HERBERT SHELTON'S COVER-UP
The Health Hazards Of Herbert
Shelton's Natural Hygiene Diet
And,
how to fix the deficiencies in the Natural Hygiene Diet, the 80 10 10
diet, and other vegan and raw-vegan diets.
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Natural Hygiene
Natural Hygiene is a
raw-vegan lifestyle founded by Herbert Shelton.
When I first read
the 1976 interview of Dr Cursio by Dr Bass, on drbass.com, I thought
of Richard Nixon and the Watergate Tapes.
This is my abridged
version of what Herbert Shelton refused to publish.
All Started Well But Deficiency
Diseases Got Worse With Each Generation
Dr. Cursio: He's
raised four children Hygienically: I noticed in the beginning of the
third generation – the abnormalities.
Blended Salads Helped
Dr. Cursio: Then I
made my shift into more green stuff, blended salads, cut out the
orange juice – like I'd give the child the milk and I'd use the
vegetable juice.
Then I saw the
difference.
The children were
better – were more sturdy. Instead of pigeon-chested or
chicken-chested, they were fine-chested.
Dr. Bass: You kept
the blended salads going?
Dr. Cursio: That was
the change. I don't think there's a dental carie in the whole group.
Dr. Bass: That's a
permanent change then, increased salads and blended salads?
Dr. Cursio: 90%, I'd
say 95%, on unfired [raw] food – and some steamed vegetables like
rice or potato or legumes. This family is representative of many
families where they've been raised this way.
[Note by Dr. Bass:
The following represents the changes which have evolved in Dr.
Cursio's dietetic views over the years leading up to the present
time, that is 1976].
Dr. Cursio: I
observed many cases of pregnant women who were physically inadequate
to have children and hence after pregnancy they accepted Natural
Hygiene in order to have children that were healthy and also to make
it possible for them to survive.
Dr. Bass: Talking
about you [and your patients]?
Dr. Cursio: I'm
speaking now of the women who came to me.
How these changes
took place – especially in the care of children – so that we have
here problems in the children when I followed the strict fruit
program with nuts, and minimal amounts, compared to what I use now,
of green stuff (salads).
The skeletal
development wasn't right, the dental arches were not well-formed,
teeth came in crowded because of it.
I noticed a great
deal of boys were herniated – who had hydroceles.
Does This Sound Like The 80 10 10
Diet To You
Dr. Bass: Can you
state specifically what diet they were on?
Dr. Cursio: Their
diet would be predominantly fruit, nut proteins, a relatively small
amount of salad compared to what they get now – they used to get
one salad a day.
They'd have a fruit
meal in the morning, a fruit meal at noon, and a salad at night.
In the morning,
they'd have just fruit; at noon they'd have the fruit and nuts, and
at night they'd have the salad, sometimes with nuts and sometimes
with vegetables.
First I noticed the
hydroceles, nearsightedness, the skeletal development.
And the musculature
was not developed in these children.
I noticed with other
individuals – people who had been living this way and living, I
know, 100%.
Miss Natural Hygiene
One of them – I
don't think he's [Herbert Shelton] going to publish this – with
Miss Natural Hygiene.
There were two Miss
Natural Hygienes.
One of them came to
me with multiple sclerosis.
And gum recessions,
dental caries I noticed.
But a great deal of
gum recession and marginal erosion of the gum line of the teeth.
Slight Improvements With Citrus
Fruit Reduction
[My Note: For
more than 40 years, I have eaten and still eat a high fruit diet,
typically at least 2 kg per day. The only time my body was damaged
was during my 18 years as a vegan.
In my experience,
it is the lack of milk or eggs, and not the surplus of fruit, that
does the damage.]
Dr. Cursio: Now, at
first I ascribed this to the citrus fruit, so I cut it down, without
making any relative increase in the green stuff (salads).
I found slight
improvements.
I came to the
conclusion [vitamin B12] perhaps was one of the factors that could
lead to this pathology.
Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Dr. Bass: Deficiency
in B12?
Dr. Cursio: Yes!
It was only after
adding green stuff that I started to see in the pregnancies that
followed, and also in the children, that came from these pregnancies,
the difference.
Round heads instead
of pear-shaped heads, better-formed teeth.
And all the
aberrations I had noticed – the near-sightedness, the hernias, the
hydroceles, and the musculature that was weak – that all
disappeared.
Hemoglobin – the
nutritional anemias – they cleared up.
This was with the
addition of the salads, but I was not satisfied.
In trying to
evaluate the absolute amount of every nutrient, I found it was
inadequate.
They couldn't eat
that amount, they didn't have time to eat that amount.
Blended Salads Because They Could
Not Eat Enough
[My Note: Having
to blend and drink salads, because they could not eat enough, would
indicate that vegan diets are not natural for humans. Did prehistoric
people and gorillas have electric blenders and juicers.]
Dr. Bass: The salad?
Dr. Cursio: The
blended salad.
