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Summary
Arnold Ehret's early-twentieth-century alternative health treatise arguing that most human disease is caused by the accumulation of mucus from eating processed and animal-based foods. Ehret prescribes a fruit-based, mucusless diet combined with fasting as the path to healing, a system that influenced later raw-food and detox movements despite being largely dismissed by mainstream medicine.