Avenues to health / by Eustace H. Miles.

  • Eustace Miles
Date:
1904
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Credit: Avenues to health / by Eustace H. Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDIVIDUALITY “ Yes, your diet agrees with you, but it won’t agree with me, because we are all different.” Such is the objection most frequently brought against my suggestions in “ Muscle, Brain, and Diet,” although there I clearly stated that certain foods suit me better than the ordinary foods, and that therefore these same foods may possibly suit others who as yet have only tried the ordinary foods ; that these Simple Foods deserve to be tried, to be adapted to individual needs, and then to be judged by results. But still the reply will come, “ These Simple Foods won’t suit me, because I am different from you ; ” and so I have to repeat again and again, “ I do not say that such-and-such a thing, whether food or water-treatment or something else, will certainly suit you ; I only say that it may suit you, and that it is worth trying ; that, without trying it, you have no earthly right to condemn it. You ought to be, you can easily be, far healthier than you are now. You are not doing yourself justice. We are different, you and I, a/id yet we are similar, so similar that what suits me so well is assuredly worth a fair trial by you. Our general appearance, inside and outside, our limbs, our organs, our muscles, our nerves, our blood, our minds are similar.” Let me tell the reader of Dr. Kellogg’s experiences in the last twenty-five years. More than a quarter of a million people are now living on his plan, and are finding themselves healthier for it every year. These people probably, for the most part, made the trial with- out any belief that it would succeed, and therefore, as every student of psychology will agree, they started at a disadvantage. Want of belief is against cure. (A
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