Good Health and How We Won It

About this eBook

Author

Williams, Michael, 1878-1950

Title

Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene

Credits

Tim Lindell, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Hygiene

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66077

Release Date

August 17, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes — GOOD HEALTH AND HOW WE WON IT
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION BY UPTON SINCLAIR
5. 5.I THE BATTLE OF THE BLOOD — THE DEFENSES OF THE BODY — HEALTHY BODIES ARE GERM-PROOF — THE WHITE CELLS ON GUARD — HOW THE WHITE CELLS DO THEIR WORK — THE PROBLEM OF HEALTH — HEALTH, LIKE DISEASE, IS CATCHING — OUR FOOD IS THE CHIEF FACTOR
6. 6.II HOW TO EAT: THE GOSPEL OF DIETETICS ACCORDING TO HORACE FLETCHER — THE STORY OF HORACE FLETCHER — HOW A STRONG MAN BROKE DOWN — FIGHTING FOR LIFE — MR. FLETCHER’S DISCOVERY — THE MAGIC OF MASTICATION — DR. ANDERSON’S REPORT — FLETCHERISM — HOW CHEWING STIMULATES DIGESTION — THE “FOOD FILTER”
7. 7.III THE YALE EXPERIMENTS — FLETCHER’S CLAIMS SUPPORTED — CHITTENDEN’S EXPERIMENTS ON HIMSELF — THE OTHER CHITTENDEN TESTS — PROFESSOR CHITTENDEN’S CONCLUSIONS — HOW TO INCREASE ENDURANCE — VICTORY FOR THE LOW PROTEID DIET — THE RESULT OF THE MASTICATION TEST — ANYBODY CAN APPLY THE NEW KNOWLEDGE
8. 8.IV HOW DIGESTION IS ACCOMPLISHED — THE WORK OF THE STOMACH — THE ELEMENTS OF FOOD — THE WORK OF THE DIGESTIVE JUICES — HOW MUCH SHOULD WE EAT — PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF DIETARY RULES
9. 9.V HOW FOODS POISON THE BODY — THE INVESTIGATIONS OF METCHNIKOFF — HOW TO PREVENT DEGENERATION OF TISSUE — HOW TO ENLIST THE SERVICES OF FRIENDLY GERMS
10. 10.VI SOME IMPORTANT FOOD FACTS — WHAT COOKING DOES FOR GRAINS — ABOLISH THE FRYING PAN! — DAIRY PRODUCTS NEED ATTENTION
11. 11.VII HOW OFTEN SHOULD WE EAT? — TWO MEALS A DAY THE BEST — DON’T EAT BEFORE SLEEPING — DRINKING AT MEALS — HOW THE BODY PRODUCES “APPETITE JUICE”
12. 12.VIII HEALTH AND THE MIND
13. 13.IX THE CASE AS TO MEAT — THE BELGIAN EXPERIMENTS — DR. TURCK’S INVESTIGATIONS — THE DANGER OF INFECTION FROM MEAT — THE NUMBER OF GERMS WE EAT — CANCER AND MEAT EATING — INVESTIGATIONS IN NEW YORK — THE PROTEID ARGUMENT
14. 14.X THE CASE AGAINST STIMULANTS — TEA AND COFFEE
15. 15.XI DIET REFORM IN THE FAMILY
16. 16.XII BREATHING AND EXERCISE — THE INDISPENSABILITY OF OXYGEN — HOW TO CALCULATE ROOM VENTILATION — TUBERCULOSIS POINTS THE MORAL — HOW BREATHING AIDS THE BATTLE OF THE BLOOD — HAVE FRESH AIR AT NIGHT — HOW EXERCISE AIDS THE BATTLE OF THE BLOOD — EXERCISES MAKE NEW BLOOD — EXERCISES WHICH RETARD AUTO-INTOXICATION — EXERCISES WHICH PROMOTE DEEP BREATHING
17. 17.XIII BATHING AND CLEANLINESS — THE VALUE OF BATHING — HOW COLD BATHING AIDS NUTRITION — THE CARE OF THE TEETH — “THE VESTIBULE OF LIFE” — HOW MOUTH INFECTION SPREADS
18. 18.XIV A UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH
19. 19.XV HEALTH REFORM AND THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED — “THE NEGLECT OF HEALTH A NATIONAL EVIL”
20. 20.APPENDIX Diet List
21. 21.INDEX

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