Thoughts on the Hygienic Diet
By Alec Burton I have never liked the term the “Hygienic” diet. It implicitly suggests a diet designed for everyone that is specific, inflexible and stereotyped. Hygienically diet represents a means of affording the organism adequate nourishment and, in order to accomplish this there may be a thousand different diets which will provide the necessary materia…
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A Unique Conception on the Nature of Disease
By Alec Burton One of the main features which distinguishes Hygiene from systems of caring for people is the unique conception of the nature of disease. Health and disease represent a continuum that goes from the absolute optimum of functional excellence to the extreme of structural degeneration, just short of death. Health and disease are relative terms no…
read more →The paradox of Health
By Alec Burton Health is an ordinary language word, not a medical term. A paradox implies contradiction, inconsistency, incongruity, a puzzle, enigma, ambiguity, confusion, a riddle, absurdity, dilemma, something that cannot be but is. Indeed these epithets are befitting of the nature of health. What is health? Can only individuals be healthy? Can we s…
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