Abstracts on Relation of Vitamin Deficiencies to Heart Disorders
Summary: Much of the original vitamin research during the 1930s was conducted by independent researchers and published by top journals and prestigious publishing houses of the day. These abstracts from the scientific literature of that time prove conclusively that even as far back as then researchers were clearly noting the link between nutrition and heart disease. As the ruination of the food supply was becoming a reality of American life thanks to processed foods, health authorities would have to have gone out of their way not to be aware of what was unfolding between the nutritional supply and the health of the country. Reprint 6, 1939.
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Abstracts on the Effects of Pasteurization on the Nutritional Value of Milk
Summary: In the 1930s, many of the first pasteurization laws were passed despite the opposition, on nutritional grounds, of many scientists. This report shows abstracts of various scientific investigations into the effects of pasteurization on milk, which include the destruction of natural antibacterial factors in raw milk; destruction of vitamins A, B, and C; nullification of raw milk's effectiveness in reversing tuberculosis; and so on. While most people today assume that pasteurization makes milk safer, the truth, as these abstracts show, is that it destroys the nutritional value of milk to such an extent that the milk becomes an inherently toxic food, not the healthful one it is in its raw state. Reprint 7, 1939.
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The Acid-Alkaline Balance and Patient Management
By Dr. George Goodheart
Summary: The perfect primer on the nature of acid-alkaline balance in the human body. Dr. Goodheart explores the practical aspects of assessing the pH of the patient, emphasizing that changes in diet alone are not enough to shift pH. "The endocrine glands regulate the blood pH more than the diet," he writes, making support of the endocrines critical. (Also, of note to chiropractors, the cause of pH imbalance "frequently lies in a structural fault in the upper cervical or the pelvic area.") In addition to pH testing methods and analysis, Goodheart presents some of the classic symptoms of hyperalkalinity, e.g., allergies, insomnia, and neuritic or arthritic pain, as well as those of hyperacidity—breathlessness, dry skin, "lump" in the throat. Ultimately, "the whole problem of proper endocrine and acid-alkaline balance is associated with proper fat intake, liver, and kidney function. The necessity of maintaining good liver function by the use of good quality fats and oils and the sharp decrease in baked and cereal goods is indicated in the initial stages of treating disturbances of the acid-alkaline balance." From The Digest of Chiropractic Economics, circa 1960.
American Cancer Society Repudiates Pittsburgh Cancer Clinic—Letter and Article
Various authors
Summary: Several reports detailing how the American Cancer Society fought against the Drosnes-Lazenby Naturopathic Cancer Clinic, a center in Pittsburgh providing a free alternative approach to cancer therapy. These documents demonstrate just how far back the conventional cancer-treatment industry has sought to protect its "turf" against competition in the healing arts. Various sources. Reprint 18E, 1950.
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American Journal of Proctology Article on Cancer and Organic Foods
By Dr. Donald C. Collins
Summary: A California MD records in a professional journal five separate cases in which patients with colorectal cancer recovered after changing to a diet of only organically grown foods. From the American Journal of Proctology, 1961.
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And Now, A New Crisis in Farming
By J. W. Robinson
Summary: A report on the tragic consequences to livestock caused by modern toxic and soil-destroying agricultural practices, including increased dwarfism, viral infection, and infectious abortion—precursors, perhaps, of today's factory-farm disasters. From the periodical The Plain Truth. Reprint 136, 1963.
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Applied Protomorphology Brief
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: A synopsis of the Theory of Protomorphology by the man who developed it. In this brief article, Lee touches on the basics of autoimmune theory decades before autoimmune disorders were acknowledged and accepted by the field of medical science.
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Are We Starving at Full Tables?
Author unknown
Summary: This paper from the late 1940s ties the growing rates of heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and mental illness in America to the widespread malnutrition of its citizens, a result not just of the removal of nutrients during food processing but, more importantly, of the disappearance of trace minerals in its worn-out soils. The paper focuses on an experiment conducted by Dr. Ira Allison and the famous soil scientist Dr. William Albrecht in which diseased cows feeding on mineral-deficient pastures were returned to health through supplementation with trace minerals. This paper might have caused U.S. health officials to recognize that Americans were suffering massive malnutrition in spite of bellies full of industrially processed foods. Instead, tragically, it was ignored. From the periodical Steel Horizons. Reprint 41A.
