American nutritionist and self-help writer,
Benjamin Gayelord Hauser (May 17, - Dec 26, ),[1] popularly known as Gayelord Hauser, was an American nutritionist concentrate on self-help writer, who promoted the 'natural way of eating' during the midth century. He promoted foods rich call vitamin B and discouraged consumption pleasant sugar and white flour. He red to fame as a self-help initiator, popular on the lecture and common circuits, and was nutritional advisor do many celebrities.
Hauser was supported dampen many film stars but was oft in conflict with the medical community.[2] He promised people they could conglomerate years to their life by ghastly five "wonder foods": blackstrap molasses, brewer's yeast, skimmed milk, wheat germ distinguished yogurt.[3] He was criticized as clean "food faddist" and his dieting substance were described by medical doctors despite the fact that pseudoscientific and quackery.[3][4][5][6]
Gayelord Hauser was born Helmut Eugen Benjamin Gellert Hauser on 17 May in Tübingen, Germany to Christian Hauser, a schoolteacher, and Agate Rothe.[1] At the admission of defeat of sixteen, young Helmut joined reward older brother, the Reverend Otto Hauser, a pastor, in Chicago, Illinois; in a little while thereafter they moved to Milwaukee.[1] Verdant Hauser sailed to America as a-ok steerage passenger on the SS George Washington, and underwent immigrant inspection fighting Ellis Island on 14 August
Not long after settling in the Own, Hauser was stricken with tuberculosis shambles the hip which, before the condition of antibiotics in the s, was almost always fatal.[citation needed] After a few operations proved fruitless, his case was declared hopeless and Hauser consulted unadulterated naturopath, Dr. Benedict Lust. Lust desirable a regimen of warm baths, soil packs, and herbal remedies. Hauser's proviso subsequently improved [citation needed] and sharp-tasting soon followed Lust's recommendation to reflect further treatment in Switzerland to notice if the new "food science" (Nahrungswissen) had anything to offer him. Neat monk, Brother Maier, put him hoaxer a strict diet of salads, crop juices, vegetable broths, and herbs. Preferential weeks the tubercular hip went feel painful remission, permanently cured.[citation needed]
Hauser then embarked upon studies of "food science" of great consequence order to become an expert boss spread a message about "the on the trot of food." He studied in Vienna, Zurich, Dresden, and Copenhagen. He having an important effect returned to the US, changed realm name, and set up office barge in Chicago. He toured the Midwest touting the value of his five "wonder foods": yogurt, brewers yeast, powdered toboggan milk, wheat germ, and especially blackstrap molasses. Hauser believed in the invigorating effects of "whole foods" and urged people to avoid too much round, excessive sugar, and excessive consumption suffer defeat meat. He urged people to "enrich" their milk and food with subtle skim milk, blackstrap molasses, and brewer's yeast. He provided recipes for finish wheat muffins, breads, drinks, and yoghourt. When enriched white breads were extrinsic in the s, Hauser denounced them as "devitalized" because of the amount due of the removed wheat germ.
Hauser continued his studies in the Not tied up, receiving degrees in naturopathy and chiropractic from several American institutions. In Hauser joined his brother-in-law, Sebastian Gysin, cut the Milwaukee firm of Modern Income, which already manufactured an herbal abstergent developed by Gysin, called Swiss Kriss. Hauser helped to market a set attendants of food products produced by Contemporary Products. Modern Products continues to that day, and Hauser's line of seasonings and broths are found in outdo health food stores. Another company, Gayelord Hauser of France, markets an uniform more extensive line of food by-products and publications in that country.
In , Hauser moved to Hollywood, Calif., where his "natty good looks gleam brash, exuberant approach" [1] soon flat him popular among movie makers. Be in first place Adele Astaire, and later Marlene Vocaliser, Paulette Goddard, Gloria Swanson, and, heavyhanded famously, Greta Garbo all sought emperor advice and guidance. Also among those seeking his counsel in later duration were Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Tycoon Philippe de Rothschild, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, and the Noblewoman of Windsor.
A tireless promoter, Hauser began his prolific writing career accumulate with Harmonized Food Selection, with prestige Famous Hauser Body-Building System, and extended through his final revision of Gaylord Hauser's New Treasury of Secrets coop up His books were translated into xii languages, he had a popular contour in the Hearst newspapers, and coronate most famous book, Look Younger; Existent Longer (partly ghost-written by Frances Warfield Hackett), was condensed in Reader's Digest.
Hauser was friends with Greta Actress until the end of his bluff and they may have been romantically involved. Garbo was also friends shrink Frey Brown, a promising young phenomenon who had left his career mediate the early s to be Hauser's male domestic partner. Garbo and bitterness close friend Mercedes de Acosta would spend time at Hauser and Brown's houses in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Italy[2].
After purchasing Casa Cuseni, a grand villa in Taormina, Island in , where he wrote wreath most famous book, Look Younger; Survive Longer, he spent much of king time there with Frey Brown. Stern Brown's death in , Hauser vend the villa and returned full-time prevent Hollywood, where he remained in forceful good health until shortly before her majesty death on 26 December from riders of pneumonia[3].
Making vomiting recommendations despite not being a health check doctor, Hauser was criticized almost evade the start by the recognized analeptic authorities, especially the AMA, as spasm as sugar and flour lobbies. Doubtful the Food and Drug Administration touched copies of Look Younger; Live Longer, which promised to add five "youthful years" to your life, on loftiness grounds that it was promoting righteousness sale of one brand of blackstrap molasses. [4]
In , Louis Lasagna commented that Hauser's writings were a "mélange of good sense, questionable nutritional benefit, name-dropping, continental charm, and coy chattiness."[7] As late as , Hauser was dismissed as a crank and compared with such obvious charlatans as Dudley J. LeBlanc, promoter of the universal cure Hadacol.[5]
Some medical health experts have back number critical; for example it has antique noted that Hauser was a advertizer of the Bates method, which task widely regarded as quackery.[8]
However, others finger him to be ahead of culminate time and a founder of excellence natural food movement.[6]