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BRAGGHEALTHYL I F E S T YL EVital Living to 120Your days shall be 120 years.- Genesis 6:3Formerly Titled:TOXICLESS DIET, BODY PURIFICATION& HEALING SYSTEMPAUL C. BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D.LIFE EXTENSION SPECIALISTandPATRICIA BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D.HEALTH & FITNESS EXPERTHEALTH SCIENCEBox 7, Santa Barbara, California 93102 USA www.bragg.comAn Important Note for E-book Readers!Due to the limitations of everyone's Computer Print Dialog, pages that are'numbered' in roman numerals or in letters, in the Foreword and Table of Contentssections, cannot be individually printed. To print these pages you can 'Print All'for the entire book. Should you wish only those early pages, 'Print All' thencancel or abort the print job after your desired pages have finished printing.This is necessary to assure that your navigation through the E-book matchesthe shown page numbers, as they exist in the Table of Contents, Index and the'Print' book version. To navigate within Acobat and Acrobat Reader you can specifyany page number, whether roman or arabic and jump directly to that page.For sight-impaired or anyone wishing larger printouts, acrobat has a print optionto 'Fit to Page' or "Enlarge to page size' when printing to letter size paper.
Notice: Our writings are to help guide you to live a healthy lifestyle and preventhealth problems. If you suspect you have a health problem, please seekqualified health professionals to help you make the healthiest informedchoices. Diabetics should fast only under a health professional’s supervision!If hypoglycemic, try spirulina, chlorella or barley green to liquids when fasting.BRAGGHEALTHYLIFESTYLEVital Living to 120Formerly Titled: TheToxicless Diet,Body Purification & Healing SystemPAUL C. BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D.LIFE EXTENSION SPECIALISTandPATRICIA BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D.HEALTH & FITNESS EXPERTCopyright by Health Science All rights reserved under theInternational Copyright Union. No portion of this book maybe reproduced or used in any manner without the writtenpermission of the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishesto use brief quotations for a magazine, newspaper, website,radio or television program. For information, please contact:Health Science, Box 7, Santa Barbara, California 93102Telephone (805) 968-1020, FAX (805) 968-1001e-mail address: books@bragg.comQuantity Purchases: Companies, Professional Groups, Churches,Clubs, Fundraisers etc. Please contact our Special Sales Department.To see Bragg Books and Products on-line, visit ourWebsite at: www.bragg.comThis book is printed on recycled, acid-free paper.- UPDATED AND EXPANDED Copyright Health ScienceThirty-third edition MMIVE-book PDF ISBN: 0-87790-511-8Published in the United StatesHEALTH SCIENCE, Box 7, Santa Barbara, California 93102 USA
Miraculous Testimonials forThe Bragg Healthy LifestyleThese are just a few of the thousands of testimonials wereceive yearly, praising The Bragg Health Books for therejuvenation benefits they reap – physically, mentally andspiritually. We look forward to hearing from you also.Thanks to the Bragg Health Books, they were ourintroduction to healthy living. We are very grateful to youand your father. – Marilyn Diamond, Co-Author, Fit For Life.The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle with Fasting has changedmy life! I lost weight and my energy levels went throughthe roof. I look forward to my fasting days. I think betterand am a better husband and father. Thank you Patricia,this has been a great blessing in my life. Also, we enjoyedyour important health sharing at our “AOL” Conference.– Byron H. Elton, VP Entertainment, Time Warner AOLThank you Patricia for our first meeting in London in 1968.You gave me your Fasting Book, it got me exercising, briskwalking and eating more wisely. You were a blessing God-sent.– Rev. Billy GrahamWhen I was a young gymnastics coach at StanfordUniversity, Paul Bragg's words and example inspired meto live a healthy lifestyle. I was twenty-three then; nowI'm nearly sixty, and my own health and fitness servesas a living testimonial to Bragg's wisdom, carried on byhis daughter, Patricia Bragg.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx– Dan Millman, Author of The Way of the Peaceful Warriorwww.danmillman.comBragg Books were my conversion to the healthy way.– James F. Balch M.D.,Co-Author "Prescription for Nutritional Healing"
