Excerpt from Bragg’s Back Fit­ness Pro­gram — Chap­ter 6
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The first seven of these Bragg Spine-Strengthening Exer­cises can be done any­where and any­time. All seden­tary office work­ers should get up from time to time, stretch and do at least one of these exer­cises. You will return to your work refreshed with renewed energy. Instead of los­ing time, you will save it because you can work faster and bet­ter after an exer­cise recharger. Dr. Henry L. Fef­fer, ortho­pe­dic pro­fes­sor at George Wash­ing­ton Med­ical School, stated: The great­est strain on the inter­ver­te­bral disks occurs while sit­ting, espe­cially in an over­stuffed chair. The pres­sure per square inch on a disk is about twice as great when sit­ting as when stand­ing, and this pres­sure is more likely to injure a disk if it does not have a good exter­nal mus­cu­lar sup­port, which is often the case in a seden­tary person.

Dr. Fef­fer also stated: Usu­ally the chair that an office exec­u­tive gives his sec­re­tary is much bet­ter for the back than the swivel chair he uses him­self. If you are a seden­tary worker, as mil­lions of Amer­i­cans are, use a chair that helps you main­tain cor­rect pos­ture at all times. Be sure to get up out of that chair (cor­rectly) at inter­vals to stretch your spinal col­umn and strengthen your mus­cles. Get off the ele­va­tor sev­eral floors below your own and walk up final flights of stairs, head and chest up, spine in per­fect align­ment. Don’t pull your­self up by the handrail; it’s best to lean for­ward and up, push­ing your­self from one stair to the next by the springy lever­age of your hips, legs and feet. Even if your work involves phys­i­cal labor, remem­ber that it is not nec­es­sar­ily the amount of exer­cise you do, it’s the way you do it that counts.

Remem­ber the case of the lum­ber­jack who chopped his spine out of align­ment! If the mus­cles on one side of your spinal col­umn are devel­oped more than on the other, the spine can be pulled into a side cur­va­ture. Take time for exer­cises that bal­ance those mus­cles required in your work. If your daily activ­i­ties are pri­mar­ily those of run­ning a house­hold, home or office you will find your day eas­ier and less fatigu­ing if you use some of these exer­cises dur­ing your day. Also, take breathers at inter­vals to stretch your spine and strengthen unused mus­cles. Today many schools do not require reg­u­lar phys ed. Teenagers and col­lege stu­dents who have out­grown vig­or­ous child­hood games and recre­ation need to make a daily habit of prac­tic­ing good pos­ture and spine exer­cises. Spines can begin to set­tle even in your teens!

Excerpt from Water, The Shock­ing Truth! — Chap­ter 5
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The raw juices of organic fruits and veg­eta­bles are inter­nal cleansers and blood puri­fiers. These are what we call “the waters of per­pet­ual health and youth­ful­ness”. The rays of the sun send bil­lions of atoms into plant life. We can use this solar energy to attain vig­or­ous health, unlim­ited vital­ity and phys­i­cal endurance.

The mir­a­cle solar energy from fruits and veg­eta­bles can fight the accu­mu­la­tion of inor­ganic min­er­als and toxic poi­sons you have allowed to be deposited in your body. Fruit and veg­etable juices are the nat­ural deter­gents for the human body. Try to get a quart or more of solar ener­gized (freshly-squeezed) fruit and veg­etable juices into your body every day. Go to your Health Store and pur­chase a juicer and blender. Both of these appli­ances are impor­tant tools in your pro­gram of rid­ding your body of inor­ganic min­er­als and toxic wastes. It will prob­a­bly be the best invest­ment you’ve ever made! Using a juicer, you can make many vari­eties of juices. Car­rot, cel­ery and raw spinach is a won­der­ful com­bi­na­tion. Car­rot, beet and cel­ery make a cock­tail rich in organic sodium. Apple and cucum­ber is a great health cock­tail. Green pep­per and tomato is a real inter­nal cleanser. Raw spinach, beets and water­cress will flood your blood­stream with organic iron. Pars­ley, cel­ery and car­rot juiced together is a deli­cious, healthy combination.

Cab­bage juice (Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity Med­ical School dis­cov­ered helps heal ulcers), onion, gar­lic, pea-pods, turnip-tops, let­tuce, kale, dan­de­lion and endive juices are all packed with vital solar energy, vit­a­mins, organic min­er­als, trace min­er­als and enzymes. Fruit juices play an impor­tant role in build­ing a clean, healthy blood­stream and ener­gized body. Organic apple, pineap­ple, cherry, black­berry, orange, grape­fruit, prune and apri­cot juices are the “nec­tar of the gods”.

Let Nat­ural Food Be Your Med­i­cine
What does food really do in the human body? What rela­tion­ship does it have with long life and vig­or­ous health — and to dis­ease, mis­ery and phys­i­cal suf­fer­ing? How can it be of influ­ence in cleans­ing the body of inor­ganic min­er­als and toxic poi­sons? We must have a fun­da­men­tal, deep under­stand­ing of these ques­tions before we can fully appre­ci­ate the role diet plays in the health main­te­nance of the liv­ing processes, the pre­ven­tion of human dis­eases, the restora­tion of health and the pro­lon­ga­tion of life. A bal­anced diet gives the body nour­ish­ment, energy and power.

It’s made up of 60% to 70% organic raw fruit and veg­eta­bles; 20% pro­tein from veg­etable sources or, if you insist, ani­mal sources; and equal parts of nat­ural sug­ars (honey, ste­via), nat­ural starches (whole grains, brown rice, etc.) and unsat­u­rated fats (Bragg organic olive oil, soy, saf­flower, flaxseed, and hempseed oils). This bal­anced diet puts your body on the alka­line side and helps to keep the body inter­nally cleaner.