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IMPROVING ON PRITIKIN— YOU CAN DO BETTER Ross Horne By the same author Beat Heart Disease — 1975 Let's Live A Lot — 1977 Health Facts Prove The Pritikin Program — 1980 The Health Revolution 1st Edition — 1980 2nd Edition — 1983 3rd Edition — 1984 4th Edition - 1985 The Health Revolution Cookbook — 1983 The Anti-Cancer, Anti-Heart Attack Cookbook — 1984 ISBN 0 959 4423 9 1 Copyright Ross Horne 1988 Second Printing 1989 Published by Happy Landings Pty. Ltd. PO Box 277 Avalon Beach N.S.W. Australia Contents AUTHOR'S PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD by Dr Dean Burk FOREWORD by Dr Ruth Cilento INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Second Thoughts On Pritikin CHAPTER 2 Healthy Blood, Healthy Cells, Healthy Body CHAPTER 3 Enzymes - The Secret of Life CHAPTER 4 Human Nutrition CHAPTER 5 The Western Diet - Public Enemy No. 1 CHAPTER 6 Toxemia and the Diseases of Civilization CHAPTER 7 Dieting for Health CHAPTER 8 Doctor Gerson CHAPTER 9 Modern Medicine, A Snare and a Delusion CHAPTER 10 Grains are for the Birds CHAPTER 11 Second Thoughts on Exercise CHAPTER 12 Dieting for Longevity CHAPTER 13 Learning the Hard Way CHAPTER 14 In Conclusion APPENDIX Author's Preface Eleven years ago I was Nathan Pritikin's best disciple and staunchest supporter. I had observed the Pritikin diet achieve what appeared to be absolute miracles in restoring people who were literally dying back to good health, my own wife being one of them. Today I still firmly believe in the principles to which Nathan Pritikin devoted the last twenty seven years of his life but I have discovered that the Pritikin diet is far from the best way of implementing those principles. I have discovered that the beneficial effects of the diet which permit ailing bodies to make rapid recoveries from a great number of complaints, are often accompanied by harmful effects which are subtle enough not to be always noticeably evident, at least not straight away. Over the years I have observed various manifestations of distress occurring to adherents to the Pritikin diet (myself being one of them) that caused me concern enough to re-write and add one hundred pages to The Health Revolution which in its first edition (1981) was Pritikin straight down the line. Acidosis, arthritis, hypoglycemia, skin and blood disorders were the symptoms I had observed at first, but when cancer started to appear among long-term Pritikin devotees, many of whom I had introduced to the Pritikin diet in the first place, I felt I must make a special effort to point out the potential dangers of all diets which contain large quantities of grain products. Hence this new volume providing information supplementary to The Health Revolution, not only in respect of problems associated with grain products, but also to highlight the faults in the conventional theories of nutrition and to highlight also the fearful dangers presented by our drug-orientated and dismally ineffectual medical system. The inclusion of simple explanations for the so- called "incurable" diseases of civilization, particularly cancer, heart disease, AIDS, arthritis and the common cold, is intended not only to demonstrate the ignorance and confusion existing within the ranks of so-called "scientific" modern medicine, but also to allay the widespread, unnecessary fear associated with these so easily avoided afflictions. Strong statements such as I have made in this book and in The Health Revolution need strong support, and this support is well supplied, particularly by the contributions of Dr Dean Burk of Washington who provided the foreword for The Health Revolution, and by Dr Robert Mendelsohn whose opinions on modern medicine appear in chapter nine. Thank you, gentlemen. In regard to my criticism of the Pritikin diet in the chapters which follow, I wish to make it very clear, here at the beginning, that despite our differences in opinion, my gratitude and respect for Nathan Pritikin, the man, remain undiminished. In my eyes, Pritikin still stands as one of the great Americans of the 20th Century. And speaking of great men, one who has, in my opinion, done more to advance the knowledge of nutrition than any other single individual, is Dr Edward Howell, formerly of Chicago and now of Fort Myers, Florida. Without the information his research has revealed about natural food enzymes, a proper understanding of the relationship between nutrition and health would be quite impossible. In recognition of Dr Howell's life's work I have dedicated this book to him. Nutrition, it must be understood, is the sustaining factor of all life, and unless its nutrition is right, no living creature can perform mentally or physically to its true potential in unfaltering health. Society has been on the skids long enough — "health" care and crime bleed away too much of our resources, and