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Please read disclaimer. Additional articles and materials written by Dr. Royal Lee that were not part of the corpus of the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research are located on the Historical Archives main page under the heading "Dr. Royal Lee."
1 WHAT IS THE LEE FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH?
A statement of purpose by the Foundation.
A FRESH LOOK AT MILK
by Francis Pottenger, Jr, MD
1962, reprint 27A. Francis Pottenger, Jr, MD, addresses the differences between raw and pasteurized milk, dispels milk myths, and discusses the nutritionally superior forms of milk. Also describes the Wulzen anti-stiffness factor.
A PLAN FOR TESTING THE THEORY OF COMPLETE TOOTH NUTRITION
by Alfred Aslander
1964, reprint 134 B. From Sweden, the author writes: "A tooth is a living tissue; not a dead mineral structure. And a tooth is an independent individual that grows out of the mandible in somewhat the same way as a plant grows out of the soil. The plant receives nutrients from the soil solution, the tooth from the blood stream. The growth of both are governed by the same laws of nutrition." The author proposes a study that would settle the debate about nutrition and dental disease. Too bad no one took him up on it..
A TURNING POINT IN NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE
by Dr. Ralph Bircher
circa 1953, reprint 80. This is a transcribed lecture by the celebrated second generation nutritional medical authority from Switzerland. Dr. Bircher makes the case that nutritional balance is the first order of healing. All other treatments are supplementary to balancing body chemistry with nutrition. This address was given in Wisconsin. His name is associated with the Swiss raw breakfast recipe called muesli, which was developed by his father, Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner, for patients at his clinic. In Europe it is often still called Bircherm'esli. In this US lecture he promotes the virtue of raw foods and specifically addresses the phenomenon of digestive leukocytosis, writing: "There exists a reaction which normally happens every time a person begins to eat; we call it the digestive leukocytosis. Some message sent by the palate to the marrow through the vegetative nerve system releases a deployment of leucocytes which swarm out to the walls of the intestines, especially of the colon, as if to defend a frontline... Kouchakoff of Lausanne discovered that it does not happen whenever a meal consists of, or even begins with raw vegetable food. This fact was confirmed by several other research workers. Then Tropp, Wurzburg, added another discovery. There are specific enzymes in fresh and living plant cells which are very delicate. They perish when the plants are heated or even seriously wilted. They were thought, therefore, to be of no consequence to human health. But Tropp found out that this is not true. The human organism knows how to protect and escort these enzymes throughout the digestive tract, so that they can reach the colon without harm, and there they perform a basic change in the bacterial flora by attracting and binding what oxygen there is. Thus, they remove the aerobic condition which is responsible for putrefaction, fermentations, dysbacteria and intestinal toxemia." Dr. Kouchakoff's paper appears in this archive; "The Influence of Food Cooking on the Blood Formula of Man."
ABSTRACTS ON RELATION OF VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES TO HEART DISORDERS
Reprint 6. During the 1930s, much of the original vitamin research was conducted by independent researchers and published by the top journals and prestigious publishing houses. This is a summary of abstracts of some of that research. As the destruction of the quality of the food supply was becoming a fixture of American life, these abstracts from the scientific literature of the day prove conclusively that researchers as far back as the 1930s were clearly noting the link between nutrition and heart disease. Health authorities would have to have gone out of their way not to be aware of what was unfolding between the nutritional supply and the health of the country.
ABSTRACTS ON THE EFFECTS OF PASTEURIZATION ON THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF MILK
1939, reprint 7. It was during the 1930s that many pasteurization laws were first enacted. Many scientists opposed this on nutritional grounds. This is a summary of findings regarding the dangers of pasteurization of milk uncovered during that historic period.
ALBERT CARTER SAVAGE'S MINERALIZED GARDEN BRINGS HEALTH
by F. A. Behymer
1945, reprint 14. The news report of a soil expert in the 1940s who warned of the depletion of soil and its effect on the quality of the food supply. He demonstrates how to repair the soil and restore fertility and immunity to agricultural lands.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY REPUTES PITTSBURGH CANCER CLINIC: LETTER AND ARTICLE
1950, reprint 18E. A story of how the American Cancer Society fought against alternative approaches to cancer therapy. Known as the Drosnes-Lazenby Naturopathic Cancer Clinic in Pittsburgh, this report demonstrates how far back the cancer industry sought to protect its “turf” against competition in the healing arts.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PROCTOLOGY ARTICLE ON CANCER & ORGANIC FOODS
by Dr. Donald C. Collins
1961. A California MD notes in this professional journal how patients using natural and organically grown foods did the best in overcoming cancer.
AND NOW - A NEW CRISIS IN FARMING
by J. W. Robinson
1963, reprint 136. Perhaps a precursor of today’s agricultural livestock disasters. This article reports on the tragic consequences to livestock caused by modern toxic and soil-destroying agricultural practices.
ARE WE STARVING AT FULL TABLES?
by Ira Allison
Reprint 41A. From the late 1940s, this paper warns of the many ways that nutritional deficiency was becoming a permanent part of the American lifestyle. From the farm to the table, Americans began starving themselves despite their full bellies.
ARE WE STARVING TO DEATH?
by Neil M. Clark
1945, reprint 21. This reprint from The Saturday Evening Post exposes the destruction of the quality of the American food supply from the soil to the table. The Saturday Evening Post, one of the most widely read magazines of its time (est. 1821) called this “slow extinction from hidden hunger.”
ASCORBIC ACID AS A CHEMOTHEROPEUTIC AGENT
by W. J. McCormick
Reprint 5C.
BEETROOT JUICE - LET'S LIVE MAGAZINE
by E. L. David
1962. A report on the therapeutic value of beetroot juice from Europe and the United States. The nutritional array in beetroot is extraordinary.
BLEACHING OF FLOUR NORTH DAKOTA BULLETIN
by E. F. Ladd and R. E. Stallings
1906, reprint 1. The origin of flour bleaching in the United States and how the millers informed the USDA that it was a fraudulent practice. This 1906 document sheds light on the origins of nutrient destruction of food in America. This is a truly historic document that sets a place and time for the decision to begin the vast process of destroying the quality of American food supply through refining, bleaching, and adulteration.
BREAST FEEDING
by the US Department of Labor
Reprint 122. The Lee Foundation reprints a government booklet from the 1920s through the 1940s encouraging and advocating the breast feeding of infants. Advice on proper diet of a breast feeding mother is offered. The US government later abandoned its support.
CALCIUM
by William A. Albrecht
1943, reprint 8. The amazing role of calcium in the soil and its effect on crops and animals, written by one of the greatest soil scientists of all time. In the organic farming movement Dr. Albrecht is known as the Father of Soil Fertility Research. A professor of soils, Dr. Albrecht became chairman of the soils department at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture. Born in 1888, he published his first article on soil fertility in 1918, and published research papers until his death in 1974. He was a friend of Royal Lee, and the Foundation published several of his papers which are available on this archive.
CALCIUM THERAPY IN DISEASES OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
by Edward Podolsky, MD
1939, reprint 68. From the Illinois Medical Journal, this MD gives a fascinating review of the world literature on calcium therapies, ranging from blood pressure to heart function. Unfortunately, since this research was published, more has been forgotten than learned.
CANCER - A COLLAGEN DISEASE SECONDARY TO A NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY
by W. J. McCormick, MD
1959. A Canadian medical doctor finds a strong relationship between vitamin C and cancer.
CANCER - A NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY
by J. R. Davidson, MD
1943, reprint 18. A Canadian physician reports on his animal and human research leading him to the conclusion that nutritional deficiency is at the genesis of cancer development. Published by the Science Department of the University of Manitoba. Dr. Davidson makes a cogent case in defense of his hypothesis.
CANCER - NUTRITIONAL FACTORS REFERENCE CARD
1949. Nutrients and cancer relationships with references.
CANCER AND THE MEDICAL RESEARCH BUSINESS
by Malcolm Lawrence
1962, Lee Foundation Special Reprint 5-62. Published under a nom-de-plume (pen name), to protect the author's status as a medical researcher stationed within the cancer research establishment. (See inside cover regarding this). This report exposes the corruption and lack of integrity in the cancer research industry. It describes how natural therapies were never given a chance to demonstrate efficacy while expensive and toxic chemotherapeutic agents glided right through the research community. The story of Dr. Andrew Ivy of the University of Illinois,and his Krebiozen treatment is told in the historically important document.
CARDIAC FAILURE IN VITAMIN E DEFICIENT CATTLE
by Gullikson and Calverley
1946. Cows deprived vitamin E start dropping dead in a year. Electrocardiograms reveal the cardiac damage of vitamin E starvation. Published in the Journal of Science.
CASE OF DENTAL CARIES VS. THE SUGAR INTERESTS
by Allison G. James, DDS
1949, reprint 42. The overwhelming case against sugar and sugar laden foods and beverages is exposed by dentists. Even in 1949, as this article from a dental journal demonstrates, this theory was opposed by organized dentistry and the profession at large. Drill 'em and fill 'em - never mind why the caries are there.
CERTAIN NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS OF LAB ANIMALS DUE TO VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY
by A. M. Pappenheimer, MD
Reprint 57. From the Department of Pathology at Columbia University in New York, the cellular degeneration is detailed in animals exposed to prolonged vitamin E deficiency.
CHANGING INCIDENCE & MORTALITY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN RELATION TO TRENDS IN NUTRITION
by W. J. McCormick
Reprint 5A. How vitamin C deficiency and the resulting infectious diseases have been mitigated through the modern rapid transportation and refrigeration of fruits and vegetables to market. McCormick concludes that the decline in infectious disease has far less to do with pharmaceutical and medical breakthroughs and more to do with the increase of vitamin C in the diet.
CHEMICAL PESTICIDES AND CONSERVATION PROBLEMS
by M. M. Hargraves
1959, reprint 105. A Mayo Clinic physician reports on the ravages to the agricultural landscape resulting from modern farming chemicals. Dr. Hargraves details the tragic consequences of pesticides on human health.
CHLORINE DIOXIDE - BLEACH IN BREAD CAUSES ILLS
by Helen Bullock
1955. A newspaper article reports on a dermatologist’s warning about the dangers of flour bleaching, particularly the bleaching agent chlorine dioxide.
CHLOROPHYLL FOR HEALING
by L. M. Miller
1941, reprint 84. The Reader’s Digest editor and medical staff-writer, Lois Mattox Miller, details some of the amazing health-promoting properties of chlorophyll. Published in Science News Letter.
CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC ULCERATIVE COLITIS
by N. Philip Norman, MD
1950. The complete book published by the Lee Foundation. This is a classic and definitive work on ulcerative colitis. Groundbreaking in its understanding of the lesions of malnutrition, it makes a very cogent case that this disease, ulcerative colitis, is closely related to scurvy. Additional nutrient deficiencies combine with vitamin C complex deficiency and a refined and processed diet to produce this tragic condition. “Worth its weight in gold” is how Dr. Royal Lee described this book.
CLINICAL STUDIES OF MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY IN EPILEPSY
by Lewis B. Barnett, MD
1959, reprint 114 from Clinical Physiology. Dr. Barnett summarizes his laboratory and case study findings correlating magnesium deficiency and epilepsy. The doctor spent many years studying this essential trace mineral and its profound relationship to the utilization of calcium.
COMFREY
by H. E. Kirschner, MD
1958, special reprint 12-58. An American medical doctor describes the therapeutic uses and preparations of comfrey, including personal experiences. (SYMPHYTUM OFFICIANALE).
COMFREY - AN INVESTIGATION CONCERNING AN ANCIENT MEDICINAL REMEDY
by C. J. MacAlister, MD
1936. Complete book describing this British physician’s experience and his studies regarding comfrey (SYMPHYTUM OFFICIANALE) and its unique phytochemical allantoin and its effect on cancer. Draws upon history, contemporary studies, and personal observations with therapies using this ancient plant. Comfrey is one of the most highly regarded herbs in the world and this book it a treasure trove of knowledge about its use.
CONCEPT OF TOTALITY
by Joe Nichols, MD
1954. Pioneering holistic medical doctor Joe Nichols writes about health on all levels of human existence. Physical, mental, and emotional health all impact the experience of health and disease. Dr. Nichols founded the Natural Foods Associates and edited its magazine, Natural Food and Farming. In this article he writes: “The end result of chemical farming is always disease, first in the land itself, then in the plant, then in the animal, and finally in us. Everywhere in the world, where chemical farming is practiced, the people are sick. The use of synthetic chemicals does not make land rich. It makes it poorer than before.”
CORONARY THROMBOSIS #1 KILLER
by W. J. McCormick
1953, reprint 5B. A Canadian medical doctor writes about how nutritional deficiencies, primarily vitamins B and C, combined with cigarettes, pesticides, and alcohol, lead to coronary thrombosis.
CORONARY THROMBOSIS -A NEW CONCEPT OF MECHANISM & ETIOLOGY
by W. J. McCormick
1957, reprint 5F. A Canadian medical doctor discusses a new concept of the causes and mechanism of coronary thrombosis based upon studies in nutritional deficiency, particularly vitamin C.
