (What 153)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 155 - Copper Poisoning
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Significant
- •Comment – He considered that metabolism or heat production can only occur where air comes in contact with the body, such as the lungs and skin.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 171 – Centrifugal Tendency (What 156)
- •In health there are centrifugal tendencies which bring waste matter to the surface and remove it in sweat from the skin, the kidneys and the lungs.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 158 – Dirt
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 159 – People needing to Bath
- •Comment – All need to bath.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 174 – Bath 1 (What 159)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 175 – Bath 2 (What 159)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 160 – Rough Clothing
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 161 – Cold Baths before Bed
- •Comment – Alcott seems to contradict himself. As long as the temperature of the bath does not cause changes in the body temperature, a wide range of bath temperature is safe.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 176 – Cold Baths (What 162)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 178 – Hot or Fatigued (What 164)
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Verified
- •Scope - Unverified
- •What 169 – Obey your Parents
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 182 – Emotions 1 (What 171)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 183 – Emotions 2 (What 171)
- •I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- •Score - Significant
- •Why 1 – Laws of Health 1 (What 1)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 2 – Laws of Health 2 (What 1)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 3 – Laws of Health 3 (What 1)
- •Score - Verified
- •Score - Significant
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 4 – Tight Clothes 1 (What 3)
- •Why 5 – Tight Clothes 2 (What 3)
- •We should know our own phrenology
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 8 – Phrenology 2 (What 5)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 6 – Children’s Phrenology
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 9 – Children’s Phrenology (What 6)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 10 – Electricity 1 (What 7)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 13 – Vital Forces (What 7)
- •Comment – If we don’t have a good lifestyle we can’t properly digest our food.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 15 – Stomach Nerves 2 (What 7)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Verified
- •Sexual activity reduces vital energies.
- •Page 125.1 – “but when these are allowed in excess, they reduce the vital energies, diminish the powers of body and mind.”
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – Sexually transmitted diseases have been a scourge of mankind.
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 18 – Licentious Sex (What 9)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 20 – Masturbation 2 (What 10)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 11 – Rhythm Contraception
- •What 12 - Spitting
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •II. FRESH AIR
- •Why 23 – Ventilation 1 (What 14)
- •Why 24 – Ventilation 2 (What 14)
- •Score – Unverified
- •IV. ABSTEMIOUSNESS
- •What 16 – Alcohol (W 19) (R 8) (G 26) A 67 (J 34) (K 42)
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 28 – Alcohol 1 (What 16)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 30 – Alcohol 3 (What 16)
- •Comment – The opposite is true.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 17 – Tobacco (W 18) (R 19) (G27) A 70 (J 36) (K 41)
- •Comment – There is no medicinal use for tobacco.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 33 – Tobacco 2 (What 17)
- •Why 34 – Tobacco 3 (What 17)
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 37 – Opium (What 18)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 38 – Caffeine 1 (What 19)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 42 – Tea & Coffee (What 19)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – The form of caffeine (theobromine) in chocolate is considerably less stimulating than normal caffeine, but should not be taken in large amounts as with other healthy foods.
- •Score – Unverified
- •V. REST
- •What 21 – Sleep W 21 R 44 G 34 A 72 (J 39) K 45
- •Score - Significant
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 48 – Relaxation (What 24)
- •Score – Verified
- •VI. EXERCISE
- •What 25 – Exercise W 23 R 38 G 38 A 92 J 47 K 54
- •Page 44.1 – “But every one should accustom himself to some brisk, lively, cheerful daily exercise, if he values his health.”
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 49 – Exercise (What 25)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Comment – Walking gives the best balance between aerobic and muscular activity. Many agricultural pursuits lack aerobic exercise.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •VII. PROPER DIET
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 52 – Bread (What 29)
- •Gluten has all essential amino acids
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 55 – The Duodenum (What 29)
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 30 – Vegetable
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comments – If simplicity means low processing it is true, but if it means mixing foods it is incorrect.
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Significant
- •Why 60 – Meat 1 (What 34)
- •Page 67.1 – “Even the cancer can generally be traced back, either mediately or immediately, to such an origin (meat).”
