Diet and Longevity – Soil and Health Library

How To Be Always Well

19 August, 2015
Steve Solomon

Dr. Jackson's book explains the basics of natural hygiene/nature cure and makes recommendations for lifestyle and diet that lead to permanent health and a high degree of well-being. This book is especially useful for the type of person that makes life choices and determines their behaviour according to well-grasped basic principles.

The Saccharine Disease

6 April, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Long title: The Saccharine Disease: Conditions Caused by Taking of Refined Carbohydrates as Sugar and White Flour.

Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzyme Concept

5 April, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Dr. Howell's book is one of the most important ever written about what constitutes proper human nutrition.

Food Fit For Humans

4 April, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Asks and answers two questions: what is the correct dietary for humans; what are the individual and social consequences of wrong feeding.

How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died

3 March, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and the incidence of degenerative disease was 10% of ours. This was due to their high intake of fruits, whole grains, oily fish and vegetables. They consumed levels of micro- and phytonutrients at approximately ten times the levels considered normal today.

Fletcherism: What it is, or How I Became Young at Sixty

2 March, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

A reproduction of the original version published around 100 years ago. Fletcher asserted that good digestion is all about completely chewing the food. Full of good dietary advice.

Discourses on the Sober Life

21 February, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

Long title: "How to Live 100 Years, or Discourses on the Sober Life Being the Personal Narrative of Luigi Cornaro" This document is often mentioned in late 19th Century and early 20th Century hygienic literature.