Quote from bgp:
i thought i would read some posts here again. thanks rearden and elcubano for agreeing with me .on sunday my mother dug out of here files about 25 pages of a lecture given by the late dr.royal lee. i wont tell you the year yet, but i will type some of his lecture.
most of us are not aware of the progressive changes that have taken place in the last 150 yrs. in the nutritional pattern of the american people. 150 yrs. ago in our industrial centers, about 350 people died a yr. of tuberculosis. at the present time the figure is about 15 per yr. i dont believe it is the efforts of the medical research fraternity that has made this change. most authorities admit that T.B. is a disease of mal-nutrition. we've been getting more fresh fruits and vegetables. we've been reducing , progressively, all of the infectious diseases. diphtheria in children, 50 yrs. ago, took a lot of lives. you may be surprised to know that in germany they call diphtheria a fulminate scurvy. in germany they discovered that the diphtheria toxin cannot exist in the presence of ascorbic acid. so before a child can develope scurvy, he must be completely deficient of vit.c. today with our deep freezes and our transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables, we do not have very much of that type of depletion, so the disease of diphtheria has practically disappeared. on the other hand , our degenerative diseases have tremendously increased. DIABETES, very prevalent today. the top cause of death is heart disease, a degenerative disease, cancer, arthritis, muscular dystrophy and all of the degenerative diseases are increasing. some would believe that this is because we are LIVING TO AN OLDER AGE. but i don't believe we live as long as we did 100 yrs. ago. STATISTICALLY, IT'S SOMETHING ELSE. in those days T.B. and pneumonia, alone, took off a lot of old people and people in their middle age. we can't consider those when we realise that malnutrition has been corrected to get rid of a lot of that. "back in the old days it was not uncommon for a person to live to be ninety yrs. old. it was almost a usual thing, except for the casualty of an infectious disease. today, people die of DEGENERATIVE DISEASES, long before they reach that age. now, these degenerative diseases,which include CANCER, seem to be in the main, due to the lack of vitamins we are losing in our refined foods. they are the vitamins of the seeds of the plants, the vitamins of the cereal grains, which are lost in our food processing. so , we've been benefitting in one direction , from better foods, we've been losing out in another direction. there's still another factor which is important, it is the development and introduction into commerce in the synthetic foods. one of them is glucose or dextrose or corn syrup, thats a synthetic sugar made by cooking corn starch with an acid, which converts the starch into sugar and at the same time destroys all other nutritional factors. so that our synthetic sugar cannot contain anything but the synthetic sugar. now another food thats being sold in tremendous quantities are the hydrogenated fats. (synthetic fats) I'LL STOP HERE. THIS LECTURE WAS GIVEN ON MARCH 3, 1956. this man was ahead of his time.
bgp