- •Score - Verified
- •Meat eating delays wound healing
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 63 – Meat 4 (What 34)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 66 – Meat 7 (What 34)
- •Comment – Meat tends to be high in fat.
- •Score - Verified
- •Why 67 – Meat 8 (What 34)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 68 – Meat 9 (What 34)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 69 – Meat 10 (What 34)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 71 – Meat 12 (What 34)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 72 – Meat 13 (What 34)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 73 – Meat 14 (What 34)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 75 – Meat 16 (What 34)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •What 37 - Fowl
- •Comment – Unlike fish, both chicken and red meat contain saturated fat.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score –Minor
- •Comment – Chewing does aid digestion, but there is no health risk in not excessively chewing as indicated.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 40 – Don’t Talk while Eating
- •Score - Unverified
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- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 43 - Emetics
- •There are times when vomiting should be induced.
- •Comment - Vomiting is valid after imbibing a poison, but in the mid-19th century it was used to “balance the humours”.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •What 45 – Eating before Bed W 58 R 23 G 78 A 131 J 70 K 70
- •Score – Minor
- •There is no digestion when sleeping
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 84 – Three Meals a Day 1 (What 46)
- •Comment - Even with graze feeding digestion is able to cope.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 86 – Nursing 1 (What 48)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 87 – Nursing 2 (What 48)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 50 – Children
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 88 - Children 1 (What 50)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 90 – Children 3 (What 50)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – Physical exercise, but not mental activity can slow digestion, but this does no harm.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 94 – Rest before Meals (What 53)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 57 – Watching our Diet
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 100 – Fluid with Meals (What 62)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •VIII. USE OF WATER
- •What 64 – Amount of Drink (W 67) (R 16) G 94 A 149 (J 76)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 65 – Personal Cleanliness W 69 R 25 G 102 A 156 J 81 K 89
- •Score – Significant
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – Warm bathing alone is not recommended with inflammation.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – Warm bathing alone increases blood flow.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – Soap will not lather in seawater so it will not clean as well as fresh.
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 69 – Over Washing
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 109 – Over Washing (What 69)
- •Score – Unverified
- •IX. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
- •What 70 – Cheerfulness W 76 R 47 A 170 J 96 K 102
- •Page 127.2 – “A cheerful and happy mind gives (health).”
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Verified
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Why 116 – Sympathy (What 73)
- •Score – Verified
- •What 73 – Mothers Character
- •Why 117 – Mothers Character 1 (What 73)
- •I GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- •What 1 – Lifestyle W 1 G 2 A 1 C 1 K 2
- •Score - Significant
- •Why 1 – Lifestyle (What 1)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Scrofula is inherited.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Score – Unverified
- •Cool air at feet causes disease.
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 7 – Cold legs and Disease (What 8)
- •What 9 – Adult Dress
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 10 - Hoopskirts
- •What 11 – Pants
- •Why 9 – Dress 2 (What 11)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 10 – Dress 3 (What 11)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 11 - Dress 4 (What 11)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Minor
- •Why 12 – Tight Clothes 1 (What 12)
- •Score - Verified
- •Score – Verified
- •What 13 – Clothing Colour
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 17 – Rest after Birth
- •Score - Unverified
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- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 17 – Sexual Activity (What 21)
- •Comment – Only licentious sexual activity, through sexually transmitted diseases, has physical risk. In fact safe sexual activity improves the immune system.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •II PURE AIR
- •Score - Significant
- •Why 18 – Pure Air 1 (What 24)
- •Score – Verified
- •What 25 – Bathing in Pure Air
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Significant
- •Score - Verified
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •Good ventilation is required for health.
- •Score - Significant
- •Score - Verified
- •Why 23 – Ventilation 2 (What 28)
- •Poor ventilation affects the function of the bowels, kidneys and skin.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Significant
- •Comment- Jackson regarded alcohol as a narcotic.
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Verified
- •The vital forces are exhausted eliminating alcohol.
