Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene

"Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene" by Upton Sinclair, is a book that explores ideas popular in the early 1900s about being healthy, eating right, and staying clean. Sinclair and another writer named Michael Williams tell about a new way of thinking about health that was led by Horace Fletcher, who believed strongly in changing what people ate. Sinclair starts by talking about his own health problems when he was in college and how he wanted to find a way to stay healthy instead of just treating illnesses when they happened. He learned about Fletcher's ideas of chewing food very well and tried them out himself. Sinclair talks about how he experimented with different diets, the difficulties he faced, and how he slowly learned more about health from studying and talking to experts. This part of the book introduces the main ideas about science, food, and health that the writers discuss.