American Cancer Society Repudiates Pittsburgh Cancer Clinic—Letter and Article
Various authors
Summary: Several reports detailing how the American Cancer Society fought against the Drosnes-Lazenby Naturopathic Cancer Clinic, a center in Pittsburgh providing a free alternative approach to cancer therapy. These documents demonstrate just how far back the conventional cancer-treatment industry has sought to protect its "turf" against competition in the healing arts. Various sources. Reprint 18E, 1950.
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The Battlefront for Better Nutrition
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: "Yes, there is a battle going on," Dr. Lee writes in this 1950 article from the magazine The Interpreter. But the war Dr. Lee was referring to didn't involve guns or missiles. It was a contest hidden from public view, waged by industrial food manufacturers and processors against small-scale farmers and the country's nutrition pioneers, who saw firsthand the damage that processed foods were inflicting on the national health. Lee decries the substitution of bleached flour and hydrogenated fats for whole wheat and butter and condemns the FDA for allowing food processors and their paid "experts" to dupe the American public into trading real food for counterfeit. Includes the infamous testimony of Dr. Elmer M. Nelson, head of the nutrition division of the FDA, who in 1949 swore in federal court that "it is wholly unscientific to state that a well-fed body is more able to resist disease than a less well-fed body." Reprint 30E, 1950.
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Cancer and the Medical Research Business
By Malcolm Lawrence
Summary: This report exposing the corruption and lack of integrity in the cancer-research industry was published under a nom-de-plume (pen name) to protect the author's status as a medical researcher within the cancer research establishment. (See inside cover regarding this). 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. Notably, the story of Dr. Andrew Ivy of the University of Illinois and his Krebiozen treatment is told in this historically important document. Special Reprint 5-62, 1962.
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Case of Dental Caries vs. the Sugar Interests
By Allison G. James, DDS
Summary: The overwhelming case that consumption of refined carbohydrates is the cause of tooth decay is presented by dentist and author Allison James. Even back in 1949, as this article from the Southern California State Dental Association Journal illustrates, this theory was opposed institutionally by both commercial sugar interests and the profession of dentistry at large. Instead, conventional dentistry continued—and continues today—to blindly follow its eternal mantra: Drill 'em and fill 'em. Never mind why the caries are there in the first place! Reprint 42, 1949.
Clarence Darrow on Medical Control
By Clarence Darrow
Summary: Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) was a famous American lawyer known for his wit, his oratory skill, and his defense of liberty and the common man. His most famous trial was the "Monkey Trial" of 1925, in which he defended John T. Scopes and opposed William Jennings Bryan. In this transcript of a radio address, Darrow defends chiropractic and the rights of the public to pursue the healthcare of their choice, rather than be limited to the monopoly of medical practice. "I would have no quarrel with the medical profession if they would leave me alone," he says. "But I do object to being forced to patronize them." He adds, "I stand for the right of everybody to regulate his own life for himself, and if he wants to live and die without the aid of the medical profession, he should have the right to do it, and if one should not have that right, it is pretty hard to tell what right we should have." Timeless words for anyone who prizes liberty and opposes all forms of tyranny. From ABC News, 1928.
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Clinical Nutrition: Food vs. Drugs
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee outlines the efforts of organized medicine in the mid twentieth century to suppress awareness of the effectiveness of clinical nutrition. "This pernicious and corrupt misuse of the facilities of medical education," Lee writes, "has been [totally] effective in creating the idea that nutritional therapy is futile and leans toward quackery." Lee goes on to show how medicine became focused solely on therapies involving pharmaceutical drugs and that it marginalized drugless healing professions through laws preventing the dissemination of information and knowledge. Reprint 25A, 1948.
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The Despotic Misuse of Our Federal Pure Food Law
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Publishing this piece was a tremendous act of courage by a man who spoke truth to power his entire lfe. Here Dr. Lee exposes the methods and techniques of government agencies to suppress the natural nutrition movement and subvert nutritional science to medical consensus, even though medical authorities have never trained in or appreciated the field of nutrition. In fact, they have become the apologists for food adulterators and the persecutors of whole food advocates. Lee also deconstructs and debunks FDA attack statements on "food faddists" and organic farming advocates. 1957.
