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There are some things you can't fix

"You can't fix stupid." - Ron White, Comedian

On using water as a vehicle for drugs - Dr. C. G. Heyd

"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable." - Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, Past President of the American Medical Association

Germs do not carry disease - Dr. Virginia V. Vetrano

"(Natural) Hygienists object to the germ theory of disease because germs do not cause disease. They may be present in disease processes, and they may complicate a disease with their waste products which can be very toxic at times, but the germ or virus alone is never the sole cause of disease." - Dr. Virginia V. Vetrano

The medical profession has worked itself into hysteria over the germ theory and is using it to exploit an all too credulous public

"Warmth, moisture, food -- these are the causes that activate latent germs and arouse them to activity. They exist, all except the food, in the mouth, nose and throat at all times. The food is thrown out into these, as excretions, in disease. The germs feed on the excretions. They are scavengers. They were never anything else and will never be anything else. They break up and consume the discharge from the tissues. This is the function ascribed to germs everywhere in nature outside the body and is their real and only function in disease. They are purifying and beneficial agents.

"The medical profession has worked itself into hysteria over the germ theory and is using it to exploit an all too credulous public. Germs are ubiquitous. They are in the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. We cannot escape them. We can destroy them only to a limited extent. It is folly to attempt to escape disease by attempting to destroy or escape germs. Once they are in the body, the physician has no means of destroying them that will not, at the same time, destroy the patient.

"We cannot avoid germs. We must be proof against them. We have to accept them as one of the joys of life." - Dr. Herbert Shelton

We need green plants in our diet because of light - Dr. Bircher-Benner

"The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants." - Dr. Bircher-Benner

Changing a man's diet - Margaret Mead

"It is easier to change a man's religion than it is to change his diet." - Margaret Mead

We need to redirect our perspectives of microbes

"We need to re-direct our perspectives of microbes and see them in a new light. In terms of bacteria, for example, we need to appreciate them as bodily inhabitants who assist us in such ways as protecting us from other organisms (e.g. fungi), assisting in digestion and metabolism of food, synthesizing vitamins, and helping to eliminate waste materials." - Dr. Paul Goldberg

The cell is immortal, as long as the fluid is properly fed - Dr. Alexis Carrell

"The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever." Dr. Alexis Carrell, Nobel prize winner

Germs do not cause disease - Dr. Robert R. Gross

"Germs do not cause disease! Nature never surrounded her children with enemies. It is the individual himself who makes disease possible in his own body because of poor living habits... Do mosquitoes make the water stagnant, or does stagnant water attract the mosquitoes? We should all be taught that germs are friends and scavengers attracted by disease, rather than enemies causing disease... As their internal environment is, so will be the attraction for any specific micro-organism... The germ theory and vaccination are kept going by commercialism." - Dr. Robert R. Gross

Bacteria are our symbiotic partners in both health and disease - T. C. Fry

"Actually bacteria are our symbiotic partners in both health and disease. They serve a useful role. As scavengers, they make harmless or remove undesirable substances within our bodies. They also elaborate certain of our body needs. That is, they help build complex organic compounds from simple ingredients. A notable example of this is the production of vitamin B-12 in our intestines." - T. C. Fry

Disease is the warning, and friend, of mankind - Weger

"Disease is the warning, and therefore the friend - not the enemy - of mankind." - Dr. George S. Weger

The word "incurable" is not found in any indigenous language

"The word incurable is modern. I suspect coined by allopaths. The word incurable is not found in any indigenous language. Translated it means: I do not know how to cure you. But instead of taking the responsibility to tell you that, or refer you to someone who might be able to help with your cure, I will instead guilt trip you and blame YOU for being incurable and ruining my day." - D

Consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities

"It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles - wrong habits of eating and drinking -- we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives." - Brother Roloff

It is time to put to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause disease

"It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases." - Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.

Health is like a chain... and one weak link...

"Nutrition can be compared with a chain in which all essential items are separate links. We know what happens if one link of a chain is weak or is missing. The whole chain falls apart." Patrick Wright, Ph.D.