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Arm and Shoulder Pain
By Dr. George Goodheart
Summary: Dr. Goodheart, the founder of Applied Kinesiology, discusses manipulation techniques and nutritional support used in treating arm and shoulder problems. From the Journal of the Michigan State Chiropractic Society, 1960.
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Ascorbic Acid as a Chemotherapeutic Agent
By W. J. McCormick, MD
Summary: Dr. McCormick comments on his clinical success in using ascorbic acid—injected intravenously or intramuscularly—to fight infectious disease. He attributes the efficacy of the acid to "its chemical action as a reducing or oxidizing agent," allowing it to "rapidly neutralize" viral or bacterial toxins and adds that, unlike pharmaceutical agents, its use has no side effects. McCormick goes on to cite several studies supporting his clinical findings and suggests that the real reason for the reduction in rates of infectious diseases in America such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, and polio was not vaccines but the huge increase in availability of foods high in vitamin C, including citrus fruits and tomatoes. Unfortunately, throughout the document McCormick equates ascorbic acid with the entire vitamin C complex, which, as early vitamin research showed, is inaccurate. Ascorbic acid is but one part of natural vitamin C, the other fractions including rutin and other bioflavonoids, the enzyme tyrosinase, and in all likelihood other factors still yet to be identified. In fact, as Dr. Royal Lee pointed out, ascorbic acid is most likely just the part of the vitamin C complex that protects the other fractions, likely through the very same oxidative properties that make it useful as an anti-pathogenic agent. From the Archives of Pediatrics. Reprint 5C, 1952.
The Battlefront for Better Nutrition
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: "Yes, there is a battle going on," Dr. Lee writes in this 1950 article from the magazine The Interpreter. But the war Dr. Lee was referring to didn't involve guns or missiles. It was a contest hidden from public view, waged by industrial food manufacturers and processors against small-scale farmers and the country's nutrition pioneers, who saw firsthand the damage that processed foods were inflicting on the national health. Lee decries the substitution of bleached flour and hydrogenated fats for whole wheat and butter and condemns the FDA for allowing food processors and their paid "experts" to dupe the American public into trading real food for counterfeit. Includes the infamous testimony of Dr. Elmer M. Nelson, head of the nutrition division of the FDA, who in 1949 swore in federal court that "it is wholly unscientific to state that a well-fed body is more able to resist disease than a less well-fed body." Reprint 30E, 1950.
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Beetroot Juice
By E. L. David
Summary: A report on the nutritional and therapeutic value of beetroot and beetroot juice. The extraordinary array of nutrients in the beet makes it the most nutritious root vegetable, David says, and its value may increase even more when juiced and lacto-fermented. From Let's Live magazine, 1962.
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Bleaching of Flour—North Dakota Bulletin
By E. F. Ladd and R. E. Stallings
Summary: A frank report from 1906 by the North Dakota Agricultural College on the origin and nature of the practice of flour bleaching. After discussing the negative chemical effects of bleaching on flour, the authors include actual responses to questions about bleaching posed to flour millers throughout the Northwest. To quote just one of these dismaying appraisals, "Bleaching is done principally to deceive; it takes the strength from the flour; the loaf of bread is smaller and sickly looking, especially when over-bleached. The process is not beneficial, and while a majority of mills bleach, 99 in every 100 are sorry that bleaching was ever invented." This is a truly historic document that sets a place and time for the decision to begin the commercial destruction of the quality of America's food supply through refining, bleaching, and adulteration. Reprint 1, 1906.
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Breast Feeding
By the United States Department of Labor
Summary: "No single factor exercises a more pronounced influence on the development of the baby and on his health during his entire life than nursing at his mother's breast." So wrote the U.S. Department of Labor in a series of booklets issued from the 1920s through the 1940s encouraging mothers to breast feed their infants. Though the government would later abandon its support of breast feeding, the Lee Foundation continued to print this collection of snippets from the various booklets released by the USDL, which includes diet recommendations for the breast-feeding mother. Fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, eggs, and lean meats are all emphasized—sound nutrition today just as it was then. Reprint 122.