Dr. Frederick Stare’s Funding Is Exposed
Author unknown
Summary: Dr. Frederick Stare was the founder and first head of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard University's School of Public Health. Over the course of his career, Stare would procure massive amounts of funding for Harvard and for his own research from food manufacturing giants such as Coca-Cola, General Foods, and the National Soft Drinks Association. In this newspaper excerpt, Harvard announces the receipt of a "momentous" gift of over $1,000,000 from General Foods, to be spent on research by the school's nutritional laboratories. Dr. Stare fought against the organic whole foods movement for decades, even testifying in court that such proponents were alarmists and frauds. From the Milwaukee Journal, Wisconsin, 1960.
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Harvey W. Wiley’s Autobiography: Chemicals in Food (excerpt)
By Harvey W. Wiley, MD
Summary: An illuminating peek at the early—and fateful—politics of food adulteration. From 1906–1912, Dr. Wiley was the head of the USDA's Bureau of Chemistry (later renamed Food and Drug Administration), the department charged with enforcing the country's first food purity law, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In this excerpt from his 1929 autobiography, Wiley details how the Bureau's authority was illegally usurped by higher-ranking officials within the USDA under the influence of industrial food manufacturers. In one famous case, the solicitor of the USDA forbade Dr. Wiley and other workers of his Bureau from testifying in a federal case in which their testimony would have supported a ban of the food additive sodium benzoate, a compound Wiley and his fellow chemists had determined to be injurious to health yet, sadly, remains one of the most common food preservatives used today. Includes an introduction by Dr. Royal Lee. Special Reprint No. 1-60.
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History of a Crime Against the Food Law
By Harvey W. Wiley, MD
Summary: Dr. Wiley was the "father" of the famous Pure Food and Drug Law of 1906 and the first head of what would later become the FDA. The Lee Foundation republished his autobiography after the original manuscript was "lost" by the Macmillan Publishing Company and after the book had conspicuously disappeared from every library in the nation. In it, Wiley 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, devitalized "foods." The industry's usurpation of federal laws and regulations regarding whole foods is an example of American politics at its worst. Original publication date 1929; republished by the Lee Foundation in 1955.
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How Federal Laws and Courts Are Illegally Used by Organized Medicine
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this classic lecture to the National Health Federation Convention in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Lee reveals how organized medicine succeeded in legally hampering drugless therapies through the 1938 Federal Food & Drug Law, which redefined a drug as "anything used to treat, prevent, diagnose, mitigate or cure a disease." Given this new definition, Lee says, "once the drugless practitioner has discovered how to druglessly treat his patient, lo and behold that remedy now automatically becomes a drug and he is stopped from its use." This trick was particularly effective in thwarting the use of whole-food supplements in nutritional therapy, since it made all such supplements potential "drugs" under the law. 1962.
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How Organized Medicine Is Fighting Vitamins
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this riveting personal account, Dr. Lee describes the legal battle that led him to discover that organized medicine was actively working to discredit and suppress nutritional approaches to health. He also documents evidence of how the medical-pharmaceutical industry had formed what was in essence a cartel aimed at controlling the healing arts and destroying any threat to its control over the nation's healthcare. 1943.
How Our Government Subsidizes Malnutrition and Disease
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this booklet, Dr. Lee describes how government policies were designed to protect the adulteration and devitalization of basic foods. He details many examples of such practices, showing how the producers of processed dairy, grain, fruit, and meat induced the medical community to overlook and even endorse their deadly foods. Lee even presents ads in medical journals—paid for by industrial food processors—that brazenly endorse processed foods such as white bread. 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 adds, "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." Special Bulletin 1-49, 1949.
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How Synthetic Poisons Are Sold as Imitation Natural Foods
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: The title of this work speaks for itself. Lee includes in this report the story of how synthetic vitamin D caused widespread harm at the time, and he 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 between natural vitamin fractions and synthetic ones. 1948.
