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 (b) Taking into the body food that may have been correctly selected, prepared, and eaten, but in quantity greater than is needed for the repair and growth of tissue cells.

If any of these causes is operative, food ingested ferments and putrefies, generating a circulating poison that creates and continues disease until the producing cause can be cast out by the organs of elimination.

Inherent organic disease and functionally-caused organic disease in its later stages embody defects in form, size, or cell-structure of any one of the vital organs. Except in rare instances, through surgical intervention, such structural deficiencies are beyond the hope of cure, but a scientific dietary, combined with judicious application of the fast and its accessories, will afford relief and prolong existence.

In purely functional disease the vital organs are normally developed and physically perfect in structure, but, clogged and laden with the accumulation of the toxic products of food excess, their functions are impeded or totally arrested. Functional disease is a condition that admits of complete recovery, and, even in its acute forms, cure is a