Pure Blood Through Pure Food
By John Harvey Kellogg
By various processes of infection, by sedentary habits, wrong diet, and other injurious practices, our bodies have become saturated with diseased matter. In order to remove this rubbish, it is necessary to send a stream of pure blood through all parts of the body to wash them and make them clean. A garment washed in dirty water does not become clean. The body of the chronic invalid that is polluted and poisoned cannot be washed clean with dirty blood. The blood, in order to purify the body, must be cleaner than the body. It must be absolutely clean, immaculately clean, if the body is to come out white and spotless, and full of life and health; and this requires pure food, abstinence from meats, animal fats, tea, coffee, condiments, and all irritating and indigestible foods.—J. H. Kellogg.