We cannot be damaged into health.

- Herbert M. Shelton

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literat…

- Herbert M. Shelton

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell …

- Herbert M. Shelton

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

- Herbert M. Shelton

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

- Herbert M. Shelton

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

- Herbert M. Shelton

What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick…

- Herbert M. Shelton

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain…

- Herbert M. Shelton

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

- Herbert M. Shelton