A Guide to Health
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A Guide to Health
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Russell Binns
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Mahatma Gandhi
A proposito di questo titolo
Though he is best remembered as the civil rights leader whose nonviolent protests called attention to a number of important issues, including the negative consequences of British imperialism, Mahatma Gandhi was an ascetic person who strove to maintain health and purity. A Guide to Health sets forth his beliefs and practices related to a wide range of health and wellness issues, ranging from diet to exercise to sexual activity.
Public Domain (P)2021 Calm RadioHowever, some of the statements contained in it can be improved in the light of the progress made by medicine and scientific research from 1921 to today.
At the beginning of the book an extreme thesis about food is exposed: eat only fruit.
Research in the field of nutrition, today, allows us to say that so-called "single color" diets (eating only one food or only one category of foods) are not healthy and that you need to eat a little bit of everything, except for food intolerances .
For completeness of information, I would like to remind you that, in Christianity, there are no foods declared impure (see Gospel according to Mark, chapter 7, verses 17-19).
The book in question proposes to treat health pathologies only with natural remedies (hydro-therapy, mud-therapy, intake of fruit juices and hot drinks, etc.).
The debate between synthetic and natural medicine is complex and still ongoing.
The way forward seems to be a marriage between the two medicines just mentioned in order to produce the best result for the patient.
It should also be remembered that, in the Autobiography of Gandhi by Charles F. Andrews, we read that Gandhi chose to undergo the surgical operation of appendectomy.
Finally, I examine Chapter 6: Contagiuos diseases: Smallpox of the text under comment.
In it, Gandhi sets out a very radical anti-vaccine thesis.
The debate in this regard is very vibrant following the critical issues that emerged during the recent covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
This is not the place to address this last discussion.
I dwell on one of the arguments that Gandhi uses in the aforementioned chapter 6: that for which the smallpox vaccine would be useless because in a locality in India the people who had been vaccinated were also infected with smallpox.
In this regard, it is necessary to remember that any vaccine does not have the purpose of stopping the transmission of a virus, but that of making an individual's immune defenses capable of counteracting an aggression by a pathogenic agent.
For greater clarity, I explain this concept with the following example.
If I shut myself up at home or go to a desert island, I can avoid being attacked by a pathogen without needing a vaccine.
A book to be commended but some of the statements can be improved
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