Final Suggestions

There is no secret in preserving health and long life. It is merely required that we live according to natural laws, that we prevent – by proper diet, exercise, baths, fresh air, and sleep – the formation of those poisons within the body that handicap, cripple, and kill. This should be self-evident.


Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs of all kinds should be taboo. Excessive indulgence in candy, ice cream and sweets, and over- eating of any sort of food must be rigidly guarded against.


The proper frame of mind must be cultivated. It is not necessary to become a fanatic. The highest possible degree of cheerfulness, courage and confidence must be maintained. Let the mind and the physiological processes that the mind governs work constructively. Let them build up, not tear down – speaking in the broad health sense.


So convinced am I of the disease-correcting and health- maintaining power of the fast and milk diet that I urge any one who has an abnormal functional or organic condition, especially in the beginning or in the incipient stage, to adopt this means of re- establishing normality.


If these two factors were employed regularly as a health- conservation measure, drug practice would be reduced ninety per cent.


Every year or two, merely for the sake of maintaining health, it would be a good plan to take a short fast and a short course of the milk diet, in order to maintain the highest degree of health and efficiency possible for the remainder of the year.


And remember that, in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand, you have it in your own power, merely by exercising discrimination, judgment, and restraint, to live out your allotted span of years in health and in the comfort, happiness, and economic stability that health brings. And more than this no reasonable person can demand.