Evening star., 1934-09-24
The Hay Diet
New Way to Vibrant Health.
BY WILLIAM HOWARD HAY, M. D.
How Disease Originates.

| HOW disease OT1SlndCcS.
| CHILD is born apparently and
n presumably healthy, but in
| ~ two years the history includes
1 \ colds, diarrheas, constipation,
measles, whooping cough, per-
haps mumps, chicken pox, scarletina,
| even rickets, adenitis, tonsil disease,
| adenoids, any or all Of these things.
What has gone wrong with the
| child? Always some chemical change
has taken place that will permit Of
this array of diseases. Let us con-
slider how this change has come about.
Diseases of childhood are so fire.
quent, so almost universal, that many
parents assume the communicable
sorts have to be encountered some
time, and the sooner the better.
1t is not strange that 900 Of
these little ones never see the end of
the second year of life, or that 400, 900
die before reaching the end of the
tenth year, for it seems as though
calamity is waiting just around the
corner for children.
Disease of all kinds, it may be stated
broadly, is merely the manufacture by
and retention in the body Of all sorts
Of acid end-products Of digestion and
metabolism. A collection of ashes
from used foods and from the body's
own cells as they die and give up to
the circulation their acid reSidueS.
No matter what form disease takes.
it must have this background of acid
debris; otherwise one would continue
to function normally. Children may
be born with much acid debris already
saturating the tissues, from a very
toxic mother, but nature is exceedingly
kind in this respect and compels the
mother to give up enough of her own
alkaline stores to neutraliZe much of
this acidity.
Children of toxic mother cannot
be as free from this background Of dis
ease as would be the case were the
mother in better nutritional state, yet
by far the greatest proportion of dis
ease forming acid is generated by the
little one itself, through wrong habits
of feeding almost from the moment of
birth. If the little one is breast-fed,
then again the nature of the milk de-
pendS SO much on the state of the
mothers chemistry that even in these
more select cases much autointoxica-
ton is created through toxic milk
1t is well recognized that breaSt-fed
children have much better chance of
living without disease than those de-
pending on so-called artificial feeding.
This is for the reason that even
toxic milk is better than the usual
multitude of mistakes ordinarily made
in feeding children on those foods and
by those rules so commonly employed.
II morbidity were found chiefly in
the children of the poor, we might
think the cause of frequent disease in
childhood were one of deficient feed
ing, but as the diseases of childhood
| are no reSpecters of persons, but seem
to occur even more frequently in the
| children of the rich or well-to-do, We
must charge this to something deeper
than the inability of the parents to buy
the necessary foods.
Deficiencies are found perhaps more
frequently in the supposedly well fed
| than IN the poor, and one can starve
to death with full stomach at any
stage in life, if the foods used do not
supply to the body all the elements of
growth and function called for each
| day.
Disease grows only from a back
! ground of deficiencies, on the one
hand, and plethoras, on the other-an
imbalance in the body chemistry,
acidosis, in other words.