Health Foods and Death Foods

It is often said that facts are stranger than fiction. The facts that I wish to cite here are so strange that no one will believe them until he takes the trouble to look into their origin himself. It is impossible to believe that there could exist such a picture of selfish corruption and blind ignorance in a country that prides itself on being the most “enlightened” in the world.

First, permit me to list the facts. After that we shall try to add them up and draw some conclusions.

Fact No. 1: The most important cause of death in this country is cardiovascular disease (heart and blood vessel disease). It ranks higher than its next two competitors, cancer and infectious disease.

Fact No. 2: Of a group of 28 test animals put on a feeding schedule normal but for vitamin E deficiency, 13 dropped dead of heart disease within three years, without showing any sign of disturbances previous to their death other than slight changes in their electrocardiograms.¹

Fact No. 3: Our medical authorities take the official position that there is no reason to assume that any human patient ever dies of heart disease caused by vitamin E deficiency.²

Fact No. 4: The vitamin E in bread is destroyed by bleach chemicals,³ and commercial whole wheat bread is worse than white bread in its ability to support life of test animals, presumably by reason of the addition of more bleach chemical than is required in white, to block bug infestation during distribution of the flour.⁴

Fact No. 5: New fractions of the vitamin E complex have been discovered that act as accurately and promptly in relieving the pains of acute heart disease as nitroglycerine, heretofore the only common drug remedy.⁵ Its effect can be demonstrated on any patient in a few minutes by a new heart testing instrument known as the Krasno-Ivy Flicker Photometer, the only machine yet devised that can detect the presence of damaged heart tissue of the type that may result in sudden death.

Fact No. 6: Morris Fishbein, at the time Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. (now Editor-in-chief of the Index Medicus) in 1925 had his advertising manager, Dr. Cramp, approach the makers of white flour products as represented by the organized baking and milling industry, with the proposal that they use the advertising facilities of organized medicine to head off the growing trend of opinion among the doctors and their patients that there was something seriously wrong with commercial white bread.⁶ Since Fishbein’s influence extended over practically all medical journals by which every doctor keeps himself up-to-date on scientific matters, this selling out of our public health by keeping the medical man in total ignorance of the evils of commercial bread and flour products has been highly effective. Since that time, full-page ads in our medical journals headlined with the frightful Iie, “White Bread is Wholesome,” have been common. (It is significant that Fishbein’s present job permits him to censor all medical literature and to suppress access to such as he sees fit.)

Fact No. 7: In a railroad building project in South America, in 1914, four thousand men died from white flour disease–out of six thousand employed.⁷ Their diet was dried beef, bread, crackers, sauerkraut, pork and beans, macaroni, jam, coffee, sugar, and doughnuts. The warning symptoms were tremor, ankle swelling, palpitation, and shortness of breath. “White bread constituted the chief foodstuff.” The men were paid $2.40 a day for their labor and charged $1.00 a day for this “food.

Fact No. 8: The first man who headed the enforcement activities of our Federal Food & Drug Administration, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, wrote a book in 1930 relating how he was driven out of his position by food adulterators who refused to accept his findings that flour bleaches and other poisons were illegal as food constituents, and how the Federal Pure Food law had been perverted into a means of protecting the adulterators instead of the public. His widow now suppresses the publication of the book by her control of the copyright, saying that “she has complete faith in the integrity of Food & Drug officials.” (Apparently none in her deceased husband.)⁸

Fact No. 9: Food & Drug authorities insist that there is no human disease possible from any vitamin or mineral deficiency in the diet when such a question is brought up in a federal court.⁹ By such a tactic of making “black appear white,” the claim of a food maker that his product will protect against disease by reason of its higher quality in being unrefined, or unadulterated, is declared “false and fraudulent,” and the hapless victim is lucky to escape a jail sentence. The truth becomes “false and fraudulent.”

