Voices of the Ages

Health and wellbeing, diseases and illness, medical practice and practitioners, nutrition and nourishing food - here are summary views of elite scientists from nearly 5000 years. May they challenge us to evaluate our views and lifestyles to ultimately result in higher levels of well-being. This is what the Wisconsin Natural Food Associates and this Bulletin are all about. See page 4 for Voices of the Ages.


“The superior physician helps before the early budding of disease…. To administer medicines to diseases which have already developed is comparable to the behavior of those persons who begin to dig a well after they have become thirsty.” -- Huang Ti (2697-2597 BC, Chinese emperor)

“The natural force within each one of us is the greatest healer of disease; let your food be your medicine.” “A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.” - Hippocrates (400 BC, Father of medicine)

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be expected, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.” - Herophilies (300 BC, Physician to Alexander the Great)

“No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.” -- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204, Rabi, philosopher, author)

“The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open mind.” - Paracelsus (1493-1541, Swiss physician)

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.” -- Thomas Edison (1847-1931, One of the greatest inventors of history, holder of over 1000 patents. Without Edison, life worldwide would be totally different today. Unfortunately, his “doctor of the future” is just beginning to emerge in the circles of holistic, alternative, natural, homeopathic, complimentary, functional, chiropractic and other forms of natural healing practices. It has taken 100 years for his “futuristic” ideas to start coming to pass, though MDs are still being ostracized, raided by the FDA, and loosing their licenses because they practice prevention and clinical nutrition. Take your next vacation to Ft. Myers, Florida, and spend some time at the Edison museum. It's an education! - Editor)

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.” -- Albert Schweitzer, M.D. (1878-1976. Famous physician and philosopher)

“Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.” -- Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D. (1916-2001, Renowned scientists, author, educator.)

Your editor's own conclusion: “If there is a nutritional unbalance or deficiency, no amount of drugs can correct it, no doctors can cure it, no surgery will resolve it, no hospital or clinic can make it right. You must either supply the body with the needed nutritional elements, or suffer the consequences of a cascade of degenerative disorders. It's not a question of whether this happens, it's only a matter when.”