CORRECTABLE SYSTEMIC DISORDERS INDICATED BY PRESENCE OF SALIVARY CALCULUS
by John E. Waters, DDS
1964. Special Reprint No. 1-64. An excellent nutritional piece correlating dental plaque as a precursor to cancer. "Both the medical and dental professions in general consider pyorrhea alveolaris as a disease per se and treat it primarily fram the local disease angle. That is wrong. Pyorrhoea is but a single symptom of a systemic disease caused by glandular abnormalities. Local treatment but reduces the obvious symptoms; it does not affect the basic systemic disease. "That which follows is based on observations during over forty years of general dental practice, and on over thirty years of special attention paid to certain aspects rarely if ever commented on in connection with dental, calculus."
CURRENT THINKING ON NUTRITION
by Jonathan Forman, MD
Reprint 32, circa 1946. A leading pioneer in environmental medicine reviews the lessons and research into nutritional deficiencies and degenerative disease. He traces the origins to poor farming practices through the entire food chain. He writes: “Poor land makes poor people, poor people make poor land, the people get poorer and the soil gets still poorer. What I want to talk about is the relation of nutrition to productive farming.” This is nutrition from the soil to the table.
DEAF SMITH'S SECRET
by A. W. Erickson
1945. Deaf Smith County, Texas, was known as the “county without a dentist.” The author gives evidence of the immunity to dental caries imparted through the high level of soil nutrients.
DEVELOPMENTAL MALFORMATION IN MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS
by H. H. Tillermann
Reprint 66C. A highly referenced and impressive report on the relationship between nutritional deficiencies and human and animal birth and developmental defects and malformations.
DIET PREVENTS POLIO
by Benjamin Sandler, MD
1951. The complete book published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. Not long after it was courageously published, this book was banned by the government. United States naval surgeon, Captain Benjamin Sandler, MD, had been studying two devastating infectious diseases since the 1930s. The first was bacterial and the second viral: tuberculosis and polio. In both cases he found that a low carbohydrate diet was the best treatment and prevention. In Diet Prevents Polio, Dr. Sandler describes how he finally got the state of North Carolina to put his ideas to the test. In one year, NC went from one of the worst states for polio - highest per capita incidence - to being the best. Dr. Sandler reveals much about polio that most doctors have never heard of. He thoughtfully pokes holes in the common beliefs about the disease and examines the pattern of polio around the world, and explains why the US was the worst hit. This forgotten book needs to be rediscovered so that the fundamental truths that it details receive a full hearing in the light of current biochemical knowledge.
DIET PREVENTS POLIO AUTHOR, BENJAMIN SANDLER, MD NEWSPAPER REPORTS
This is a brief compilation of newspaper reports on the work of Dr. Benjamin P. Sandler and his theory on high carbohydrate diets and polio susceptibility. See his book in these archives: Diet Prevents Polio.
DIETARY REGIMEN IN THE TREATMENT OF RENAL CALCULI
by C. C. Higgins, MD
1938, reprint 5. One of the earliest tracts on the critical role of vitamin A in the health of the kidneys. Although pH is discussed, the main thrust is about studies conducted the US, Africa, China and Asia, all reaching the conclusion that vitamin A deficiency leads to calculus and renal lesions.
DISCOVERY OF THE ANTICANCEROUS PROPERTIES OF THE "F" VITAMINE
by Professor Humberto Aviles, Mexico
1953. Lee Foundation Special Reprint 12-53. This monograph is a sweeping report on the special properties of the vitamin F complex. Composed of esssential fatty acids, discovery of the properties of this fat soluble vitamin began in 1929 with Burr and Burr. The author focuses on the peer-reviewed vitamin F literature from around the world including research in Germany, England, Russia, and the US. Though medical and government authorities never accepted vitamin F, the author of this tract and many clinicians and particularly Dr. Royal Lee, conducted significant experiments over many decades to prove its presence and effect in the human body.
DISEASES AS DEFICIENCIES VIA THE SOIL
by William A. Albrecht
Reprint 37A. A world-renowned soil scientist, Professor of Soils and Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri traces the chain and link between soils, farming methods, and deficiency-related disease.
DO YOU WANT TO LOSE THE HAIR ON YOUR CHEST? - BUTTER VS. MARGARINE
From 1948 and 1953, reprint 59. The relationship between vitamin E, vitamin D, and vitamin F in pubescent development. Photos of boys and girls demonstrate the failure of sex differentiation due to starvation of the endocrine glands.
DR. BRADY'S HEALTH TALK
by Dr. William Brady
1950. Reprint of a popular syndicated medical writer discussing the link between physical degeneration and nutritional deficiencies from refined and processed foods.
DR. FREDERICK STARE'S FUNDING IS EXPOSED
1960. The founder of the Deparment of Nutrition, Frederich Stare, at Harvard University’s School of Public Health receives large funding from food adulterers to prove that their refined “foods” are safe. Dr. Stare fought against the organic whole foods movement for decades, even testifying in court that such proponents were alarmists and frauds.
DRUG INDUCED ILLNESSES
1957, reprint 97. Report in the Illinois Medical Journal from over half a century ago on the iatrogenic diseases (doctor induced disease) caused by drugs, including the widespread use of antibiotics. An early warning to a fact that is widely acknowledged in the 21st century.
EFFECTS OF VITAMIN DEFICIENT DIET ON RATS WITH REFERENCE TO MOTOR FUNCTIONS
by L. Gross
Reprint 24. An historically significant British study from 1924 on the pathological lesions appearing in the nervous system and digestive tract of rats fed vitamin deficient diets. This article demonstrates the seriousness and excellence of early vitamin research.
FAT SOLUABLE VITAMINS
by W. C. Russell
1944, reprint 127. The anti-stiffness vitamin, referred to as the Wulzen Factor (after its discoverer, Dr. Rosalind Wulzen) is reported as a new fat-soluble vitamin. Also, see Lee Foundation reprint entitled “The Wulzen Calcium Dystrophy Syndrome in Guinea Pigs.”
FATS IN THE DIET
by W. H. Griffith
1957, reprint 93. From the Journal of the American Medical Association. It details the value of natural dietary fats and dangers of hydrogenated fats. Cis fat vs. trans fat.
FLUORIDATION OF WATER SUPPLIES
by A. J. Cahill
1962. A doctor writes to a medical journal warning of the dangers of fluoridating water supplies. The author reports on his studies of what he calls “the evil effects on human health that are caused by adding artificial sodium fluoride to public water supplies.”
FUNDAMENTALS OF NUTRITION
by N. Philip Norman
1947. A respected and well-published New York medical doctor describes the extent to which the entire food supply, from the soil and farm to the grocery store and kitchen table, have become utterly corrupted and the degenerative disease that results from this pernicious trend.
GEORGE GOODHEART - ARM AND SHOULDER PAIN
by Dr. George Goodheart
1960. The founder of Applied Kinesiology reports about his manipulation techniques and nutritional support used in treating arm and shoulder problems. Journal of the Michigan State Chiropractic Society.
GEORGE GOODHEART - CHIROPRACTIC REACTIONS IN THE LIGHT OF PROTOMORPHOLOGY
by Dr. George Goodheart
1951. The founder of Applied Kinesiology discusses the Protomorphogen theory of Dr. Royal Lee in relationship to the mechanisms of chiropractic treatment. This is one of Dr. George Goodheart's earliest professionally published articles.
GEORGE GOODHEART - FAT AND ITS UTILIZATION IN CHOLESTEROL CONTROL
by Dr. George Goodheart
1965. The founder of Applied Kinesiology reports on the natural way to control cholesterol, the important hormone precursor. Cholesterol mobilizers, nutrients from natural fats, are the key. He relates the thyroid connection to cholesterol metabolism.
GEORGE GOODHEART - LOW BLOOD SUGAR AND HYPERINSULINISM
by Dr. George Goodheart
circa 1965. Dr. Goodheart describes the biochemistry, muscular-skeletal, and nutritional response to patients suffering from low blood sugar. One of the earliest chiropractic papers on what was soon to become a huge area of holistic healing.
GEORGE GOODHEART - POSTURAL HYPOTENSION AND FUNCTIONAL HYPOADRENIA
by Dr. George Goodheart
1965. Writing in Chiropractic Economics, the founder of Applied Kinesiology discusses the Ragland method of determining hypoadrenia through postural changes in blood pressure.
GEORGE GOODHEART - PRESENTATION OF A NEW APPROACH TO CORRECTION OF DISC LESIONS
by Dr. George Goodheart
1954. The father of Applied Kinesiology discusses nutritional aspects of disc lesions.
GEORGE GOODHEART - QUICK SIMPLE VALID URINARY TESTING METHODS
by Dr. George Goodheart
1964. July/August issue of Chiropractic Economics. The founder of Applied Kinesiology reports on the more subtle findings and interpretation of urine analysis in relation to nutritional biochemistry. This was the first of more than 50 articles Dr. Goodheart published in this journal.
GEORGE GOODHEART - THE ACID ALKALINE BALANCE AND PATIENT MANAGEMENT BY DR GEORGE GOODHEART
Dr. Goodheart explores the practical clinical side of the pH of the patient. Testing procedures and interpretation are discussed. He discusses hyper alkalinity associated with allergies and pain.
GEORGE GOODHEART - THE SCHIZOPHRENIC PATTERN
by Dr. George Goodheart
1970. The founder of Applied Kinesiology discusses his nutritional biochemical approach to this condition. He reviews supporting literature and adjunctive chiropractic care.
GERMS - CAUSE OF DISEASE?
by W. M. Miller
1955, reprint 77. From Health Culture Magazine. The microscope of Royal Rife brings new insights and casts doubt on the germ theory of medicine. The Pasteur - Bechamp controversy is explored, comparing the germ theory to the microzyma theory.
HARVEY W. WILEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY - CHEMICALS IN FOOD
by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
Lee Foundation Special Reprint No. 1-60. Written in 1929, Dr. Wiley was the first head (1906-1912) of the Bureau of Chemistry (later renamed Food and Drug Administration). Following an introduction by Royal Lee, this contains two chapters from his autobiography about the dangers of adding chemicals added to foods and his attempts to end this practice.
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THE LESSONS OF SCURVY?
by W. J. McCormick
1962, reprint 5H. A Canadian medical doctor traces the history of scurvy through age-old writings and recognizes the distinctive lesions of this deficiency disease in modern conditions in human beings in which these scurvious lesions go unrecognized. The failure to recognize the signs of tissue failure of vitamin C deficiency lead unsuccessful medical approaches. Dr. McCormick re-teaches the lost lessons of scurvy.
HE ENRICHES SOIL FOR CROPS THAT GO INTO VITAMIN PILLS
by J. T. Alexander
1952, reprint 55. A newspaper account of a man who remineralizes the soil to grow crops for concentrating into whole food supplements.
HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
by Congressman David S. King
1959, reprint 111. From the Congressional Record of the 86th Congress (1959) a Utah Congressman warns the government that “the progressive deterioration of the condition of our health has been confirmed.” He blames our chemically-laden and processed food supply as the source of this trend. “There are many approaches to the prevention and treatment of such complex diseases, but there appears to be one common denominator as the basic cause of degenerative diseases. That one factor is malnutrition.”
HIDDEN DANGERS OF WHITE BREAD
by James Rorty
1956, reprint 75. A magazine reprint excoriating the FDA for allowing the use of chlorine dioxide as a flour bleach and the refining and devitalizing of our basic staple of food. This 1956 article of “suppressed facts” declares American bread as “worthless and unsafe.” The myth of the healthy American continues to erode.
HISTORY OF A CRIME AGAINST THE FOOD LAW
by H. W. Wiley, MD
1929. This is the complete book, self-published after the Macmillan Publishing Co. “lost” the original manuscript, by Dr. Harvey Wiley. He was the father of the first Pure Food and Drug Law of 1906. Historically significant, this book disappeared from every library in the nation and was subsequently republished by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. It sets the historical record straight as to how the food industry corrupted the nation’s laws and politicians in order to sell cheap, refined, adulterated, preserved, and devitalized “foods.” They usurped the federal laws and regulations regarding whole pure food. American politics at its worst.
HONEY IN NUTRITION
by William Miller
1955, reprint 119. An excellent overview of the value of raw honey. It compares the nutritional qualities of this extraordinary food, manufactured by bees, to white sugar.
HOPE IN CANCER RESEARCH
by US SENATOR CHARLES W. TOBEY OF NEW HAMPSIRE 1952
Reprint 18-A from the Congressional Testamony of 1952. The Lee Foundation published this Congressional Record to emphacize how far back alternative approaches to cancer ran into tremendous organized medical opposition even when the research came from medical doctors or brought to light by a US Senator.
HOW AN AUTO-ANTIBODY ATTACKS CELLS
by Dr. Robert Dourmashkin
1964, reprint 141. Dr. Royal Lee was the creator of the Protomorphogen theory through his pioneering recognition of the autoimmune disease process. This article from New Scientist (No. 399) is among this first to photographically document the cellular destruction caused by the host’s own auto-antibodies.