Fact No. 10: To further block the sale of such foods of nutritional remedies, the salesman of such a product today is, under Federal Court interpretations of the present law, subject to punishment if he even LOANS a book or pamphlet like the following to a customer or prospective customer:¹⁰

• The National Malnutrition, by D.T. Quigley, M.D.
• Man Alive, You’re Half Dead! by Daniel C. Munro, M.D.
• You Can Live Longer Than You Think, by Daniel C. Munro, M.D.
• Reprint No. 4–Why We Need Vitamin E, by Pacini
• Reprint No. 15–Food for Thought, by Rev. Retzek
• Reprint No. 17–The Prevention of Recurrence in Peptic Ulcer, by Quigley
• Reprint No. 18–Cancer, A Nutritional Deficiency, by Davidson
• Reprint No. 21–Are We Starving to Death? by Clark
• Reprint No. 22–Quotations on Vitamins, from The United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1939
• Reprint No. 23–Soil, A Foundation of Health, by Yerkes
• Reprint Noa 25–Vitamins are Not Drugs! by Benson
• Reprint No. 31–The Need for Vitamins, by Stambovsky
• Reprint No. 39–Talking About Food, by Tyner
• Reprint No. 40–For Heart Disease: Vitamin E, by Ratcliff
• “A Practical Way to Avoid Malnutrition”–Lecture by Dr. Lee

(The above-numbered reprints are publications of Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research.)

Maybe you have already added up these facts. The tortuous path of the legal chicanery that has made possible these despotic activities of scoundrels in high places, is too long and complicated to review here.

One example will suffice to illustrate. Congress in its 1937 Pure Food & Drug law stated that “the label statements of a drug must conform to the consensus of medical opinion.” Since drugs are defined as “poisons in all cases” by pioneer pharmacologists¹¹ and dosage being the major function of a label statement, only the experience of medical men could be depended upon for proper information, the “consensus of opinion” based upon such experience, dosage being a matter of careful judgment rather than of ascertainable fact from a laboratory. Literature that accompanied the drug simply was required to be true. This is how the “consensus” idea got into the picture.

Now, the first step of deliberate depravation of the intent of Congress was in getting a false and fraudulent definition of “drug” into the law in the first place. It was defined as “anything used to prevent, diagnose or treat” a disease. That, of course, brought ALL foods into the drug category to be available whenever the need might arise to round up any little or big maker of “health foods” and put him where he would not embarrass the “death food” industry. For, as a drug, the labeling was invariably not in conformity with the “consensus of MEDICAL opinion.” (Thanks to Fishbein’s control of medical education.) To clinch the matter further, a Supreme Court decision was manipulated, apparently by hiding the real facts from the Court, that made ALL sales literature LABELING because it might possibly ACCOMPANY the product. Therefore, the health food maker now finds himself in effect totally unable to tell even the most obvious and provable facts about his product, unless it has been “accepted” by the “experts” called in by the Food & Drug Administration. These hearties, as before quoted, cheerfully swear that it is the consensus of medical opinion that there is no possible disease that can arise from a mineral or vitamin deficiency.

So that now, under these curious and devious warpings of “law” by despotic betrayers of public health, the maker or seller of health building nutrition cannot even point out the road to educational information for his customers without being himself falsely prosecuted under the pretense that he is doing exactly what his competitive maker of death-dealing “foods” is really doing, entirely free of any interference–deceiving his customers with false and fraudulent “labels.”

Certainly we all know that free speech is simply the opportunity to hear both sides of any question. Once we are subject to censored information, we are no longer free agents, but animals in a cage, victims of the master’s whims.

Are the flour millers innocent, simply misinformed? Hardly, since in a questionnaire sent out in 1906 by the State of North Dakota to flour millers on the bleaching question, the great majority responded with the comment that it was a fraudulent practice, dishonest and deceptive, and should be illegal under any pure food law.¹²

You may ask–is this a general situation? Can it be possible that in ALL parts of this country such a lid of censorship be clamped on and kept tight enough to fool ALL the people ALL the time?

Yes, I say just that. Here is the story of Dr. Quigley’s book as it relates to its reception at the Rochester New York Public Library:

“When Dr. D. T. Quigley started writing years ago about how the health of the American people was being undermined and destroyed by devitalized and denatured foods he little realized how organized Industry and organized Medicine had conspired to stop any interference with their program of selling the public health down the river.

“(For more details of this conspiracy, write me for the free booklet “Your Health and what it is Worth to the Racketeer.”)

“The first man to show up this ungodly racket was Alfred McCann. He touched upon it in his book The Science of Keeping Young. Apparently this book has been banned from most libraries too. (Published by Doubleday-Doran, 1925.) Alfred McCann was a former food chemist who helped to convict numerous purveyors of adulterated foods, and by his findings was inspired to write as a columnist to tell the consumer how to avoid being swindled. His exposures of nationally worked rackets in the food field finally won for him–not fame and the gratitude of the public, but instead the enmity of both organized medicine and organized advertising. Between them they finally had his material banned from all newspapers. His book The Science of Eating, published in 1919, is still a masterpiece of scientific accuracy. The papers called him a “muckraker”; he really was, for he showed how the people were being sold “muck” as food.

