"What they're trying to do in medicine today is find a pill to cover up every symptom of wrongful living and eating. So, to eat the normal American diet, what you have to do is take an antacid, a laxative, and then something to lower the uric acid, the cholesterol, the blood sugar, and the blood pressure. Then you have to take a diet pill because of the excess weight you gain because your normal appetite is confronted with calorie-concentrated foods. And then you have to go and wash the grease off your skin. Of course, it doesn't even begin to compensate for what you're doing to your body, but that's the way we look at the problem. Instead of dealing with the cause and supporting the body the way it's supposed to be supported, we try to cover up disasters."
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Quoted in “John McDougall” by Andis Robeznieks, in Vegetarian Times (April 1986), p. 31.
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John A. McDougall
(May 17, 1947 – June 22, 2024) was an American physician and author, advocate of a low-fat, , vegan diet as preventing degenerative diseases.
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