Bob Pastorio wrote:

> Michael Ackerman wrote:
>
>> Next month, I believe, an article that I wrote on the subject will be
>> published in Robert Johnston's _Politics of Healing_, an anthology of
>> articles on alternative medicine in the US in the 20th century. I
>> examine
>> (what I call) the modern health foods movement, which originated in the
>> 1930s in the wake of the discovery of vitamins and related nutritional
>> matters. (The organic foods movement in the US was one part of this
>> movement.) I discuss both the scientific aspect of the movement, and the
>> ideological aspect (which is definitely anti-modernist and
>> pro-environmental, but not fundamentally leftist -- in the 1950s the
>> movement had close links to the far right). Although my articles
>> stops in
>> 1965, I believe that the food ideas embraced by the youth
>> counterculture in
>> the 1960s came mainly from the post-1930s health foods movement. (One
>> difference: the post-1960s movement endorsed vegetarianism, while the
>> earlier movement did not.)
>
>
> And, I think it's fair to say, they also adopted other ways of eating
> because they were other ways. Macrobiotic and the like.

As I recall, as macrobiotics we ate our share of chicken and fish, along
with the dreaded tofu and great, disgusting wads of brown rice (which we
cooked on a word-burning stove -- it took hours!). And pre-1960s, let's
remember Adele Davis. Raw liver for breakfast, anyone? I think it's
interesting that the gurus of both these "movements" died rather young.

Peg