In the 1950s, a popular South African newspaper featured a story about Krok’s belief that fruit was the ideal food for humankind.[9] In the 1990s and 2000s, David Klein Ph.D., publisher of Living Nutrition, chronicled Krok's famous sayings including "Man will always get colds if he persists in eating large quantities of mucous forming foods in the form of starch, dairy products and animal fats." and "Health is the balance between assimilation and elimination.” in the magazine.[10][11] Central to Krok's thinking was that mucusless foods held the key to good health. In the article, A Yogic Perspective[12] he describes how "To heal and avoid illness, one must alkalinize the body through a diet of predominately raw fruits and vegetables."
Krok's book Golden Path To Rejuvenation described how a non-toxic diet and the osmotic pressure of rainwater could detoxify and purify the membranes and tissues of the body. Krok believed that internal purification, was the direct and most effective way for a longer and youthful life. He described how not everything humans eat is used by the body, showing how accumulated wastes and toxins caused by an unnatural diet and other substances, result in illness and premature ageing.[15] His internal purification programme was designed to help increase longevity and remain youthful.[16] He believed internal cleansing in conjunction with plantfoods was the 'golden path'. The book also explained the yogicvomit technique, a central part of the detoxification regime he endorsed.
Legacy
Krok was one of a series of 20th-century writers who wrote about fruitarianism, raw nutrition, fasting, detoxification, yoga[17] and higher consciousness. His contemporaries included Brian Clement Ph.D,[18] Dr. Douglas N. Graham,[19]Viktoras Kulvinskas and Robert Gray.[20] Authors who have endorsed Krok's writings in their books include John McCabe,[21] Joe Alexander,[22]Gary Null,[23] Benito De Donno[24] and David Wolfe.[25]
Criticisms
Morris Krok advocated a fruitarian diet in his writings as the optimal diet and described how at stages during his life, he lived "only on fruits".[26] It is claimed that he later advised against a diet of "only fruit"[27] however, it was subsequently reported that Krok's diet consisted of "just fruit".[28]
Writings
Books and booklets written by Morris Krok, many published through Essence Of Health Publishers:
Amazing New Health System: Inner Clean Way, 1978
Amazing New Health System: Inner Clean Way, Essence of Health, Wandsbeck, South Africa, 2001, ISBN0-620-27362-3
Cream of Yoga, 1987 (booklet)
Diary Of A Health & Truth Seeker, 1967, 1969
Diet Health And Living On Air, 1973
El Frugivorismo de Durban, Barcelona: Cuadernos De Naturismo, ISBN84-300-2049-7, 1980
Formula For Long Life, 1967, 1977 and 2001 (originally From The Deathbed To Boisterous Health)
From The Deathbed To Boisterous Health, 1962, 1963
Fruit: The Food And Medicine For Man, 1961 (alternate title The Conquest Of Disease) [29]
Fruit: The Food And Medicine For Man, Connecticut: O'mangod, 1967
Golden Path To Rejuvenation: Life’s Most Important Knowledge, 1964
Hatha Yoga In Its Moods Multivarious, 1959
Hatha Yoga: The Vibrant Science Of Life, 1975
Health, Diet, and Living on Air (1964)
Health Truths Eternal, 1964
Health Truths Eternal (booklet)
Metaphysical Diary, 1960s
Mystic Story (booklet)
The Greater Miracle of Life, 1964
The Kindred Soul: Teachings Of Eternal Truth, 1968
Pathway To Truth, 1974
Raw Juice Therapy & Self-Help, 1967
Science of Natural Healing (booklet), 1961
Soul Knowledge, 1960s (formerly Revelations Of The New Age)
The Conquest Of Disease, 1961
The Fog Lifts - autobiography (unpublished)
Essence Of Health publications
Fast Way To Health - Frank Mccoy
Fruitarian Diet & Physical Rejuvenation - Otto Abramowski
Fruitarian System Of Healing - Otto Abramowski, 1976
Fruitarianism: Compassionate Way To Transform Health - Hannah Hurnard
The Physiological Enigma of Woman: The Mystery Of Menstruation - Raymond Bernard
Prenatal Origin Of Genius - Raymond W. Bernard, (Foreword and Edited by Morris Krok), 1962
The Grape Cure - Joanna Brandt
Yoga Gave Me Superior Health (Heaven Lies Within Us) - Theos Bernard
Yoga System Of Health - Yogi Vithaldas
Books cited by Morris Krok
Autogbiography Of A Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda
Doctor’s Disease And Health - Cyril Scott
Everybody’s Guide To Nature Cure - Harry Benjamin
Folk Medicine - DeForest Clinton Jarvis
Game Of Life - Florence Shinn
Hatha Yoga - Theos Benard
Healing By Water - T. Hartley Hennessy
Heaven Lies Within Us - Theos Bernard
Mucusless Diet Healing System - Arnold Ehret
Nature The Healer - Vera Richter
New Science Of Healing - Louis Kuhn
A Plea for The Order of the Golden Age - H. J. Williams
Pacifying Panicking People -
Provoker - John Toby
Raw Eating - Aterhov T. Hovannessian
Science Of Breath - Yogi Ramacharaka
Sunfood Way To Health - Dugald Semple
Why Grow Old - Tony Officer
Why slim - Khaled Hasan
Street pocker - Kaleemi
References
^Blatant raw foodist propaganda!, Joe Alexander, Blue Dolphin Publishing, 1990, page 47 "Morris Krok, from South Africa, is another outstanding rawfoodist author, very much of a spiritual bent."