HOW THE FACTS ARE SUPPRESSED IN CONNECTION WITH BONE MEAL
by Alfred Aslander
1964, reprint 134A. “The bone meal method as a sure caries prophylaxis is the practical application of the writer's theory of complete tooth nutrition.” This circular from The Division of Agriculture, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden presents the documented research conducted in Sweden and Switzerland on bone meal in the prevention of dental caries. The author cites repeated Swedish studies and defends his position against an entrenched dental establishment who block the publication of his research. A year before this article appeared, Dr. Royal Lee introduced a completely raw cold-processed veal bone meal powder (flour) to dentists.
HOW TO PREVENT HEART ATTACKS
by Benjamin P. Sandler, MD
1958. The complete book published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. Dr. Sandler, a retired naval surgeon and researcher extends his research on the effects of low blood sugar. He reports consistent findings that a high carbohydrate diet, resulting in low blood sugar, significantly weakens the heart and leads to heart attack. The American diet, he writes, has for many decades trended towards a high carbohydrate diet which is vitamin poor. This leads to strain on the heart muscle and leads to deteriorating vascular function.
IMBALANCE OF VITAMIN B FACTORS
by M. B. Richards
1945, reprint 10. From the British Medical Journal, a report on the dangers of synthetic B vitamins. Isolated B vitamins, the author warns, create fundamental imbalances causing problems that do not occur when whole food sources of the B complex are used. The final sentence reads: “The present results emphasize the need for caution in any attempt to improve the diet of these populations by indiscriminate addition of large supplements of single synthetic B vitamins.”
INSULIN - CLINICAL USES OF SMALL DOSES
by Samuel M. Beale, Jr, MD
1937. A pioneering holistic physician from Cape Cod reports his observations on the effects of low dose insulin therapy as a stimulus of regeneration for certain vascular and other tissues in the body.
INSULIN AND CANCER
by Samuel M. Beale, Jr, MD
1947. Another report by Dr. Beale on low dose insulin therapy along with elimination of refined carbohydrates from the diet. Patient case histories are examined. This article reflects an early insight to the role that sugar plays in feeding cancer cells.
INTERRELATION OF SOILS AND PLANT - ANIMAL AND HUMAN NUTRITION
by E. C. Auchter
1939, reprint 79. The title of this article speaks for itself. This USDA scientist reveals the nutritional relatedness of the soil to the plant and the plant to the human and animal. “But these developments in the science of nutrition suggest that we ought to give more attention to producing crops of the highest nutritional quality for man and animals.”
IODINE USE IN THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF POLIOMYELITIS
by J. F. Edward
1954, reprint 76. Writing in a Canadian medical journal, this physician gives voice to his observations on the role of iodine in the prevention viral disease and "central nervous system fevers" including polio.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO INFLUENCE THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BY A CERTAIN DIET REGIME?
by J. Evers
1947, reprint 90. A German physician describes his success using a whole, natural, raw foods diet in treating multiple sclerosis. Translated from German.
JOAN
by Fred D. Miller, DDS
1948, reprint 49. A pioneering holistic dentist uses the case history of several patients to illustrate the power of nutritional regeneration in the mouth of a patient. Many photos included.
LACTIC ACID FORMING YEAST IN CHRONIC CONSTIPATION CLINICAL OSTEOPATHY
by Chester H. Lyon and James P. Hart
1940. Perhaps the first published study of a probiotic supplement for the treatment of constipation and related bowel disorders. Dr. Royal Lee created the lactic acid forming mycelium-type yeast supplement that was used in this research study. The results of the efficient conversion of carbohydrate food into lactic acid in the colon provided universal improvement in every parameter that was studied. Unlike lactobacillus related bacterium which can only convert lactose into lactic acid, this mycelium-type yeast demonstrated the ability to convert any carbohydrate source into valuable lactic acid in the colon. The study showed that the lower bowel was efficiently restored to its normal function and protective acidic pH.
LEE - A DISCUSSION ON THE FORMS OF BLOOD CALCIUM
by Dr. Royal Lee
1942, reprint 2. Includes a large chart of the flow of calcium throughout the body. This booklet is an authoritative presentation on the metabolism of calcium in the blood. It outlines the specific influence of various vitamins, such as vitamins F and D, on the movement and activity of calcium. There is more calcium in the body than all the other minerals added together. This is an important overview on the biochemical flow of the most abundant mineral.
LEE - APPLIED PROTOMORPHOLOGY BRIEFING
by Dr. Royal Lee
A brief summary of Protomorphogen theory by the man who first developed it. The autoimmune theory is explained here long before the autoimmune syndrome was recognized and accepted by medical science.
LEE - BUTTER, VITAMIN E, AND THE X FACTOR OF WESTON A. PRICE
by Dr. Royal Lee
1942. Dr. Lee reveals vitamin F, first discovered in wheat germ oil, as the “X” factor of Dr. Weston A. Price.
LEE - CALORIES - NUTRITIONAL AND HARMFUL TYPES
by Dr. Royal Lee
1961, reprint 30H. The documented dangers of refined carbohydrates and bleached flour. Empty calories rob life from people.
LEE - CAN CANCER BE CURED?
by Dr. Royal Lee
1950. Dr. Lee writes, “The answer to that question is in the history of patients who have recovered from cancer, some spontaneously (probably by reason of some change in food intake), some by various methods of treatment.” This article looks at the range of alternative approaches at that time and the previous decades. He cites the founder of Mayo Clinic: “Dr. William J. Mayo in 1914 expressed the opinion that cancer was caused by some defect in the food supply of civilized man, including the possibility of too much cooking." ("The Prophylaxis of Cancer," Annals of Surgery, 59:805, June 1914.)
LEE - CANCER - FACTORS FAVORABLE AND UNFAVORABLE TO CANCER
by Dr. Royal Lee
1955. Brief article on endocrine function and cancer. The special role of the thyroid in protection against cancer.
LEE - CANCER - ITS CAUSE, ITS PREVENTION, ITS CURE
by Dr. Royal Lee
circa 1949. A review of alternative theories and approaches to cancer from the late 1940s. Citing the work of Dr. Davidson in Canada and Dr. Quigley of Omaha, Lee focuses on the nutritional causes.
LEE - CEREAL GRAINS - SOME OF THEIR SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1953, reprint 38B. Royal Lee discusses commonly used grains and their virtues, properties, and nutritional characteristics. He differentiates the types and proper uses of these grains.
LEE - CIVILIZATION AND CANCER
by Dr. Royal Lee
1962, reprint from Natural Food and Farming magazine. Royal Lee summarizes numerous scientific studies that show a clear lack or extreme rarity of cancer among indigenous people still consuming their native diets. Various tribes of North American Indians, the Hunzas of Karakorum region of Asia, natives of Brazil and Ecuador are examples. He cites high incident levels of thyroid cancer among populations with low iodine intake.
LEE - CLINICAL NUTRITION - FOOD VS. DRUGS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1948, reprint 25A. Dr. Royal Lee deconstructs the pharmaceutical arrogance and confusion over food as therapy. As soon as a substance is used as therapy, medical authorities brand it as being an unapproved drug. Lee outlines the history of drugs becoming therapies and how drugless healing professions became marginalized by laws preventing the dissemination of information and knowledge.
LEE - FACTS ABOUT SAUERKRAUT AND HOW TO MAKE IT
by Dr. Royal Lee
1955, reprint 38C. A brief article about the value of this lacto-fermented food and how to properly prepare it.
LEE - FLUORINE AND DENTAL CARIES
by Dr. Royal Lee
1952, reprint 53B. Dr. Royal Lee was one of the earliest and most outspoken opponents of fluoridation of water. This report is from an address to a group in Florida. It also contains US Congressional testimony outlining studies on fluoridation that expose the dangerous side effects of this forced public medication.
LEE - FOREWARD TO REBUILDING HEALTH BY EBBA WAERLAND
by Dr. Royal Lee
1961. Ebba Waerland was an internationally famous advocate of natural health from Sweden. The Waerland dietary system, based on whole natural foods, was very popular in Europe. She asked Royal Lee to write the foreword to the American edition of her book.
LEE - FOREWARD TO THE REAL AMERICAN TRAGEDY BY C. E. BURTIS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1960. Dr. Lee’s foreword to a book about the tragedy of the American food supply and diet. The foreword includes succinct examples the tragic consequences of an adulterated food supply.
LEE - FOREWORD TO CHINCHILLAS OR YOU AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN?
by Dr. Royal Lee
1953. Dr. Royal Lee’s brief foreword in this book about the destruction of chinchillas when exposed to fluoride in their food. In the book, W.R. Cox records in documented detail his personal account of the ongoing disasters in his chinchillas that were attributed to high fluoride content of commercial animal feed. In 1951, the cause was discovered by extensive and documented medical laboratory testing and autopsies and the culprit was identified as fluoride. The MD and the chemist conducting the research at the University of Oregon Medical School clearly state in multiple reports that fluoride penetrated the placental barrier in animals, as evidenced by the chinchillas brought in by Cox.
LEE - HOW ORGANIZED MEDICINE IS FIGHTING VITAMINS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1943. A pamphlet published by Royal Lee relating his experience leading to the discovery that organized medicine was at war with nutritional approaches to health. He documents and references his battles and discoveries of how the medical-pharmaceutical industries had formed what was in essence a cartel aimed at controlling the healing arts and destroying any perceived threat to its control over the nation’s healthcare.
LEE - HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZES MALNUTRITION AND DISEASE
by Dr. Royal Lee
Special Bulletin 1-49, 1949. In this Lee Foundation booklet, Royal Lee outlines how government policies were designed to protect the adulteration and devitalization of basic foods. He covers many examples of such practices, including dairy, grains, fruits, and meat. He tells the history of how these ersatz food producers induced the medical community to overlook and even endorse these deadly practices. To prove his case he reproduces paid ads in medical journals to secure medical support of refined foods promoted by industrial food processors. Lee writes, “Few people in the United States are aware of the ‘Iron Curtain’ maintained in this country to prevent the food consumer from knowing that he is being sold fraudulent foods, foods that had the better part of their nutritional value removed or destroyed to facilitate the commercial handling of the food, and to enable big food-enterprises to unfairly overpower by price competition the smaller ones.” He then states, “The millers and bread makers do not know the trail of wreckage which they have left in the wake of their mineral contempt. They do not know how they have burrowed into the vitality of human life while it is still in the mother's womb. They do not know to what extent they have been responsible for tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia, scrofula, measles, scarlatina, anemia, etc.”
LEE - HOW SYNTHETIC POISONS ARE SOLD AS IMITATION NATURAL FOODS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1948. The title speaks for itself. This report includes the story of how synthetic vitamin D caused widespread harm, and explains how synthetic vitamins are crude and incomplete imitations of natural vitamin complexes formed in the living cells of plants and animals. The science of the optical rotation of polarized light passing through a substance is used to expose and explain some of the essential differences.
LEE - HUMANITARIAN AWARD TO DR. ROYAL LEE
1962. Royal Lee receives the Humanitarian Award from the National Health Federation. It was their highest honor.
LEE - INTRODUCTORY PAGES OF LECTURES OF DR ROYAL LEE VOL I
by Mark Anderson
Table of contents of the 37 transcribed lectures and introduction of the book by Mark R. Anderson.
LEE - IT CAN HAPPEN HERE - VITAMINS, CHOLESTEROL, INOSITOL, ALUMINUM
by Dr. Royal Lee
1951, reprint 30F. Dr. Royal Lee gives an overview of the nutritional approach to some of the largest medical issues of the day. Nitrates in meat and aluminum exposure are highlighted as poisons to be avoided. Reprinted from the magazine Nature's Path.
LEE - LETTER TO DIRECTORS OF AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NUTRITION
by Dr. Royal Lee
1957. Dr. Royal Lee, writing on behalf of the Lee Foundation, urges the directors of the American Academy of Nutrition to adopt a Code of Principles. “Otherwise, we will be taken over by 'Trojan Horse' methods, and the efforts of the Founders will have been nothing more than a memory of good intentions, defeated by the impotence and timidity of their successors.” Lee gives examples of the principles he suggests.
LEE - ON CARBOHYDRATES
by Dr. Royal Lee
1952. Carbohydrates should not be considered essential to the human diet. “What is refined sugar? It is pure carbohydrate. Is carbohydrate an essential food, a food component without which we could not live? It certainly is not.” The minerals and vitamins are essential, but not the pure carbohydrate.
LEE - PHYSIOLOGY OF SALT METABOLISM
by Dr. Royal Lee
1951. Potassium is the key to understanding salt. At a time when doctors were putting patients on salt-free diets (a common practice even today), Dr. Royal Lee explains the critical nutritional role that salt plays in physiology. The critical balance between sodium and potassium is explained. The less understood role of potassium, Lee states, is behind the bad reputation that salt gained within the medical community. Includes highlights on carbamide (urea).
LEE - PRACTICAL METHODS IN PREPARING HEALTH-BULDING FOODS
by Dr. Royal Lee
Dr. Lee describes nutrient-conserving methods of preparing meats, vegetables, grains, and fruits. He strongly urges organically grown food sources.
LEE - PROTOMORPHOLOGY: THE PRINCIPLES OF CELL AUTO-REGULATION
by Royal Lee and William A. Hanson
1947. The complete book on the subject of the Protomorphogen. This work brings together the endocrine, nutritional, and cellular control mechanisms of the living human cell and how growth and repair are regulated. This work is the basis for Lee's theories of autoimmune disease based on the immunes systems ability to target the body's own tissue. This was well in advance of any accepted understanding of autoimmunity.
