Reading this book may scare you, astound you, shock you, give you hope, inform you of things few people know, or just entertain you, but you can be sure that if you understand and use its concepts, it will change your life forever, for the better. If you fear learning something new, or if you fear knowing something that very few people know, or if you fear following a different path than your family or friends, then put this book down now. But, if you want to be in possession of knowledge that can save your life, make you healthier, happier, and which will help elevate you and all the peoples of the world then read on, my friend. Like many people, when first reading about Natural Hygiene and learning the principles of life, it is almost like getting a shock treatment. You are left stunned. Then because of what you have learned, you need to put a vacuum cleaner to your brain and suck out all the propaganda that has been stuffed into your mind about health and disease since you were born. Only after extracting all the disinformation, can you insert new laws, ideas and principles that propel you into a way of life that is totally different from the one you now lead. When you follow Nature’s Laws as taught by Natural Hygienists you are promised happiness, freedom from pain, sickness, and chronic degenerative disease, instead of the misery, sickness, starvation and death that come from living indifferently to your body’s needs. You may be able to pull yourself out of the dumps of poverty from improved mental clarity. Finally when it is time to die it will not be after years of suffering, but easy, just like a flower fading away. You will decide you have lived long enough, just as the Amerindians did, and just pass on without having to suffer from all the drugs, surgery, mutilation, injections, and intravenous feedings in the long run.

When I first read Superior Nutrition by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, the author’s ideas and laws struck me as logical and so truthful that I could not negate or argue any part of the book. I became a Hygienist overnight at the age of 18. I threw out all my bottles of vitamin and mineral supplements, brewers yeast and everything that had been jammed into my brain as promoters of health by those who wanted to commercialize on health. Then I went to the fruit and vegetable market and bought the real carriers of vitamins and minerals, the only sources that can really be used by the body. Only fresh unprocessed fruits, vegetables, and nuts supply us with our nutrients.

What fun I had eating meals out of those things that are commonly thought of as desserts or snacks. I ate meals of peaches, pears and apples and my taste buds reveled and thrilled to the natural sugars. I was ecstatic with the pleasure of dining on such delicious sweet meats. Every meal was and still is a banquet. While eating, the thought that came to my mind was: "I can eat all of these delicious foods and know that my body is not being robbed of its minerals like it would be if I ate that much sugar in the form of cakes, candy, pies and pastry."

The most wonderful thing about the Natural Diet is that as you continue on this path, you develop a lightness and vigor that you never thought possible. On heavy cooked foods, you feel lethargic and unable to think clearly. Cooked food pulls you down, but when you begin to eat live food-Wow! You can’t believe the buoyancy and lightness and pep you have. It is almost like floating above the world on Harry Potter’s "firebolt broom."

But, the marvelous thing about what you are going to learn in this book is not just about food and feeding, but it is about the very nature of your wonderful self. How you are self-healing, self-repairing, and self-regenerating. How you can determine your own health-fate. You will learn that you can be healthy simply by supplying the conditions of health. Rather than something you cannot see invading your body making you sick, you will find out that you can live in such a way that your own body easily destroys all so called "infectious" invaders.

More significant that that is the fact that you are master of your own body, can control and direct your life the way you desire, and produce health or disease at will! If you follow the Laws of Nature then the ultimate result will be genuine, beautiful, happy health. But by following the easy common way of living you will produce disease.

This book delves into Cause and Effect in a way that I have never yet read about. Even though it seems a little complicated at first, it is very logical and enlightening. It makes you want to read more about he spiritual part of yourself.

Young people who are now programmed to care so little for their precious physical bodies need to discover this book right now, before their brains, livers, kidneys, digestive systems and all their other vital organs have been damaged and partly destroyed by medications, hard drugs, and nutrition-less food, and also by all things that sap vitality and put them on the path of death well before their time.

By learning and using the principles set out in this book you will be able to preserve youth much longer than the average person with false life principles. You will learn to prize and respect the wonderful physical and mental body that God gave you to use in this world. Instead of treating it with disdain and thinking that you are invincible you will learn to take care of yourself. You are not invincible but you are a self-healing organism. You are hurting yourself when you waste your precious life away by partying every night and indulging in all the current follies that don’t bring real happiness. A questionable ephemeral short bit of artificial joy is not worth the damage it does to your body and mind, nor the future pain and suffering that is in store for you by unhealthful behavior. You will learn that true joy and true euphoria are brought about by the normal, natural things of life and not by drugs, alcohol and all the non-naturals that people take for granted that they should have to be happy. You will find out that: If you have to drink to be happy, you are not happy and never will be. If you take stimulants to get going, you are destroying your get going ability.

The teachings in this book should be put before every young person in the world. In it you will find the key to genuine happiness and health without drugs. Drugs and medications cause future misery just as they do to those athletes who ruin their lives by taking steroids. If you know and live by this method you won’t devolve into disease but you will evolve into better and better health. Anyone really healthy is happy within. All the trillions of tiny cells in your body are joyously happy when nourished properly and when they are not bombarded with poisons.

Changing your life style is not an easy road to travel because you will be living a way that is different from most of the people around you. Another reason making the change is difficult, is that your nervous system has been conditioned. You are conditioned into eating and drinking all sorts of concoctions that are not good for you. Places like sitting in front of TV are the trigger that makes you automatically go to the refrigerator and encourages the munching syndrome. It takes a long time to undo the conditioning and you will need to cultivate patience and perseverance to succeed.

Are you willing to pay the price? Are you willing to be strong enough to dance to your own intelligent drumbeat? Are you willing to become what God wanted you to be? Are you willing to begin the self-discipline that will help you achieve a life of pleasure and abundance on your own and be one out of a million that knows the truth about health and disease? It is up to you. You are the master of your own soul and physical body. You don’t have to remain in the dark slums and mud puddles. You can get out by using your God Given Intelligence. Learn to think on your own and do not follow the crowd. They are often ignorant and play follow the leader over the cliff.

This book is appropriate for the general public, but in order to attract those people with increased melanin, who need specific information to protect themselves from political infractions and conspiracy, a subtitle was placed on the cover. When speaking to Dr. Margie Anderson, the wife of the principal author, she explained the inclusion of the world melanin in the book’s subtitle. I remarked that, "Everybody has melanin. Some people just have more of it." She chuckled and said, "That’s a new way of looking at it." People with more melanin do not usually come across many books like this and it was thought by the author that a subtitle about the people with more melanin would catch their eye and pique their curiosity. If it does, then Dr. Henry Anderson will have been instrumental in bringing enlightenment to all those people in the world whose skin contains more melanin in varying shades from light to dark.

There are so many good things in this book that to tell you about them all would give away the special thoughts in the book. So, read on young people. The rewards are phenomenal. Read on older people. It’s never too late to stop poisoning yourself. The book makes you think about life, the laws of cause and effect and the effects of causes. You will puzzle, and think and think some more and come up with many new paradigms worth fighting for. Actually, when you think of it, the cause of disease is "life." If there were no life there would be no reason for disease. Whatever Great Power caused life, it is there, and since all life is more or less physical it has its special needs. If the needs are not met your life devolves and decays into chaos. It will remain in chaos until it returns itself to its natural state of health because that is what it was built to do.

--Vivian Virginia Vetrano, D.C., hM.D., M.D. Barksdale, TX
June 28, 2001