how to live

Nature tolerates a certain degree of irremediable pathology and permits us to live for an extended period -- provided we lighten her burden. She cannot carry the double load of impaired function and bad habits. She cannot be expected to hold an impaired nervous system at bay and at the same time take care of three times as much food as is needed to replace ordinary wear and tear. Efficient metabolic activity cannot be maintained when enervating habits are regularly indulged. 

​The hopelessness of chronic sufferers is not wholly due to the fact that some physicians typically commence their care at the wrong end of the disease, but also to the fact that causes are ignored and mere palliation of a very doubtful character are exclusively employed.

The man with a crippled pancreas must learn how to live within his limitations. The same is true of the heart cripple, the kidney cripple and all other cripples. By learning how to live on what is necessary to keep the body in tolerance and not overtax a weakened organ, many can live for extended periods of time without suffering. But if a man with an impaired pancreas eats until his stomach is aching  and overfilled of carbohydrates and then demands a shot of insulin, it will not be long before he is attending his own funeral. "Science" is ever on the alert for new crutches to be employed by the physiological cripples who never seem to realize that they must pay for their bad conduct with increased impairment of other organs, or the whole organism in fact.

The greatest need today for the world today is health education. There are thousands of people who are sick, and these need to be taught how to care for the body and practice hygienic living. If they only knew how to get well and stay well they could learn how to live life more abundantly.