LEE - PURE FOOD AND PURE FRAUD
by Dr. Royal Lee
From 1957, Dr. Royal Lee recognizes the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Food and Drug Administration (originally called the Bureau of Chemistry), by citing the failure of its mission to protect the food supply from nutritional destruction. He cites the noble vision of its founder, Dr. Harvey Wiley, and how he fought for decades to create the agency, only to see it usurped by powerful business and political interests. Lee writes, “In the midst of public praise for Wiley's pioneering, and public thanksgiving over the (supposed) fact that foods, drugs and cosmetics are pure and truly labeled, we are likely to overlook the way in which Wiley's work has been perverted. We may remain ignorant of the way in which the FDA protects the food, drug and cosmetic industries, and the medical monopoly, at the expense of the public it is supposed to serve. We may forget that Wiley himself was ousted for trying to stand up against these powerful interests.” This is a rich historical document in which Royal Lee used the written word to warn the American people of a matter in which they were blissfully ignorant.
LEE - RAW FOOD VITAMINS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1956, reprint 30C. From Health Culture magazine. The effect of cooking on essential nutrients such as vitamins, amino acids, and enzymes.
LEE - RECENT CONCLUSIONS IN MALNUTRITION
by Dr. Royal Lee
1943, reprint 30. A stunning assessment of the health of the nation. One of Royal Lee's famous quotes appears at the end of the following paragraph: "In this country, however, the advertising propaganda power of the chemical industries is so influential that the American people have been humbugged again and are eating this new rubbish with the same gusto that they have been exhibiting for forty years for digging their graves with their teeth." A classic and historic document.
LEE - SESAME SEED - AN IMPORTANT FOOD
by Dr. Royal Lee
1955. Writing in Natural Food and Farming, Dr. Lee gives insightful information about the highly concentrated source of nutrition yielded by the humble sesame seed. “It is mainly protein and oil with very little carbohydrate,” writes Royal Lee, and it is one of the most inexpensive protein sources.
LEE - SUGAR AND SUGAR PRODUCTS - THEIR USE AND ABUSE
by Dr. Royal Lee
1950, reprint 30D. Dr. Royal Lee lays out the case against sugar in the Journal of the American Academy of Applied Nutrition. Abuse is the verdict. He compares several high-sugar carbohydrate sweeteners and their physiological effects.
LEE - SYNTHETIC VS. NATURAL VITAMINS
by Dr. Royal Lee
Circa 1954. Dr. Royal Lee, in a brief and succinct format, describes the functional differences between a whole vitamin complex and a chemically made imitation of a single factor. Several examples emphasize his point. “Again, vitamins in the living cell, in the main, are parts of enzyme systems. Natural complexes are, if properly prepared, still enzymes, and linked with their trace mineral enzyme activators.”
LEE - THE BATTLEFRONT FOR BETTER NUTRITION
by Dr. Royal Lee
1950, reprint 30E. Writing in the magazine The Interpreter, Dr. Lee continues the struggle to educate the American public about the fundamentally flawed dietary practices that have overtaken the country.
LEE - THE CAUSE OF EROSION
by Dr. Royal Lee
1947, reprint 29. From The Land. Royal Lee, who grew up on his grandfather’s farm in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, reflects on his observations and theories as to the chemical and mechanical functions within the soil that determine its propensity to erode. This article contains nuggets of insight into keeping soil fertile and preventing erosion.
LEE - THE DESPOTIC MISUSE OF OUR FEDERAL PURE FOOD LAW
by Dr. Royal Lee
1957. Publishing this piece was another act of courage by Royal Lee. He exposes the methods and techniques of government agencies to suppress the natural nutrition movement and subvert nutritional science to a medical consensus, although the medical authorities have no training in or appreciation for nutrition. In fact, they have become the apologists for food adulterators and the persecutors of whole food advocates. Lee deconstructs and debunks FDA attack statements on “food faddists” and organic farming advocates.
LEE - THE EFFECT OF ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS IN FOODS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1946. A famous report by Royal Lee published by the Lee Foundation (and a very rare document). As aluminum cookware became more widely used, Lee and others soon realized the dangers of human exposure to this non-nutritional mineral element. Aluminum poisoning was an unsuspected cause of degenerative conditions until Lee and others exposed the truth. A classic and clarion call by the leader and founding member of the natural health movement from the 1920s through the early 1960s – Dr. Royal Lee.
LEE - THE FALLACY OF HIGH POTENCY IN VITAMIN DOSAGE
by Dr. Royal Lee
Reprint, 25B. “The use of nutritional factors involves the question of correct dosage. The biggest mistake made in the art of therapeutics or nutrition is in assuming that 'if a little is good, more is better.'” Royal Lee explains the scientific basis of whole food nutrition vs. high dosage chemical vitamins. He cites several examples where too high a dosage causes the same symptoms as a deficiency. The toxicity of chemical forms of natural vitamins is explained with examples. Contains a large bibliography.
LEE - THE PHYSIOLOGY OF VITAMINS A AND E
by Dr. Royal Lee
1946, reprint 16. A brief article printed in the Central Florida Journal of Osteopathic Medicine in 1946. Dr. Lee gives the background and clinical applications of natural vitamin A and vitamin E. The cell nucleus is protected by vitamin E, Lee reports. Far from the simplistic and meager antioxidant descriptions of 21st century nutrition, Lee gives the active role of these fat soluble vitamins in maintaining and healing tissue.
LEE - THE PROGRESSING TOTALITARIAN TAKEOVER IN THE USA IN THE AREA OF THE HEALING ARTS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1962. “We shall here confine our discussion to the loss of liberty in connection with the choice of our doctor, and his loss of liberty in the choice of a method of treatment of our ills.” Royal Lee defends alternatives to medicine and reveals the sinister methods used by monopolists to enlist the government to protect them from any competing approaches to health. This is a courageous piece that was written after more than 30 years of fighting the corrupt system of the medical/pharmaceutical monopoly enforced by government agencies. This piece helps preserve the historical record of how the medical industry secured its place and established its own definition and self-serving standards of what is scientific and what is quackery.
LEE - THE SPECIAL NUTRITIONAL QUALITIES OF NATURAL FOODS
by Dr. Royal Lee & J. S. Stolzoff
1942. A famous report published by Royal Lee and Jerome Stolzoff. It compares qualities and characteristics of real food with their artificial crude imitations. This includes butter vs. margarine and fresh ground whole wheat vs. commercial whole wheat and white breads. How malnutrition directly effects the structure and function of the heart is discussed. Tooth decay and nutrition, natural vs. synthetic vitamins, and the therapeutic value of specific foods are discussed. This booklet includes a chart of 147 diseases documented to be associated with malnutrition along with the specific science reference (most are peer-reviewed, others are from respected books and text books). This report is as important today as when it was published.
LEE - THE SYSTEMIC CAUSES OF DENTAL CARIES
by Dr. Royal Lee
1923, reprint 30A. Dr. Lee read this paper before his senior class at Marquette University Dental School. The paper is as relevant today as it was then because it connects the endocrine system, the immune system, the diet, and the vitamins and minerals together in a holistic synergy which ultimately yields immunity to dental disease. He calls for unpasteurized milk and more raw foods in the diet. A remarkable paper for today, and even more remarkable that it was delivered in 1923.
LEE - THE WAR BETWEEN HEALTH FOODS AND DEATH FOODS
by Dr. Royal Lee
1956, reprint 301. If there are “health food stores,” what motivated their moniker and creation? Dr. Royal Lee writes about the history of the creation of the death food industry and their “counterfeit” foods. A valuable summary of the events and decisions that paved the way for the appalling condition of the American diet. How the health of the American people was sold down the river by the country's self-proclaimed public and private health authorities. All opposition was branded as faddists, quacks, and racketeers. No one recites this tale better and with more provable facts than Royal Lee. He was there.
LEE - THIS MOLASSES WAR - WHO IS PREVARICATING? AND BONE MEAL - NUTRITIONAL SOURCE OF CALCIUM
by Dr. Royal Lee
1953. Two articles: In the first article, "This Molasses War - Who is Prevaricating?" Dr. Lee discusses natural vs. refined sugar. He posits that carbohydrates are not essential in the human diet and offers proof of native diets that have no carbs and experience perfect health. He discusses the virtues of molasses, which is rich in minerals and is protective against tooth decay, whereas white sugar promotes caries. In the second article, "Bone Meal - Nutritional Source of Calcium," Dr. Lee describes the virtues of finely powdered bone flour as a source of protein and minerals (particularly calcium). He states that for the teeth, cold-processed bone meal is unexcelled. He discusses the role of trace minerals also found in bone meal.
LEE - THREE OPINIONS OF THE DEATH FOOD PROPAGANDA
by Dr. Royal Lee, Herbert C. White, and Arnold P. Yerkes.
1952. The Lee Foundation reprinted the opinions three natural health authorities to counter the “America is the best fed nation on earth” propaganda coming from government agencies and the commercial food industries. From soil destruction and depletion, to food processing and synthetic vitamins the three authors cogently expose the lies, myths, and frauds perpetrated by the “Death-food industry,” so described by Royal Lee.
LEE - VITAMIN F & CARBAMIDE IN CALCIUM METABOLISM
by Dr. Royal Lee
1946, Reprint 20. From Journal of the National Medical Society. An important article about two of the most overlooked nutritionally and biochemically essential substances in the human body. The role of carbamide in denaturing proteins – reducing their antigenicity, and vitamin F in defusing calcium bicarbonate (ionized calcium) in to the cell fluids is virtually lost on orthodox medicine. Holistic doctors have rediscovered this article over and over again since 1946 with amazement at the clinical efficacy of this applied knowledge.
LEE - VITAMIN P GROUP OF THE C COMPLEX
by Dr. Royal Lee
1948. n important and fully referenced article by Dr. Royal Lee on the intricate nature of the vitamin C complex beyond just ascorbic acid. The vitamin P group is an important part of that complex. For decades Lee and others knew that focusing on just ascorbic acid led to an incomplete understanding of the function of vitamin C. This scientific explanation of the complete vitamin C complex should serve as a cornerstone for approaching the subject of vitamins in general and vitamin C in particular. It explains why ascorbic acid has so often failed in clinical trials resulting in the dismissal of true systemic vitamin C function.
LEE - VITAMINS IN DENTAL CARE
by Dr. Royal Lee
Reprint 30G, 1955. This is a published lay article outlining the critical role of natural vitamin complexes in dental health. Dr. Lee cites historical work on vitamins in dentistry including the celebrated Dr. Weston A. Price. “Dr. Weston A. Price was the first dentist to publish an article asserting that dental cares was primarily a result of vitamin deficiency. This was in 1927. In 1923, I had prepared a paper on the subject of ‘The Systemic Cause of Dental Caries,’ and read it to the senior class of Marquette Dental College, subscribing to the same hypothesis.” He covers the role of vitamin complexes A, B, C, D, and F as well as calcium in maintaining and restoring dental health.
LEE - VITAMINS IN DENTISTRY
by Dr. Royal Lee
1940, reprint 30B. A classic Royal Lee document, read before a New York dental group in 1940. Dr. Lee outlines how far our understanding of nutrition and dental health have come and how poorly the dental profession stayed current with this advance of knowledge. He cites many examples, fully referenced, of the direct effect of nutrients on dental health. A great paper if anyone bothered to read and understand it. "Drill 'em and fill 'em" was the dental mantra then as it is today.
LEE - WHITE FLOUR POISONS - LET THIS BE A LESSON TO US
by Dr. Royal Lee
1947. Dr. Royal Lee was an original and tireless fighter against the bleaching and refining of flour products. Since the early 1920s he publicly spoke out against it and thought it was a national crime. This 1947 article by Lee highlights the discovery by English scientists that the chemicals involved in flour bleaching were deadly. He writes, “It seems that English investigators have found that the bleaching chemical universally used in this country for many years has been found poisonous enough to kill dogs in a few weeks if they receive the bleached flour, or bread made from it.” Writing this article for homemakers, Lee takes sharp aim at bleached flour and gives a brief history of the practice and noble efforts to stop it.
LEE - WHO DOES THE LAW PROTECT?
by Dr. Royal Lee
1955. Dr. Lee writes an inspiring article about praying to God to help overcome disease while ignoring the simple laws of health here on earth. He writes, “Man needs no miraculous intervention to have perfect health and happiness unless he first commits criminal acts of food adulteration and contamination.” He discusses some of the history that led to appalling state of the American diet. He writes, “there is a frightful conspiracy to keep the public in the dark about the devastating death-dealing effects of modern food counterfeits, the synthetic glucose, the synthetic hydrogenated fats, the refined cereals, the refined breakfast foods, the coal tar dyes and coal tar flavors that insure acceptance of otherwise tasteless and colorless food frauds which destroy human life to the tune of over a million victims a year. Heart disease being the leading cause of death today, and so easily demonstrated to be amenable to food therapy that nine out of ten sufferers can be shown by cardiographic sound recordings to respond favorably within ten minutes to natural food products.”
