Strong Medicine Quotes

“It isn’t normal to live on milk and cream and cheese and ice cream and eggs and chocolate and wheat flour and alcohol. No! Man is a hunter. Most of the wheat flour should be fed to the animals. Let them go through the arduous labor of converting fodder into meat fat. And then eat the animal. That is the smart thing to do.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“Bread addiction is little different from that of alcohol or cocaine or heroin addiction, and sometimes it seems even more dangerous. Did you ever see a fat man praying for the soul of some poor alcoholic or drug addict? Yet he couldn’t stop his own helping of whole wheat toast for breakfast to save his soul.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“People practically always steal food when they are hungry, and low-calorie diets mean weakness and hunger... No! Counting calories is for the birds. There should be no sensation of hunger in proper weight reduction.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“The main weapons in the prevention and treatment of disease and human carelessness will probably always be food and exercise.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“There seems to be nothing that relieves anxiety state but hard outdoor exercise and useful work. Hard work is wonderful medicine.”
― Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“The plow is the main cause of muddy streams and rivers in the springtime. And a muddy stream means that we are dissipating our greatest natural resource—our topsoil.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“A sterol called cholesterol is supposed to be guilty of making us grow old before our time. But there is no proof of this. - 1961”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“To my thinking the greatest advance in recorded medical history is the thirty-minute walk before breakfast. Premiums for life insurance are usually paid for the benefit of someone else. If you want any life insurance for yourself you had better pay the daily premium of a thirty-minute walk.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“There are probably only two perfect foods, fresh fat meat and clean water. Whenever you are in a jam with the human body, it is well to go back to the common inheritance of mankind. And the ability to live well on meat and water is the common inheritance of mankind.”
― Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“...and flour in all forms has to be eliminated forever. Bread isn't the staff of life in these times. Rather it is the staff of death.”
― Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“I would be satisfied with my life if I could just get people to wash their feet every morning and buy decent shoes.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“Never expect to enjoy alcohol without ill effects if you have allergy.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“The biologists are a ruthless bunch, and quite devoid of any particular regard for doctors. In theory they don’t even want a surgeon to patch up a man who has been hit on the head with a brick, the argument being that it is better for the human race to be able to dodge bricks. Which is a correct viewpoint, I suppose, unless it happens to be your head and your brick.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“Everyone has an obligation to keep as young as possible. That implies useful work no matter how humble, and some serenity of mind, and normal weight, and daily outdoor exercise, and enough amino acids in fresh fat meat to do a good job of repair on breaking-down arteries.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine