“ Conventional eating habits violate all of the rules of food combining in the preceding chapters and, since the majority of people manage to live for at least a few years and to "enjoy" their aches and… Herbert M. Shelton
“ Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do. Herbert M. Shelton
“ General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. Herbert M. Shelton
“ Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless… Herbert M. Shelton
“ The power to assimilate crude inorganic matter as it is found in the soil, and convert it into living protoplasm and other organic substances, or to use such substances in performing physiological fun… Herbert M. Shelton
“ In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. Herbert M. Shelton
“ A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody… Herbert M. Shelton
“ At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. Herbert M. Shelton
“ The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself. Herbert M. Shelton
“ The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that disease is something that must be cured, the idea that it is so… Herbert M. Shelton
“ Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome. Herbert M. Shelton
“ If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with t… Herbert M. Shelton
“ The skin is an integral part of the body and depends upon the general system for its supply of food and to carry away its waste. Skin health depends primarily upon the general health of the body. All… Herbert M. Shelton
“ The intelligent person, viewing the great number of so-called diseases that arise out of this prostration of the functions of life, and realising that they have one and all grown out of the habitual v… Herbert M. Shelton
“ Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick. Herbert M. Shelton
“ So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and… Herbert M. Shelton