bigger and better hospitals and jails are not the answer. Better nutrition must precede better morals and better health. Dr G. T. Wrench of England illustrated this argument fifty years ago in his wonderful book The Wheel of Health in which he offered this advice: "For progress, therefore, we now have to look backwards. We have raced forward at too great a speed. We have to look back to a period and type of agriculture in which vegetable and animal life were mutually healthy. We have to believe even in the golden age, in which gold did not mean coin in the pocket or blocks in a bank, but an age when the golden sunlight seemed to enter into man through plant and fruit, and bestow the warm gift of health — such an age as the elder Pliny thought upon when he said that for six centuries the men of Home had needed no physicians." Happy landings, Ross Horne February 1988 Acknowledgements Modern man has greater knowledge and farther horizons than his predecessors. As each new generation faces the world, the inventors and creators enthusiastically contribute their original ideas to further human progress — often in the face of ridicule, apathy, and stony opposition. The vantage point from which we now survey the world is the product over many centuries, of such men. To Dr. Edward Howell with thanks "There is little question any more that artery plaque reversal can for the first time be considered possible." Dr. Nash in Circulation, official journal of the American Heart Association, September 1977. "With a cholesterol level of 150 or less, plaque reversal in two years is possible." Dr. R. Wissler, Chicago Medical School, addressing the American Heart Association, June 1977. "The three major killers in modern society, Coronary Heart Disease, Cancer and Strokes, can all be linked to what people eat and drink." Dr. B. Hetzel, Chief of the C.S.I.R.O. Division of Human Nutrition and Foundation Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. "The major cancers of our time are diet-caused, mainly by fat and cholesterol." Dr. Ernst Wynder, American Health Foundation, addressing the U.S.A. Government Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. "With this kind of approach, diet only, 80% of diabetics in this country could be normal in 30 to 90 days." Dr. James Anderson, University of Kentucky Medical Centre. Foreword to The Health Revolution by Dr. Dean Burk (A foundation member of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and former head of the Institute's Cytochemistry Department, Dr. Burk is best known for his work in cancer research for which he has received honors from France, Britain, Germany and the U.S.S.R. Formerly Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Cornell University, he has worked in cancer research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Germany and at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, Moscow. Dr. Burk is the recipient of the Domagk Prize for cancer research, a Knight Commander of the Medical Order of Bethlehem, and a Knight of the Mark Twain Society. He is co-author of the books Cancer, Approaches to Tumor Chemotherapy and Cell Chemistry, and author of over 250 published scientific papers.) Having spent most of my professional life in the field of cancer research — a field of great complexity and no little confusion — I was astonished and delighted to become acquainted with this book. My astonishment arises from the discovery that a layman (the author is a retired airline captain) should have gained such a comprehensive understanding of the complex biological processes which lead to the disease called cancer and to be able to describe these processes in a manner easily understandable by other laymen. The author describes the origins of not only cancer but of other so-called diseases of civilization and the natural measures required to avoid and control them. When it is considered that few medical professionals possess this knowledge, this is no mean achievement. The strength, integrity and happiness of a nation are directly proportional to the state of health of its citizens. In the distant past civilizations have risen, flourished and declined, their ruins covered by desert sands. Did affluence destroy them? Are we heading the same way? Perhaps humans are too clever for their own good. In the pursuit of progress and pleasure they at the same time sow the seeds of their own destruction. Modern man must comprehend the message presented in this book that the greatest threat to his survival is not that of nuclear war, because although that threat is real, at least everyone is aware of it. The threat most dangerous to mankind comes from the destroyers active right now, subtle and unseen — the poisoning of our soil and water supplies, the de-naturing of our food, the ever-increasing destruction of the environment.

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