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Top 25 Herbert M. Shelton Quotes (2024 Update)

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”

1. “It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.”

2. “Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”

3. “Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.”

4. “In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.”

5. “Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in “regular” medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.”

6. “Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in “regular” medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.”

7. “Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Health and disease are the same thing – vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.”

8. “Health and disease are the same thing – vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.”

9. “What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “To starve is to die; to fast is to live.”

10. “To starve is to die; to fast is to live.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.”

11. “The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.”

12. “You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.”

13. “The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.”

14. “Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.”

15. “Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.”

16. “General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature – this and this alone constitutes living to live.”

17. “If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature – this and this alone constitutes living to live.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.”

18. “Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “Life should be built on the conservation of energy.”

19. “Life should be built on the conservation of energy.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.”

20. “There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “For the most part the regular profession has either ignored or else denounced fasting. Fasting is a fad or it is quackery. They do not study it, do not employ it and do not endorse it. On the contrary, they declare that “the sick must eat to keep up their strength.”

21. “For the most part the regular profession has either ignored or else denounced fasting. Fasting is a fad or it is quackery. They do not study it, do not employ it and do not endorse it. On the contrary, they declare that “the sick must eat to keep up their strength.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.”

22. “An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “You don’t need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don’t try to ‘aid’ nature. She doesn’t need your puny aid – she only asks that you cease interfering.”

23. “You don’t need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don’t try to ‘aid’ nature. She doesn’t need your puny aid – she only asks that you cease interfering.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “We cannot be damaged into health.”

24. “We cannot be damaged into health.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.”

25. “There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.”

26. “There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.”

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Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.”

27. “At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton Quote: “One will starve to death with just as much certainty and much more speedily, if one attempts to live upon foods containing only one or two elements of nutrition, as if one were totally abstaining from food. A diet of white flour and water, or white sugar and water, will result in death much sooner than a diet of water only. If no food is eaten the body feeds upon its own food reserves, but it has no provision for meeting the exigencies created by prolonged subsistence on one-sided diets.”

28. “One will starve to death with just as much certainty and much more speedily, if one attempts to live upon foods containing only one or two elements of nutrition, as if one were totally abstaining from food. A diet of white flour and water, or white sugar and water, will result in death much sooner than a diet of water only. If no food is eaten the body feeds upon its own food reserves, but it has no provision for meeting the exigencies created by prolonged subsistence on one-sided diets.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

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