LEE - YOUR HEALTH: WHAT IT IS WORTH TO A RACKETEER
by Dr. Royal Lee
1940. Every misdeed has a history, and the history of the destruction of the American food supply is a story that few know from its beginnings. It is a story well-worth telling because the consequences were indeterminably enormous. In this booklet Dr. Royal Lee tells the story through 1940. Even by then, this story dated back very many decades. He calls the whole food and drug business a racket in which concern for profits over the health of Americans determined public and private policy. The booklet is rich in documentation supporting and proving the case. This booklet is a valuable reference source for anyone wishing to write the history of the disease industry of the first half of the 20th century. Of course the story did not end in 1940. Fortunately, Dr. Lee took time out to write it down at that point.
LEE BIOGRAPHY - A CLOSE UP OF DR. ROYAL LEE, A MANY SIDED GENIUS
by Jonathan Forman, MD
1964. Dr. Jonathan Forman was an esteemed medical doctor who pioneered environmental medicine and started and edited the famous leading-edge journal Clinical Physiology. From 1968 to this day, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine annually presents the prestigious Jonathan Forman Award to doctors and researchers who make outstanding contributions to Environmental Medicine. His reverence for Royal Lee is high praise indeed.
LEE BIOGRAPHY - DR. ROYAL LEE: A THUMBNAIL SKETCH
by L. Jewell
circa 1950. A biographical overview of the life of Royal Lee as of the year 1950, including the many electrical patents awarded to his inventions. The author highlights Lee's invention of the Lee Governor Motor and his contribution on the famous Sperry and Norden bombsights of WWII. This is a side of Royal Lee’s genius that those involved with his nutritional work are often unaware.
LEE BIOGRAPHY - ROYAL LEE - THE MAN
by Don C. Matchan
1959. The Herald of Health was a popular natural foods and lifestyle magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a biographical sketch the magazine ran about Dr. Royal Lee.
LEE BIOGRAPHY - ROYAL LEE, DDS, THE FATHER OF NATURAL VITAMINS
by Dr. David Morris
A tribute to Dr. Royal Lee from the Weston A. Price Foundation.
LEE BIOGRAPHY - THE AMAZING ROYAL LEE
by Jerry S. Stolzoff
1943. The popular and stylish Bostonian Magazine presents a full page tribute to the nutritional work of Dr. Royal Lee.
LEE WINS APPEALS COURT RULING FOR DEAF SMITH COUNTY WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR
1946. During WWII, government-enforced price controls pinned down what every item and commodity could be sold for. When the Feds prosecuted Royal Lee for selling Deaf Smith County (TX) Whole Wheat Flour for more than ordinary flour, he fought back in federal court. He won. Here is a newspaper account and commentary.
LET FOOD BE YOUR MEDICINE
by Doris Grant, England
Lee Foundation Reprint 123, 1958. One of England’s greatest proponents of the natural foods movement. A great supporter of the Lee Foundation, she wrote many books and lectured widely to teach the British people how to live healthier lives. Strong and active until the end, she died at 98 years old in 2003. This document includes a brief biography of Doris Grant.
LEUKEMIA IN INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN: A NEW ETIOLOGICAL CONCEPT
by W. J. McCormick
1961, reprint 5G. Writing at 81 years old, the famous Canadian MD looks at the relationship between smoking mothers, vitamin C deficiency, and the rising incidence of leukemia in the very young.
LITHOGENESIS AND HYPOVITAMINOSIS
by W. J. McCormick
1946. Dr. McCormick looks at the relationship between lithogenesis (the formation of stones – calculi - in an internal organ) and vitamin C. “Clinical observations and laboratory experimentation by the author on the effect of administration of vitamin C in altering the physiochemical properties of the urine and other body fluids, principally in eliminating deposition of phosphates, has led to the hypothesis of C hypovitaminosis as the basic etiological factor in lithogenesis in general.”
MAINTENANCE NUTRITION IN THE PIGEON AND ITS RELATION TO HEART BLOCK
by C. W. Carter
1934, reprint 3. Vitamin B4, the partner of vitamin B1, is shown to be essential for nerve motor conductivity. Oxford University scientists worked over a decade on the vitamin B4 question and its relationship to the anti-neuritic vitamin B1. This is a significant historic document about one of the important B complex vitamins that got lost in the rush to synthesize nutrients.
MARGARINE - A COUNTERFEIT FOOD
1957, reprint 106. A magazine reprint detailing what an unnatural, manmade substance margarine really is. Descriptions of how it is manufactured remove all doubt as to whether it is a food at all.
MATERNAL MALNUTRITION AND CONGENITAL DEFORMITY
by H. H. Hillermann
Reprint 66B. Dr. Hillermann’s report on the increasing number of birth defects related to prenatal malnutrition and environmental chemicals. Developmental problems and the increasing number of children born with diseases such as epilepsy are noted.
MATERNAL MALNUTRITION AND FOETAL PRENATAL DEVELOPMENTAL MALFORMATIONS
by H. H. Hillermann
1956, reprint 66A. Dr. Hillermann covers birth and developmental defects due to specific vitamin deficiencies during pregnancy. A thoroughly researched and documented presentation.
MEDICAL TESTAMENT OF THE DOCTORS OF CHESHIRE, ENGLAND
1939. This is one of the greatest documents in the history of holism in medicine. The Local Medical Committee representing the 600 doctors of the county of Cheshire, England, review their past 25 years under the National Health Insurance Act. Their conclusion: the health of England is in such terrible shape due to malnutrition. They cite the soil and farming work of Sir Albert Howard (An Agricultural Testament) and the nutritional research of Sir Robert McCarrision (Studies in Deficiency Disease). This document covers many examples of the deterioration of the health of their patients as they consumed the modern English diet. They report that the nation’s dental and physical health suffered severely as such practices as pasteurization of milk and sugar consumption increased. The refining of whole grains, they report, profoundly weakened the health of their nation. How, they ask, could they carry out their medical mission when the misery they tried to alleviate was made by man and his adulteration of food? In 1957, the Medical Testament was reprinted in The Lancet and signed by an additional 400 dentists and physicians. "...we and a growing number of professional colleagues, together with many veterinarians, farmers, horticulturists, and others, concerned with the health of livestock and crops, have become increasingly aware of the fundamental importance of the relationships between soil, plants, animals and man.”
MODERN MIRACLE MEN
by Rex Beach
1936, reprint 109. A document from the US Senate that originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine. It describes the work of Dr. Charles Northern and his work on nutrition and agricultural soils. An historically significant document which cites the decline of America’s soils, nutrition, and health.
MODERN NUTRITION MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS
1957. Several contributions to a magazine, including Dr. Royal Lee, on the state of malnutrition in the US. Includes discussion of the political and legal barriers to providing the public with truthful information if it does not agree with the “consensus of medical opinion.” The moral, legal, and ethical state of the State’s control of information.
NATURAL VITAMIN E FOR HEART DISEASES
1953, reprint 40A. From the British magazine Popular Science Digest. An overview of the literature and reports on the significant value of natural vitamin E. “Vitamin E has also been synthesized, but the synthetic E in not commonly used for heart disease because, in high dosage, it is not well tolerated by most patients.” In the US, 99% of vitamin E preparations were synthetic.
NATURAL VS. ARTIFICIAL NITRATES
by Sir Albert Howard
1945, reprint 13. The father of the modern organic farming movement, Sir Albert Howard, writes about damage caused by purified artificial fertilizers. Crude imitations of nature’s complex synergy destroys the health of soil and crops. He is the author of the great classic book of organic farming entitled An Agricultural Testament. He was the mentor of JI Rodale, the founder of Prevention Magazine and Organic Gardening Magazine.
NEGLECT OF NATURAL PRINCIPLES IN CURRENT MEDICAL PRACTICE
by T. L. Cleave
1956, reprint 95. From the Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service comes a scathing look at the abandonment of nutrition in the health and healing of mankind. Surgeon Captain T. L. Cleave writes about the natural laws of health, beginning with diet and nutrition. He promotes more raw foods in the diet and the elimination of refined carbohydrates and processed food.
NEW CANCER MENACE IN FOODS & THE TERRIBLE TRUTH ABOUT THE MEAT YOU EAT
by George McGrath
Lee Foundation Reprint 18-C, two articles reprinted from 1958 editions of The National Police Gazette. While the national mainstream media of magazines, newspapers, radio, and TV repeated government proclamations that Americans were the best fed people on earth, it was often left to the fringe media and publications to expose the most overlooked and underreported story of the 20th Century, i.e., the destruction of the food supply and health of the American people and civilized world. Here is such an example and reprinted by the Lee Foundation. The National Police Gazette was published from 1845 to 1982. It was viewed as a sensational and often tabloid-like monthly, but sometimes, between the police stories of murder and outlaws, they gave journalists a chance to publish important stories that were being ignored by the more “respectable” press and their glorification of modern medicine and the American food supply. These two articles are about the suppressed studies concerning manmade carcinogens routinely added to foods for the advantage and convenience of the manufacturer. The studies reported herein included dangerous estrogen-related hormones added to animal feeds (which years later would definitely be linked to cancer in humans). Exposed in these articles, and alerting many Americans for the first time, were toxic containers and linings in canning and packaging, artificial colors, dyes, surfactants, humectants, anti-foaming agents, emulsifiers, dispersants, preservatives, paraffin waxes and petrolatum-like materials, chemicals added to smoked meats, plastic sausage-casings, and on and on the list grows. The article blasts the FDA for failing to stop these practices even though they had plenty of warning going back decades. These two articles are good historical documentation as to how this blessed land flowing with milk and honey became a land of doctors, hospitals, drugs, and disease care.
NEW LIGHT ON THE BIOLOGICAL ROLE OF VITAMIN E
by H. M. Evans
1939, reprint 56. One of the original researchers of vitamin E gives insights not widely known about vitamin E. Evans cites fresh wheat germ oil as its greatest natural source of. This article includes 41 references of the earliest research conducted on wheat germ oil and natural vitamin E.
NEW THEORY OF DIET AND CORONARY THROMBOSIS
by E. Klein
1954, reprint 96. From Prevention Magazine, a physician describes his experience in both treating and preventing coronary thrombosis and the hostility he encountered within the medical profession (he and his daughter were both fired from a hospital) for using nutrition with his patients.
NONREAGINIC ALLERGY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
by Granville F. Knight, MD
1954, reprint 100. From the Journal of Applied Nutrition, the pulse test allergy method of Dr. Arthur F. Coca is discussed. Groundbreaking allergy research that uses careful pulse testing to determine the body’s reaction to foods and environmental compounds.
NUTRITION AND DENTAL DISEASE
by A. F. James
1947, reprint 34. A dentist warns how refined grain and sugar products are “the chief causative factor in dental caries and paradentosis.” The calcium-phosphorus ratio is discussed, as well as a warning against too much “heat sterilized food.” The esteemed Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD, comments at the end of the article.
NUTRITION AND GLANDS IN RELATION TO CANCER
by F. E. Chidester
1944. The complete book published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. This book is a fountain of knowledge and insights concerning cancer research and the relationship of nutrition and the endocrine glands. The broad research into the specific lesions caused by nutrient deficiencies, the vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals is wonderfully compiled and synergized by the author. The presentation on iodine is worth its weight in gold. Iodine and cancer research is only coming into focus in the 21st century, but Dr. Chidester enlightened his readers over six decades earlier. The interaction between the nutrients and the endocrine glands come into a sharp focus and full discussion in this book.
NUTRITION AND HEALTH
by Sir Robert McCarrison
1937, reprint 43. The famed nutritional researcher, knighted for his work leading to the publication of “Studies in Deficiency Disease” (1921), gives a lecture to London school children about diet and nutrition. Fortunate children they were.
NUTRITION AND VITAMINS IN RELATION TO THE HEART
by Richard L. Chipman, MD
SPECIAL REPRINT 5-54 1954. From The Journal of Medical-Physical Research - A Journal of Prgressive Medicine and Physical Therapies. Compares the function of natural and synthetic vitamins to reactions in the heart. Dr. Chipman finds that natural vitamin complexes greatly surpass synthetic counterparts. He also examins the role of heart tissue extract in the form of protomorphogens in strengthening the heart muscle.
NUTRITION IN EVERYDAY PRACTICE
1939, reprint 115. A compilation from the Canadian Medical Association Journal - 1938-1939. “The physician's duty to his patients, however, should not stop with just the treatment of the acute or chronic illness. When the patient presents himself with even some minor infection, our interest should be aroused as to why the infection developed. Was it the result simply of a focus which could have been removed or treated, or have the patient's habits been such that he is not enjoying the highest level of resistance? Probably the most important of these habits are his habits of nutrition. The remarkable adaptability of the body is such that a person may have a nutritional deficiency for many years before it clearly evidences itself. In the interval, however, the patient will not be enjoying the highest possible level of health and resistance against infection.”
NUTRITIONAL APPROACH TO THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE
by J. F. Wischhusen and N. O. Gunderson, MD
1950, reprint 48. From The Science Counselor. The consumption of substandard foods, such as pasteurized milk, is the reason for degenerative diseases such as rheumatism, arthritis, gastro-intestinal disorders, nervous and mental diseases, and cancer. “The purpose of disease may be said to be the removal of the unfit. Remove the true underlying cause of disease, malnutrition, and it will usually be found that the disease germs cannot exist or propagate in an animal body that is healthy.”