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Butter, Vitamin E, and the X Factor of Weston A. Price
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee praises butter as an unparalleled source of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D and E, as well as a source of "Vitamin F," a complex that includes the essential fatty acids linoleic acid and linolenic acid as well as arachidonic acid. Lee also explains that vitamin E comprises more than just the antioxidant tocopherols and cites evidence that overconsumption of tocopherols can lead to loss of bone calcium. Finally, Dr. Lee discusses Weston A. Price's discovery of a certain "Activator X"—found only in cows fed spring grass—that promotes the calcification and health of bones and teeth in human patients. 1942.
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Calcium
By Dr. William A. Albrecht
Summary: A comprehensive discussion of the amazing role of calcium in the soil and its effect on crops and animals, written by one of the greatest soil scientists of all time. Dr. Albrecht, who chaired the soils department at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, is known in the organic farming movement as the "father of soil fertility research." Born in 1888, he published his first article on soil fertility in 1918 and would publish research papers continually until his death in 1974. Albrecht was a friend of Dr. Royal Lee, and the Lee Foundation published several of his papers, which are available in this archive. From The Land magazine. Reprint 8, 1943.
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Calcium Therapy in Diseases of the Cardiovascular System
By Edward Podolsky, MD
Summary: A fascinating review of the world literature on calcium therapies as of 1939, ranging from treatment of blood pressure to that of heart dysfunction. Unfortunately, more has been forgotten than learned since this research was first published. From the Illinois Medical Journal. Reprint 68, 1939.
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Calories: Nutritional and Harmful Types
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this powerful article, Dr. Lee declares the "first principle" of nutrition: "Once a foodstuff has acquired a reputation for wholesomeness and health building, it [should] be always supplied in its unadulterated state, and unaltered by improper processing, refining, or aging." Lee goes on to document the negative effects of processed foods such as refined sugar, hydrogenated oils, and refined flour, pointing to their association with heart disease and diabetes years before conventional thinking recognized such links. From Natural Food and Farming. Reprint 30H, 1961.
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Can Cancer Be Cured?
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee examines a range of nutrition-based accounts for the cause and possible cure of cancer. In particular he quotes Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley: "The present status of the 'Cancer Problem' is...to decide between two quite opposite positions. First, a hypothetical and problematical view of a local, independent, unexplainable, autonomous decision of certain cells to take on and continue a destructive course, for which immense research has failed entirely to find any reason. Secondly, the simple and rational belief that a perverted nutrition, perhaps of longstanding, influences certain cells to depart from their normal mode of action and take on an abnormal activity, pursuing a malignant and destructive course which is naturally kept up by the continued metabolic disturbance. We accept this latter position in regard to many other diseases, why not in regard to cancer?" Lee also cites the intriguing conclusion of Dr. William J. Mayo, founder of the prestigious Mayo Clinic, who in 1914 expressed the opinion that cancer is caused "by some defect in the food supply of civilized man, including the possibility of too much cooking." 1950.
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Cancer and the Medical Research Business
By Malcolm Lawrence
Summary: This report exposing the corruption and lack of integrity in the cancer-research industry was published under a nom-de-plume (pen name) to protect the author's status as a medical researcher within the cancer research establishment. (See inside cover regarding this). It describes how natural therapies were never given a chance to demonstrate efficacy, while expensive and toxic chemotherapeutic agents glided right through the research community. Notably, the story of Dr. Andrew Ivy of the University of Illinois and his Krebiozen treatment is told in this historically important document. Special Reprint 5-62, 1962.
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Cancer: A Collagen Disease Secondary to a Nutritional Deficiency
By W. J. McCormick, MD
Summary: A Canadian medical doctor notes a strong relationship between vitamin C deficiency and cancer. From the Archives of Pediatrics, 1959.
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Cancer: A Nutritional Deficiency
By J. R. Davidson, MD
Summary: A Canadian physician reports on his fascinating animal and human research that lead him to conclude that nutritional deficiency is at the root of cancer development. "For some 45 years I have been interested in the study of cancer. I have come to the conclusion that cancer is due to deficient diet, and that, if steps are taken to see that everyone eats the proper food, the disease can be first controlled and finally eliminated." Discussing his experiments in detail, Dr. Davidson makes a strong case in defense of his hypothesis. Published by the Science Department of the University of Manitoba. Reprint 18, 1943.
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Cancer: Its Cause, Its Prevention, Its Cure
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this report from the late 1940s, Dr. Lee reviews some alternative treatments of cancer that had been shown to be effective. Citing specifically Dr. Davidson in Canada and Dr. Quigley of Omaha, Nebraska, Lee focuses on the likely nutritional causes of the disease. Circa 1949.
