Victor Hugo Lindlahr (February 14, 1897 – January 26, 1969) was an American radio presenter,
health food writer, and
osteopathic physician. From 1936 to 1953, he hosted Talks and Diet, a popular radio series about nutrition.[1][2]
In 1940, he wrote the book You Are What You Eat, one of the earliest texts of the health food movement in the United States, which sold over half a million copies.[5] His book is also credited for popularizing the expression.[6]
Between 1944 and 1953, Lindlahr endorsed the dietary supplement
Serutan on the radio and
television.[3] Lindlahr has been described as a promoter of
fad diets.[7] He developed a
low-carbohydrate diet which he called the Catabolic Diet.[8] Nutritionist
Frederick J. Stare included Lindlahr's Calorie Countdown in a list of books on nutritional
quackery, which "ought not to be on anyone's shelves."[9]
Publications
Guide to Balanced Diet (1938)
The Natural Way to Health (1939)
You Are What You Eat (1940)
The Lindlahr Vitamin Cook Book (1941)
Win Health Through Foods (1946)
7 Day Reducing Diet (1948)
201 Tasty Dishes for Reducers (1948)
Eat and Reduce! (1948)
Your Body Energy
Calorie Countdown (1962)
References
^DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 166.
ISBN978-0-7864-2834-2.
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abCox, Jim. (2006). Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. p. 175.
ISBN978-0786427802
^Maloney, Cathy Jean. (2008). Chicago Gardens: The Early History. University of Chicago Press. p. 326.
ISBN978-0-226-50234-2
^Smith, Andrew F. (2017). Food in America: The Past, Present, and Future of Food, Farming, and the Family Meal, Volume 1. ABC-Clio. p. 97.
ISBN978-1-4408-4731-8
^Rosen, Steven J. (2011). Food for the Soul: Vegetarianism and Yoga Traditions. Praeger. p. 64.
ISBN978-0-313-39703-5