{"product_id":"good-health-and-how-we-upton-sinclair-9781835524336","title":"Good Health and How We Won It by Upton Sinclair (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen years ago, when I was a student at college, I fell a victim to a new and fashionable ailment called \"la grippe.\" I recollect the date very well, because it was the first time I had been sick in fourteen years-the last difficulty having been the whooping-cough. I have many times had occasion to recall the interview with the last physician I went to see. I made a proposition, which might have changed the whole course of my future life, had he only been capable of understanding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI said: \"Doctor, it has occurred to me that I would like to have someone who knows about the body examine me thoroughly and tell me how to live.\" I can recollect his look of perplexity. \"Was there anything the matter with you before this attack?\" he asked. \"Nothing that I know of,\" I answered; \"but I have often reflected that the way I am living cannot be perfect; and I want to get as much out of my body and mind as I can. I should like to know, for instance, just what are proper things for me to eat\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Nonsense,\" he interrupted. \"You go right on and live as you have been living, and don't get to thinking about your health.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so I went away and dismissed the idea. It was one that I had broached with a great deal of diffidence; so far as I knew, it was entirely original, and I was not sure how a doctor would receive it. All doctors that I had ever heard of were people who cured you when you were sick; to ask one to take you when you were well and help you to stay well, was to take an unfair advantage of the profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sorens Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55254519710039,"sku":"9781835524336","price":14.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/1835524338.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg?v=1791127533","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/good-health-and-how-we-upton-sinclair-9781835524336","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}