Cancer—Nutritional Factors Reference Card
By the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research
Summary: Some talking points on the role of various nutrients in the prevention and treatment of cancer, including vitamins A and C, iodine, chlorophyll, and specific factors in the vitamin B complex such as choline, inositol, and betaine. Complete with references. 1949.
Cardiac Failure in Vitamin E Deficient Cattle
By T. W. Gullikson and C. E. Calverley
Summary: Report on a study showing that a significant number of cows fed a diet devoid of vitamin E died suddenly between the ages of 18 months and 5 years, apparently from sudden cardiac arrest. An electrocardiogram was used to investigate the specific cardiac damage caused by vitamin E starvation. From Science, 1946.
Case of Dental Caries vs. the Sugar Interests
By Allison G. James, DDS
Summary: The overwhelming case that consumption of refined carbohydrates is the cause of tooth decay is presented by dentist and author Allison James. Even back in 1949, as this article from the Southern California State Dental Association Journal illustrates, this theory was opposed institutionally by both commercial sugar interests and the profession of dentistry at large. Instead, conventional dentistry continued—and continues today—to blindly follow its eternal mantra: Drill 'em and fill 'em. Never mind why the caries are there in the first place! Reprint 42, 1949.
Case Studies in Nutritional Dentistry—Joan and Nancy
By Fred D. Miller, DDS
Summary: A pioneering holistic dentist uses the case history of two patients to illustrate the clear relationship between nutrition in the body and dental decay in the mouth. Photos included. Original source unknown. Reprint 49, 1948.
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The Cause of Erosion
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee, who grew up on his grandfather's farm in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, reflects on his studies of soil health and theorizes as to the chemical and mechanical functions that determine soil's propensity to erode. Contains nuggets of insight with regard to keeping soil fertile and preventing erosion. From The Land. Reprint 29, 1947.
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Cereal Grains: Some of Their Special Characteristics
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee discusses commonly used grains and their virtues, properties, and nutritional characteristics. He differentiates the types and proper uses of these grains. Reprint 38B, 1953.
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Certain Nutritional Disorders of Lab Animals Due to Vitamin E Deficiency
By Alwin M. Pappenheimer, MD
Summary: A fascinating snapshot of some of the early animal research testing vitamin E deficiency. Dr. Pappenheimer details the specific cell and tissue degeneration resulting from feeding different species of animals a diet lacking vitamin E, the result most often being lesions in skeletal muscle that Pappenheimer refers to as a kind of "nutritional muscular dystrophy." Neural lesions were also observed in some species. In perhaps the most fascinating finding, a partial vitamin E deficiency in the diet of pregnant rats was shown to manifest only in the rats' offspring, echoing the findings of Drs. Weston Price and Francis Pottenger, Jr., in the 1930s that the effects of malnutrition are passed on to subsequent generations. Pappenheimer concludes, "The fact that a partial deficiency of vitamin E in the mother may manifest itself only in the offspring seems to me to be one of the most significant lessons that one can draw from this work. May not similar things happen in human diseases, and help to explain the supposed hereditary or familial character of certain nervous and muscular disorders?" From Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital. Reprint 57, 1941.
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The Changing Incidence & Mortality of Infectious Disease in Relation to Trends in Nutrition
By W. J. McCormick, MD
Summary: A Canadian medical doctor reviews the downward trend of infectious diseases from the late 1800s through 1945 to determine whether advances in medicine were responsible, as commonly believed, for the great drop-offs in illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria, whooping cough, and scarlet fever. His conclusion? No. The declines of all the illnesses started before the introduction of widespread medical measures such as drug therapy or immunization and continued at about the same pace after these methods came into play. Instead, he proposes, the declines coincide with the introduction and widespread availability of foods rich in vitamin C, the "anti-infection" vitamin. Thus, modern transportation and refrigeration—making foods such as oranges, grapefruits, tomatoes, etc., readily accessible for the first time—were the reason for better public health, Dr. McCormick argues, not medical care and pharmaceuticals. From the journal The Medical Record. Reprint 5A, 1947.
