[1] Donaldson was a First Lieutenant in the medical Northeastern Department of the Red Cross Hospital sent to France during World War I.

[4] In 1921, Donaldson examined a large number of children from the East Side of New York and found that syphilis is not a great factor in the causation of heart disease.

The book advocated fresh fat meat, water and exercise to treat allergies, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, gallstones and obesity.

[8] The diet that Donaldson put his patients on consisted of three fatty steaks a day, three cups of coffee and six glasses of water.

[15] During the millions of years that our ancestors lived by hunting, every weakling who could not maintain perfect health on fresh fat meat and water was bred out.