“Cheerfulness is…the best promoter of health.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 387 (24 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“If perfect health is the best preventive and security against disease, and if a well-selected and properly administered vegetable diet is best calculated to promote and preserve that perfect health, then this part of the subject — what I have ventured to call the medical argument — is at once disposed of. The superiority of the diet I recommend is established beyond the possibility of debate. Now, that this is the case — namely, that this diet is best calculated to promote perfect health — I have no doubt.”
Source: Vegetable Diet (1838), p. 240
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