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Chemical Pesticides and Conservation Problems
By M. M. Hargraves, MD
Summary: In this thoughtful speech before the National Wildlife Federation, a Mayo Clinic physician presents his opinion on the causal effects of farming chemicals on human health. Citing numerous cases studies from twenty-five years of clinical practice, Dr. Hargraves presents a strong correlation of pesticide exposure with specific illnesses. While Hargraves concedes that "no one is capable of speaking with authority about exact causal relationships of pesticides and human health," he maintains that "the vast majority of patients suffering from the blood...and lymphoid diseases have a significant history of exposure to the various hydrocarbons which in turn includes most of the pesticides of today." Reprint 105, 1959.
Chiropractic Reactions in the Light of Protomorphology
By Dr. George Goodheart
Summary: Dr. Goodheart, the founder of Applied Kinesiology, discusses the Protomorphogen Theory of Dr. Royal Lee in relationship to the mechanisms of chiropractic treatment. This is one of Dr. George Goodheart's earliest professionally published articles. From The Digest of Chiropractic Economics, 1951.
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Chlorine Dioxide: Bleach in Bread Causes Ills
By Helen Bullock
Summary: A newspaper account of a dermatologist's report that patients with skin disorders showed considerable improvement after eliminating bleached flour products from their diet. Importantly, the dermatologist is referring to the bleach chlorine dioxide, which had replaced the former standard flour bleach of many years, nitrogen trichloride. This article illustrates well the practice of the food processing industry to continue to use a product, in spite of concerns about its safety, until enough demonstrable cases of harm force its hand. From The Dallas Morning News, 1955.
Chlorophyll for Healing
By L. M. Miller
Summary: Reader's Digest editor and medical writer Lois Mattox Miller details some of the amazing health-promoting properties of chlorophyll. "Distinguished medical specialists report that in 1,200 recorded cases they have seen chlorophyll combat deep-lying infections, cleanse open wounds, relieve chronic sinus conditions, and banish common head colds. More remarkable, they say, is the way it accomplishes these things—speedily and effectively, with none of the harsh, irritating effects common to most antiseptics." Miller discusses theories as to why chlorophyll is so effective, focusing on its similarity to hemoglobin (the two molecules are essentially the same except iron is at the center of hemoglobin whereas magnesium is at the center of chlorophyll) to explain its documented ability to stimulate the formation of red blood cells in animals. From Science News Letter. Reprint 84, 1941.
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Chronic Idiopathic Ulcerative Colitis
By N. Philip Norman, MD
Summary: A classic, definitive work on ulcerative colitis. Dr. Royal Lee described this remarkable book, which his foundation published in its entirety in 1950, as "worth its weight in gold." Groundbreaking in its understanding of the lesions of malnutrition, the book makes a cogent case that ulcerative colitis is closely related to scurvy, the result of a deficiency of the vitamin C complex, along with additional nutrient deficiencies and other ill effects of a processed-food diet. 1950.
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Civilization and Cancer
Compiled by Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee summarizes numerous scientific studies indicating a lack or the extreme rarity of cancer among non-industrialized people still consuming their traditional diets. Subjects include various tribes of North American Indians, the Hunzas of the Karakorum region of Asia, and natives of Brazil and Ecuador. Lee also notes the high rate of thyroid cancer among populations with low iodine intake. From Natural Food and Farming, 1962.
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Clinical Nutrition: Food vs. Drugs
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee outlines the efforts of organized medicine in the mid twentieth century to suppress awareness of the effectiveness of clinical nutrition. "This pernicious and corrupt misuse of the facilities of medical education," Lee writes, "has been [totally] effective in creating the idea that nutritional therapy is futile and leans toward quackery." Lee goes on to show how medicine became focused solely on therapies involving pharmaceutical drugs and that it marginalized drugless healing professions through laws preventing the dissemination of information and knowledge. Reprint 25A, 1948.
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Clinical Studies of Magnesium Deficiency in Epilepsy
By Lewis B. Barnett, MD
Summary: In this article from Clinical Physiology, Dr. Barnett summarizes his laboratory and case-study findings correlating magnesium deficiency and epilepsy. The doctor spent many years studying this essential trace mineral and its profound relationship to the utilization of calcium. Reprint 114, 1959.
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Comfrey
By H. E. Kirschner, MD
Summary: An American medical doctor describes the therapeutic uses and preparations of comfrey (Symphytum officinale), including personal experiences. From Let's Live magazine. Special Reprint 12-58, 1958.
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