Editing Edgar Cayce (section)

===Diet===

Health experts are critical of Cayce's unorthodox treatments, such as his promotion of [[Fad diet|pseudoscientific dieting]] and homeopathic remedies, which they consider [[quackery]].{{efn-ua|"Some quacks, such as Edgar Cayce, attributed their powers to God. Cayce, who made his diagnoses while in trance, claimed that his healing powers came from God. To treat patients he used spinal manipulation as well as Red Bug Juice and Oil of Smoke in his cures."{{sfn|Renner|1990|page=7}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Raso |first=Jack |url=http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/cayce.html |title=The Legacies of Edgar Cayce |website=[[Quackwatch]] |date=September 6, 1999 |access-date=January 18, 2017}}</ref>}} Science writer [[Karen Stollznow]] wrote,

{{blockquote|The reality is that his cures were hearsay and his treatments were folk remedies that were useless at best and dangerous at worse&nbsp;... Cayce wasn't able to cure his own cousin, or his own son who died as a baby. Many of Cayce's readings took place after the patient had already died.{{sfn|Stollznow|2014|page=103}}}}

Cayce advocated the pseudoscientific ideas of [[food combining]] and the [[alkaline diet]].{{sfn|Gratzer|2006|page=243}} He emphasized maintaining an acid-alkaline balance by eating a diet of 80% alkaline forming foods. He stated that certain foods should not be eaten together for example, milk cannot be consumed with citrus fruits, coffee must not be taken with cream or milk and sugary foods cannot be taken with starchy foods. Cayce also held the view that even nutritious foods can poison the body if the person is in a negative frame of mind.{{sfn|Gratzer|2006|page=243}}