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Wallace D. Wattles's
The Science of Being Well
Book page numbers, along with the number to the left of the .htm extension match the page numbers of the original books to ensure easy use in citations for research papers and books
Preface -
The Principle of Health -
The Foundation of Faith -
Life and Its Organisms -
What to Think -
Faith -
Use of the Will -
Health from God -
Summary of the Mental Actions -
When to Eat -
What to Eat -
How to Eat -
Hunger and Appetites -
In a Nutshell -
Breathing -
Sleep -
Supplementary Instructions -
A Summary of the Science of Being Well -
Contents -
Imperfect thought causes imperfect functioning, which is disease. Let me illustrate: Until quite recently, physiology fixed ten days as the extreme limit of man's endurance without food; it was considered that only in exceptional cases could he survive a longer fast. So the impression became universally disseminated that one who was deprived of food must die in from five to ten days; and numbers of people, when cut off from food by shipwreck, accident, or famine, did die within this period. But the performances of Dr. Tanner, the forty day faster, and the writings of Dr. Dewey and others on the fasting cure, together with the experiments of numberless people who have fasted from forty to sixty days, have shown that man's ability to live without food is vastly greater than had been supposed. Any person, properly educated, can fast from twenty to forty days with little loss in weight, and often with no apparent loss of strength at all. The people who
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