How Upton Sinclair Discovered Fasting and Transformed His Health
How did Upton Sinclair discover fasting in 1911 and transform his chronic health problems? The story behind The Fasting Cure and what he found that still resonates today.
Upton Sinclair is best remembered for The Jungle, his 1906 exposé of the American meatpacking industry that shocked the nation and helped reshape food safety law. But Sinclair's other major health intervention — fasting — receives far less attention, despite generating what he described as the most dramatic improvement in his personal wellbeing of his entire life. In 1911, Sinclair published The Fasting Cure, a record of his personal fasting experiments and the accounts of 277 other people who had…
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