Health via Food
book · 1929
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SUMMARY
Primary source: Hay's earlier and best-known American statement of the food-combining system, published in New York in 1929 (Wellcome catalogue lists the publisher as not identified; 299 pages with a portrait plate). It is the foundational book in which the food-separation regimen and the acidosis/autointoxication rationale were laid out for a popular audience, predating the 1935 London edition (A New Health Era). Used here to date the central claim and the self-cure account to 1929. Bibliographic fields copied from the Wellcome catalogue record (work kshmkvsf); the case does not redistribute the text.
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Health via Food (1929) is Hay’s foundational popular exposition of food combining and the acidosis-autointoxication theory, issued in New York and reaching a wide American readership before the London editions of the mid-1930s. It is cited here to fix the year the central claim and the self-cure origin entered print (1929). Bibliographic data are taken from the Wellcome Collection catalogue record (work kshmkvsf), which lists 299 pages and a portrait plate; the publisher is recorded by Wellcome as not identified, so none is asserted here.