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This
book is based on the principles of hygiene. A turn-of-the-century
dictionary definition of hygiene was "the study of the science
of health". Hygiene may be further defined as being the science
and art of restoring and preserving health by those substances and
influences that have a normal relation to life: healthy food, pure
water, sunlight, rest, sleep, relaxation, physical activity, play,
comfortable environment, and positive social relationships. It covers
the total needs of humans, and not merely a few of their requirements.
Hygiene is neither a practice of medicine, a "healing art",
nor a system of therapeutics. It offers no cures, does not pretend
to cure, and in fact strives to debunk the popular notion of cures.
Instead, hygiene emphasizes that adherence to its principles, which
are based on the Laws of Nature, permits the body to heal itself.
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