Doctor Delio Esteve is chairman of the Association Naturista
Argentina that poses as an organization who groups vegetarian people.
Doctor Delio Esteve was bred along with his brother Lirio as a strict
vegan by his father the naturopathic doctor Juan Esteve Dullin.
Doctor Juan Esteve Dullin is the founder of the association and wrote
several books that still are sold and promoted by this one. In the
books of this naturopathic doctor we found out that it was not bred
as a vegetarian but he converted to this doctrine for health reasons.
In its peculiar way of life he favors the opinion that healthy human
feeding must be strictly vegetarian without taking neither eggs nor
milk. The nourishment must be natural and therefore the
supplementation with minerals and vitamins is not allowed as it is in
our modern times. The fasting diet completes his doctrinaire baggage.
Doctor Juan Esteve Dullin explains that the best therapy of all is
the long lasting fast, taking only water, of approximately forty days
of duration. If anybody is not cured with the fast and the vegetarian
diet is not going to be healed with nothing. As by accident I had
tried a fast of about twelve days of duration having obtained a lot
of benefits, I went to get some advice on the subject from Doctor
Delio Esteve. To my surprise, this doctor, son of his father, who
posed as vegetarian and had been bred as vegan, nowadays recommended
his patients to take milk to obtain a suitable dose of calcium that,
apparently, strict vegetarian diet cannot provide. Of course, he
still was against the artificial supplementation of foods with
vitamins and minerals bought in pharmacies. He said that if a person
did not cure itself with the vegetarian diet and taking milk he is
not going to be healed with anything because the problem is mental.
To my amazement he repudiated any form of fasting diet to which he
called "that". Do not do "that", he said to me. I had precisely
arrived to this place just by the benefits I had obtained
doing "that". So I could not try megadoses of vitamins and minerals
nor practice long term fast to heal myself. I was left in balls in
front of this doctor. We remained without words and staring each
other for a while till I left without ceremony and without him
telling me farewell.


Claudio Acuña
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