“But the consumers, as always, were apathetic to any effort in their behalf, and McCann is dead and almost forgotten.

“There is no more contemptible a crime than that of defiling the sources of public information. In this case it is still more dastardly for it involves the life and health of the people. It is nothing short of aiding and abetting manslaughter.

“The weasel-minded management of this library excuse themselves by saying Dr. Quigley’s book is of a controversial nature. Hell, any book is either a “yes” book or it is controversial. If I wanted to defend religion against an atheist argument, I would be writing something “controversial.”

“A library certainly cannot take sides in any matter, but should in all honesty present all sides, if there are a thousand. It is a public institution with the sacred duty of offering all information within its scope of operations without bias or prejudice. Here is something more than either bias or prejudice. It is subservience to criminal conspirators who have discovered a lucrative racket that compares perfectly with that of early racketeers in England who discovered that the life insurance companies which were new then, would pay off the insurance on a man who was insured by a murderer, previous to his elimination. How nice! Insure some unsuspecting citizen for ten thousand dollars without his knowledge, pay one premium, bump him off in an alley or put poison in his soup, and collect the proceeds.

“In this case, the makers and advertisers of foods that cannot support human life, and know it, do not want their victimized customers to find it out. They do not want the suffering consumer to know that the vast majority of his doctor and dentist bills; to say nothing of the inconvenience and suffering involved, are a net result of his use of foods that have been…”

And here is the story of E. E. Rogers of Vancouver, Canada. When he began to treat his patients by reinforcing their resistance with well-chosen diets, he was served with a notice of revocation of his medical license on the charge of being guilty of “unorthodox methods of treatment.” He was compelled to start a lawsuit to force the Medical Board to reinstate his license, and he demanded and received damages in compensation for the eight months he was without his license.

Dr. Rogers has written a remarkable book, telling exactly how he discovered the limitations of drugs in the treatment of disease, and how he arrived at his own conclusions of the laws of natural nutrition and its application to the common ailments that follow the violations of such laws. (The Science and Philosophy of Health)

It seems that in this country a more subtle system is used to silence the doctor who starts to speak his mind about the importance of good nutrition in treating disease. When Dr. Duncan Bulkley of New York began to blame cancer on demineralized and refined foods, his position as an ex-president of the local medical society was no protection. He was soon bankrupt, for no more patients were referred to his hospital. (1927)

When Dr. Daniel T. Quigley of Omaha began to help his patients remain free of cancer by putting them on a diet of unrefined and natural foods after treatment at his hospital, the same curious thing happened. No more patients were referred to him by middle west doctors. He was forced to close out his operations, sell his facilities and go back into a practice of general medicine. Only the vicious power of a Fishbein could do this. The success and soundness of his conclusions was illustrated by his statement to the 1949 Annual Convention of the Academy of Applied Nutrition that in the last twenty years he has had no patient of his develop a recurrence of cancer after surgical or radiation treatment in his care if the patient followed his dietary recommendations.

Dr. J. R. Davidson of Winnipeg, Canada some years ago demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that test animals became susceptible to cancer as a result of a low vitamin and low mineral diet, and became immune to cancer if put on a diet of high vitamin and mineral content. He asked that the Canadian Government continue his researches after he had exhausted his own resources, and was soundly ridiculed and deliberately discredited for his pains.^13,14

Just WHY should any man or group of men insist that ANY theory of cancer be refused a chance for review? In a list of projects in which vast sums of money granted for CANCER RESEARCH by all the various organizations collecting donations from the public for this purpose, NONE ARE AIMED AT INVESTIGATING ANY ASPECT THAT MIGHT INVOLVE WHITE FLOUR, REFINED SUGAR:, SYNTHETIC GLUCOSE, OR DEMINERALIZED FOODS. Of sixty-three projects, two for a cool million dollars, each, most for two to five hundred thousand dollars, there is apparently a deliberate dodging of this important aspect of such research.¹⁵

You will find exactly the same situation in research grants for the investigation of the causes of infantile paralysis. In that field, however, there is now a very valuable book available on the subject (Diet Prevents Polio).¹⁶ It conclusively proves that polio cannot be incurred without first creating a very bad state of malnutrition that invites the disease.

