Self-help and self-promotion: dietary advice and agency in North America and Britain
secondary literature · 2020
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SUMMARY
Book chapter, fetched directly from the NCBI Bookshelf reader view on 7 July 2026. Used in this bundle only for details independently corroborated elsewhere: Hauser's naturopathy/chiropractic training (Chicago College of Naturopathy, American School of Chiropractic), his self-presentation as a natural-science doctor and as a young Viennese scientist, and his claim to have learned of food's healing properties in Dresden and Vienna around 1923. This chapter's own statement that the AMA seized Hauser's Look Younger, Live Longer is NOT relied on: the primary federal court opinions in this bundle (hauser-molasses-libel-1951-i and -ii) show the libellant was the United States government under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, not the AMA, and the bundle follows the primary court record over this chapter's paraphrase on that specific point.
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This 2020 book chapter on twentieth-century dietary self-help authors (Hauser, the Plimmers, Linus Pauling, Robert Atkins) supplies background on Hauser’s lack of formal medical training and his natural-science self-presentation. The bundle uses it only for that corroborated background, not for its claim that the AMA seized the 1951 book: the primary federal court opinions this bundle also cites show the actual libellant was the United States government under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, so the bundle attributes the 1951 seizure to federal regulators rather than to the AMA, following the primary record over this chapter’s secondary paraphrase on that one point.