An early advocate for eating mostly unprocessed, whole foods and avoiding processed foods.
Key Takeaways:
McCann expands his critique of refined and adulterated foods, especially white flour and sugar, blaming them for widespread physical degeneration.
He argues for whole, unprocessed foods and careful attention to food quality as the real "science" of eating, rather than calorie counting alone.
Industrial food practices are portrayed as a public menace that science and law must confront, not simply a matter of taste or convenience.
Nutrition is woven together with religious and patriotic language, presenting wholesome eating as both a duty to God and a safeguard for the nation’s future.