Arthritis and Common Sense
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Here are the results of 12 years of research by the author, Dan Dale Alexander. In these pages an authority reports on his findings about the disease…he lists successful steps which can be taken to bring relief.
Laboratory tests by the author developed a plan and a dietary regime which have brought better health to arthritics and have caused their pains to disappear.
The Science Editor of The New York Times has reported that arthritis is a lubrication problem. The Times said, in part, that while both cortisone and ACTH are still more precious than radium it is predicted that both are on the way out as far as arthritis is concerned.
Unlike present “cures supposedly caused by costly miracle drugs, this book gives a complete outline of an inexpensive corrective diet which lubricates the patient’s joints and returns arthritis to better health.
Dan Dale Alexander
Dan Dale Alexander (18 July 1919 - June 15, 1990) was a nutrition theorist, lecturer and writer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, on July 18, 1919, he attended the Norwich Free Academy and Trinity College, both in Connecticut, and Columbia University in New York. He was a popular lecturer at health and nutrition seminars for four decades and achieved international attention in the 1950s with his first book, Arthritis and Common Sense (1950). He wrote four other books on nutrition and health: Good Health and Common Sense (1960); Healthy Hair and Common Sense (1969); The Common Cold and Common Sense (1971); and Dry Skin and Common Sense (1978). Alexander appeared on national network television shows, including The Johnny Carson Show and The Merv Griffin Show, and his theories were described in Life and other national magazines. A resident of Los Angeles, California since the 1960s, Dan Dale Alexander filed as a candidate for governor in the Democratic primary election of 1966, challenging incumbent Governor Edmund G. Brown, who was renominated but lost the election to Ronald Reagan. Alexander died in Los Angeles in 1990, aged 70.
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Arthritis and Common Sense - Dan Dale Alexander
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Arthritis and Common Sense
by
DAN DALE ALEXANDER
NEW ENLARGED EDITION
ILLUSTRATED WITH MENUS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3
DEDICATION 5
PREFACE 6
FOREWORD 8
Chapter I — Why and How This Book Was Written 10
Chapter II — A Preview of What’s to Come 13
Chapter III — Understand All Arthritis—Recognize Your Own Type 17
Chapter IV — Combat Dryness in the Joint Linings and Cartilage 26
Chapter V — Faulty Diet Can Cause Arthritis 31
Chapter VI — The Right Foods—To Help Gain Relief 34
Chapter VII — Fruits and Their Effect on Bodily Oils 42
Chapter VIII — Modern Beverages—A Help or Hindrance? 48
Chapter IX — About Our Habits...Eating, Drinking, Smoking 52
Chapter X — Do Charts on Health Have Any Value? 54
Chapter XI — Shift the Liquids in Your Diet 57
Chapter XII — Drinking Water—a Curse or a Blessing? 63
Chapter XIII — Acids in Food Lead to Sensitivity 70
Chapter XIV — Avoid Foods with the Wrong Oils 73
Chapter XV — Menus...Day by Day List of Correct Meals 77
Seven-Day Menu—Normal Weight 77
Seven-Day Menu—Underweight Arthritics 80
Seven-Day Menu—Overweight Arthritics 83
Quick Check List of Good Foods 86
Chapter XVI — Can Vitamins Speed Relief? 90
Chapter XVII — Cod Liver Oil Is a Key Weapon 94
Chapter XVIII — Your Liver Can Cheat You 103
Chapter XIX — How Constipation Affects Arthritics 109
Chapter XX — Cortisone Can Help, But Not Cure 119
Chapter XXI — Superstitions and False Remedies 125
Chapter XXII — The Rate of Recovery 132
Chapter XXIII — The Answer to Your Key Questions 136
Chapter XXIV — What the Future Holds for Arthritics 140
Send a Copy of This Book to a Friend 146
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 148
DEDICATION
TO EDITH
Whose help, encouragement and patience made this book possible. As my wife, she has endured loneliness—while I worked through the long nights in laboratories, through thousands of tests, and through the long years of duty in hospitals. Still alone, she waited patiently while I traveled across America four times to do arthritic research in hundreds of cities.
