By Benjamin Sandler, MD
Summary: The complete book, published in 1951 by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. Captain Sandler, a former United States naval surgeon, had been studying the causes of polio and tuberculosis since the 1930s. In both cases, he found that the best way to prevent these infectious diseases was a low-carbohydrate diet. In this book, Dr. Sandler describes how in the summer of 1948, he convinced the media outlets of North Carolina to put his ideas to the test. Over a few-day period in August, newspapers and radio stations throughout the state ran stories presenting Sandler's low-carb diet as a means of polio prevention. (For an example of one such report, see "Low-Carb Diet Prevents Polio—Newspaper Article" in these archives.) Subsequently, North Carolina's rate of polio incidence went from being one of the worst in the country to one of the best. Sandler also pokes holes in common beliefs about polio and examines the disease's pattern around the world, explaining why the United States was the worst hit. Shockingly, this book was banned by the government not long after it was published. Yet it reveals much about polio that most doctors have never heard and merits rediscovery, so that the fundamental truths it details can receive a fair hearing in light of current biochemical knowledge. Published under the original title Diet Prevents Polio, 1951.
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