Upton Sinclair's $15,000 Medical Bill and How Fasting Changed Everything
Discover how Upton Sinclair spent $15,000 on doctors and medicines before a simple fast transformed his health — a story from his 1911 book The Fasting Cure.
In 1911, one of America's most famous writers published a short book that had nothing to do with meatpacking scandals or social injustice. It was about not eating. And it began with a confession that still resonates more than a century later: he had spent a small fortune trying to get well, and it had not worked. Upton Sinclair's The Fasting Cure is best understood as a story about what happens when a desperate, curious person stops trusting the system…
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