Food faddists (also known aspseudoscientific diet advocates) are people who promotefad diets or pseudoscientific dieting ideas. The following people are recognized as notable food faddists, either currently or historically.
^Butler, Kurt. (1992).A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine": A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments. Prometheus Books. pp. 4-6.ISBN0-87975-733-7
^Stark, James F. (2018).Replace them by Salads and Vegetables: Dietary Innovation, Youthfulness, and Authority, 1900–1939.Global Food History 4 (2): 130-151.
^Deutsch, Ronald M. (1977). The New Nuts Among the Berries. Bull Publishing Company. pp. 88-89
^Gratzer, Walter. (2005).Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition. Oxford University Press. pp. 197-198.ISBN0-19-280661-0
^Fitzgerald, Matt. (2015).Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US. Pegasus. p. 43.ISBN978-1605988290 "There was, of course, no evidence that the life force that Bircher-Benner deemed all-important actually existed. His peers in the mainstream medical establishment dismissed the life-force concept as unscientific and branded Bircher-Benner a quack."
^Butler, Kurt. (1992).A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine": A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments. Prometheus Books. pp. 276-277.ISBN0-87975-733-7
^Shapiro, Rose. (2010).Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All. Random House. p. 213.ISBN978-1409059165
^Barnett, L. Margaret. (1995).Every Man His Own Physician: Dietetic Fads, 1890-1914. In Harmke Kamminga, Andrew Cunningham.The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940. p. 162. Rodopi.ISBN90-5183-818-2
^Butler, Kurt (1992)Consumer's Guide to Alternative Medicine, Prometheus Books.ISBN978-0879757335. pp 34-36.
^Berry, Rynn. (2007). "Raw Foodism". In Andrew F. Smith.The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. Oxford University Press. pp. 493-494.ISBN978-0-19-530796-2
^Butler, Kurt; Rayner, Lynn. (1985).The Best Medicine: The Complete Health and Preventive Medicine Handbook. Harper & Row, Publishers, San Francisco. pp. 133-135.ISBN0-06-250123-2
^Gratzer, Walter. (2005).Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition. Oxford University Press. pp. 202-206.ISBN0-19-280661-0
^Butler, Kurt. (1992).A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine": A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments. Prometheus Books. pp. 36-38.ISBN0-87975-733-7
^Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2004).Vegetarian America: A History. Praeger Publishing. p. 161.ISBN978-0275975197
^Barrett, Stephen; Herbert, Victor. (1994).The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry Is Selling Americans a Bill of Goods. pp. 321-322.ISBN0-87975-909-7
^Barrett, Stephen; Victor, Herbert. (1994).The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods. Prometheus Books. pp. 222-223.ISBN0-87975-909-7
^Barrett, Stephen; Jarvis, William T. (1993).The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America. Prometheus Books. p. 79.ISBN0-87975-855-4
^Barrett, Stephen; Herbert, Victor. (1994).The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods. Prometheus Books. p. 323.ISBN978-0-87975-909-4
^Holbrook, Stewart. (1959).The Natural History of Swamp Root. InThe Golden Age of Quackery. Collier Books. pp. 113-120
^Barrett, Stephen; Herbert, Victor. (1994).The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods. Prometheus Books. p. 324.ISBN978-0-87975-909-4
^Simon Singh; Edzard Ernst (17 August 2008).Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine. W. W. Norton. p. 295.ISBN978-0-393-06661-6
^Fishbein, Morris. (1932).Fads and Quackery in Healing: An Analysis of the Foibles of the Healing Cults. New York: Covici Friede Publishers. pp. 118-119
^Boyle, Eric W. (2013).Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America. Praeger. pp. 85-86.ISBN978-0-313-38567-4
^Butler, Kurt. (1992).A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine": A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments. Prometheus Books. pp. 12-14.ISBN0-87975-733-7
^Deutsch, Ronald M. (1961).The Nuts Among the Berries. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 131-141
^Malmberg, Carl. (1935).Diet and Die. Hillman-Curl, Inc. pp. 44-46
^Butler, Kurt. (1992).A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine": A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments. Prometheus Books. pp. 24-27.ISBN0-87975-733-7
^Levinovitz, Alan. (2015)The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat, Simon and Schuster.ISBN9781941393789
^Whorton, James C. (2016 edition).Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers. Princeton University Press. pp. 260-262.ISBN978-0691641898
^Barrett, Stephen; Herbert, Victor. (1994).The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods. Prometheus Books. pp. 357-358.ISBN0-87975-909-7
^Whorton, James C. (2000).Inner Hygiene: Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society. Oxford University Press. p. 49.ISBN0-19-513581-4
^Cramp, Arthur J. (1921).Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil, Quackery and Allied Matters Affecting the Public Health, Volume 2. Press of American Medical Association. pp. 148-150
^Barrett, Stephen; Jarvis, William T. (1993).The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America. Prometheus Books. pp. 382–384.ISBN0-87975-855-4
^Barrett, Stephen; Victor, Herbert. (1994).The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods. Prometheus Books. p. 418.ISBN0-87975-909-7
^Butler, Kurt. (1992).A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine": A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments. Prometheus Books. p. 23.ISBN0-87975-733-7
^Spencer, Colin. (1995).The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism. University Press of New England. p. 276.ISBN0-87451-708-7
^Barrett, Stephen; Victor, Herbert. (1994).The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods. Prometheus Books. pp. 182-183.ISBN0-87975-909-7
^Cramp, Arthur J. (1921).Nostrums and Quackery, Volume 2. Press of American Medical Association. pp. 788-796
^Albala, Ken. (2015).The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues, Volume 1. Sage Publications. p. 1176.ISBN978-1-4522-4301-6
^Anonymous. (1938).Pamphlets: Quacks and Quackery. American Medical Association. Bureau of Investigation. p. 50
^Johnson, Adrienne Rose. (2015).The Paleo Diet and the American Weight Loss Utopia, 1975–2014.Utopian Studies 26 (1): 101-124.
^Anonymous. (1903).The Exact Science of Health Based Upon Life's Great Law.International Medical Magazine 12: 749-750.
^Forbes, Robert J. (1970).A Short History of the Art of Distillation: From the Beginnings Up to the Death of Cellier Blumenthal. Brill. p. 244.ISBN978-9004006171
^"Wheatgrass Therapy". National Council Against Health Fraud. Retrieved 30 June 2019.