- •Score - Verified
- •What 35 – Alcohol Fumes
- •Why 29 – Alcohol Fumes (What 35)
- •Score - Significant
- •Score - Verified
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Significant
- •What 38 – Tea & Coffee W 17 R 18 G 29 A 71 C 19 K 43
- •Why 33 – Tea & Coffee 1 (What 38)
- •Score – Verified
- •Why 34 - Tea & Coffee 2 (What 38)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 39 – Sleep (W 21) (R 44) (G 34) (A 72) (C 21) (K 45)
- •Score – Unverified
- •What 42 – Mental Rest
- •Score – Minor
- •What 43 – Times of Stress
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 47 – Exercise W 23 R 38 G 38 A 92 C 25 K 54
- •Score – Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score – Minor
- •Score - Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 51 – Best Diet (W 26) (R 29) (G 52) A 105 (C 29) (K 79)
- •Comment – Without vegetables this would be a dangerous diet.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – The principle is correct, but leaving out vegetables (including legumes) is not.
- •Bread can be eaten alone.
- •Comment – It is unlikely that one can live on bread or fruit alone for a prolonged time and remain in health.
- •Score - Minor
- •Score – Verified
- •Score - Verified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 46 – Yeast (What 55)
- •Score - Unverified
- •What 56 - Potatoes
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Score - Unverified
- •Why 49 – Fasting (What 58)
- •Score - Unverified
- •Be a vegetarian.
- •Score - Significant
- •Meat eating dulls the senses
- •Score - Verified
- •Score – Significant
- •Fat reduces resistance to disease.
- •Comments – If the fat intake is too low, the immune system falls.
- •Score – Unverified
- •Score - Significant
- •Score – Unverified
- •Why 55 – Butter (What 63)
- •Score – Unverified
- •Comment – It is better to restrict the use of cream as well as butter.
- •Score – Unverified
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- •Excessive use of sugar reduces immunity.
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- •Drink pure water.
- •Page 23.1 – “drink very plentifully .... of good …. water"
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- •Page 23.1 – “drink very plentifully …. water"
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- •1863 Vol. 6 page 23.1 – “drink .... of good soft water"
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- •IX SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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- •Published 1888
- •I GENERAL PRINCIPLES
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- •Why 5 – Diseases from Masturbation (What 5)
- •Page 341 – 346 “(Masturbating boys) become puny dwarfs.”
- •Comment – A similar list of diseases is mentioned in An Appeal to Mothers (1864).
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- •Why 17 – Cleaning Ears (What 18)
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- •What 19 – Ears Temperature
- •What 20 – Tired Eyes
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- •What 21 – Dull light
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- •Comment – Even in the New England area of the USA this is not needed except may be in winter.
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- •Comment – It needs a prolonged drop in body temperature to lower the immune system. If already hot and sweating this is unlikely to happen.
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- •Comment – This is an overstatement, but does highlight the need for nose breathing.
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- •II PURE AIR
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- •What 35 – Bedroom Plants
- •Comment – It is now known that the oxygen from plants is so little compared with the leakage from outside that even in a closed room it is insufficient for any benefit.
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- •Comment – It is the rats that are attracted to the rubbish that spread plague and not the smell of rotting material
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- •Comment – This is only true if there is any danger of dampness.
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- •Comment – The main form of caffeine in chocolate is far less potent on the nervous system than normal caffeine. (Caffeine and Health, Jack E James, page 10)
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- •Comment - It matters not at all when or if a nap is taken.
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- •Comment – There may be a slight improvement in the immune system by ending with cool water.
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Comment – Calcium is the usual mineral found in hard water and it is not dangerous, but there are other contaminating minerals that may be in hard water, which should not be habitually drunk. However it is better to drink hard water than impure water.
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Why 92 – No Hard Water (What 96)
Hard water damages the stomach, liver and other organs causing many diseases including cancer. Page 595-1523 – “It is well known that if hard water be habitually used for washing...it (skin) soon loses its natural softness and smoothness.... can any one believe that a fluid can continually come in contact with the most delicate nervous and other tissue of the vital domain, and not injure them? The stomach, the liver, and every other gland, and every capillary vessel of the system - in short, every organ and tissue and substance of the body, necessarily suffer from the use of such water” Page 596-1523 – “Pulmonary consumption, scrofulous affections, indurations, cancers, and other diseases of the glands, and diseases of the skin and mucous membranes, are caused by it.”
