The Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair

"The Fasting Cure" by Upton Sinclair is a nonfiction book published in 1911. Drawing from his personal experiments with diet and fasting, Sinclair advocates for periodic fasting as a path to health, making bold claims that it can cure nearly all diseases, from cancer to the common cold. The book sparked controversy among medical professionals who condemned it as unscientific faddism, though it became a bestseller and continues to inspire discussion about fasting's potential benefits. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
LoC No. 11005490
Title The Fasting Cure
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fasting_Cure
Credits E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, Martin Pettit, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 65.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology
Subject Fasting
Category Text
eBook-No. 63293
Release Date
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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