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How the Facts Are Suppressed in Connection with Bone Meal
By Alfred Aslander
Summary: In this circular from the Division of Agriculture, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the author surveys research conducted in Sweden and Switzerland on supplementing the diet with bone meal to prevent dental caries (cavities). He exposes significant design flaws in a study cited by the dental establishment to discredit bone-meal supplementation, and he describes a number of other studies that showed bone meal to be highly effective in preventing tooth decay. He also recounts his thwarted effort to have his own research published by journals beholden to the dental establishment. "At least once upon a time it was considered as an axiom that scientific investigations should aim solely at the pursuit of the truth, and consequently scientific journals should aim at publishing the truth. In this case it seems...[their] aim has been something else." Note: a year before this article appeared, Dr. Royal Lee introduced a completely raw, cold-processed veal bone meal powder (flour) for use by dentists. Reprint 134A, 1964.
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Is This Shot Necessary?
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee recounts numerous "miracle drugs" of his day that turned out to harmful or even lethal to many in the population. (With pharmaceutical-related deaths in America numbering in the tens to hundreds of thousands today, this practice has continued unabated.) It is the "cooperation with natural constructive forces" that brings health, Lee writes, not "drug or poison therapy by which the cell activities are subjected to new and unknown reactions with new and unknown end or side results that...undermine the future welfare of the patient." This simple, sensible approach, Lee says, is the basis of his Vitamin Products Company, which provided complete, natural vitamins in the form of whole-food supplements. Lee also specifies some of the constituents of the natural vitamin C complex, which in addition to ascorbic acid includes an antihemorrhagic factor, a thrombin synthesis factor, a blood-oxygen factor, and a connective-tissue-integrity factor. Publication date unknown.
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Lee Wins Appeals Court Ruling for Deaf Smith County Whole Wheat Flour
By the Vitamins Product Company
Summary: During World War II, government-enforced price controls dictated what various items and commodities could be sold for. When federal agents prosecuted Dr. Royal Lee for selling the famously nutritious whole-wheat flour from Deaf Smith County, Texas, at a cost beyond the control price for ordinary flour, Lee fought back in federal court and won, as described in this commentary from Lee's business The Vitamin Products Company. A newspaper account of the proceedings is also included. 1946.
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Letter to Collier’s Weekly
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this scathing correspondence to the editors of Collier's Weekly magazine, Dr. Lee takes the periodical to task for a recent article on "cancer quacks" that appears to have been influenced by forces within organized medicine. Included among Lee's pointed criticisms is the magazine's failure to mention that one of the "quacks" it spotlighted had been acquitted and cleared of any wrongdoing by the Federal Trade Commission. 1951.
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Letter to Directors of American Academy of Nutrition
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee, writing on behalf of the Lee Foundation, urges the directors of the American Academy of Nutrition to adopt a Code of Principles. Among the principles he suggests are addressing, head on, controversial subjects such as the pasteurization of milk and fluoridation of water as well as actively countering the trend toward "counterfeit foods" such as corn syrup (glucose), hydrogenated foods, and artificial colors. This is Lee's public policy in a nutshell. 1957.
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Letter to JFK
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this thunderous letter to President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Lee calls the president's attention to a grand jury investigation of corruption within the FDA and exhorts the chief of state to ensure that a fair trial be conducted. The problem, Lee explains, is that both the FDA and the Department of Justice have been infiltrated by the American Medical Association (AMA), a group that has wielded its influence to wipe out competitors and establish the medical approach as the only "legitimate" healing art in the United States. Lee reminds the president that the AMA was convicted for such monopolistic behavior twenty years earlier, when it was found guilty of violating the Federal Antitrust Laws, and that it will continue to conduct such behavior if it is not legally thwarted. An amazing piece of history that speaks to what might have been. 1962.
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Letter to the President [by Dr. Wiley]
By Harvey W. Wiley, MD
Summary: In this letter to President Calvin Coolidge, Dr. Harvey Wiley—the "father of the Pure Food and Drug Law" of 1906—calls to task the U.S. government for continued failure to enforce the food safety law, and he exhorts the president to "free the law from the illegal restrictions and the practical paralysis which have been inflicted upon it by the high officials in the Department of Agriculture." Wiley cites numerous examples of food adulteration at the time that appear to be squarely in violation of the law, including the use of nitrous oxides in the bleaching of flour as well as the addition of chemicals such as alum, sodium benzoate, and sulfur dioxide to packaged foods. "The proper enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act is intimately related to the public health," Wiley writes. If only Coolidge had felt the same way. 1925.
