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Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene

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Holistic Healing

Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene

Upton Sinclair and Michael Williams

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After The Jungle exposed the meatpackers, Upton Sinclair turned to his own health. Good Health and How We Won It reports the battle of the blood, the white cells on guard, and the new hygiene its authors practiced and preached. The muckraker as his own patient, notes published. Follow the reformer into his own kitchen.

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84 chapters

  1. 1Transcriber’s Notes
  2. 2GOOD HEALTH AND HOW WE WON IT
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5INTRODUCTION BY UPTON SINCLAIR
  6. 6I THE BATTLE OF THE BLOOD
  7. 7THE DEFENSES OF THE BODY
  8. 8HEALTHY BODIES ARE GERM-PROOF
  9. 9THE WHITE CELLS ON GUARD
  10. 10HOW THE WHITE CELLS DO THEIR WORK
  11. 11THE PROBLEM OF HEALTH
  12. 12HEALTH, LIKE DISEASE, IS CATCHING
  13. 13OUR FOOD IS THE CHIEF FACTOR
  14. 14II HOW TO EAT: THE GOSPEL OF DIETETICS ACCORDING TO HORACE FLETCHER
  15. 15THE STORY OF HORACE FLETCHER
  16. 16HOW A STRONG MAN BROKE DOWN
  17. 17FIGHTING FOR LIFE
  18. 18MR. FLETCHER’S DISCOVERY

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