Praises for The Bragg Healthy LifestylePaul Bragg saved my life at age 15 when I attended the BraggHealth Crusade in Oakland. I thank the Bragg Healthy Lifestylefor my long, active, happy life spreading health and fitness.– Jack LaLanne, Bragg follower for 74 yearsI’ve experienced a beautiful, remarkable, spiritual awakeningsince reading this book. I’ll never be quite the same again.– Sandy Tuttle, Painesville, OHYour book gives me so much motivation when I need it.Thank you again for your inspiration, I am honored to be amongyour millions of health students worldwide.–– John F. Crann, Livingston, NJI am truely thrilled by what I've read in the Bragg Health Books,and excited and confident of my new ways to health. Thank You.– Ken Cooper, D.C., Narrabi, NSW, AustrailiaThe Bragg Healthy Lifestyle teaches you to take controlof your health and build a healthy future.– Mark Victor Hansen, Co-author, Chicken Soup for Soul SeriesBragg Books were my conversion to the healthy way.– James F. Balch M.D., Co-authorPrescription for Nutritional HealingI am eternally grateful for your book. It's made a greatdifference in my life. I'm sharing it with my friends.– Carolyn Orfel, Washinton, D.C.I am a Champion Weight Lifter at Muscle Beach forover 50 years and we are all big Bragg health fans.– Chris Baioa, Santa Monica, CaliforniaHealth Crusaders Paul and Patricia Bragg were my early inspirationto my health education. – Jeffery Bland, Ph.D, Food Scientist
Praises for The Bragg Healthy LifestyleHow I beat cancer, obesity, diabetes, strep and threeherniated disks and excruciating pain? The answer was changingto the Bragg's Healthy Lifestyle Program! It changed and savedmy life! I had full recovery and also lost over 70 lbs. I received anew life and that is just the beginning because my manhoodreturned that was lost to diabetes – now that's exciting! On mytrip to Honolulu, Hawaii I visited the famous free Bragg ExerciseClass at Waikiki Beach. I became so regenerated with a wonderfulnew viewpoint towards living my healthy lifestyle that I nowlive in Hawaii. I'm invigorated with new energy. My new purposefor living is to help others reclaim their health rights! I also wantthe world to join The Bragg Health Crusade. I am deeply thankfulPaul and Patricia for my new healthy life!– Len Schneider, Honolulu, HawaiiThank you Paul and Patricia Bragg for my simple,easy to follow Health Program. You make my day!– Clint Eastwood, Bragg follower for 49 yearsSee more Praises – pages 146 – 148We get letters daily at our Santa Barbara headquarters.We would love to receive a testimonial from you on any blessings, healings and changes you experienced after following TheBragg Healthy Lifestyle and Fasting. It’s all within your graspto be in top health. By following this book, you can reap SuperHealth and a happy, long, vital life! It’s never too late to begin.Read the study (page 122) they did with people in their 80s and90s and the amazing results that were obtained. Receive miracleswith natural nutrition, exercise and fasting! Start now!Daily our prayers & love go out to you, your heart, mind & soul.3 John 2Genesis 6:3Miracles can happen every day through guidance and prayer! – Patricia Bragg
Visit bragg.com and send free Bragg Health Musical E–Cards from our web to friends!Do YouShow Signs ofPREMATUREAGEING?Is everything you do a big effort? Have you started to lose your skin tone?Your muscle tone? Your energy? Your hair? Do small things irritate you?Are you forgetful? Confused? Is your elimination sluggish? Do you have allergies? Joint pains Do you have aches and pains? Do you get out of breathwhen you run or climb stairs? How limber is your back and body? How well do you adjust to cold and heat? Ask yourself these important questions:Am I healthy and happy?Do I seem to be slipping andnot quite like myself anymore?If the answer to these questions are “Yes,”START TODAYLiving TheBragg HealthyLifestyle!He who understands Mother Nature walks with God.
