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“The alkaline diet it just is a good diet generally. The foods that are recommended to be avoided are usually the foods that are either known to create inflammation or can be difficult to digest. Or have other issues that are associated with them. Or have certain proteins that are known to be allergenic. The alkaline foods tend to be micronutrient-rich foods as well. I think even if you look beyond the acidic and alkaline thing it's just a good diet in general.”
Read MoreListen to Greta’s interview with Jenny Seaton on CurtinFM, discussing Mrs Snook and her diet.
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: The extreme raw-food ‘cleansing’ diets of controversial Perth naturopath Dorothea Snook are back in demand, 30 years after a court case put her out of business. Mrs Snook, who died in 2008 aged 93, is the subject of a new podcast that investigates key events in the mother-of-seven’s life, leading up to the 1990 coronial inquiry into her brother Stanley’s death.
Read MoreWhen researching my book Gut Instinct, I came across a diet the remarkable Australian-born, American-educated naturopath Alice Caporn told a newspaper in 1937 was a sure-fire cure for “drink addicts”. She claimed the citrus and salad Prohibition-era diet was successful in curing “even the most confirmed inebriates”.
Read MoreA Nedlands woman who was a noted nudist and tried to sell the first wholemeal bread in Perth in 1939, is the subject of a planned new book. Former Perth nurse Alice Caporn, born Alice Miriam White in South Australia in 1875, studied for four degrees, including a Doctor of Naturopathy and PhD at Columbia University in the United States during the 1920s and 30s. Two of her food and nutrition books are still held at Harvard University’s library.
Read MoreThe Australian death ceremony started as a crude ritual back in the days of witchcraft. In recent years it has been developed into a science. This game is played by practically all Australians, except for a few ignorant souls who follow nature.
Read MoreTeresa kindly offered to be a ‘Snook guinea pig’ - that is, to try the vintage diet that worked so well for me, and to monitor her health signs (i.e. blood pressure, cholesterol, iron levels, etc.) both before and after she completed Mrs Snook’s three-month raw-food gut-cleanse diet...
Read MoreIn the 1920s and 30s the Nature Cure was booming in America. A German immigrant, Benedict Lust, who founded the Naturopathy (nature cure) movement in New York at the turn of the 20th century, was pushing for formal recognition of Naturopathy, alongside allopathic medicine.
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