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Maintaining Health (formerly Health and Efficiency), by Rasmus Larssen Alsaker, M.D.

Published: New York, F. E. Morrison, 1917

Health guide, hygiene and diet; humanity, health and healers, mental attitude, food, classification of foods, menus, care of the skin, sleep, exercise, breathing and ventilation, children, advanced years, etc



MAINTAINING HEALTH

(Formerly health and efficiency)

By R. L. Alsaker, M. D.

Author of "Eating for health and efficiency"



"When you arise in the morning, think what a precious privilege
it is to live, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

—­Marcus Aurelius.

"Nature Cures"
—­Hippocrates



TO ISAAC T. COOK
WHOSE CRITICISMS, ASSISTANCE and encouragement have LIGHTENED the labor and added to the pleasure of producing this volume.


New York
F. E. Morrison
1917





CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I [1] ... PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
Humanity, Health and Healers

CHAPTER II [2] ... MENTAL ATTITUDE
Correct and Incorrect--Results

CHAPTER III [3] ... FOOD
General Consideration

CHAPTER IV [4] ... OVEREATING

CHAPTER V [5] ... DAILY FOOD INTAKE

CHAPTER VI [6] ... WHAT TO EAT

CHAPTER VII [7] ... WHEN TO EAT

CHAPTER VIII [8] ... HOW TO EAT

CHAPTER IX [9] ... CLASSIFICATION OF FOODS

CHAPTER X [10] ... FLESH FOODS
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations

CHAPTER XI [11] ... NUTS
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations

CHAPTER XII [12] ... LEGUMES
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations

CHAPTER XIII [13] ... SUCCULENT VEGETABLES
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations--Salads

CHAPTER XIV [14] ... CEREAL FOODS
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations

CHAPTER XV [15] ... TUBERS
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations

CHAPTER XVI [16] ... FRUITS
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations--Salads

CHAPTER XVII [17] ... OILS AND FATS

CHAPTER XVIII [18] ... MILK AND OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS
Composition--Utility--Preparation--Combinations

CHAPTER XIX [19] ... MENUS
Food Combination in General

CHAPTER XX [20] ... DRINK
Water--Tea--Coffee--Alcohol--Enslaving Drugs

CHAPTER XXI [21] ... CARE OF THE SKIN
Baths--Friction--Clothing

CHAPTER XXII [22] ... EXERCISE

CHAPTER XXIII [23] ... BREATHING AND VENTILATION

CHAPTER XXIV [24] ... SLEEP

CHAPTER XXV [25] ... FASTING
Our Most Important Remedy--Symptoms--When and How to Fast--Cases

CHAPTER XXVI [26] ... ATTITUDE OF PARENT TOWARD CHILD

CHAPTER XXVII [27] ... CHILDREN
Prenatal Care--Infancy--Childhood--Mental Training

CHAPTER XXVIII [28] ... DURATION OF LIFE
Advanced Years--Living to Old Age in Health and Comfort

CHAPTER XXIX [29] ... EVOLVING INTO HEALTH
How it is Often Done--A Case

CHAPTER XXX [30] ... RETROSPECT
A Summing-up of the Subject


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