Hi, Steve:

I wish I could use my real name here, but as we've seen, there are
crazies about.

You wrote: "Don't let diet be your religion, because it's a god
with feet of clay."

I don't.  But I would say the very same about science.

Steve:

As I wrote, my husband has been living according to the principles of
Natural Hygiene since he was a boy because his mother put the family on
that diet after she was saved in one of their clinics as a young woman.

You say the aging process cannot be delayed by diet.

Steve, my husband was still doing the exercises he learned in the
Commandoes course until he was in his mid-fifties.

Now, in his mid-sixties he still never takes transportation unless he
is going somewhere more than five miles away. He never takes an
elevator.  We live on the ninth floor. He never sits when he can stand.
We live on a mountain and he regularly climbs and goes down to the
valleys.  He still climbs trees to bring fresh figs and almonds home.
He had to have a hernia operated on a few years ago.  The nurse who
took his blood was amazed at the results that came back.  She said that
blood samples like that are almost never seen in practice. The results
were like something out of textbook, she said. When he went to a new
dentist the dentist looked at his teeth and said:  You're a veggie.
Right?  Shows right away. He's still weighs exactly what he did when he
was drafted - 62 kilos.

I know Natural Hygiene works.  I live with it.