One cannot come closer to the gods... - Socrates

"One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man." - Socrates

Health can only be achieved by healthful living

"You cannot poison your body into health with drugs, chemo or radiation. 'Health' can only be achieved with healthful living." - T. C. Fry

On trying to change and improve our food - Kloss

"God, in His infinite wisdom, neglected nothing and if we would eat our food without trying to improve, change or refine it, thereby destroying its life-giving elements, it would meet all requirements of the body." - Jethro Kloss

He who does not know food... - Hippocrates

"He who does not know food, how can he understand the diseases of man?” - Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-357 BC)

On disease and health

"Disease is a lack of health. Health is not a lack of disease." - Unknown

On dying of old age

"What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body." Dr. Hans Selye

An apple a day

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." - your mother

Where there is love... - Gandhi

“Where there is love there is life.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Disease vs. cures - Dr. Philip Chapman

"What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called 'disease' was the only 'cure' possible!" - Dr. Philip Chapman, 1981

Nutrition and the healing process - Dr. Roger Williams

"The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task." - Roger Williams, Ph.D. (1971)

Gray are all the theories... - Geothe

"Gray are all the theories, but green is the tree of life." - Goethe

The tragedy of chemical therapy overwhelming nutrition - Dr. Royal Lee

"One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of chemical therapy over nutrition. It's a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation." - Dr. Royal Lee, January 12, 1951.

Encouraging the doctor within - Dr. Albert Schweitzer

"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within." Albert Schweitzer, M.D.

MDs vs. homeopathy - Dr. J. N. McCormack

"We must admit that we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We fought them because they came into our community and got the business." - Dr. J. N. McCormack, AMA, 1903.

The truth vs. mind-blindness

"It is not... that some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, but the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which the truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face." Sir William Osler, physician, 1849-1919.

Throw all our medicines into the sea - Oliver Wendel Holmes, MD

"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our patients and that much worse for the fishes." - Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, MD.

Service to others is the rent we pay on earth - Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and to serve.' There can be no other meaning." - Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

-His bio: http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume5/300-303.htm

The Constitution should guarantee medical freedom - Benjamin Rush, MD

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom." - Benjamin Rush, MD., a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington.

Medicine is the best of all trades to practice - Moliere

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still get your money." - Moliere: A Physician in Spite of Himself, 1664.

Struggling against the entrenched beliefs of society - Thoreau

Vegans have been struggling against the entrenched beliefs of society for centuries:

"When we consider...  the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields."

"One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle."

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1852

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You can download a free copy of Thoreau's Walden, or Life in the Woods here: http://chidiet.com/books/Walden.htm or here: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ThoWald.html.

The work of the doctor will be that of an educator - Lord Horder

"The work of the doctor will, in the future, be ever more that of an educator, and ever less that of a man who treats ailments." Lord Horder

We have made of ourselves living cesspools -- Plato

"And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases." Plato

Of several remedies, the physician should choose... Hippocrates

"Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational." Hippocrates

Infection is a body-cleaning process - T. C. Fry

"Infection is no war in which the body is fighting invaders. The bacteria that come to these sites are symbiotic and help the body in elaborating dead cells and tissues for expulsion - they are partners in the cleanup process. When this has been accumulated, the bacteria disappear and the wound heals. Infection... is a body cleaning process for a body burdened with toxic materials." - T. C. Fry

The physician should not treat the disease... Maimonides

"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it." - Maimonides

To know, and to believe one knows - Hippocrates

"There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance." - Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-357 BC), "The Law,” Littre, OEuvres d’Hippocrate, Vol. IV, pp. 641-642.

When you're green inside...

"When you're green inside, you're clean inside." - Dr. Bernard Jensen

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot... - Hippocrates

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food!” - Hippocrates

Doctors give drugs, of which... - Voltaire

"Doctors give drugs, of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all." - Voltaire

Vitality and beauty are gifts - Leonardo Da Vinci

"Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws." - Leonardo Da Vinci

In instinct - Anatole France

“In instinct lies the only truth, the sole certainty that man can ever grasp in this illusionary world in which three-quarters of our ills come from our own thoughts.” - Anatole France

The new global campfire

"We’re all huddled around our computers the way we gathered around the fire in ancient times. The Internet is the global campfire where we all come to for the latest news and stories." - Jinjee, http://www.thegardendiet.com/.

The truth that makes men free - Agar

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar

The most dangerous man... - Mencken

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable. - H. L. Mencken, American Writer 1880-1956

The vegetarian diet and heart disease

"If we - that is, society - switched to a vegetarian diet, atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, which accounts for most heart disease, would vanish." - William Roberts, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Cardiology