NUTRITIONAL ASPECT OF DENTAL DISEASE
by J. H. Gunter
1942, reprint 115A. From Philadelphia Medicine. The lesions of the oral cavity should inform the dentist of the link in the chain of more serious systemic disease. The author maintains that the practice of dentistry is intimately associated with the science of nutrition. Carbohydrates, he asserts, form the diet that is universally associated with tooth decay. Carnivorous humans and animals are free from dental caries. The author outlines the systemic approach to dentistry with a vitamin-rich diet that confers dental and systemic immunity. This document is a forerunner of holistic dentistry.
ONE POISON FOR ANOTHER - WHITE BREAD
1955, reprint 78. Details of the 20th century practice of poisoning the Staff of Life – bread. Chlorine dioxide is exposed for the bleaching poison that it is.
OUR DAILY BREAD
by Julian Pleasants
1949, reprint 44. From the magazine Integrity. An informative article that wisely points out: “The knowledge which enabled man to destroy the integrity both of bread and of human health developed far more rapidly than did the knowledge of how to maintain their integrity.”
OUR TEETH AND OUR SOILS
by William A. Albrecht
1947, reprint 37. An overview of how knowledge of the human body came slowly over the centuries. Anatomy began its debut in the 16th century, physiology began in the 17th century, and so forth. The 20th century will be credited, he says, with the discovery of the science of nutrition. “Better nutrition is leading us to think less about medicine as cures and less about fighting microbes with drugs.” The illustrious soil scientist, Dr. William Albrecht, relates an aspect of nutrition known to but a few. The connection of the soil to the nutrients in the human body and particularly the health of the teeth. A must read for the serious nutritionist.
OVERWEIGHT AND UNDERWEIGHT AS MANIFESTATIONS OF IDIOBLAPTIC ALLERGY
by Arthur F. Coca
1954, reprint 1. The great allergist, Dr. Arthur Coca, developer of the pulse-test for allergies, discusses allergic reactions in the body that can lead to extremes in body weight. Eight case histories are considered.
PASTEURISED MILK - A NATIONAL MENACE (SCOTLAND)
by J. C. Thomson
1943, reprint 28C. In a Scottish journal, the author explores the nutritional and scientific tragedy of pasteurized milk and the national laws demanding it. Originally published in 1943, the author deconstructs the hoax, myth, and hype surrounding the destruction of the one food created by all mammals, raw milk: Nature’s perfect food.
PERIL ON YOUR FOOD SHELF
by Congressman J. J. Delaney
1951, reprint 67. A famous US Congressman from New York who authored the Delaney Clause (a ban on chemicals in foods that are proved to cause cancer in animals) writes this article warning the American people that their food supply is overrun with chemicals, including farming residues and directly added artificial substances such as preservatives, colors, and flavors. He cites numerous disasters resulting from the chemicalizing of the American food supply.
PORTFOLIO OF REPRINTS - FOR THE DOCTOR - TABLE OF CONTENTS
1965.
PRACTICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY
by Henry R. Harrower, MD

The complete book originally published in 1932 and reprinted by the Lee Foundation in 1957. In 1916, Henry Harrower, MD, founded the Association for the Study of the Internal Secretions, in the US, the first society for the study of the endocrines and simultaneously inaugurates "Endocrinology," the first periodical of its type. He was a major force in the development of endocrine therapy through glandular extracts, and a leading light in the practice of organotherapy. He founded the Harrower Laboratories Company in Glendale, California to further this therapy. Later, Dr. Lee built upon Harrower's work through the development of the Protomorphogen.

In the preface to the 1957 reprinting by the Foundation, Royal Lee wrote: "No student of the healing arts can fail to consider this book of Harrower's an indispensable reference work, and of absorbing interest in getting the proper diagnosis of the multiple illnesses of a people who are trying out the mass experiment of starving their endocrine glands by the use of foods depleted of essential minerals and vitamins through processing, refining and the progressive depletion of soils."

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PREVENTION OF RECURRENCE IN PEPTIC ULCER
by D. T. Quigley
1954, reprint 17. From The Nebraska State Medical Journal. The famed cancer doctor and author from Omaha declares peptic ulcer as a nutritional deficiency disease reflecting a high intake of refined carbohydrates. Deficiency diseases, he states, should always be treated as broad-based deficiencies rather than approaching them as isolated single nutrient deficiencies. Thirteen case histories are presented in this article.
PROTEST AGAINST PERSECUTION OF THE HEALTH MOVEMENT BY THE FDA
by Atty. Karl B. Lutz
1963, reprint 8-63. A landmark and historic document of protest and petition to the US Congress by an attorney against the heavy hand of FDA persecution of the natural and alternative health practitioners in the US. The attorney presents examples, including the story of Royal Lee, of government abuse in persecuting, prosecuting, and intimidating honest health professionals and groups who promote nutritional approaches to health and healing. This document is a forerunner (by over a decade) of subsequent massive petitioning of the Congress for relief from the pharma/medical cartel monopoly whose agenda in healthcare was enforced by the agencies of the US government.
PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF THE NEW INSECTICIDES
by M. S. Biskind
1953, reprint 69. An early warning from a medical doctor about agrichemical effects on livestock and humans. Multiple studies are cited demonstrating the link between insecticide usages and “nutritional defects” combining to significantly increase chronic degenerative diseases.
QUOTATIONS ON VITAMINS FROM THE 1939 USDA YEARBOOK
Even as the FDA was harassing doctors and companies promoting nutritional therapy, the USDA published independent studies on the widespread effects of vitamin malnutrition in the American public. This proves that not everyone at the USDA was asleep at the switch in the 1930s as America’s food supply was being adulterated, refined, and chemicalized. If the statements in this government document were reported by supplement companies, the FDA would have brought legal actions. (Reports like this stopped coming out of the USDA in subsequent years.) As a surprisingly candid assessment of nutritional deficiencies in the country, the Lee Foundation published this booklet of highlights from the original USDA Yearbook of 1939. One of the most quotable government documents ever published.
REFINED SUGAR - ITS USE AND MISUSE
by H. L. Snow, MD
1948, reprint 126. Dr. Snow writes in his conclusion: “If one can avoid eating refined sugar, one can expect more vibrant health, and a longer life with greater freedom from some of the acute and chronic diseases and complaints which many modern doctors are unable to diagnose or to treat successfully.” This is a fact-filled research report about the seen and often unseen dangers of refined sugars.
RELATIONSHIP OF SOIL FERTILITY AND PSYCHIC REACTIONS
by J. A. Shield, MD
1945, reprint 70B. An assistant professor of neuropsychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia conveys a well-researched link between the health of the soil in which food is grown and psychic reactions. A powerful and well-referenced report that cites and amplifies similar conclusions of Sir Albert Howard.
RIFE MICROSCOPE - FACTS AND THEIR FATE
by Dr. Krebs & Beard - Medical World / R. E. Seidel, MD & M. E. Winter – J. of the Franklin Institute
Reprint 47. This 1950 article from Medical World is about the famous Rife Universal Microscope built by Royal Raymond Rife. It is a story of a great invention and how the medical establishment brought its full efforts to discredit and destroy the work and life of this humble man. This unique and powerful microscope was reported to be able to observe the transmutation of one microbial body into a different form when the environmental medium surrounding the microbe was altered. This challenged the very concept of the germ theory of medicine and caused a scientific uproar. The article states: “Dr. Rosenow summed up the situation as follows: It would seem, therefore, that focal infections are no longer to be looked upon merely as a place of entrance of bacteria, but as a place where CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE for them to acquire the properties which give them a wide range of affinities for various structures.” This report, as published by the Lee Foundation, includes the 1944 favorable report from the prestigious Journal of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia that discusses some of the amazing properties of Rife’s microscope. The last two pages are the comments of Dr. Royal Lee.
ROCKEFELLER REDUCING DIET WITH COMMENTS BY ROYAL LEE
One of the most ridiculous documents in the history of nutrition. It was reproduced by the Lee Foundation just to serve as a bad example of conventional nutrition. Dr. Lee has some rich commentary on this diet.
SALT OF THE EARTH
by E. R. Yarham
1958, reprint 99. In modern medical thinking, salt is a health menace. Like most things nutritional, they do not have a clue. Here is a great article from World Science Review, on the history and necessity of salt. Ancient Roman soldiers were paid in salt from which derives the word salary.
SAVING YOUR FACE
by Fred Miller, DDS
1955. Another article from pioneering dentist Fred Miller. Originally published in 1941, this is a republished version from 1955. Saving your face is a metaphor for keeping your teeth healthy through proper nutrition. He writes: “I make it a flat statement of fact that, with the few exceptions that must always be allowed for, there is no good reason why a man should not take to his grave with him the vital teeth he now has in his mouth.”
SCURVY AND INTERVERTEBRAL DISC LESIONS
by W. J. McCormick, MD
1954, reprint 5D. Another remarkable contribution from Canadian physician W. J. McCormick, writing in the Archives of Pediatrics. The principles of physiology and biochemistry that he brings out go to the core of orthopedic medicine, chiropractic spinal care, and osteopathy. Yet most fail to see the source of connective tissue decay. McCormick writes: “The most definitely established physiological function of vitamin C is that of assisting in the formation of collagen for the maintenance of stability and elasticity of connective tissues generally, and this would include the bones, cartilages, muscles and vascular tissues, in fact all tissues of mesenchymal origin. In deficiency of the vitamin, instability and fragility of all such tissues is believed to be caused by the breakdown of “the intercellular cement substance” (collagen), resulting in easy rupture of any and all of these connective tissues, which would include the intervertebral discs.”
SIMPLE LINGUAL ASCORBIC ACID TEST
by Dr. W. M. Ringsdorf, Jr. & Emmanual Cheraskin, DVM
1962, reprint 124. Dr. Royal Lee and others maintained that ascorbic acid is only one of the components of the vitamin C complex - and not necessarily the functional one at that. However, ascorbic acid served as useful biomarker for determining the presence or lack of vitamin C complex. This test is useful in that regard.
SLUDGED BLOOD
by Knisely, Bloch, Eliot, and Warner
1947, reprint 35. From Science. “Our purpose is to present and define certain properties of normal blood, blood flow, and vessel walls; to offer evidence that these properties are necessary to the normal functioning of the circulatory system; to describe certain visible responses of the vascular system and/or blood to specific stimuli; to describe certain visible pathologic structures and processes; and to define goals now necessary for therapeutics.”
SOIL - A FOUNDATION OF HEALTH
by A. P. Yerkes
1946, reprint 23. Soil is the weakest link in the knowledge-chain of nutritional understanding. This excellent article explains what happened to the greatest soils on earth and how we have abused them to our own loss. Nutrition begins in the soil.
SOURCES OF FUNDAMENTAL NUTRITION
by Louis Bromfield
Reprint 85. Like the article by Yerkes, an excellent overview of the relationship between the health of the soil, the plants, and the animals and humans that draw their life from it. A warning to farmers and consumers alike: protect your soil.
STUDIES IN DEFICIENCY DISEASE
by Maj. General Sir Robert McCarrison, MD (England)
1921. The complete book was re-published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research in 1945. McCarrison was knighted in England for his ground-breaking research while serving as a British army surgeon in India during the first two decades of the 20th century. His landmark research into the connection between the diet of the many populations in India and their diseases and general condition gave the world new insight into the cause and effect of nutrition on health. He introduced the world to the amazingly healthy and long-lived Hunza people in the Himalayas. McCarrison set up laboratories in India where he studied the effect of varied local diets on animals and was able to achieve near identical health and disease patterns in the animals as displayed by the humans: the same types of diseases for the same type of diet. He was the first to inform the medical world that the first system to succumb to the effects of malnutrition is the endocrine system. He carefully demonstrated the lesions on the endocrine glands caused by specific adulterations to the food supply. His work inspired the likes of Royal Lee, Weston A. Price, Francis Pottenger, Jr., and J. I. Rodale. This book should be part of the corpus of all the colleges of the healing arts. The insights gained by McCarrison’s work have never required modification, only amplification. He spent his later years lecturing in England and the US.
STUDIES OF VITAMIN DEFICIECY
by Horwitt, Liebert, Kreisler, and Wittman
1946, reprint 26. Hospital-controlled testing on patients who were given controlled diets with or without certain vitamins. This kind of test could never be conducted under today's ethical standards. As expected, those who were starved of various vitamins suffered much and recovered when they were restored to a proper diet. Published in Science.
STUDIES ON THE DETOXICATING HORMONE OF THE LIVER (YAKRITON)
by Prof. Akiro Sato
1929. Translated from Japanese, this is a very rare and important research report on studies conducted in Japan in the 1920s about the detoxifying hormone of the liver, called Yakriton. This is a fatty substance made by the liver that controls the histamine level in the blood. Dr. Royal Lee subsequently produced this natural liver substance under the name Antronex. Prof. Sato was from The Pediatric Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai.
SURVEY ON DDT ACCUMULATION IN SOILS IN RELATION TO DIFFERENT CROPS
by Ginsburg and Reed
1954, reprint 73. One of the earliest scientific assessments of DDT and pesticides in American agriculture. Originally published in the Journal of Economic Entomology.