To insure the proper
intake in sufficient amounts with minimal expenditure of energy,
especially in the ill, and leaving sufficient energy, for reparative
and healing and restorative purposes.
Clinical Studies Made On Hundreds
Of People
Dr. Bass: In sending
this material to Dr. Shelton, shall I quote you?
Dr. Cursio: Quote me
– also your observations too.
These were studies
that were made on hundreds and hundreds of people. What we call
clinical studies and observations, in which there was a morphology, a
clinical observation based on, rates of recoveries.
And also in
post-fasting nutrition, when this kind of setup was used, that they
rebuilt and were able to get back to a normal musculature.
There were
individuals who came to me, for example, who'd never been able to go
beyond the skeletal stage.
After you gave them
blended salad, they started to fill up again.
Dr. Bass: And they
wouldn't do it on the whole salad?
Some Hygienists Went Back To
Fish-Eating In A Sly Manner
[My Note: I
recovered by adding only pasteurised cow's milk and yoghurt. I do not
think that fish is necessary.]
Dr. Cursio: But the
one thing that forced my attention to the defects, was the recession
of gums and the marginal erosion of the gum line of the teeth. Why,
in a so-called ideal diet, was this happening?
I didn't want to go
back to fish, as some Hygienists did in the past.
Dr. Bass: Robert
Walter?
Dr. Cursio: Yeah!
Robert Walter and some other hygienists.
Some of them did it
in a sly manner.
Dr. Bass: Tilden?
Dr. Cursio: No.
Tilden was not a
vegetarian.
These were
vegetarians. The B12 and essential factors were missing.
Raw Egg Yolks Often Worked When
Salads Failed
Dr. Cursio: So hence
the egg yolk and the cheese.
Also [anemia] in my
own family. No family was fed more scientifically.
We were unfired
[raw] foodists.
They were raised
that way.
Raw Cheese
Dr. Cursio: Then I
noticed in my generation, the second, the third generation that these
problems began to show up.
That's how the [raw]
Kutter's Cheese came to be.
When my daughter
developed this anemia. I couldn't get it to shift.
There was enough
iron, the egg yolks were given.
The proteins were
inadequate.
Dr. Bass: You mean
the nuts?
Dr. Cursio: Yes.
Dr. Bass: Was that
the beginning of all the raw cheeses?
[My Note:
Pasteurised cow's milk and yoghurt was sufficient for me.]
Death From Osteoporosis On A
Raw-Vegan Diet
Dr. Cursio: Jean
Franton was carried into me [with MS].
The year before
[that] she was Miss Natural Hygiene.
Dee Robins – one
of the most gorgeous females, she died a most horrible death.
She is in there
[Herbert Shelton's Monthly Journal of Natural Hygiene], as an example
of Natural Hygiene.
Died at 28. She was
a model.
Dr. Bass: Of what?
Dr. Cursio:
Osteoporosis.
Followed it to the
letter.
Dr. Bass: Do you
think Dr. Shelton will print this?
Raw Egg Yolks
Dr. Bass: Once the
people restored themselves, did you still advocate the use of the egg
yolk?
Dr. Cursio: Minimal
amounts.
Dr. Bass: Does that
mean that one cannot live on nuts, fruits, and vegetables without egg
yolks?
Dr. Cursio: You
could.
You'd have to go
through a tremendous change, and I doubt that you could make it.
You have to simply
recognise that some of us can't make the shifts.
Herbert Shelton's Cover-Up
Even though Herbert
Shelton asked, Dr. Bass to interview Dr. Cursio, I have found no
record of Herbert Shelton ever printing this interview.
Or, anything else
that would have alerted Herbert Shelton's followers to what was
happening.
Herbert Shelton
wrote many books.
And, published a
monthly magazine.
Herbert Shelton was
not only a pioneer of the raw-vegan movement.
But, a pioneer of
the cover-ups that continue to this day.
The Vegan Movement
No primate is a
natural vegan.
But, the vegan
movement continues to promote the vegan diet,
as the ideal diet,
the most natural
diet,
the healthiest diet,
the most
environmentally sensitive, and the most humane to animals.
Even though so many
'vegans' eat, and promote, organic food, that has been grown in
chicken dung, from factory farms, cattle manure from cattle
feed-lots, and blood and bone, and sprayed with fish emulsion.
If vegan was a
natural, healthy diet then, almost everyone who tried, would succeed
without supplements.
But, most people who
try, any vegan diet, fail within their first year.
Even with
supplements.
And, most of them,
because of ill-health or because it is all too hard.
From Detox To Deficiency
Many people have
cured themselves of 'incurable' diseases, including cancers, by
raw-vegan diets.
Because of the detox
benefits.
Just as others have
by fasting.
But, if you stay too
long on any vegan diet, or fast too long, you will invariably get
deficiency diseases.
In my experience,
which includes 18 years as a vegan, raw-vegan diets, for short
periods of up to 3 months, can do a great deal of good.
But, long-term, any
vegan diets, for most people, are the worst of diets.
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