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Fit For LifeFit For Life:Some Notes on the Book and Its Roots James J. Kenney, Ph.D., R.D.In 1982, in an article in the National Council Against HealthFraud's newsletter, I attacked some of the fallacies of HarveyDiamond's faddish approach to nutrition. At the time, he was touting'food combining' in seminars called the 'DiamondMethod.' I concluded by stating that from a scientific viewpointthis method was 'pure zirconium crystal.'
Little didI suspect that Diamond and his wife, Marilyn, would later producethe fastest-selling diet book in U.S. History: Fit for LifeWarner Books, 1985, which reportedly has 1.8 million copiesin print.Since my little expose was published, the Diamonds have polishedtheir act enough to become stars of the TV talk show circuit.Perhaps to enhance their brilliance, Harvey obtained a 'doctoratein nutrition science' and Marilyn obtained 'certificationin nutrition counseling' from the American College of HealthScience (also called the American College of Life Science). Thisis an unaccredited correspondence school in Austin, Texas, whichteaches a naturopathic philosophy called 'Natural Hygiene.' Environmental Nutrition Newsletter calls Fit for Life'typical of the new wave of books that intertwine scientificdetail with pure nonsense.' Other best sellers of this typeinclude Life Extension, by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw,Dr. Berger's Immune Power Diet, by Stuart Berger, M.D.,and and Eat to Win, by Robert Haas. All of these bookshave made millions for their authors and their irresponsible publishers,largely as a result of appearances on the Donahue and Merv Griffinshows.Fit for Life's central premise is that nutrition dependsmore on when and how you eat rather than what or how much youeat.
The book has two sections. The first, written in Harvey's'voice,' covers the principles upon which the book isbased.
The second, written in Marilyn's 'voice,' describestheir dietary program and provides recipes and sample menus.In Part I, Harvey maintains that Fit for Life is nota diet but 'a way of eating that can be incorporated intoyour life-style as a way of life, not as a dogmatic regimen.' But he promises that those who are 'sick and tired of hasslingwith their weight' can learn to 'eat and enjoy it, alwaysfeeling satisfied and not deprived, always looking forward tomeals, and most important, always maintaining a comfortable bodyweight.' Moreover, he offers 'permanent results'and claims that he lost 50 pounds within a month of being introducedto Natural Hygiene.
In Part II, Marilyn presents her testimonial:At the age of 31. I spent much of my time in tears, wonderinghow I was ever going to feel well enough to get on with my life.No amount of drugs, treatment, or therapy that I had had overthe years had done anything to change or improve my situation.In all that time. No one ever asked me what I was eating!Harvey did! Natural Hygiene, as Harvey was teaching it, suppliedme with answers about my health that I had all but given up onfinding. I learned that I was in pain and out of energybecause I had been overtaxing my system with the wrong kindsof foods. When I put into practice the principles Harveyrecommended, I lost twenty pounds! In a matter of only six weeks,and for the first time in my adult life, I was proud of and comfortablewith the shape of my body.Harvey Diamond says his interest in Natural Hygiene was arousedin 1970 by a man who 'explained in a most concise way whyI was fat and why I was having such a struggle losing weight andkeeping it off.
It all made such sense to me that I was dumbfoundedat its obvious simplicity.' After 3 years of study with thisman (who wishes to remain anonymous), Harvey determined that theteaching and practice of Natural Hygiene would be his life's work.According to Diamond, Natural Hygiene has ancient roots, butits modern movement began in the United States in about 1850 withthe work of Sylvester Graham and three other medical doctors.During the 20th century, the most prominent promoter was HerbertM.
Shelton, D.P., N.D., IN.T., D.N.Sc., who from 1928 to 1981ran a 'health school' which included a clinic, laboratoryand teaching program in San Antonio, Texas. In An Introductionto Natural Hygiene (1922, 1954, 1963), Shelton said that allmedicines are 'poisons' and that 'any patient whocan get well in spite of drugs can get well much sooner and moresatisfactorily Hygienically.' He advised that eating morethan one type of food at a meal is undesirable. He claimed thatwhen people are ill, the food they eat will putrefy and fermentinstead of being digested. And he claimed that fasting is a safeand valuable method of ridding the intestines of putrefied andfermented foods. Shelton died on January 1, 1985, at the age of89.Like other cults, Natural Hygiene offers simple solutions tolife's complex health problems. In Fit for Life, the mainproblem addressed is unwanted pounds and the simplistic answeris food combining.
The book's food plan calls for eating onlyfruit in the morning and mostly vegetables during the rest ofthe day. This could lead some people to make a desirable increasein their intake of vegetables. But according to an analysis byKatherine Mulgrave, a nutrition professor at the University ofMaine, the Fit for Life diet is low in calcium, zinc, iron, andvitamins B12 and D. Readers inspired to embrace Natural Hygieneby abandoning modern medical care will, of course, be at evengreater risk.On September 21, 1982, the Los Angeles Daily Journal reportedthat a federal court jury had awarded $873,000 to the survivorsof William Carlton, a Los Altos man who died after being on adiet of distilled water for 30 days at Shelton's Health School.According to the article, Carlton had died of bronchial pneumoniaresulting from a weakened condition that also caused him to lose50 pounds during his last month of life. The article also statedthat he had been the sixth person in five years to die while undergoingtreatment at the school, which closed in 1981.Fit for Life is also based on the ideas of John H. Tilden,M.D., author of Toxemia Explained (1926). According toHarvey Diamond, 'Tilden's book is considered the tour deforce in the field of Natural Hygiene' and explains how 'toxemialays the foundation for putting on excess weight.'
