Editing Upton Sinclair (section)

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Sinclair was keenly interested in health and nutrition. He experimented with various diets, and with fasting. He wrote about this in his book, ''[[The Fasting Cure]]'' (1911), another bestseller.<ref>[http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020106/02010600frame.html "'The Fasting Cure', by Upton Sinclair"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810195028/http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020106/02010600frame.html |date=August 10, 2015 }}, ''Soil and Health''</ref> He believed that periodic fasting was important for health, saying, "I had taken several fasts of ten or twelve days' duration, with the result of a complete making over of my health".<ref>[http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020106/020106perfecthealth.html "Perfect Health!" (chapter)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321071917/http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020106/020106perfecthealth.html |date=March 21, 2012 }}, ''The Fasting Cure'', at ''Soil and Health''</ref>

Sinclair favored a raw food diet of predominantly vegetables and nuts. For long periods of time, he was a complete vegetarian, but he also experimented with eating meat. His attitude to these matters was fully explained in the chapter, "The Use of Meat", in the above-mentioned book.<ref>[http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020106/020106useofmeat.html "The Use of Meat" (chapter)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514060916/http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020106/020106useofmeat.html |date=May 14, 2015 }}. ''The Fasting Cure'', at ''Soil and Health''</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sinclair|first=Upton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcoEAAAAYAAJ|title=The Fasting Cure|publisher=Mitchell Kennerly|others=Digitized by Harvard University|year=1911|isbn=978-1852286095|location=New York|pages=86–104|chapter=The Use of Meat}}</ref> In the last years of his life, Sinclair strictly ate three meals a day consisting only of brown rice, fresh fruit and celery, topped with powdered milk and salt, and pineapple juice to drink.<ref name="Whitman" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=September 13, 1961 |title=Upton Sinclair Okays Series on 'Lanny Budd' |volume=35 |work=[[The Desert Sun]] |agency=[[United Press International]] |issue=34}}</ref>