Title page of The Fasting Cure, first edition, 1911
Author
Upton Sinclair
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Fasting
Publisher
Mitchell Kennerley
Publication date
1911
Media type
Print
Pages
153 pp
OCLC
14778499
LC Class
RM226 .S5 1911
Frontispiece of The Fasting Cure, first edition, 1911
The Fasting Cure is a 1911 nonfiction book on fasting by Upton Sinclair. It is a reprinting of two articles written by Sinclair which were originally published in the Cosmopolitan magazine. It also includes comments and notes to the articles, as well as extracts of articles Sinclair published in the Physical Culture magazine. The book is dedicated to Bernarr Macfadden.
Sinclair was keenly interested in health and nutrition. He experimented with various diets, and with fasting. He writes extensively about fasting in The Fasting Cure, which became a bestseller.[1] Sinclair believed that periodic fasting was important for health, saying, "I had taken several fasts of ten or twelve days' duration, with the result of a complete making over of my health".[2] Sinclair favored a raw food diet of predominantly vegetables and nuts. For long periods of time, he was a complete vegetarian, but he also experimented with eating meat. His attitude to these matters is fully explained in the book's final chapter, "The Use of Meat".[3][4]
The book makes sensational claims of fasting curing practically all diseases, including cancer, tuberculosis, asthma, syphilis, and the common cold.[5][6]
^"'The Fasting Cure', by Upton Sinclair", Soil and Health
^"Perfect Health!" (chapter), The Fasting Cure, at Soil and Health
^"The Use of Meat" (chapter). The Fasting Cure, at Soil and Health
^Sinclair, Upton (1911). "The Use of Meat". The Fasting Cure. Digitized by Harvard University. New York: Mitchell Kennerly. pp. 86–104. ISBN 9781852286095.
^Gratzer, Walter (2005). Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition. Oxford University Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-19-280661-0.
^Nash, Jay R. (1982). Zanies: The World's Greatest Eccentrics. New Century Publishers. p. 339. ISBN 978-0832901232.
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