As my helpmate, she has recorded facts, typed endless reports, and she even tested personally the actual menus and dietary plans. From her schooling in art, she drew the illustrations found throughout this book. In addition to all this, she has somehow found time to raise our children...has made for all of us a healthy, happy home.
So….to Edith...I dedicate this volume.
PREFACE
Since the first and second editions of this book were published, a great deal has happened to me, the author.
Now, as I write this third edition—as I add new facts, additional findings and minor changes to clarify medical language for readers—I would like to report on how this book has already helped many people gain relief from their arthritis.
During the past year, thousands of letters have been sent to me from all parts of the country. Victims of arthritis—throughout America—have tried my dietary plan, as outlined in these pages. They write that their pain and the swelling in their joints disappear...and they have been able to resume normal and happy lives.
Receiving such letters has become the greatest experience of my life. For fourteen long years, I have done research work and intensive studying to find the answer to arthritis...and, now, these letters make all my efforts seem worthwhile.
To know that this book is helping to relieve suffering is the most satisfying reward any writer could ask.
As I review the history of this book, let me speak frankly. Naturally, all the comments about this manuscript have not been favorable. With any new idea, there are always expressions pro and con, at first.
Many physicians have recommended my book to their patients, others have attacked my discoveries. Right now, doctors in New England, the MidWest and in California are treating arthritics under the methods I outlined in this book. Test cases, under medical supervision, are continuing daily.
The medical profession is entitled to question, experiment with and analyze the facts in this book. We expected that doctors would, and we welcome their tests and comments.
This is a new method for treating arthritis. And, here is the most important fact...People are obtaining relief from arthritic pains and symptoms through my dietary regime. The plan works, letters pouring in to me prove the results! More and more doctors are adopting the program.
So, as a preface, let me describe what you will find in these pages....
This book tells about arthritis, its causes, effects and a safe and sane approach toward its relief.
You will find in these pages a list of menus, a day by day breakdown of meals I recommend for arthritics...a plan of good eating for an entire week. And we have added certain illustrations and new chapters to present a more complete picture of my discoveries.
The language in this book is simple, easy to read. The manuscript is intended mainly for the person with little or no medical knowledge—to give a clear explanation of his affliction.
Anyone seeking an overnight cure should look to the wonder drugs
now being over-publicized. However, the quick cure
claimed through drugs may prove to be temporary—and the drug treatments may have to be stopped to prevent different complications.
Let us draw a comparison with diabetes. Instead of using drugs, medical science is now turning back to the diet to control this metabolic disorder. Now, after many years of using hormonal insulin, treatment by diet is becoming an accepted method.
The same development is due in regard to arthritis. Before many years, medical science will turn back to diet to treat arthritis.
Arthritis generally begins slowly and is often due to a combination of dietary mistakes. Primarily the basic
mistakes leading to arthritis are:
(a) Key nutritional oils in the daily meals are either missing, or if present, are not assimilated properly. Frequently, it takes several to many years of poor food choice and/or poor eating habits to lead to an arthritic condition.
(b) On the other hand—the correct nutritional oils can be
in many of the daily meals and even accomplish their proper lubricating job. BUT IN OTHER MEALS, oil deteriorating liquids or other detrimental, devitalized foods
can still undermine the good
of previous meals "ALREADY" PROPERLY ASSIMILATED.
Gradually—the absence, conviction or deterioration of certain key nutritional dietary oils lead to a joint problem susceptibility. Then the lesser dietary mistakes, of which there are many, begin to take effect.
In due time—depending on the structure and pattern of the dietary mistakes—A PARTICULAR KIND OF ARTHRITIS SETS IN......be it osteo arthritis, rheumatoid or gouty arthritis.
This book tells the proper diet, the selection and rotation of food, plus a dietetic therapy, so that more of the correct oils in your food can serve the joints. It also shows how these oils can stimulate your adrenal glands—to successfully combat arthritis.
Your own doctor is the man to see to determine whether you have arthritis. Visit your physician for a diagnosis, to decide if you have this dread disease. And I have always recommended that arthritics return to their doctors for periodic check-ups, to chart the progress of their recovery.
Meanwhile, however, this book maintains that it is possible for you to gain relief through simple diet controls. In these pages you will find a common sense approach for coping with arthritis right in your own home.