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Letter to the President About Food Additives
By R. W. Dunlap, Assistant Secretary of the USDA
Summary: If you're looking for a smoking gun regarding the adulteration of food in America, this is it. In this letter to President Calvin Coolidge, USDA Assistant Secretary R.W. Dunlap explains that the USDA cannot legally prevent the inclusion of additives such as flour bleach, saccharin, and sulfur dioxide to America's food because of previous rulings made by federal courts, including the Supreme Court, in which such chemicals were pronounced acceptable in small amounts—even if shown to be harmful in and of themselves—as long as no evidence of harm is shown in people who consume the products containing them. These decisions put the onus of proving long-term ill effects of these suspected poisons squarely on the government. With such evidence difficult to show conclusively and requiring years of study (the technology for which not even existing at the time), the basic policy of food adulteration in America came into being: to err on the side of commerce, not public health. As the secretary points out, the opposing, "better safe than sorry" policy of Dr. Harvey Wiley—the former head of the USDA's Bureau of Chemistry (forerunner of the FDA)—would simply not stand up in court, where the decision to allow deleterious additives into the food supply had been stamped firmly into law. 1925.
May We Know Our Food
By Harvey W. Wiley, MD
Summary: In 1907, Dr. Wiley was America's most famous food-purity activist as well as the head of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry, the forerunner of the FDA. For over ten years, Wiley had fought to get the first food inspection and purity law passed in the United States, and in June 1906 his efforts were rewarded with the Pure Food and Drug Act. In this report from the following year, Wiley comments on the historic law, discussing the "two ideas kept always in view in all the sections of the act," namely the misbranding of food products and the addition of dangerous substances to the food supply. Little did Wiley know that his insistence on enforcing these provisions would lead to his dismissal a few years later, as industrial food manufacturers and their allies within the government succeeded in ousting Wiley and circumventing the law intended to protect America's food supply. For more on Dr. Wiley and the corruption of the Pure Food and Drug Law, see "Letter to the President About Food Additives" and "Letter to the President [by Harvey Wiley]" in these archives. From lllustrated Sunday Magazine, 1907.
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Modern Nutrition Magazine Contributions
Various authors
Summary: Excerpts from Modern Nutrition, the monthly magazine of the American Nutrition Society, discussing the political and legal barriers to providing the public with truthful information that does not agree with the "consensus of medical opinion." Singled out is Dr. Frederick Stare, the founder and then head of Harvard's Nutrition Department, who did as much as anyone to condone and foster the adulteration of America's food supply with artificialities while duping the public into believing processed foods are as nutritious as whole ones. "Actually," Stare says, "we get as much food value from refined foods which have been enriched as from natural foods, and sometimes more." Includes commentary by Dr. Royal Lee. 1957.
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No Pure Food Action—Now
By Harvey W. Wiley, MD
Summary: In 1925, Dr. Wiley, the former head of the USDA's Bureau of Chemistry (later to become the FDA), created a public firestorm when he published in Good Housekeeping magazine a letter he'd written to President Calvin Coolidge admonishing the Department of Agriculture for failing to enforce the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which outlawed the misbranding and adulteration of food. Wiley's letter caused Coolidge to call for an explanation from the acting secretary of the USDA, whose letter to the president revealed just how industrial food manufacturers had managed to circumvent the food purity law. In this partial article from 1926, Wiley expresses his disappointment in the conciliatory position of the USDA and questions the failure of the department to enforce the law in spite of the backing of two Supreme Court decisions. Though Wiley's stance against food manufacturers had cost him his job within the government, he continued to speak on behalf of America's public health throughout the remainder of his life. From Good Housekeeping, 1926.
