Paul C. Bragg's four generation health food cook book and menus

Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, Hippocrates, the father of the natural healing sciences said: "Food will be your medicine, and medicine will be your food." Hippocrates further stated: "Strength, growth, nourishment result from the right food." These statements are equally true today. We know that the only real cures come from food. As an example, let's take scurvy, the disease that kills thousands around the world every year. It can definitely be cured by massive doses of Vitamin C. Beriberi is another deficiency disease for which massive doses of Vitamin B-Complex can effect a cure. I could go on and on telling of the importance of nutrition in ridding the body of diseases. Drugs cannot make such claims. Food is the magic healer. Keep constantly in mind the words, "Food will be your medicine, and medicine will be your food." Travel the world over, and in no country will you find the abundance of food that the United States produces. Go into the supermarkets of any city or town in the U.S.A. and you will find the shelves loaded with every imaginable kind of food. . . . Yet with all this great array of food, we are poorly nourished. And the hidden hungers of the overfed are as much cause for concern as the food deficiencies of the underfed. Being overfed can be even more dangerous than being underfed, unless one is really starved. Just as there is malnourishment among the poor, there is also malnourishment among the well-to-do. In both cases, important nutrients are missing in the daily diet. Too much rich food - such as fatty meats, dairy products, eggs, sugary and salty foods - are just as dangerous to good health as too little food. . . . MY EARLY EXPERIENCE My life was saved by the science of nutrition. At the age of 16, I had a terminal case of T.B. By the grace of God, I was led to Dr. August Rollier in Leysin, Switzerland, a man who was a hundred years ahead of his time in the science of nutrition. _Paul C. Bragg