Accordingto Tilden's theories:. Toxic waste material is retained if the body does not havesufficient energy to excrete it. Common cooking practices create food that is incompletelydigested and leaves a toxic residue. Accumulated toxic waste causes overweight.Diamond also explains how:. Eating foods in the wrong combinations causes them to rotso they cannot be assimilated.
Combinations such as meat and potatoes, eggs and toast, breadand cheese, or chicken and noodles are 'a contributing factorto why people in this country are dying at age 50.' .
Some foods 'cleanse' the body while others 'clog'it. Eggs rot in the body. Refined sugars also ferment and produce acids even when consumedalone because refining strips 'every vestige of life'from the sugar,. Fruits and vegetables, being high in water content can washand cleanse the body of toxins-but when fruit is eaten at theend of a meal, its absorption is blocked and it ferments.Actually, all sugars, whether refined or present in fruit,are almost entirely absorbed in the small intestine.
But Diamonddeclares that 'fruit should never be eaten with or immediatelyfollowing anything' - a rule he calls 'unquestionablythe most important aspect of Fit for Life.' Actually, fruitscontain pectin, which is fermented.
If the Diamonds' theory thatfermentation products cause obesity were correct, eating fruitwould increase obesity rather than cure it!Like most advocates of 'natural' methods, Diamondrepeats a number of 'nature-is-best' myths. For example,he claims that 'animals in nature are magnificently healthyin comparison to the health that we humans experience' butthat pets and zoo animals develop 'many of the problems ofhumans.' The fact is that most animals in nature are infestedwith parasites and succumb to infections and malnutrition. Itis only because predators usually kill sick animals that we don'tsee them stumbling across the plains and through the jungles.Perhaps it has never occurred to Harvey Diamond that the averageAmerican lives much longer than any mammal in the wild. The reasonpets and zoo animals develop debilitating diseases is becausethey live much longer than their wild 'cousins.' Diamond also claims that many people live well past 100 invarious remote areas of the world because they eat 'high-water'foods. As evidence for this supposed longevity, he cites a 1973National Geographic article in which Alexander Leaf, M.D., wasinterviewed following trips to three such areas.
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Leaf ischairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of PreventiveMedicine and Epidemiology.) However, in an editorial in the August1982 Journal of the American Geriatric Society, Dr. Leafexplained how further investigation had revealed that many individualshad been exaggerating their age in order to enhance their socialstatus or to promote tourism.The American College of Life Science,where Diamond got his 'doctoral' degree, was formedin 1982 by its president, T.C. Fry, whom Harvey calls 'today'smost eminent, active proponent of Natural Hygiene.
A mostbrilliant spokesperson for health.' Although Fry obviouslyhas high native intelligence, he admitted in a recent radio debatethat he was a high school dropout. He also told me that virusesdo not exist and that it was just coincidence that smallpox andpolio epidemics ceased when people were immunized against theviruses that cause these diseases.
According to the Life Sciencecatalog (a booklet called Careers in Health):Whereas medical practitioners look to drugs. Life Sciencepresents an entirely different approach. We hold that exuberantand radiant health is normal and natural. We hold that sufferingand ailments are abnormal, unnatural and unnecessary. Ceaseto indulge in the causes of disease and disease will not occur.The catalog also claims 'you can become an expert nutritionistin less than a year' by taking the school's 111-lesson correspondencecourse. Students can acquire a certificate of proficiency after32 lessons, a 'bachelor of science degree' after 58lessons, a 'master of science degree' after 84 lessons,and a 'doctor of philosophy degree' in nutrition scienceat the end.Presumably flushed with the success of his star pupils, Fryannounced this year that tuition for his nutrition course wouldrise from $875 to $1,250 and that graduates could expect to earn$500 to $1,000 per month from home on a part-time basis.
But thefuture of his school is uncertain. In 1982, the Texas Commissionerof Higher Education ordered Fry to 'cease and desist advertisingor otherwise offering degree programs without a Certificate ofAuthority from this agency.' Fry replied that his schoolwas exempt from the law because it was a religious institutionbut later said that it had left the state. In 1986, when it becameclear that the school was still operating in Texas and would notstop voluntarily, an injunction was obtained forbidding Fry, theCollege of Life Science, and the American College of Life Sciencefrom using the word 'College' or granting academic creditsor degrees.This article was published in the March 1986 issue of NutritionForum. Kenney is a nutritionist at the Pritikin LongevityCenter in Santa Monica, California.
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Died in 1996.This article was posted on November12, 1999.