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What 97 – Don’t Perspire |
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Avoid activities that cause perspiration. |
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Page 591-1514 – “laboring people whose dietetic habits are not most favorable .... will perspire very profusely, and especially in hot weather, and of course they drink as freely as they perspire; ... it can be of no possible benefit”
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Why 93 – Don’t Perspire (What 97)
Perspiration debilitates the body. If the diet is right even labourers will not perspire.
Page 591-1514 – “it can be of no possible benefit to his vital powers to filter several quarts of water through his body daily;.....to the decided diminution of their strength and detriment of all their powers;”
Page 591-1515 – “Copious perspiration, therefore, as a general law, is decidedly debilitating to the body,....the strength of the laboring man is always diminished by it, and he is necessarily more fatigued and exhausted at the close of a day's labor in consequence of it....
If the dietetic and other habit of man were in accordance with physiological laws of his nature, it would be very extraordinary thing for him, while in health, to perspire profusely, ...The laboring man, while actively engaged in his customary employment .... would rarely experience thirst." ....In such a case, the laboring man would go through the toils of the day with much less fatigue and exhaustion than he who drinks much and perspires much."
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What 98 – Fever W 68 (R 4) C 4 (J 14) (K 90)
While feverish, water can be drunk. Also water should be applied to the skin to cool the person. Page 592-1516 – “When, by any means, a general fever is induced in the system, attended by a great thirst......In such a case,-therefore, the instinctive demands of the vital economy should always and freely be granted. Nay, -pure cold water should not only be drunk as freely as the thirst requires it, but in most cases of high fever, the free application of water to the whole external surface, till the skin feels cool and moist as in health, -is a natural and powerful and safe means of subduing the disease.”
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Page 596-1524 – “And many thousands have done themselves irreparable injury by the use of the mineral waters of public watering-places.”
Comment – I consider mineral water to mean water coming from a spring, thus is not contaminated. Even though mineral water sometimes contains high levels of sodium, it is usually sterile. This was of the utmost importance in the 1850s before the meaning of “pure water” was understood.
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What 100 - Distilled Water
Distilled water is not safe.
Page 597-1525 – “Some take the pains to distil all the water that they use; (but it is to no avail)” Comment – By condemning distilled water, it is clear he did not understand that just boiling water totally solved the problem with water born infectious diseases.
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Why 94 – Distilled Water (What 100) Distilled water still contains contamination.
Page 597-1525 – “if the water which they put into their kettles contains any vegetable or animal substances some of their properties will rise with the vapor, and qualify the water which is received from the still.”
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What 101 - Cleanliness |
W 70 A 166 |
Bedrooms and bedclothes should be clean and washed.
Page 629-1585 – “Besides thus freely airing the bed-garments and bed clothes every morning, they should be frequently changed and washed,... The floor of the bedroom should be washed frequently; and as often as twice in a year the walls should be whitewashed or cleansed with hot soap-suds.” Comment –He does not mention the washing of clothes worn during the day.
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What 102 – Washing |
W 69 R 25 A 156 C 65 J 81 K 89 |
We should regularly bath. |
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Page 631-1589 – “few things are more indispensable than cleanliness; and hence, bathing should never be neglected.”
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Why 95 - Washing 1 (What 102)
The skin, like the kidneys and lungs, breathes and secretes and has to be clean to do this well. Page 197506 – “The impurities which are continually accumulating in the blood,....expelled from
the vital domain by the excretory organs... The lungs ... the kidneys ... but the external skin probably exceeds any other organ, and it has supposed to exceed all other depurating organs in the system, in quantity of matter which it eliminates”
"But it is admitted on all hands, that the skin is one of the most important depurating organs of the system, and that its healthy condition and functional integrity are of immense importance to human health and comfort."
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healthy condition..... In order to this, few things are more indispensable than cleanliness; and hence, bathing should never be neglected.”
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Why 96 – Washing 2 (What 102)
If the excretory function of the skin is interrupted, there is a risk of diabetes, tuberculosis, kidney failure and lung disease.