THE CHANGING INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN RELATION TO TRENDS IN NUTRITION
by W. H. McCormick
1947, reprint 5A. A Canadian medical doctor makes a very strong case that a careful study of the history of infectious disease points the conclusion that improvement in the availability of vitamin-rich nutrition has led to the greatest improvement in health. He looks at tuberculosis, pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, rheumatic fever, typhoid fever and other infectious diseases, and statistically traces their downward trend to the increased supply of vitamin C and other nutrients in the diet. Modern transportation and refrigeration, not medical care and pharmaceutics, are the reason for better public health, McCormick argues.
THE COMMONER FORMS OF PRUITUS ANI CONSIDERED EUTROPHICALLY
by N. PHILIP NORMAN, MD
Lee Foundation Report No. 9. 1965. Pruitus Ani is a condition marked by intense and chronic itching in the anal area. The celebrated New York City physician, author of Chronic Idiopathic Ulcerative Colitis (available in this archives), explores the various nutritional causes and treatments of this difficult condition. It is a splendid example of how far back some medical doctors embraced a holistic approach to difficult health problems and applied nutritional solutions to great success.
THE COMPOSITION AND NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FLOUR
by H. M. Sinclair
1957, reprint 38. A technical paper prepared for the British government. Different processing methods yield significantly different vitamin contents. A highly technical paper. The discussion points at the end are interesting.
THE DRAMA OF FLUORINE - ARCH ENEMY OF MANKIND
by Leo Spria, MD
1953. The complete book published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. The title makes the nature of the content self evident. But the reader of today will learn much about the lies, scientific fraud, and official cover-ups in the long and sordid history of the fluoridation of public water supplies. An excellent bibliography adds to the historical value of this book. It is important that this history not be lost.
THE ETIOLOGY OF ACUTE CORONARY THROMBISIS
by H. M. Doles
1959, reprint 129. A medical journal report on the newly discovered role of vitamin K in the etiology of coronary thrombosis. Important vitamin research which still has not penetrated medical thinking.
THE FIGHT OVER VITAMIN E
1954, special reprint 4-54. The story of the Shute brothers, Canadian medical doctors who gained international fame for treating heart disease with vitamin E. Patients loved them but the medical professions in the US and Canada tried every measure to silence and discredit them and much of it played out in the popular press. “The Shutes' theory about Vitamin E is this: It is not specifically a heart medication; that is, Vitamin E has no affinity for the heart as insulin has for the pancreas or iodine for the thyroid gland. The chief effect of Vitamin E is to reduce the amount of oxygen which the cells and tissues of the body and its organs require for efficient, healthy functioning. Heart diseases happens to be the most dramatic example of the result of oxygen deprivation, and Vitamin E's effect, simply stated, is to condition the tissues involved so that they are able to function normally, or at any rate to survive, on the greatly reduced amount of oxygen available to them when a coronary clot cuts down the oxygen-bearing blood supply reaching them.”
THE HEART IN CHRONIC MALNUTRITION
by Higginson, Gillanders, and Murray
1952, reprint 74. A comprehensive review reprinted from British Heart Journal, documenting heart lesions caused by malnutrition among Bantu adults in South Africa. “The pathological features in a representative group of 12 fatal cases of this kind are described. … a distinctive pathological pattern was recognizable. In all cases the hearts were dilated and hypertrophied.” A high carbohydrate diet along with B vitamin deficiencies were attributed all the cases reported.
THE INFLUENCE OF FOOD COOKING ON THE BLOOD FORMULA OF MAN
by Paul Kouchakoff, MD
1930. An original paper presented at the First International Congress of Microbiology, Paris, and tanslated for the Lee Foundation. Dr. Kouchakoff spent many years studying the effects of cooked food vs. raw food on the human immune system. The phenomenon known as "digestive leukocytosis" was first noted and recorded by the studies of Kouchakoff. This is a classic and profound study on the direct effect of food preparation and the human immune system.
THE NATIONAL MALNUTRITION
by D.T. Quigley, MD
1943. The complete book published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. A well-known cancer specialist from Omaha writes about the disgraceful state of the nutritional status of the American people. He believes it is the main reason for the amazing rate of cancer in the US. Way ahead of his time, he warns about corn syrup and refined sugar and how cancer cells thrive on such artificial and refined sweeteners.
THE NEED FOR VITAMINS
by L. Stambovsky
1942, reprint 31. Consumers’ Research Bulletin p. 17, April 1942. In the midst of the Depression and the outset of World War II, the author, writing in a drug and cosmetic trade journal, reviews the vitamin-poor state of the American citizen. Displayed is a good chart of disease and vitamin deficiency.
THE NEGLECT OF NATURAL PRINCIPLES IN CURRENT MEDICAL PRACTICE
by Surgeon Captain T. L. Cleave, MD
1956. From the Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service, this 30-page article urges the medical profession to reconnect with natural laws of health from which mankind evolved. “You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will ever hurry back, to triumph in stealth over your foolish contempt.” Scores of examples are used to elaborate this eloquent literary-medical classic. The work of Weston A. Price is referenced as an example of understanding natural law. Captain Cleave argues that industrialized food production caused abundant and cheap carbohydrates to predominate in the modern diet, with disastrous consequences for human health.
THE PHARMACOLOGY OF FLUORIDE
by G. W. Rapp, PhD
1950, reprint 53. A 14-page article on the dangers of fluoridation of water. The author raises many troubling questions. A solid scientific presentation.
THE PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE OF HEALTH
by E. E. Rogers, MD
1949. This book was published by the Lee Foundation. This is an excerpt from this fine book on the decline of health in America, starting on the farm and in the soil and spreading throughout the food chain.
THE PREVENTION OF DENTAL CARIES AND ORAL SEPSIS
by H.P. Pickerill, MD (England)
1912, reprint 132. This is an all but lost and forgotten classic in nutritional research that should be required reading for all health professionals, dentists in particular. Royal Lee studied this report in his youth and well before graduating Marquette Dental College. This report is a precursor to the famous studies of Dr. Weston A. Price. Writing before the knowledge of vitamins, Pickerill recognized the decay of teeth as a defect in diet. Sugar and refined carbohydrates are attacked in this paper which won the Cartwright Prize and became the basis of a book by the same title. He reviews dietary practices of indigenous people around the world and compares their relative immunity to dental caries. The statistics he cites on the dental health in England at the turn of the century lead one to understand why, as Pickerill reports, the British government formed the Royal Commission on Physical Deterioration. Written a century ago, this study makes clear how far back the path of physical deterioration was set.
THE ROLE OF SOME NUTRITIONAL ELEMENTS IN THE HEALTH OF THE TEETH AND THEIR SUPPORTING STRUCTURES
by John A. Myers
1958, reprint 107. A very well-written and researched article that calls on the dental profession to stop drilling, filling, and extracting teeth and start to teach the true cause of dental caries: food and nutrition. The author covers the pioneering work of Drs. Price and Pottenger for evidence of the role of diet in the health of the mouth and teeth. The famous soil of Deaf Smith County, Texas is described (“the county without a toothache”). The dental role of vitamins and minerals are described. A great overview of how nutritional knowledge should have transformed the dental profession but never did.
THE SCIENCE OF EATING
by Alfred McCann, MD
1918. The Lee Foundation reproduced this excerpt of the book by Dr. McCann. The section of the book in this reprint is called “Famine Due to Artificial Sugar” and the chapter title is Infantile Paralysis. Dr. McCann, writing in 1918, saw clearly how the modern methods of food production were leading to the destruction of the nation’s health. Polished rice, refined flour products, refined sugar, etc, were taking their toll and Dr. McCann recognized this early on. He observed that what were formerly thought of as infectious diseases were the result of vitamin deficiency. This chapter offers some keen insight into the origins of polio: "These briefly stated scientific facts lead me to believe that close scrutiny of the food of the children afflicted may lead to the discovery of a dietetic cause of infantile paralysis.''
THE SCOPE OF VITAMIN E
by The Staff of the Lee Foundation
1955. A 19-page booklet produced by the Lee Foundation reporting on the history and clinical applications of natural vitamin E. One of the most complete and concise reports on one of the most misunderstood vitamin complexes: “Four vitamin factors have been isolated in the course of time from the E complex - alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherol. Of these, the alpha form has been found the most powerful and is often erroneously considered as the whole vitamin E. Actually the term 'vitamin E' should only be used in reference to the element which occurs in foods as in its entirety it includes factors not present in alpha tocopherol alone.” Much of this knowledge and information about vitamin E has been lost to modern nutritionists.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NUTRITION FOR PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
by Karl Kottschau
1953, reprint 83. The Lee Foundation translated this article from the German original. “All this proves that nutrition plays a decisive part in people becoming ill, so that it also is of great importance in their recovery. It is a known fact that in the long run health and vitamin deficiency cannot exist side by side. It is known that refined food, like white flour or sugar cannot maintain life and health. It is known further that a large part of cancerous diseases stem from nutrition.” This excellent article sets forth the criteria and priorities of producing substantial, whole, and nutritious food capable of sustaining human and animal life in perfect health without physical or dental deterioration.
THE TRACE ELEMENTS (3 ARTICLES)
by W. L. Anderson
1949, reprint 71. An early report on the important effects of trace minerals on soil, livestock, and humans. The macro minerals, calcium-phosphorus-potassium, were fairly well understood for plant growth. The trace minerals, such as iodine, zinc, copper, manganese, iron, etc., were poorly understood until research like this began to appear. The role of trace minerals in the formation of nutrients like cobalt and vitamin B12 were only just discovered. This knowledgeable author shows the insidious effects and unsuspected diseases in plants, livestock, and humans caused by trace mineral deficiencies.
THE USE OF MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA AS SOURCE OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN HUMAN NUTRITION
by G. L. Seifert and H. C. Wood
1956, reprint 133. Second International Seaweed Symposium. A brief report on the importance of trace minerals. “400 obstetrical patients can't be wrong! One of the problems of pregnant women is anemia and a tendency to develop colds easily. This is a study in which the nutritional value of sea kelp and trace minerals was demonstrated. Anemia was relieved and a spectacular drop in the incidence of colds was noted. CONCLUSION: In certain types of body stress, the difference between health and disease may often be a trace mineral supplement.”
THE WELL-FED TOOTH
by Fred Miller, DDS
1946, reprint 49A. “America is a nation of ‘candyholics’ and soft drink addicts, of food adulterators, processors and refiners. Having practiced dentistry for more than thirty years I am thoroughly convinced – speaking from the biological point of view, not the moral aspect – that refined white flour and its products – bread, crackers, cookies, pastries – and refined sugar and its products – candies, hard candies and soft drinks – are doing more harm in this country than hard liquor.” Perhaps you see where this article is going! This reprint is about and by Dr. Fred Miller, from Pennsylvania. A great historical and contemporary overview of the situation from a frontline dentist.
THE WHEEL OF HEALTH
by G. T. Wrench, MD
This is the complete book, originally published in England in 1938, and republished by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research in 1945. It is a study of the Hunza people of India, the very epitome of health, vigor, long life, and general well-being. (Following the partition of India in 1947, the Hunza Valley is in a remote portion of the northern Pakistani Himalayan Mountains.) This book is a treatise on proper diet, and a cogent plea for full recognition of vitamin values. Dr. Wrench was captivated by the work of McCarrison ("Studies in Deficiency Disease" – archived here): "It was not until two years ago, when I had more leisure, that a vivid sentence in the writings of Sir Robert McCarrison thawed my frozen hope. The sentence was: 'These people are unsurpassed by any Indian race in perfection of physique; they are long lived, vigorous in youth and age, capable of great endurance and enjoy a remarkable freedom from disease in general.'" The works of McCarrison and great agriculturalist Sir Albert Howard (An Agricultural Testament) are highlighted (see Howard's "Natural vs. Artificial Nitrates," also archived here). A British reviewer wrote of this book; “This small book is Dr. Wrench's classic exploration of the Hunza. It should rest at the very foundations of one's personal explorations of health and its roots. In this book you will encounter a summary of the lifeworks of two other renowned health 'explorers,' Sir Robert McCarrison and Sir Albert Howard. You will also have the opportunity to meet Dr. Wrench, an individual possessed of the most admirable intelligence.”
THOSE NEW FOODS CAN KILL YOU
by J. D. Scott
1956, reprint 89. In the popular magazine, American Mercury, the author warns the public of the toxic stew that accompanies every bite of the modern diet. DDT and DES lead the list of hundreds of chemicals from the farm or added by food processors. By consuming these chemicals in the food supply, the public serves as a guinea pig for the alliance between the chemical and food industries. The article serves as an historical marker that led to the popular revolt against commercially grown foods and the phony health authorities that stood by and assured the public that America was the best fed nation in the world with the safest food supply.
TRACE ELEMENTS EXPERIMENTS HERE TURNING UP SOME AMAZING RESULTS
by T. A. Ellis
1949, reprint 92. A newspaper account of a conference reporting the results of trace mineral experiments on soil, plants, livestock and humans. The critical nutritional role of trace minerals in the cycle of food and life revealed in an early experiment.