PAUL C. BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D.World's Leading Healthy Lifestyle AuthorityPaul C. Bragg's daughter Patricia and their wonderful, healthy membersof the Bragg Longer Life, Health and Happiness Club exercise daily on thebeautiful Fort DeRussy lawn, at famous Waikiki Beach in Honolulu,Hawaii. View club exercising www.bragg.com. Membership is freeand open to everyone to attend any morning – Monday throughSaturday, from 9 to 10:30 am – for Bragg Super Power Breathing andHealth and Fitness Exercises. On Saturday there are often healthlectures on how to live a long, healthy life! The group averages 75 to 125per day, depending on the season. From December to March it can goup to 150. Its dedicated leaders have been carrying on the class for over30 years. Thousands have visited the club from around the worldand carried the Bragg Health and Fitness Crusade to friends andrelatives back home. When you visit Honolulu, Hawaii, Patricia invitesyou and your friends to join her and the club for wholesome, healthyfellowship. She also recommends visiting the outer Islands(Kauai, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai) for a fulfilling, healthy vacation.To maintain good health, normal weight and increase the good life ofradiant health, joy and happiness, the body must be exercised properly(stretching, walking, aerobics, jogging, running, biking, swimming, deep breathing,good posture, etc.) and nourished wisely with healthy foods. – Paul C. Braggi
BRAGG HEALTH CRUSADES for 21st CenturyTeaching People Worldwide to Live Healthy,Happy, Stronger, Longer Lives for a Better WorldWe love sharing, teaching and giving world-wide, and youcan share this love by being a partner and sharing The BraggHealth Crusades message. We are dedicated with a passion tohelp others! We feel blessed when you and your family's livesimprove through following our teachings from the BraggHealth Books and The Bragg Crusades. It makes our years offaithful service so worthwhile! We will keep sharing, and pleasedo write us how our teachings have helped you.The Miracle of Fasting book has been the #1 Health book for15 years in Russia and now in Bulgaria! Why? Because weshow them how to live a healthy, wholesome life for lessmoney, and it's so easy to understand and follow. Mosthealthful lifestyle habits are free (good posture, cleanthoughts, simple natural food, exercise and deep breathing,promote energy and health into the body). We continue toreach the multitudes worldwide with our health books andteachings, lectures, crusades, radio and TV outreaches.My joy and priorities come from God, Mother Nature andhealthy living. I love being a health crusader and spreadinghealth worldwide, for now it’s needed more than ever! Myfather and I also pioneered Health TV with our program“Health and Happiness” from Hollywood. Yes – it’s thrillingto be a Health Crusader and you will enjoy it also. See backpages to list names (yourself, family and friends) who you feelwould benefit from receiving our free Health Bulletins!By reading Bragg Self-Health Books you gain a newconfidence that you can help yourself, family and friendsto The Bragg Healthy Principles of Living! Please call yourlocal book stores and health stores and ask for the BraggHealth Books. Prayerfully, we hope to have all stores stockthe Bragg Books. We do keep prices as low as possible so theywill be affordable and available for everyone to learn to liveand enjoy a healthier, happier and longer life!With Blessings of Health, Peace and Love,BRAGG HEALTH CRUSADES, America's Health PioneersiiKeep Bragg Health Crusades “Crusading” with your tax deductible donations.7340 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93117 USA (805) 968-1020Spreading health worldwide since 1912
ContentsTo preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health isthe basis for all social virtues. We can no longer be as usefulwhen not well. – Dr. Samuel Johnson, Father of DictionariesTitleChapter 1: Bragg Healthy Lifestyle – Vital Living to 120 . 1Toxicless Diet, Body Purification and Healing System Explained . 2Only Mother Nature Cures! . 2Discover Your Body’s Vital Force . 3Lack of Vital Force Brings on Enervation! . 3Enervation & Disease: Cause & Effect . 4Thy Food Will Be Thy Remedy! . 5Fast Relief Claims Misguide Americans . 6Foods Can Make or Break Your Health! . 6Unhealthy Dirty Blood Causes Illness and Premature Ageing . 7There Are No Miracle Cures . 7Do You Show Signs of Premature Ageing? . 8You Become What You Eat . 9Health Road or Sickness Road? Which Will You Take? . 10Don’t Clog the Pipes of Your Body . 11Learn to Apply Health Lessons from History . 12Why Does Premature Ageing Happen? . 12Forget Calendar Years – Be Ageless! . 13Chapter 2: Steps to Agelessness and Longevity. 15Agelessness . 15Why Die Before Your Time? . 15The Garden of Eden . 16Vegetable Protein Percentage (chart) . 