By J. F. Wischhusen and N. O. Gunderson, MD
Summary: "Scientists have been almost entirely preoccupied by the concept that bacteria cause disease, rather than by a much more important concept that adequate nutrition causes good health and relative freedom from disease." This basic principle, stated so eloquently by the authors of this essay from The Science Counselor, aptly defines the divide between the fields of nutrition and medicine. Were we to stop consuming substandard foods such as pasteurized milk and foods grown on soils deficient in trace minerals, the authors explain, then we would not need medical treatments for degenerative diseases such as rheumatism, arthritis, gastro-intestinal disorders, nervous and mental diseases, and cancer because they would be largely non-existent (as they are in pre-industrial societies that stick to their traditional diets). "Remove the true underlying cause of disease, malnutrition," the authors add, "and it will usually be found that the disease germs cannot exist or propagate in an animal body that is healthy." Reprint 48, 1950.
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