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141: 27: 195:, which became a bestseller. Sinclair believed that periodic fasting was important for health, saying, "I had taken several fasts of ten or twelve days' duration, with the result of a complete making over of my health". Sinclair favored a raw food diet of predominantly vegetables and nuts. For long periods of time, he was a complete vegetarian, but he also experimented with eating meat. His attitude to these matters is fully explained in the book's final chapter, "The Use of Meat". 264:." Gratzer also writes, "In what passes for a caveat he remarks : 'I have known two or three cases of people dying while they were fasting, but I feel quite certain that the fast did not cause their death.' The irony in all this farrago is that we now have good evidence for an increased life-span in rodents kept in laboratory conditions on a very low-calorie diet." Likewise, in the book 272:
and Nate Pedersen write, "Although modern doctors would strongly disagree with Sinclair's unsolicited medical advice, there have been some recent promising studies on the impact of fasting on mice with cancer. Human studies, however, are still lacking."
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criticized Sinclair as a "faddist pure and simple, one whose mind is obsessed by a series of notions one after another, none resting upon any basis that can be called scientific or even sensible."
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Vitality, Fasting, and Nutrition: A Physiological Study of the Curative Power of Fasting, Together With a New Theory of the Relation of Food to Human Vitality
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Sinclair was keenly interested in health and nutrition. He experimented with various diets, and with fasting. He writes extensively about
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by gastroenterologist Anthony Bassler, who described treating many sickly patients who had followed the advice published in Sinclair's
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magazine. It also includes comments and notes to the articles, as well as extracts of articles Sinclair published in the
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The book makes sensational claims of fasting curing practically all diseases, including
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition
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Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition
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Works originally published in Cosmopolitan (magazine)
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Index


Upton Sinclair
Fasting
Mitchell Kennerley
OCLC
14778499
LC Class

Frontispiece
fasting
Upton Sinclair
Cosmopolitan
Physical Culture
Bernarr Macfadden
fasting
cancer
tuberculosis
asthma
syphilis
common cold
Current Literature
Walter Gratzer
faddists
Lydia Kang
T. C. Boyle
The Road to Wellville
John Harvey Kellogg
Corn Flakes
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Water fasting

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