Diet and food considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, training and athletics.

  • Alexander Haig
Date:
1901
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Credit: Diet and food considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, training and athletics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    easily noted and verified ; though the mournful fact, that the deadly path of stimulation once entered upon has only too often led to the complete ruin of mind and body, can scarcely, I think, at this period of the world's history, require further demonstration. As regards pathology it will one day, I doubt not, be evident to all that many diseases now called by different names are really not diseases at all, but the effects of uric acid and similar food poisons. The full effects of these poisons on the physical, mental and moral nature of man will only become visible when large numbers of people live on a uric acid free diet for the whole of their lives, which almost no one has yet done. Then only will it be possible to calculate the price we are now paying for our stimulant poisons. Mr. Miles estimates his mental and physical gain at 50 per cent., but it is probably considerably more for those who begin diet early in life, before they become diseased ; and who thus have the advantage of growing and developing on foods, and not on poisons.
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