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Pasteurised Milk: A National Menace (Scotland)
By James C. Thomson
Summary: This article from the Scottish periodical the Kingston Chronicle offers one of the most insightful quotes ever regarding the reality of nutrition, commerce, and science: "When dealing with highly lucrative commercial enterprises based upon dietetic and therapeutic procedures, doctors and analytical chemists are given a clear lead. They know what is expected of them...there is a market for signatures. They have only to indicate a bias in the right direction and everything is made easy. Their investigations are tailor-made and tidy beyond description. Slides and specimens from the laboratories of the cartels are provided for them; meticulously labeled and annotated Petri dishes come to them teeming with unequivocal cultures of all the best microbes. In many cases even their opinions and observations are supplied—typed out all ready for signature." The author goes on to show how commercial dairy interests used just such tactics to shamelessly demonize raw milk and write pasteurization into the law books of the country for the purpose of profit. Reprint 28C, 1943.
The Progressing Totalitarian Takeover in the USA (In the Area of the Healing Arts)
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: "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." Dr. Lee defends alternatives to medicine and reveals the sinister methods used by organized medicine to entreat the government to squash any competing approaches to health. Dr. Lee wrote this courageous piece after more than 30 years of fighting the corrupt system of the medical/pharmaceutical monopoly, condoned and enforced by governmental agencies. With medicine still enjoying a near monopoly in the minds of the public as the only "legitimate" healing art, this article shows for the historical record how the medical industry unscrupulously secured its place in our society and then entrenched its own definition and self-serving standards of what is science and what is quackery. 1962.
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Protest Against Persecution of the Health Movement by the FDA
By Karl B. Lutz, Attorney
Summary: A landmark letter of protest against the FDA's blatant persecution of natural-health practices in the United States. First, attorney Karl Lutz keenly outlines the basic principles of whole-food nutrition, including the need to grow foods in healthy soil, to process such foods as minimally as possible, and to opt for natural vitamins over synthetics. He then presents examples of governmental abuse in persecuting, prosecuting, and intimidating honest health professionals and other groups promoting nutritional approaches to health. He singles out the 1939 case of the FDA against Royal Lee as particularly egregious. "I have examined the records of that suit, and in my opinion, as a lawyer with some knowledge of biochemistry, it was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice I have ever seen." This document is a forerunner—by over a decade—of massive petitioning of Congress for relief from the pharma/medical cartel monopoly, whose agenda in healthcare was, and still is, preferentially enforced by the agencies of the U.S. government. Originally published by the National Health Federation. Reprint 8-63, 1963.
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Pure Food and Pure Fraud
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: 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 recalls the noble vision of its founder, Dr. Harvey Wiley, who 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 alerting the American people to a matter on which they had been—and continue to be—intentionally and systematically deceived. From the periodical Liberation, 1957.
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Quacks
By Elizabeth Terry
Summary: In this poignant article, author Elizabeth Terry recounts stories of the many inventors and investigators throughout history who were initially branded frauds before the merit of their contribution was understood and accepted. She cites the Wright brothers, whose first “flying machine” was disbelieved by the popular press in spite of eyewitness accounts filed by their very own reporters, as well as one Joshua Coppersmith, who was arrested in 1865 for demonstrating a device he claimed would “convey the human voice over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener on the other end.” Of course, today the telephone and airplane are so common that we tend to forget there was a time when they would have been impossible to imagine. More importantly, we forget that innovators in any field tend to be discredited before they are ballyhooed, and sometimes, as in the case of Dr. Royal Lee and the other pioneers of nutrition, it is many years before the wisdom they offered passes from quackery to common sense. From the National Health Federation Bulletin, 1957.
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Recent Conclusions in Malnutrition
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this stunning assessment of the widespread yet unacknowledged malnourishment of America, Dr. Lee describes in detail the health effects of eating processed foods as well as the difference between natural and synthetic vitamins. "We have drifted into this deplorable position of national malnutrition quite inadvertently," he adds. "It is the result of scientific research with the objective of finding the best ways to create foods that are non-perishable that can be made by mass production methods...and distributed so cheaply that they can sweep all local competition from the market. Then, after there develops a suspicion that these 'foods' are inadequate to support life, modern advertising science steps in to propagandize the people into believing that there is nothing wrong with them, that they are products of scientific research intended to afford a food that is the last word in nutritive value." Also included is the infamous advertisement in the Journal of American Medical Association promoting white bread, the result of a financial arrangement between the American Medical Association and the American Institute of Baking. From a lecture delivered to the American Naprapathic Association Convention. Reprint 30, 1943.
