Superior Nutrition by Herbert M. Shelton

He was found guilty of violating the Medical Practice Act in 1932, and served 30 days on Rikers Island. These arrests continued periodically through the next three decades. In 1927, Shelton was arrested, jailed, and fined three times for practicing medicine without a license. Legal history Ī pacifist, Shelton was jailed in 1917 for making an anti-draft statement in public during the height of World War I. In 1948, he founded the American Natural Hygiene Society which was renamed the National Health Association in 1998. In 1939, Shelton published The Hygienic Review magazine which ran for four decades.

From 1934–1941, Shelton authored a seven-volume work The Hygienic System. Seeing importance in the Hygienic Movement (influenced by Isaac Jennings and Sylvester Graham), he changed the title of this first book to An Introduction to Natural Hygiene. In 1922, Shelton self-published his first book, Fundamentals of Nature Cure. Although heavily criticized by his contemporaries for advocating fasting over medical treatment, Shelton's work served as an early influence for the raw food movement. Shelton claimed that cooking food denatures it, and that a healthy body has the ability to restore itself from illness without medical intervention. In 1921, he married Ida Pape, studied at the American School of Chiropractic, and graduated from the American School of Naturopathy with a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. Shelton later continued post-graduate work at Peerless College of Chiropractic in Illinois and served an internship at Crandall Health School in Pennsylvania. He also attended Lindlahr College of Natural Therapeutics for post-graduate work and served at Lindlahr's and Sahler's Sanatoriums. Shelton attended Bernarr Macfadden's College of Physcultopathy in Chicago and interned at Crane's Sanatorium in Elmhurst, Illinois. He was especially intrigued by their fasting when the farm animals became sick. As a child, Shelton took an interest in animals, especially their habits when sick as compared to when well. Shelton was born on Octoin Wylie, Texas to Thomas Mitchell Shelton and Mary Frances Gutherie Shelton, who were devoted Christians. His ideas have been described as quackery by critics. He saw himself as the champion of original natural hygiene ideas from the 1830s.

Shelton was nominated by the American Vegetarian Party to run as its candidate for President of the United States in 1956.

Herbert McGolfin Shelton (October 6, 1895 – January 1, 1985) was an American naturopath, alternative medicine advocate, author, pacifist, vegan, and a supporter of rawism and fasting. Alternative medicine, vegetarianism, Raw foodism, pacifism

Superior Nutrition by Herbert M. Shelton