Diet and food considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, training and athletics / by Alexander Haig.

  • Haig, Alexander, 1853-1924.
Date:
1904
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    not, be evident to all that many diseases now called by different names are really not diseases at all, but are effects of uric acid and similar substances. A trial of the uric-acid-frce diet for a few months generally suffices in itself to con- vince people that they had previously been living on foods so deleterious as to deserve the name of poison. A still more convincing experiment is to live on the diet for a year or two, so as to get free from poisons, and then to take them again. The result is that all the old troubles at once show signs of returning. The full effects of these poisons on the physical, mental, and moral nature of man will only be recognisable when large numbers live on a uric- acid-free diet for the whole of their lives, and transmit an untainted heredity to their descend- ants. Then only will it be possible to calculate the price we now pay for the stimulant poisons. Mr. Miles estimates his mental and physical gain at 50 per cent., but it would be probabty con- siderably more for those who begin diet before they become diseased, and who thus have the'ad- vantage of growing and developing on foods which are natural and wholesome. For my part I think I may safely promise that no one will ever regret changing his diet if he