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Rife Microscope: Facts and Their Fate
By Dr. Royal Lee and by R. E. Seidel, MD, and M. Elizabeth Winter
Summary: The Rife Microscope is one of the most fascinating and tragic stories in the history of science. Royal Raymond Rife was a genius of optics who in the 1930s invented a revolutionary microscope that identified microorganisms based on a characteristic wavelength of light emitted by each. (Rife discovered these "signature emissions" through use of his scope.) Even more incredibly, Rife observed something that challenges the very basis of medicine's "germ theory": Microbes such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi are able to morph into each other depending on the conditions of their environment (which, in turn, are determined in humans largely by nutritional status.) So, instead of the tens of thousands of species of microorganisms considered distinct by conventional science, Rife said, there are really only about ten fundamental forms of microbes, each able to morph into countless numbers of others. Rife not only collaborated with noted bacteriologist Dr. Arthur Kendall of Northwestern University Medical School to demonstrate such transformations, but the two investigators showed they were able to destroy pathogenic forms by radiating them with wavelengths of light in resonance with their signature emission.
When Rife began to publish his findings, he was predictably branded a quack by the medical establishment, which brought its full efforts to discredit and destroy his work. All references and studies involving his microscope were actively barred from medical journals, and any doctor using his microscope was ostracized from the medical community. Yet one article, published in 1944 in the non-medically-controlled journal of the Franklin Institute—one of America's oldest and most prestigious centers of science—survived. In 1950, the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research re-published the lengthy article, which details the technology behind both the electron microscope and Rife's Universal Microscope (skip to pages 124–127 for information specifically on Rife's research), along with several concluding pages of Lee's own commentary poignantly summarizing Rife's discoveries. If nothing else, read these final two pages of the document. The implications of Lee's words, as well as the potential applications Rife's long lost microscope, are beyond profound. Reprint 47, 1944.
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Trace Elements and Biodynamic Agriculture
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: By the close of the 1940s, Dr. Lee had seen many "peeps behind...the iron curtain that is so carefully maintained by the makers of fraudulent foods to keep the American people in ignorance as to the real cause of their chronic diseases." Thus, in commenting on the opinion of a committee who'd concluded on very little evidence that fertilizing soil with trace minerals is unnecessary to produce nutritious plants, Dr. Lee could not help but question the motives of the committee's so-called experts. "Such haste in promoting one side of a vital question that cannot be settled without a great amount of research certainly throws a lot of doubt upon the integrity and honesty of the committee." Lee would spend the next two decades calling out such formulaic chicanery, the kind of which would later lead to some of the great shams of modern nutrition, including cholesterol theory and low-fat diets. 1949.
V.E. Irons Convicted for Warning Americans About Food Supply
By Morris Bealle
Summary: Bealle's newsletter American Capsule News reports on the conviction, fine, and jailing of the great American naturalist Dr. V.E. Irons for the crime of informing the American people of what was happening to their food supply. "It is obvious that Mr. Irons has committed two 'unpardonable sins'," writes Bealle. "The first is distributing vitamins which keep people well and away from drug stores. The second is exposing some of the crimes of the Food & Drug Administration who, as Dr. [Harvey] Wiley said, are lynching, raping and murdering the laws passed by Congress to protect the public from poisoned and adulterated foods." Irons, like his friend Dr. Royal Lee, warned the public of the depletion of America's soil, the refining and processing of the basic food supply, and the cause-and effect-relationship of these practices to health. In the case, the FDA marched out five "health authorities" from Harvard, including the infamous Dr. Frederick Stare, to testify to the "fraudulent" nature of Irons's statements. Irons was convicted on federal charges and served a year in jail. As this report reveals, those pioneers at the vanguard of nutritional knowledge paid dearly for the right to speak out about what was happening to America's food supply, health, and freedom. 1956.
