The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey
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"The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure" by Edward Hooker Dewey is a health and wellness guide written in the early 20th century. This work focuses on revolutionary ideas concerning dietary practices and fasting as essential components of natural healing, advocating for a no-breakfast regimen. Dewey argues that the conventional medical approach to sickness, which emphasizes regular feeding and drug treatment, is fundamentally flawed, and instead promotes reliance on natural bodily functions
to recover from ailments. The opening of the book introduces Dr. Dewey's professional journey, reflecting on his experiences in the military hospitals during the Civil War, where he observed that the outcomes of patients did not significantly improve with traditional medicinal practices. He describes an epiphany he had while treating a particularly severe case of typhoid fever, where the patient thrived without food. This experience led Dewey to delve into the physiological principles underlying sickness and recovery, ultimately concluding that withholding food during illness can often yield better results than forced feeding and medication. This narrative sets the stage for his advocacy of the no-breakfast plan, emphasizing both its practical benefits and the importance of allowing the body to heal itself naturally. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dewey, Edward Hooker, 1837?-1904 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 01029470 |
| Title | The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure |
| Credits |
Produced by Susan Skinner, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology |
| Subject | Fasting |
| Subject | Nutrition |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 27128 |
| Release Date | Nov 2, 2008 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 10270 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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