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Y7709 $1.95 * A BANTAM BOOK 3f: The coast to coast bestseller! A renowned doctor shows how eating properly may prevent: heart disease, cancer, mental illness, birth defects, alcoholism, and other diseases! Nutrition Disease •V Roger Williams Dr. J. ''What a tremendous improvement in health could occur every American... if might read this book!" — Adelle Davis, author of Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 littp://www.arcliive.org/details/nutritionagainstOOwill DR. ROGER J. WILLIAMS Is perhaps responsible for more original work in the field of vitamin research than any living scientist. He was the first man to identify, isolate and synthesize pantothenic acid, one of the most im- portant B vitamins. He also did pioneer work on folic acid, and gave it its name. From 1941 to 1963, he was Director of the Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute, where more vitamins and their variants have been dis- covered than in any laboratory in the world. He was the first biochemist to be elected president of the American Chemical Society, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. Dr. Williams is the author of several important books on organic chemistry and biochemistry and numerous books for lay readers, including the famous bestseller, Nutrition in a Nutshell. Nutrition Against Disease Environmental Prevention Roger Williams Dr. J. This low-priced Bantam Book has been completely reset in a typeface designed jar easy reading, and was printed from new plates. It contains the complete text of the original hard-cover edition, NOT ONE WORD EIAS BEEN OMITTED. NUTRITION AGAINST DISEASE: ENVIRONMENTALPREVENTION A Bantam Book f publishedby arrangement with Pitman Publishing Corporation PRINTING HISTORY Pitman edition published 1971 Bantam edition published March 1973 2ndprinting 3rdprinting 4th printing 5thprinting 6th printing 7thprinting Copyright © 1971AlblyrPigihttmsarnesPeurbvleids.hing Corporation. This book may not be reproduced in whole orin part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. For information address: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 6 East 43rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, Iru:., a National General company. Its trade-mark, consisting of the words Bantant Books" and the portrayal of a bantam, is registered in the United SBtaanttesamPaBtoeonkts,OfIfnicc.e, a6n6d6 FiinfthothAevrencuoeu,ntrNieesw. YMoarrkc,aN.ReYg.is1t0r0a1d9a,. PRINTBO IN TBS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi The Flaw in Medical Education 1 The Nutrition-Heredity Factor 19 A New Hope for Better Health 37 Stillborn, Deformed, and Mentally Retarded Babies 53 Protecting the Hearts We Have 69 The Fight Against Obesity 95 Prevention of Dental Disease 117 Vi NUTRITION AGAINST DISEASE 8 The Nutritional Approach to Arthritis and Related Disorders 127 9 How Can We Delay Old Age? 139 10 Environmental Control of Mental Disease 151 11 The Battle Against Alcoholism 169 12 How Is the Cancer Problem Related? 181 13 Food Fads 191 14 What the Food Industries Can Do 203 15 New Developments in Basic Medicine 215 Reference Notes 233 Appendix I 349 Appendix II 357 361 Index Preface This book is written primarily to bring new infor- mation and hope to the millions of people who are groping for a better understanding of how our bodies work and how health may be maintained. It is important for the public to have this new information because it points the way toward a vastly improved approach to health, both from the personal and the public stand- points. —The fundamental premise on which this book is based that the microenvironment—of our body ceUs is cru- cially important to our health is, I think, by now un- assailable on any responsible scientific grounds. But the conclusions that I have derived from this premise, al- though powerfully supported by laboratory evidence, are in some cases so unorthodox that they will doubt- less give rise to objections. Most of these objections, alas, wiU probably come from members of the medical profession. Laymen tend to be more open-minded about unorthodox medical vii — Vm NUTRITION AGAINST DISEASE theories than those who have had to undergo long years of formal training and have had, perhaps, all too little leisure to reexamine the fundamental assumptions on which all their early indoctrination and most of their subsequent practice have been based. No doubt men outside the medical profession are prone to similar af- flictions. I should emphasize here that I make a careful dis- tinction in my own mind between what individual phy- sicians think and what the medical establishment teaches them. I am personally and professionally well ac- quainted with many admirable, able, and dedicated doctors, some of whom are either actively or potentially interested in the subject of how disease may be pre- vented through improved nutrition. But it is only fair to add that those physicians who do recognize the im- portance of nutrition in the medical scheme of things have done so as the result of individual research and extra training, and not as the result of anything they were taught in the course of their formal medic^ edu- cation. I do not mean to be quarrelsome about this, but I do regard our present-day medi—cal education as seriously I might almost say willfully deficient in certain matters of extreme importance, matters that intimately affect the health and well-bemg of every person on the surface m my of this planet. I think I should be remiss obliga- tions both as a scientist and a citizen if I were to fail to speak my mind on matters about which I have such deep convictions. It is only natural that physicians should experience a kind of "psychic wrench" when assumptions they long have taken for granted are challenged. And no doubt my strictures on the content of contemporary medical education will give unintended offense in some quarters. I can only say that the conclusions I present here are very far from being light-minded; they are the result of a lifetime of scientific inquiry, of extensive laboratory research, and long hours of contemplation. I hope that my scientific and medical colleagues will accept that I advance these conclusions with no desire to shock or
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