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V.E. Irons Conviction Upheld for Warning Americans About Soil and Food Supply
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee comments on a report in the Drug Trade News on the upholding of a conviction of naturalist V.E. Irons. (For details on Irons's original trial and conviction, see "V.E. Irons Convicted for Warning Americans About Food Supply" in these archives.) According to Lee, Irons was convicted essentially for publicizing this statement: "Nearly everyone in this country is suffering from malnutrition or [is] in danger of such suffering because of demineralization and depletion of soils and the refining and processing of food." While this statement was supported time and time again by early nutrition studies, Irons nonetheless served a year in jail for his proclamation, which, Lee points out, was made in the same spirit of Dr. Harvey Wiley, the original head of the FDA who was ousted by representatives within the government influenced by the food-manufacturing and medical industries. 1957.
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Vitamins Are Not Drugs
By Dr. Simon Benson
Summary: Dr. Benson of the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research responds to an article titled "Are Vitamins Drugs?" in the trade journal The Apothecary. Benson clearly lays out the differences between the therapeutic application of food and food-based vitamins and the use of pharmaceutical medicines. He refutes medical dogma that insists that anything used therapeutically is automatically classified as a drug. (This definition, of course, conveniently puts any substance being used therapeutically under regulatory control of the FDA, even if it's food.) This is an early and strong defense of natural approaches to healthcare and the freedom of physicians to treat their patients as they see fit, without government interference on behalf of trade groups such as the pharma/medical cartel. Reprint 25, 1946.
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The War Between Health Foods and Death Foods
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: If there are "health food stores" today, what motivated their creation? In this 1956 issue of the National Health Federation Bulletin, Dr. Royal Lee recounts some of the events and decisions that paved the way for the appalling condition of the American diet, showing how the processed-food industry and self-proclaimed public and private health authorities sold the health of the American public down the river and branded all opposition to refined foods as faddists, quacks, and racketeers. No one recites this tale better and with more provable facts than Royal Lee. He was there. Reprint 301, 1956.
Which to Follow—Food Facts or Theories?
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee illustrates the nutritional dangers of a diet of processed foods through the famous example of New York Senator W.P. Richardson's hog farm. Richardson, after shifting the diet of his pigs from whole corn and whole wheat to stale white bread and rolls, found the health of the hogs' offspring to suffer tremendously. "The young pigs developed at only half the usual rate of growth and were subject to many diseases normally foreign to the pig species, particularly pneumonia," Dr. Lee writes. In addition, the sows "had small liters or aborted." Dr. Lee notes the similarity between the symptoms of these malnourished pigs and those of the disease-ridden crew of a German warship who'd been reduced to a diet of primarily white flour and sugar. "You do not need to be a professor of biochemistry and medicine," Dr. Lee opines, to figure out that "lowered resistance caused by a deficient diet is apparently the real cause of most disease." From Let's Live Magazine, 1958.
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Who Does the Law Protect?
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: An inspired article by Dr. Lee about the irony of praying to God to overcome disease while ignoring the simple laws of health here on Earth. "Man needs no miraculous intervention to have perfect health and happiness," he writes, "unless he first commits criminal acts of food adulteration and contamination." Lee explains that 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 ensure acceptance of otherwise tasteless and colorless food frauds which destroy human life to the tune of over a million victims a year." He adds that heart disease—the leading cause of death then as it is today—is so effectively countered by 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." Originally published in Natural Food and Farming, 1955.
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Wiley, Harvey Washington—Biography
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Summary: A biographical sketch of the famous first chief of the Food and Drug Administration (known at the time as the Bureau of Chemistry). Dr. Wiley, a product of the populist age, was a champion of consumer safety when it came to the American food supply and was often referred to as the "Father of the Pure Food Law" of 1906. Read about Wiley's ascension to power and his much-publicized fall as he fought in vain to keep synthetic preservatives and additives out of the national diet. If Wiley had had his way, all of America's food would now be organic. Note: You can read Dr. Wiley's book History of a Crime Against the Food Law in these archives.
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