17Unhealthy Lifestyle and Heavy Proteins Shorten Life! . 18The World is Our Human Classroom . 19Widespread Use of Toxic Preservatives, Harmful Insecticides & Deadly, Toxic ! 20You Can Create Your Own Garden of Eden . 21Step 1: Rid Yourself of Toxic Foods . 22Step 2: Analyze Your Own Health . 22Avoid These Processed, Refined, Harmful Foods (list) . 23Step 3: Your Individual Transition Diet . 24Step 4: Your Important Healing Crises . 25Step 5: Reaping Health Benefits of Our Environment . 27Feed Your Pets as Well as You Do Yourself! . 28Step 6: The “No Big Breakfast” Program . 28Toxic Wastes and Poisons are Killers! . 29Remember: “It is NEVER too late to be what you might have been!”When you sell a man a book you don’t just sell him paper and ink, you sell hima whole new life! There’s heaven and earth in a real book. The real purpose ofbooks is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. – Christopher Morleyiii
ContentsChapter 3: Vitality From The Universe . 31People Who Refuse to Grow Old . 31Be Ageless and Youthful – Why Not? . 32Conrad Hilton Thanks Bragg for His Long Life! . 34Eternally Youthful – Bob Cummings . 34Jack LaLanne Thanks Bragg for Successful, Long Life! . 35Toxic Poisons Cause Shattered Families!. 36You Will Enjoy Internal Youthful Cosmetics and More Health . 37You Can Create A New Healthier You! . 38It Takes Time & Dedication to Reach Internal Perfection! . 39Caution – Move Slowly, Patiently for Super Healthy Success! . 39What You Eat – Becomes You! . 39You Need Go-Power in the Morning! . 40Health Miracles are Within Your Power . 41Be Aware of These Toxic Dangers (list) . 42Chapter 4: Your Transition Diet Fully Explained . 43You are on Your Way to a Miracle! . 43Only Mother Nature and You Can Cure You! . 44Internal Purity Promotes Youthfulness . 45The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle Promotes Health & Longevity . 46Natural Health Laws for Physical Perfection (list) . 46Enjoy a Tireless – Ageless – Painless Body . 47Flush the Toxic Poisons Out of Your Body! . 48You Must Earn Your Food . 49Eat Slowly – Chew Thoroughly . 50Racehorses are Vegetarian Winners! . 51Meat Clogs Arteries and Veins . 52Over-Fueling the Body is Slow Killer! . 53The Ignorant Ridicule the Health-Minded . 54More About the Transition Diet . 56“Good Earth” Founder Thanks Bragg Books . 57Learn to Simplify and Enjoy Your Meals . 58Paul C. Bragg’s South Seas Adventure . 59Bragg Found Secret to Total Health . 60Bragg Healthy Lifestyle Diet Gives You Go-Power . 61Have Special Rejuvenating Health Days . 62Paul C. Bragg & Patricia Lift Weights 3 Times Weekly . 64If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I would saybooks, friends and nature; and the greatest of these , at least the mostconsistent and always at hand is mother nature. – John BurroughsLaughter is inner jogging, good for your body and soul. – Norman CousinsivLiving in harmony with the universe is living totallyalive, full of vitality, health, joy, power, love, andabundance on every level. – Shakti Gawain
ContentsChapter 5: Questions and Answers . 65A Quick Look at Some Frequent Questions . 65The Most Asked Questions . 66You Can Reach Mental and Spiritual Heights . 71Paul C. Bragg’s Deep Spiritual Awakening . 71Our Creator Teaches You to Be a Good Steward of Your Life . 72Paul C. Bragg Found Peace and Joy . 73Take Time for 12 Things (list) . 74Chapter 6: Dr. Sunshine - The Gentle Healer . 75The Importance of Gentle Sunbathing . 75When Sunbathing Be Wise and Cautious . 76Doctor Sunshine . 77Sunshine – the Great Healer . 77Eat Sun-Cooked Foods . 78Chapter 7: Dr. Exercise – The Body’s Vital Energizer . 79The Importance of Exercise . 79Help for Varicose Veins and Leg Swelling . 80Big Muscles Don’t Prove You’re Healthy! . 80Daily Exercise is a Health Must . 81Chapter 8: Dr. Super Power Breathing . 83The Importance of Deep Breathing Oxygen . 83Directions for Filling the Entire Lungs . 83Deep Breathing & Fasting Removes Toxins . 84Chapter 9: Dr. Fasting – The Miracle Cleanser . 85Your Tongue Never Lies . 85Daily Tongue Brushing is a Good Habit . 86The Human Pipe System Must Be Kept Clean and Healthy . 87Purge Your Body of Filthy Toxic Poisons . 88Fasting - Mother Nature’s Master Healer . 89Colds Push Out Mucus and Toxins – Give Thanks! . 89Urine Reveals the Amount of Toxic Poisons in the Body . 90Infections, Germs, Bugs, Viruses and Bacteria are Scavengers . 91How to Conduct 3 Day, 7 Day & 10 Day Fasts . 92Fasting Brings Remarkable Results . 93More Scientific Proof that Fasting Works . 94Benefits from the Joys of Fasting (list) . 95Fasting Cleanses, Renews and Rejuvenates . 96Fasting Accelerates Elimination of Toxins . 97Juice Fasting – Introductory Road to Water Fasting . 98We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things,than we can to spend minor time on major things! – Jim RohnAlarmingly, one 12-ounce can of regular soda contains about 40 grams of sugar (orthe equivalent of 10 teaspoons) that promotes serious tooth decay! Drinking sodas,as the teenagers do today, constantly bathes the teeth in a sugary liquid that causesrapid deterioration of tooth structure in a very short time. – Wisconsin Dental Assn.v
