food.wikisort.org - ResearcherAdolphus Hohensee (1901 – October 5, 1967)[1] was a naturopath, fraudulent nutritionist and quack from the twentieth century.
Fraudulent nutritionist
Adolphus Hohensee |
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Born | 1901 |
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Died | October 5, 1967 |
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Occupation | Naturopath, writer |
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Career
Hohensee described himself as a doctor but held no valid qualifications. It was discovered that his "Doctor of Naturopathy" degree was obtained from two schools he never attended.[2]
He campaigned against processed foods and advertised his mineral and vitamin supplements as a cure for disease.[3] Hohensee was known as the "Peppermint Tea Medicine Man".[4] He was the president of Scientific Living, Inc., and managed a company that manufactured health foods, El Rancho Adolphus Products in Pennsylvania.[5] He was known to lecture and promote dubious claims about his health food products. In 1952, he advertised his peppermint tea as a cure for "gall stones, colic, flatulence, headache, rheumatism, high blood pressure, arthritis, prostate trouble, lumbago, fits, convulsions, colitis, tuberculosis, asthma, pin worms and tape worms."[5]
Hohensee had repeatedly violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.[5] In 1955, Hohensee and his companies were charged on seven counts of a Federal Grand Jury indictment for misbranding their food products. The companies were fined and Hohensee was sentenced to a year in prison in 1957.[4] Susan Gilbert in Medical Fakes and Frauds noted that "Hohensee was convicted of fraud in 1957, but even before then he was exposed as a hypocrite. A photographer for the Houston Press caught Hohensee in a restaurant gorging himself on processed bread and fried fish and quenching his thirst with beer."[3] In 1962, he was given an eighteen-month prison term for selling honey under false pretences.[2]
Hohensee was influenced by the Bates method and authored the book, Better Eyes Without Glasses (1944).
Publications
- Better Eyes Without Glasses (1944)
- Nature's Key to Youthfulness and Longevity (1948)
- The Adolphus Cook Book of Balanced Meals (1951)
- Constipation: Its Causes, Effects, and Corrections : Appendicitis, Tonsillitis, Arthritis and Longevity (1952)
- How to Think and Attain Success (1952)
- Love, Romance, Sex and Success (1959)
References
- "Adolphus Hohensee dies Oct 5, 1967". Retrieved 8 Feb. 2019.
- Barrett, Stephen; Jarvis, William T. (1993). The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America. Prometheus Books. p. 79. ISBN 0-87975-855-4
- Gilbert, Susan. (1989). Medical Fakes and Frauds. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 58. ISBN 0-7910-0090-7
- Smith, Ralph Lee. (1960). The Health Hucksters. Crowell. p. 156
- Hoeber, Ralph Carl Louis. (1986). Contemporary Business Law: Principles and Cases. McGraw-Hill. p. 135
Naturopathy |
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Practices |
- Acupuncture
- Apitherapy
- Aromatherapy
- Balneotherapy
- Barefoot running
- Bates method
- Chelation therapy
- Chromotherapy
- Chiropractic
- Colon cleansing
- Ear candling
- Fasting
- Grape therapy
- Halotherapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Naturism
- Herbalism
- Homeopathy
- Iridology
- Mud bathing
- Nature therapy
- Oil pulling
- Ozone therapy
- Reflexology
- Reiki
- Rolfing
- Sungazing
- Urine therapy
- Yoga as therapy
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Naturopaths | |
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Beliefs |
- Detoxification
- Germ theory denialism
- Holism
- Leaky gut syndrome
- Mucoid plaque
- Natural hygiene
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Vitalism
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Critics |
- Kimball Atwood
- Stephen Barrett
- Barry Beyerstein
- Arthur J. Cramp
- David Gorski
- Martin Gardner
- Morris Fishbein
- Britt Marie Hermes
- Terence Hines
- Carl Malmberg
- Steven Novella
- Wallace Sampson
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Related |
- Alternative medicine
- Pseudoscience
- Quackery
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