Good Health Can Be Had if We Really Want It

Health through correct nutrition is to be had, “if we want it or are willing to take the trouble to get it,” Dr. Royal Lee, of Milwaukee, founder of the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, told the Ohio National Health Federation convention in Cleveland.

“Many have got their health back by growing theír own food,” he said. “Get the list of farmers growing organically from Natural Food Associates. If you want to learn how to eat, materials are available to inform yourself. Membership in NHF and NFA and a subscríption to the Rodale publications is the best investment you can make.”

Dr. Lee deplored the treatment accorded those who “díscover a cancer cure. They’re dynamited, and the situation ought to be investigated.”

He saíd that when he attended dental college “we had to buy a book written by a New Zealand dentist who said dental disease was a result of food intake. Today you’re likely to hear that science hasn’t díscovered the cause of disease.”

“Dr. Pottenger discovered that his animals didn’t get arthritis unless they had cooked food. The FTC tried to stop distribution of Dale Anderson’s Arthritis and Common Sense, but I hear it’s back on the market. If you want to get rid of arthritis, eat raw foods with natural oils. I’ve seen raw certified milk cure a wheel chair case of arthritis.

“We know that animal and human life depend on the plants rooted in the soil. No synthetic food ever has served as a beneficial food. Synthetic foods contain hydrogenated fats, glucose dextrose (synthetic sugar made by boiling starch with hydrochloric acid). Dextrose has been on the market 60 years. Dr. Wiley warned that if people continued to use corn syrups we would become a nation of diabetics.

“Another source of bad food is that containing rancid fats in cereals. Flaxseed oil is excellent but it turns rancid overnight. A small house mill is the only answer.

“Raw proteins protect the teeth. When proteins are cooked, the amino acids are destroyed. Nature punishes severely when her laws are broken. Vitamin E lasts only a week after grain is ground. This vitamin helps prevent sterility, and also helps protect body tissues from oxidatíon.

“To illustrate: A car body without paint oxidizes two and one-half times as fast as one protected with paint. A person with vitamín E deficiency and possessing an injured heart or tendency toward coronary, is in the soup. It is little wonder we have 750,000 deaths a year from heart disease, while in India and China that is only a negligíble cause of death.

Dr. Royal Lee, left, was pigeon-holed by an admirer following address at Ohio NHF convention. Dr. Lee is a pioneer in bringing the gospel of nutrition to the American people.

 

“One of the functions of this organization is protecting the consumer and his food. Our enforcement agencies have been dominated by those selling food. We have official pronouncements that the public should beware of those who say worn-out soil and deficiencies in food cause disease. It has been only a couple of years since we had a vice-president of Pillsbury running the Food and Drug Administration.

“Professors in colleges dare not talk against fluoridation or pasteurization. Dr. McKay of Cornell has pronounced that fluoridation of water with one part per million will cause death. In the past, the Supreme Court has ruled that poison added to food is illegal. Under the new setup, apparently, poison can be added if it doesn’t hurt anyone.

“I heard a lecture before the American Academy of Nutrition by Dr. Quigley who reported that patients failing to follow the diet he prescribed–a diet which prohibited refined flour foods–failed to recover. I assumed the lecture would be printed because they regularly are in the society’s periodical. But this one wasn’t. Why, one wonders?”

 

Congratulations are in order for Harold Edwards, ardent natural-living advocate and hard-working president of Cleveland Better Health Club. Mr. Edwards was responsible for arranging program and obtaining long list of top-flight, nationally recognized speakers for convention of Ohio National Health Federation.

 

“There isn’t a problem that can’t be solved if you’ve got sense enough to go into a corner and meditate,” declared the irrepressible Dr. Frederick Doughty-Beck, New Orleans chiropractor, in address at Ohio N.H.F. convention. Once blind, near death as the result of two heart attacks, Dr. Doughty-Beck credits chiropractic with his healing. Although chiropractic is not recognized in Louisiana, Dr. Doughty-Beck has large following. “I have no sign, I have no card, I got nothing but a lot of big mouth,” he said. “I don’t have mercy on ’em, they tell me I’m impolite, but I’ve learned that any problem can be solved if you’ve got sense enough to go into a corner and meditate.” Dr. Doughty-Beck recently organized Louisiana chapter of National Health Federation. He was key figure in campaign to defeat fluoridation in New Orleans. How? By engineering brewers’ opposition.