Here again, the publicity monopolists of the country tried to suppress all release of this information. This discovery of the improper diet that causes polio was released in local papers of Asheville, North Carolina, in June 1949. When we tried to obtain permission to reprint the new release from the copyright owner, we were told that the theory of diet as a cause of polio had since been disproved, and of course “we would not want to pass on such misinformation.” When we asked just when and where such disproof had been consummated, no coherent answer was forthcoming, even after the question was referred to officials of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for “scientific references.”

The same weasel-worded chicanery runs all through this fabric of despotic maintenance of an iron curtain to block public knowledge of the truth about how the people are being robbed and poisoned to death in wholesale lots in this country. As I write this, the local papers carry the news of the death at age 49 of the head of our largest industrial concern in the middle west. He dropped dead exactly like one of the cattle referred to earlier that were put on a vitamin E deficient ration. His death, to my mind, was without question from exactly the same cause–the eating of commercial cereals and bread that have lost their vitamin E. Every person who had a hand in the suppression of the facts that should have been universally known–the facts that should have prevented this unnecessary death–is as guilty of criminal negligence as if he had sold him the adulterated food himself, with the complete knowledge that it could not possibly serve to support life.

How Organized Medicine slaps down any hapless scientifically minded doctor who stumbles upon “forbidden fruit” in the way of a nutritional remedy for victims of heart disease–white bread disease–is demonstrated by the experience of Dr. Klein of Bellevue Medical Center, New York City, as reported in the New York Times of July 18, 1949. (Copy attached.) Dr. Klein, a refugee physician, had not been properly indoctrinated into the taboos of the American Medical Association. He is only one of an extensive list of medical men who have been muzzled to stop them from saving human life at the expense of the food racketeers. College professors in general, too, are under this vicious surveillance.

We live in a time of lackadaisical unconcern over the necessity of honest and rigid adherence to the principles of law and order in the administration of our governmental activities, whether it is foreign relations, lack of will power to stop inflation, pure food and drug laws, or economic inequities among our citizens.

As a nation, we are soft and rotten, morally and physically. Unless a few can arouse the rest into some drastic action of reform, certainly we are scheduled to be conquered by an enemy who has not as yet become physically debilitated by foul food in fine packages. It will not be the relative merits of the ideologies of the contestants that determine the outcome. It will be the physical superiority and the animal endurance of the victor.

References Cited:

1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. p. 258, 1949.
2. Jol. A.M.A. Feb. 18, 1951. p. 485.
3. Constituents of Wheat & Wheat Products, Bailey, 1944, Reinhold Press. p. 317.
4. News Letter A.A.A.N. (Jan., Feb., Mar., 1949). p. 30.
5. Special report in press by Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee.
6. Baking Technology, January 1925.
7. The Science of Eating, Alfred McCann, 1918. p. 169. George H. Doran Co.
8. Special Bulletin 1-49, Lee Foundation, Milwaukee.
9. U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit 6867, 1939.
   (In this case, a panel of expert witnesses headed by Dr. Elmer Nelson of the Food & Drug Administration, stated that vitamin deficiency could cause neither an infectious disease, a degenerative disease, nor a functional disease. That list includes every disease known to man. One of the witnesses, Dr. Elmer Sevringhaus, a nationally known authority, university professor, and co-author of a book on nutrition and vitamin therapy, on cross-examination regarding the effect of vitamin deficiency as a possible cause of infectious disease, said it was neither a primary cause nor an important contributing cause. This was 1939. Later, in 1949, in U.S. District Court, D.C. Civil Action No. 5208-48, Dr. Elmer Nelson actually made the statement under oath that no proof was available to show that a well-fed person was less likely to incur disease than one less well fed. Quite parallel with the impression designed to influence the jury in the 1939 case, that no disease can result from a vitamin deficiency, or from the use of white sugar and bleached flour products. This looks to me like Fishbein the Moloch of Medicine, operating his hideous monopoly by using our Federal Courts as his tool and our Federal officials as his hangmen.
10. Southern District of Cal,, Civil Action No. 10344-BH, 1951.
11. “Foods vs. Drugs,” Reprint #25a, Lee Foundation, Milwaukee. (Copy on request.)
12. Reprint No. 1, Lee Foundation, Milw. (Copy on request.)
13. Reprint No. 18, Lee Foundation, Milw. (Copy on request.)
14. “Report of Manitoba Cancer Inquiry Commission,” 1945, Dept. of Health & Public Welfare, Winnipeg.
15. Public Health Report, June 15, 1951; p. 766-768. Federal Security Agency.
16. Diet Prevents Polio, Benjamin Sandler, M.D., Lee Foundation, Milwaukee, $3.00, 1951.