THE PLOWBOY INTERVIEW
An interview with nutritionist Catharyn Elwood, the gracious, camera-shy author of FEEL LIKE A MILLION . . . a book on nutrition and health which still sells briskly after ten printings and a circulation of over half a million copies.
Catharyn Elwood
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Nutritionist Catharyn Elwood is the gracious, camera-shy
author of FEEL LIKE A MILLION . . . a book on nutrition and
health which still sells briskly after ten printings and a
circulation of over half a million copies. A slight lady
who wears her hair braided in a ponytail down to her hips
and volunteers that she's "one year younger than Adelle
Davis ", Miss Elwood seems to take the quotation from
Socrates on the title page of that book—"One cannot
get closer to the gods than to bring health to one's fellow
men"—as the credo of her life.
Catharyn graduated from the Agricultural College in
Logan, Utah (now Utah State University), continued her
studies at Cornell and received an M.S. in food and
nutrition from the University of Maryland. She now teaches
at Montgomery Junior College in Washington, D. C and at the
University of Northern Virginia Community College.
The following interview with Miss Elwood was conducted
last September by Hal Smith at the School of Living's
"Conference on Adequate Action for a Human Future" held
near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
PLOWBOY: You were sick and frail as a
child, Miss Elwood. Other authorities in your field
— such as George Oshawa and Michel Abehsera
— were also very ill before they began to
concern themselves with nutrition. Does it take a
knock-down drag-out bout with sickness to really turn us on
to the value of proper foods and good health?
ELWOOD: Yes, it does seem to work that way
and I often find people who had radiant health as children
falling to pieces as 40 and 50-year-olds from bad eating
habits . . . whereas someone brought up in a delicate
condition — someone who had to struggle for
the answer to his health problems has probably learned the
value of eating well to supply his body with the necessary
repair and building materials. The people who are fortunate
enough to learn this later in life can sometimes make
themselves even more robust than those who are bore with
good health and lose it.
In my own case, I didn't walk until I was 19 months old,
and even then they had to put special shoes on my feet
because my ankles turned. My baby teeth decayed (of course
that was because of an indulgent father who always brought
me candy) and I had something wrong with me every year in
school. Sometimes I was out for two or three months at a
time. I had pneumonia, smallpox, measles, chickenpox
— the whole gamut of childhood diseases
— and always very serious cases.
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