Quotable Quote

[Editors’ note: Although the following ideas were probably never intended to be applied to the serious detrimental consequences of adding lead to petrol, you’ll see why we think the quote is apt for this edition of the newsletter, when you read it.]

“As microbiologist and author Rene Dubos noted in his 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning book So Human an animal… many of the “diseases of civilization” - crime, violence, and stress, to name a few - are the result of responses to environmental factors. Humans seem to have adjusted to the modern environment, but, in fact, they are experiencing seriously detrimental consequences.”

Ref: PAIN FREE: A REVOLUTIONARY METHOD FOR STOPPING CHRONIC PAIN, by Pete Egoscue with Roger Gittines, Bantam Books, page 12, paperback edition, March 2000.