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Dr William Howard Hay, creator of the Hay diet, was born in Hartstown,

Pennsylvania, USA in 1866. He graduated from the University of New York in

1891, and practised medicine for the next sixteen years.He then became very ill,

and was diagnosed as having Bright's Disease, high blood pressure and a dilated

heart, and thought his career was over. He decided to treat his symptoms

himself by eating a healthy, natural diet, and after three months, he felt much

improved, to the surprise of his doctors. His experience strengthened his

belief that the medical establishment was approaching the treatment of disease

in the wrong way; that it should be attempting to remove the cause of illness

rather than treating the end-results of a condition.By 1911, Dr Hay was

convinced that he had discovered a succesful treatment for diabetes. For the

next four years, he treated his patients through diet, and successfully

demonstrated that people could achieve optimum health with the correct diet,

providing there was no irreversible organic change. He thus developed over the

years the dietary system now known as the 'Hay Diet'.His assertion was that

disease had one underlying cause: an incorrect chemical balance in the body,

caused by the production and accumulation of acid end-products of digestion and

metabolism, which the body is unable to eliminate. The result of this is a

reduction in the body's alkaline reserve, which causes a breakdown in good

health. He maintained that there were four main causes of this accumulation of

acid end-products: over consumption of meat; over-consumption of refined

carbohydrates, e.g., white flour and refined sugar; ignorance of the laws of

chemistry in respect of the digestion of foods; and constipation. He taught his

patients that, although people could build up a tolerance of incompatible foods,

they did so at the expense of the body's vitality. He also taught the

importance of daily baths, exercise, fresh air, rest, and sunshine.Despite Dr

Hay's enormously successful treatment of many seriously ill patients with his

system, it was criticised vehemently by the medical establishment, which, at

that time, was focussed on the germ theory of disease, and the increasing use of

drug treatment. However, he defended his system courageously, continuing to

treat patients, and lecture, until his death in 1940.

 

Further Reading:-

 

What is the Hay Diet?