TROPHOPATHIC DISEASES OR SYSTEMIC NUTRITIONAL DISTRUBANCES AS REFLECTED IN THE MOUTH
by G. H. Laing, MD
1949. Reprint 51. Malnutrition creates specific lesions in the oral cavity and this is one of the earliest papers presented on the subject. This is from a 1949 dental journal, and the editor preceded the article, written by an MD, with this note: "EDITOR'S NOTE: At first glance this article may not attract the reader's interest; the subject matter appears to be completely foreign to dentistry. However, we assure our readers that if they will but read it, they will be fascinated by it." An excellent 10-page review of the signs of malnutrition that dentists routinely and literally overlook.
UNUSUAL MEATS: HOW TO PREPARE AND SERVE THEM
by Flora L. Carl and Letha K. Jopling
1943, reprint 38A. Brains, sweetbreads (thymus and pancreas), liver, kidney, heart, pigs’ feet, tongue, and spleen are more vitamin-rich than the commonly used meat of the muscle. During WWII, it was most important that people knew how to get more nutrition and value out of livestock. The Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research reprinted this important piece, complete with recipes and advice on the wisdom of eating organ meats.
V. E. IRONS CONVICTED FOR WARNING AMERICANS ABOUT FOOD SUPPLY
1956. A newsletter, the American Capsule News, reports on the conviction, fine, and jailing of a great American naturalist, Dr. V. E. Irons, for the crime of informing the American people of what was happening to their food supply. He warned of the soil depletion, refining and processing of their basic foods, and the cause and effect relationship of these practices to their health. The FDA brought federal charges and five Harvard University “health authorities” testified to the fraudulent nature of V. E. Iron’s statements. He served a year in jail. The pioneers at the vanguard of nutritional knowledge paid dearly for the right to speak out about what was happening to America’s health, food supply, and freedom.
V. E. IRONS' CONVICTION UPHELD FOR WARNING AMERICANS ABOUT SOIL AND FOOD SUPPLY
1957. Drug Trade News and Federal Trade Commission Act Documents. Dr. V. E. Irons looses his appeal of his conviction (see previous article about V. E. Irons). Includes comments by Dr. Royal Lee.
VARIOUS OILS AND FATS AS SUBSTITUTES FOR BUTTERFAT IN RATION OF YOUNG CALVES
by T. W. Gullickson, F. C. Fountaine, and J. B. Fitch
1942, reprint 138. Because cream, used to make butter, is more valuable than oils, farmers got in the bad habit of skimming the cream off the milk and feeding their calves skimmed milk and adding to it cheaper vegetable oils. The results were disastrous. “In 1939 we reported, very briefly, our results obtained from feeding calves butter oil, lard, corn oil, cottonseed oil and soybean oil, respectively, homogenized into skim milk. The results as measured in terms of rate of gain in weight, physical appearance and general well-being of calves indicated clearly the superior nutritive value of butterfat over all the other fats and oils tested.”
VITAMIN E - VITAMINS IN MEDICINE
by Franklin Bicknell and Frederick Prescott
A few pages about vitamin E from The Vitamins in Medicine, by Bicknell and Prescott and published in the US by the Lee Foundation (original publication in England). This authoritative textbook gives some crucial information regarding vitamin E that is not generally known, combating the poor level of understanding surrounding this vitamin.
VITAMIN E FOR HEART DISEASE
by J. D. Ratcliff
1948, reprint 40. From Coronet magazine, a good historical overview of the facts known about vitamin E. Covers the original researchers and the medical work of the Shute brothers of Canada. Discussion includes the wholesale destruction of naturally occurring vitamins in the modern diet.
VITAMIN E VS. WHEAT GERM OIL
by Ezra Levin
1944, reprint 9. Levin founded the Viobin Corp which developed wheat germ oil concentration methods. This fully referenced article reports that there is far more to wheat germ oil than alpha tocopherol and that the vitamin E effect requires more than the isolated tocopherol. This supports Royal Lee’s contention that vitamins are synergistically combined complexes and not isolated chemicals. Levin writes, “It appears that, for the first time, evidence has been presented of the presence in wheat germ oil of a factor that exerts a beneficial effect in neuromuscular disturbances other than vitamin E. For many years we, in our laboratory, have suggested that research workers in reporting their work make a sharp distinction between vitamin E (tocopherol) and wheat germ oil. Vogt-Moeller's work now makes such differentiation imperative.”
VITAMIN F IN THE TREATMENT OF PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY
by James Pirie Hart and William LeGrande Cooper, MD
1941. One of the most sought but rarely found documents ever produced by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. “For a considerable time we have been using an oral vitamin F complex preparation for the control of the common cold. This treatment has been used quite successfully in Europe for several years. During the courses of treatment with this preparation it was noticed that in certain male patients who were being treated concurrently for prostatic hypertrophy, there was a sudden notable decrease in the palpable size and consistency of the prostate gland.” This is a clinical research study with blood work, charts of outcomes, and excellent references. Along with successful reduction in size and symptoms of prostatic hypertrophy, blood iodine levels increased an average of 307% and blood phosphorous increase an average of 8.3%. Tissue calcium increased as blood calcium decreased by 11% on average. Included in the summary is the following statement: “The principles of Vitamin F Therapy in prostatic hypertrophy were demonstrated subjectively and objectively through diminished residual urine, reduction of size of prostate, disappearance of pain and discomfort, reduction of nocturia, and marked increase in sexual libido.”
VITAMIN U THERAPY OF PEPTIC ULCER
by G. Cheney
1952, reprint 91. Never accepted as a vitamin by the FDA, vitamin U from raw cabbage juice was successfully used by pioneering holistic physicians. Dr. Cheney gives background and clinical applications of this officially unaccepted vitamin in the use of peptic ulcers. This reprint includes a supplementary document from a 1957 issue of JAMA on the subject of cabbage juice for digestive problems.
VITAMINS AND THEIR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
by Prof. Dr. W. Stepp, Dr. Kuhnau, and Dr. H. Schroeder
1938. An extremely rare complete book on vitamin therapy that Dr. Royal Lee had translated from the German and published in the US. These German research physicians recognized the therapeutic aspects of vitamins beyond treating the frank deficiency diseases associated with them. They write: “…we are in a position to examine the vitamins as to their curative effects reaching beyond their properties as merely accessory materials.” The authors cover the nuances of avitaminosis vs. hypovitaminosis. The book is full of charts, graphs, references, and appendices. This is an indispensable book of early research gems containing some of the lost knowledge of vitamin therapy learned in the first half of the 20th century. This book is one of the lost treasures from the prewar years when vitamin research was independent, vigorous, and fresh with the insights of recent discovery.
VITAMINS AND THEIR RELATION TO DEFICIENCY DISEASES OF THE GI TRACT
by Edward A. Johnston, MD
circa 1940, reprint 2. A reprint from The Journal of the American College of Proctology, this is an excellent report, rich in specificity, of the effect of vitamins on various digestive disorders. “When we consider that vitamins in the food are the substances with which the endocrines are able to secrete their active principles, it is apparent that a glandular insufficiency may take place in the absence of vitamins. Vitamins are a class of organic compounds that are probably the most complex food constituents. All of the ductless glands, the thyroid, para-thyroid, thymus, pineal body, pituitary, adrenals, gonads, pancreas, islets of Langerhans, and spleen must have one or more of the vitamins in order to secrete their vital fluids, and, if deprived of the vitamins, will atrophy and cease to function.” He then writes: “Stomach ulcers are probably the best instance of bacterial invasion primarily due to a lowered resistance resulting from a vitamin deficiency. Other instances of vitamin A deficiency, and often found in conjunction with infections of the intestinal tract, are infections of the eyes, tonsils, sinuses, lungs, buccal and lingual mucosa, and the skin.” This is the Lee Philosophy writ large.
VITAMINS ARE NOT DRUGS
by Dr. Simon Benson
1946, reprint 25. From the trade journal, The Apothecary. Dr. Benson of the Lee Foundation clearly lays out the difference between the therapeutic use of a food or substances from food and pharmaceutical medicines. He refutes medical dogma that insists that anything used therapeutically is automatically classified as a drug. That, of course, puts it under the control of the FDA and regulated as a drug. This is an early and strong piece written in the defense of natural approaches to health care and the freedom of physicians to treat their patients as they see fit and without government interference on behalf of trade groups like the pharma/medical cartel. The arguments presented in this piece stand in any era where freedom of choice is considered a natural right.
VITAMINS IN OUR FOOD
by Prof. A. E. Murneek
1944, reprint 36. An address to the Academy for the Advancement of Science, the professor discusses the enormous impact of crop selection and harvesting methods on the vitamin and mineral content of food. He states: “By catering to the 'eye-appeal' we have, in our choice, often lost 'food value,' including undoubtedly a large amount of vitamins, both known and unknown. Thus economics and style, not nutrition and health, unfortunately have guided most parties concerned in food production and distribution.” He urges food quality over quantity and convenience. He criticizes popping pills to obtain nutrition that should come from quality food. “Improper selection of food-producing plants, modern methods of handling the crop and faulty preparation by cooking and other means has resulted in a diet of subnormal vitamin content for many people. Refining and processing of foods has devitaminized still further our modern products. Profit has been often the motivating force in present food technology, the dollar sign the guiding star, setting styles, fostering sales and creating eating 'habits' for the use, in volume, of certain products."
WANTED FOR STEALING: SUGAR BOWL PETE
A cartoon poster designed for children, warning them of the dangers of white sugar and refined carbohydrates.
WHAT ABOUT TRACE MINERALS?
by Ed Rupp
1949, reprint 41. From Missouri Ruralist, a farming journal, this article describes the breakthrough research conducted on trace minerals and their therapeutic applications. Undulant fever is shown to be successfully treated with trace mineral therapy. The article goes on to describe the loss of nutrients through pasteurization of milk and other so-called modern food processing methods.
WHAT ARE PESTICIDES DOING TO HUMAN BEINGS?
by G. F. Knight, MD
1952, reprint 86. From The Modern Nutrition Magazine comes a lay person's article on the increasingly obvious damage caused to human beings by farming chemicals such as pesticides. “Hysterical alarmists” was a description applied to those who opposed this practice and it took courage to stand up to the huge agribusiness interests. This was an early warning to homemakers. Articles like this sowed the seeds of today’s organic foods movement.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH WHITE BREAD?
by LEE FOUNDATION REPRINT No. 137A
This is a portfolio of 4 scientific studies, ranging from 1949 to 1961, about the deadly effect of the deficiency diseases caused by white bread and foods that have had the vitamin E complex refined out of its structure. A history of how food refinement led to a massive industrial scale deficiency state in modern mankind.
WHY MILK PASTEURIZATION? PART I
by J. B. DARLINGTON
1947, reprint 28. From The Rural New Yorker: The Business Farmer's Paper. The first of a two-part reprint on the dangers of milk pasteurization. The author covers the history and mythology surrounding the medical hysteria of cooking milk before it is allowed to be sold. These two articles are full of facts and examples of how health authorities grossly manipulated science and the public fear of food-borne epidemics to silence any support of certified raw milk.
WHY MILK PASTEURIZATION? PART II
by J. B. Darlington
1947, reprint 28-B. Part II of the series by J. B. Darlington.
WULZEN CALCIUM DYSTROPHY SYNDROME IN GUINEA PIGS
by Hugo Krueger, PhD
1955, reprint 81. “In 1941 Wulzen and Bahrs reported that guinea-pigs fed raw whole milk grew excellently and at autopsy showed no abnormality of any kind. Guinea-pigs on pasteurized milk rations did not grow as well and developed a definite syndrome, the first sign of which was wrist stiffness. On pasteurized skim milk the syndrome increased in severity until the animals finally died. There was great emaciation and weakness before death.” This is a 26-page peer-reviewed article about the mysterious and famous Wulzen Factor, an anti-stiffness factor found in the cream of raw milk and in fresh molasses. Doctors like Royal Lee and Francis Pottenger had long studied this anti-arthritic factor that was never accepted by orthodox medicine. This is an authoritative and excellent article describing the properties and action of the Wulzen Factor.
WULZEN FACTOR BRIEF
Reprint 27A. The facts behind the Wulzen Factor, found in raw cream and cane juice, have been lost to modern science. Considered an actual vitamin by a number of early investigators, it was never accepted as such by medical or government “authorities.” It was known as the “anti-stiffness factor” because it combated arthritis and relieved pain, swelling, and stiffness. To accept it as such required the admission that the pasteurization of dairy products was a causative factor in arthritis. Such an admission would never be made by the authorities who so vigorously promoted and enforced pasteurization laws. This article is a brief reference point for discussion. Other more complete Wulzen Factor articles appear in Lee Foundation literature.
YOU ARE EATING POISON BY THE PLATEFUL
by E. K. Roosevelt
circa 1957, reprint 102. The title of this article pretty much sets the tone of the presentation. The saturation of the American food supply with agrichemicals is herein exposed with facts, figures, and outrage in this lay article. Long before "Silent Spring" was written, the Lee Foundation published fact-filled pieces warning the medical profession and the public of the wholesale poisoning of their food supply. Edith Kermit Roosevelt was the writer of the popular syndicated weekly column "Between the Lines." She focused on issues of health and fitness and was widely read in newspapers and magazines across the US from the 1950s through the early 1980s.

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