May this third edition of my book lead you to better health.
DAN DALE ALEXANDER
Newington, Connecticut
THIRD EDITION ENLARGED WITH MENUS
FOREWORD
As a doctor, I feel that this book is an important contribution toward finding the answer to arthritis.
Dan Dale Alexander’s methods and dietary approach have already gained excellent results for victims of this disease.
I have seen a former patient of mine who, because of arthritis, had reached the condition where she was unable to open her mouth enough to eat properly. When she followed the diet outlined by Mr. Alexander—and added proper oils to her system by his method—a miracle happened. Her improvement was markedly advanced.
In another case, I have talked with a mother and I have seen her ten-year-old child who was afflicted with arthritis. For five years the child had been given every treatment known to medical science to try to relieve her rheumatoid arthritis. Everything had been tried—including concentrated preparations of oil—but the patient responded only when her diet was corrected and the oil in its pure form was administered by the method revealed in this book.
The patient is now free of arthritis advancement and is 90% improved.
The victims described above are typical, and they had serious cases of arthritis. For the majority of arthritics—whose cases are only in the early and moderately advanced stages—this book can hold even more benefit!
In addition to the special diet which the author explains in the book, he also advocates the use of cod liver oil. My own experience with cod liver oil dates back 50 years, when I started using it with my patients in the treatment of tuberculosis. Medical literature is full of accounts of its use as a folk remedy several hundred years back in the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis.
It has remained for Mr. Alexander to unlock its great value by a new and unique method of administration.
Simultaneously while taking the cod liver oil for joint relief, the dry skin is nourished and takes on lustre; the dry scalp and hair are corrected—the hair takes on a shine; the nails stop splitting, and the ears begin to secrete a normal amount of ear wax. The sedimentation rate returns to normal.
The vitamin A in cod liver oil benefits the eyes as well as the skin, but it remains for the small amount of vitamin D in the oil to give the oil its therapeutic quality for arthritics.
The vitamin D makes cod liver oil a steroid product of tremendous importance in combating both rheumatoid and osteo arthritis, because its dual action is on the adrenal glands and the synovial membrane (joint linings), thus arresting cartilage degeneration.
Medical literature says arthritis is a constitutional disease. Here, at last—in this book—is a logical, systemic approach. The entire body benefits from the Alexander diet, which emphasizes the proper sequence of eating foods. (A new idea on dieting for health.)
There is no remedy in use today which will produce the feeling of well-being, the appearance of health, that I have seen follow the use of Alexander’s method.
As a doctor, I read and agreed with the second edition of Alexander’s book. He has spent years of scientific research to develop his discoveries, and it has been a privilege for me to write this foreword for his Third Edition of Arthritis and Common Sense.
H. E. Kirschner, M.D.
August 7, 1953
Monrovia, California
Chapter I — Why and How This Book Was Written
To know arthritis, you must experience it. As I have. I have felt the pain personally. During the course of my laboratory experiments, I purposely developed an arthritic condition within my own body. You don’t have to tell me that this disease hurts.
It does, terribly.
Even worse than my own feelings, I have had a serious case of arthritis strike in my family. My mother became wracked with arthritic pains, and I saw her suffer for 10 long years. I have lived with this disease—and I know the damage it can do within a family and home.
For all these reasons, I decided to devote my life to fighting this illness. To tell you what I’ve done in the field of arthritis, and how I’ve done it, let’s go back to the beginning. Back to a day in 1929.
It was then, 24 years ago, that I remember the onset of my mother’s first aches and pains. They started in her shoulders, and at that time I heard her ailment called rheumatism.
My youth and inexperience left me in a sympathetic state, wanting to help, but unable to do so.
Back in those days, the use of heat was suggested and the usual electric pad was bought. So were salves, ointments and soothing oils of wintergreen, The relief felt from the externally applied heat was only temporary. The other medications did nothing.
Since the small town in which we lived did not have a specialist, mother went to a larger city to seek help. On the advice of a doctor there, she had X-rays taken. From the pictures came his decision as to a cure: tooth extraction. Every last tooth came out. The dentist was merely following orders, but I can still see the disappointment in my mother’s face. Her teeth had been taken,