^South African Jewry, Leon Feldberg, Fieldhill Pub. Co., 1976, page 240, "Morris Krok. Director of Company. Born Johannesburg, 28 April 1931, son of Simon and Sarah Krok."
^Survival Into The 21st Century: Planetary Healers Manual, Viktoras Kulvinskas, Omnagod Press, 1979 - 323 pages, “In 1961, Dr. Morris Krok of Durban South Africa, published “Conquest of Disease,” where he reproduced a part of a speech by Dr. Moore, which was written up in: “Life Natural, Ganeshganar, Padukottai, S. Ry, India. Nov. 1960″.
^Dugald Semple, The Sunfood Way To Health, Health For All, 1956, 138 pages, "Your food determines in a large measure how long you shall live — how much you shall enjoy life, and how successful your life shall be."
^Creation of the Superman, Raymond W. Bernard, Health Research, 1996, Preface (Morris Krok), "This book reads like a fascinating story."
^The fruit hunters: a story of nature, adventure, commerce and obsession, Adam Gollner, Simon and Schuster, 2008, page 97, "Morris Krok's Fruit: The Food and Medicine of Man relates how he attended a fruitarian lecture with Essie Honiball, author of I Live On Fruit. Asked what one should eat, the answer is: "Fruit, of course."
^A Yogic Perspective: Light alkalizing foods - the key to endurance and good health, Morris Krok, Living Nutrition, vol. 6, 1990s
^The Grape Cure, Joanna Brandt, Durban: Essence of Health Publishers
^Water Into Gold, Ernestine Hill, Angus and Robertson, 1965, 291 pages, "Dr. Otto Abramowski was the grandson of a Governor of Warsaw, and had been a surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, of which he told many a stirring tale."
^Experiences in Euphoria, USA: Living Nutrition, Vol. 7, 1990s "euphoria can only be experienced more often if mucous-forming and toxic foods are not eaten, so that the 24 feet of small intestines and few feet of colon, become scrupulously clean. When these are kept clean, this cleanliness will spill over to the lungs, sinuses, nasal passages and eustachian tubes. What I infer from these experiences is that the wonderful feeling of euphoria, does not depend on a specific vitamin, mineral, supplement or food, but on the thorough natural cleansing of the entire body. Foods that are the big culprits are all starches, dairy products, eating too much of any cooked food, as well as of natural concentrated raw foods such as avocado, nuts, dried fruits and dates."
^Experiences in Euphoria, USA: Living Nutrition, Vol. 7, 1990s, "If civilized man puts himself on an elimination program for an extended period of time, he will be shocked by the amount of stored slime that is dislodged and eliminated from the 30 feet of intestines and delicate bronchial tubes of the lungs. As he discovers the principle of detoxification, he will understand why no pill, special food or stretching exercise can clear the large thick, salty, toxic accumulations that foul the body..... The sticky, slimy and toxic substances contained in starchy foods, dairy products and animal foods will in a short time, neutralize hours of physical endeavor."
^Yoga World Wide, Meenakashi Devi Gitananda, Satya Press, 1972, page 52, "Yoga is expounded in various parts of Africa. Morris Krok and Swami Sahajananda are in South Africa."
^Living foods for optimum health: staying healthy in an unhealthy world, Brian R. Clement, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, Crown Publishing Group, 1998
^80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life One Luscious Bite at a Time, Douglas N. Graham, FoodnSport Press, 2006 - 348 pages
^The colon health handbook: new health through colon rejuvenation, Robert Gray, San Francisco: Emerald Publishing, 2002, 74 pages
^Sunfood Living: Resource Guide for Global Health, John McCabe, North Atlantic Books, 2007, 576 pages
^Blatant raw foodist propaganda!, or, Sell your stove to the junkman and feel great!, or, Consider your true nature, Joe Alexander, Blue Dolphin Publishing, 1990, page 47, "Morris Krok, from South Africa, is another outstanding rawfoodist author, very much of a spiritual bent.
^Complete Handbook of Nutrition, Gary Null, Random House, 1973
^Glimpses Of Reality, Benito De Donno, 2002, 424 pages
^The Sunfood Diet Success System:
36 Lessons in Health Transformation, David Wolfe, Maul Brothers, 2000, "Consider the words of Morris Krok in his book Diet, Health, And Living On Air: "In the metabolism of fats, sugars, and starches, the waste which is left behind is carbon dioxide and water."
^Morris Krok, Fruit: The Food and Medicine For Man, Connecticut: O'Mangod Press, (1961).
page 17, Chapter 8: "It had taken me almost ten years of continual reading and meditation before I had the courage to live only on fruits.", Page 40, Chapter 19: "At the time of the incident I was living on all fruit.", Page 46, Chapter 21: "After living on fruit for about four months, raw vegetables tasted flat."
^Who Was Morris Krok?, David Klein Ph.D, Living Nutrition, Volume 20, 2007, "About Natural Health - Vibrance Magazine". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2011. "Someone who attended the talk reported he said that at the moment he was eating a diet of just fruit. I’d never heard that he ate exclusively fruit; however, it would not be surprising if he did so for varying periods of time."