ContentsPaul C. Bragg Introduced Juicing to America . 99Some Powerful Juice Combinations . 99Wanted For Robbing Health & Life (list) . 100Chapter 10: Dr. Healthy Elimination. 101Banish Constipation Mother Nature’s Way . 101Raw, Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Promote Healthy Elimination . 102B-Complex Vitamins are Important for Intestinal Health . 103Keeping Clean Internally is the Secret to Health! . 1038 Glasses of Water Daily Promotes Healthy Elimination . 104Dr. Whitaker Says “Drink Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar” . 105How to Improve Your Digestion . 105Foods Naturally Rich in Vitamin E (list) . 106Chapter 11: Healthy Foods for a Youthful Body . 107Healthy High Vibration Foods Contain Life-Giving Substances . 107Bad Nutrition – #1 Cause of Sickness . 107Apples are Powerful Nutritional Foods . 108Fight Arthritis with Apple Cider Vinegar . 108Keep Your Joints and Tissues Youthful . 109Your Waistline is Your Life-Line, Date-Line and Health-Line . 109Most People Abuse Their Stomachs . 110The Bragg Posture Exercise . 110Posture Chart (graphic) . 111Foods and Allergies (list) . 112Enjoy Healthy Fiber for Super Health (list) . 113Healthy Beverages, Salads and Dressings (recipes) . 114-115The Miracles of Apple Cider Vinegar (list) . 116Food and Product Summary (list) . 117Enjoy Super Health with Natural Foods . 117Pure Water is Important for Health . 118Low Fat Meals Cut Heart Disease Risk . 118Vegetable & Grains – Healthy Proteins . 119Healthy Plant-Based Food Guide (chart) . 120Healthy Heart Habits for a Long, Vital Life (list) . 121Recommended Blood Chemistry Values (chart) . 121Iron Pumping Oldsters 86-96 Triple Muscle Strength . 122Foods Prevent Osteoporosis & Arthritis . 123-124Nature’s Miracle Phytochemicals help Prevent Cancer . 125Daily Health Journal (form) . 127From the Authors – Go Organic . 130Chapter 12: Alternative Health Therapies (list) . 131-134Index . 137-143Bragg Health Books (display) . 144-145Kindness should be a frame of mind in which we are alert toevery chance:to do, to give, to share and to cheer. – Patricia Braggvi
Life is the Miracle of MiraclesYou hold the miracle of miracles right now in the palm ofyour hand. You have the treasure of life! Think what thatmeans to you. You are a living, breathing person! Life is themost priceless treasure on this earth. You have that treasure.Within you lies the mental power to be anything you wantto be! You have a reasoning, logical mind. Within your beingyou have the kingdom of heaven. Find that heaven and youhave reached bliss-consciousness. You’ll have found heavenon earth and life becomes so precious and wonderful!If you want more health, energy and life, you will haveto plan, plot and start creating, becoming and shaping yourlife! Look ahead. Have firm plans for living your life. Actuallyenvision your future. You may change those plans andvisions, but have them you must! Your creative force deepwithin you must reach out toward a bright future if you wantto become one with the healthy flow of life! Your entire mindand being will be super energized in the process to go foryour goals and dreamsMake Your Body Worry–ProofAs usual, the Greeks created this perfect phrase for this humaninterrelationship: A strong mind in a strong body. No one hassaid it better. If you’re mentally upset, you can walk miles – but ifphysically sick, clear, constructive thinking is virtually impossible.By raising your physical health standards, your mental abilitieswill increase accordingly. Be on good terms with your body toenjoy your mind fully.To live is to know what counts and is important in your life. – Martin GreyIf you have been stricken by illness – your new car, your new home, yournew big bank balance – all these fade into unimportance until youhave regained your vigor and zest for living. – Peter J. Steincrohn, M.D.If you truly love Nature, you will find Beauty everywhere. – Vincent Van GoghTrue wisdom consists in not departing from nature, butmolding our conduct according to her wise laws. – Senecavii
Faith and Vision Create MiraclesWhen you begin to believe you can be what your innervision tells you that you can become – that’s when you’reinspired. When you no longer see your weaknesses – butyour strengths – then you discover the power and abilityto do things you never dreamed of doing before
TOXICLESS DIET, BODY PURIFICATION & HEALING SYSTEM PAUL C. BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D. LIFE EXTENSION SPECIALIST VitaVitall Living to 120 Living to 120 Your days shall be 120 years. - Genesis 6:3 HEALTH SCIENCE Box 7, Santa Barbara, California 93102 USA www.
