Magani da Azumi

The Fasting Cure littafi ne na 1911 wanda ba na almara ba game da azumi na Upton Sinclair . An sake buga labaran biyu da Sinclair ya rubuta waɗanda aka buga su ne a cikin mujallar Cosmopolitan. Har ila yau, ya haɗa da tsokaci da bayanin kula ga labaran, da kuma abubuwan da aka cire daga labaran da Sinclair ya buga a cikin mujallar Physical Culture. Littafin an sadaukar da shi ga Bernarr Macfadden .

Sinclair yana da sha'awar kiwon lafiya da abinci mai gina jiki. Ya yi gwaji da abinci daban-daban, da kuma azumi. Ya rubuta da yawa game da azumi a cikin The Fasting Cure, wanda ya zama mafi kyawun sayarwa. Sinclair ya yi imanin cewa azumi na lokaci-lokaci yana da mahimmanci ga lafiya, yana cewa, "Na yi azumi da yawa na tsawon kwanaki goma ko goma sha biyu, tare da sakamakon kammala lafiyar ta". Sinclair ya fi son cin abinci mai gina jiki na kayan lambu da kwayoyi. Tsawon lokaci, ya kasance mai cin ganyayyaki, amma kuma ya gwada cin nama. Halinsa game da waɗannan batutuwa an bayyana shi sosai a cikin babi na ƙarshe na littafin, "Amfani da Nama".

Littafin ya yi ikirarin jin dadi game da azumi yana warkar da kusan dukkanin cututtuka, gami da ciwon daji, tarin fuka, asma, syphilis, da sanyi na yau da kullun.

 Karɓar zamani 
An yi Allah wadai da littafin a cikin The Monthly Cyclopaedia da Medical Bulletin ta hanyar likitan gastroenterologist Anthony Bassler, wanda ya bayyana yadda ake kula da marasa lafiya da yawa waɗanda suka bi shawarar da aka buga a cikin Sinclair's The Contemporary Review da Cosmopolitan Magazine articles. Labarin da ke tare da shi a cikin wallafe-wallafen yanzu ya soki Sinclair a matsayin "mai tsabta da sauƙi, wanda tunaninsa ya damu da jerin ra'ayoyi ɗaya bayan ɗaya, babu wanda ya huta a kan kowane tushe da za a iya kira kimiyya ko ma mai hankali". 

 Kyauta 
A cikin littafinsa Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition (2005), masanin kimiyyar halittu na Burtaniya Walter Gratzer ya bayyana Sinclair a matsayin "mafi girman ma'aikatan faddists." Gratzer ya kuma rubuta, "A cikin abin da ya wuce don gargadi ya ce [a cikin littafinsa The Book of Life (1921) ]: 'Na san lokuta biyu ko uku na mutuwa yayin da suke yin azumi, amma nan ina jin tabbas cewa azumi ba ya haifar da mutuwarsu.' Ba a duk wannan farashi da haka ba ne kawai ba za mu ci gaba da yawa ga wasu cututtukan nan suna da dama na yanzu muna da dama na rayuwa kamar yadda suke da dama na zamani na rubuce-Gratzer, Walter (2005). Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition. Oxford University Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-19-280661-0.

 A cikin al'adun gargajiya 
Sinclair ya bayyana a cikin littafin T. C. Boyle The Road to Wellville (1993), wanda aka gina a kusa da tarihin tarihin John Harvey Kellogg, wanda ya kirkiro Corn Flakes kuma wanda ya kafa Battle Creek Sanitarium. A cikin littafin, Sinclair da matarsa ta farko, Meta, sun bayyana a matsayin marasa lafiya a Sanitarium. Daga baya, Kellogg ya yi fushi lokacin da ya gano cewa wani daga cikin marasa lafiyarsa yana azumi bayan ya karanta rubutun Sinclair's The Fasting Cure . [1]

Mai kiɗa na Amurka Jack White ya ambaci The Fasting Cure a matsayin wahayi; bayan karanta shi, ya yi azumi na kwana biyar a kan ruwa da kofi kuma ya rubuta kusan waƙoƙi 10 zuwa 12, wasu daga cikinsu sun bayyana a cikin kundi na biyu na 2022, Entering Heaven Alive . 

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