Page 198-507- “In this manner, sudden suppression of the functions of the skin often lead to diabetes and pulmonary consumption, by causing undue determinations to the kidney and lungs, and inducing inflammation and permanent disease in those organs.”
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What 103 – Temperature of Bath |
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Baths and showers should be cool. |
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Page 632-1594 – “The cold shower bath is exceedingly invigorating to every one who is able to bear it,”
Page 632-1595 – “The tepid bath, vary from eighty to ninety-five degrees, Fah., according to age, vigor, etc., of those who use it, may, under proper regulations, be employed with great advantage by all classes of people.”
Comment – There are no health risks in having a warm bath.
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What 104 – Time to Bath |
A 163 J 84 K 92 |
The best time to bath is at 11 am. |
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Page 623-1595 - “the best time for taking the tepid bath to be about eleven o’clock in the forenoon.”
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What 105 – Bath after a Meal |
J 86 K 95 |
We should not bath up to three hours after a meal.
Page 632-1595 – “But at whatever time any bath is taken by any person, it ought always to be remembered that no one should bathe soon after eating; three hours at least should elapse after a hearty meal, before a bath is taken, when it will be found most invigorating."
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What 106 – Swimming |
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Boys should avoid swimming. |
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Page 633-1596 – “But boys who are allowed to indulge in this kind of bathing (swimming) at pleasure, ..... are exceedingly apt to go into the water too frequently, and to remain in quite too long, (for their health)”
Comment - It is assumed that girls don’t go swimming.
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Why 97 – Swimming (What 106)
Swimming impairs health and even causes death.
Page 633-1596 – “(Boys swimming) and thereby very much impair their health, and often bring on violent disease, which soon terminates in death.”
Comment – By context this does not mean drowning, but disease.
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Appendix 4 - The Laws of Health
William A Alcott
Published 1860 |
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I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES |
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What 1 – Laws of Health |
W 1 G 2 C 1 J 1 K 2 |
Obeying the laws of health influences our health and longevity.
Page 12-63 – “The way to secure long life, then, is a plain way..... We must but obey the laws of God. (66) – “the laws of exercise” (67) – “Then the laws of digestion. To attain to a long and healthy life, we must eat and drink;..... according to law;” (68) – “and the law which relates to the subject of pure air and ventilation” (69) – “numerous things concerning dress, medicine, taking cold, and other diseases; ..... Prevention, as far as it can be practiced, is better than cure.”
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Why 1 – Inherited Diseases (What 1)
Inherited diseases can be delayed or prevented by lifestyle.
Page 13-71 – “Few persons are so much affected by inheritance as to render their condition necessarily one of misery. Would we obey the whole physical and moral code,..... Our inherited diseases would not kill us, at least, immediately.”
Comment – It is true that some inherited tendencies to disease can be altered by lifestyle, but many are not.
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Why 2 – Vital Forces 1 (What 1)
Vital forces when used up cause disease and finally death.
Page 1-4 - "They (people) are influenced by a powerful force which we will call vitality, of the vital force."
Page 17-95 - "should it be asked how,- or in what manner death could take place, my answer would be, ..... I suppose a definite quantity of oil is furnished to nature's lamp, and, when that is exhausted, life will, of course, be extinguished."
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Why 3 – Vital Forces 2 (What 1)
Vital forces are made in the brain and are transmitted by the nerves.
Page 375-1965 - "(Nerves) carries out the vital or nervous energy, as it is called, which the brain manufactures,"
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Why 4 – Growth Rate (What 1)
If we hasten growth by over-nutrition, we shorten life expectancy.
Page 2-8 – “In our climate he (man in comparison with animals) is, at present, about twenty-five years in reaching physical maturity. He ought, therefore, to last from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five years. If, however, he is hurried on to maturity by hot-house effect, at twenty or eighteen, we lessen his probable duration in about the same proportion.”
Comment – If mice or rats have restricted nutrition, they mature later and live longer than other rodents. In humans there is a similar but lesser effect. Vegetarians also mature slightly later and live longer than non-vegetarians. It is unlikely that 125 years could be achieved.
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