Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: C. W. Post, Arnold Ehret, Jack LaLanne, Mila Rechcigl, Johnny Lovewisdom, Weston Price, Mary G. Enig, Russell Blaylock, Viktoras Kulvinskas, Earl Mindell, Bernarr Macfadden, Adelle Davis, Gary Taubes, Gary Null, Robert Atkins, Wilbur Olin Atwater, Sylvester Graham, Richard K. Bernstein, Rovenia M. Brock, Herbert M. Shelton, Nathan Pritikin, Ann Wigmore, Walter Willett, Helen W. Atwater, D. Mark Hegsted, Joel Fuhrman, Thomas H. Jukes, Ann Louise Gittleman, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Andrew W. Saul, Robert Marting, Paul F. Iams, Hazel Stiebeling, Robert Kushner, Barry Sears, Diane Solomon, William Howard Hay, Ruby Hooper, Zonya Foco, Fred Shank, Brian Zehetner, Ruth M. Leverton, Robert Nesheim. Excerpt: Arnold Ehret (29 July 1866-9 October 1922) was a German health educator and author of several books on diet, detoxification, fruitarianism, fasting, food combining, health, longevity, naturopathy, physical culture and vitalism. Ehret was a founder of vitalism in dietetics, and pioneer of Ehretism. He claimed to have discovered that the human body is an "air-gas engine" that is powered exclusively by oxygen and that a diet consisting of fruits, starchless vegetables and edible green leaves ("herbs"), which he dubbed 'mucusless' foods, is the optimum food for human consumption. Ehret maintained human health was determined by the state of the milieu interior, a term and principle espoused earlier by Louis Pasteur. He attempted to demonstrate that mucusless foods were the key to peak health and produced a treatise entitled The Mucusless Diet Healing System. Ehret was born in 1866, in St. Georgen (Black Forest), Schwarzwald, Baden, near Freiburg, southern Germany. His parents were veterinarians and his grandparents were doctors His father was a farmer who crafted all of his own farming equipment. Both his father and brother died of tuberculosis and his mother suffered from nephritis. Ehret's interests were physics, chemistry, drawing and painting. He also had an affinity for linguistics and could speak German, French, Italian, and English. In 1887, aged 21, he graduated as a Professor of Design from a college in Baden, and was drafted into the military only to be discharged after 9 months of service, because of heart disease. After studying in Frankfurt, he then taught there at a technical school for 15 years. At 31, he was diagnosed with Bright's disease (inflammation of the kidneys) by Dr G. Riedlin, and pronounced incurable by 24 of Europe's most respected doctors. He visited several sanitariums in Europe to learn holistic methods and philosophies including the Sebastian Kneipp sanitarium. In 1899, he traveled to Berlin to study vegetarianism, and where he visited 20