Catharyn Elwood: Nutritionist

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March/April 1972
By Hal Smith 
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I think we'd be better off if we threw out our stoves but — if you do cook — for heaven's sake, use low heat and use covers. One of my favorite ways to prepare vegetables is by making soup. I run the produce through a little grinder, put it in a pot with some stock and bring the mixture to a boil . . . right away I have a delicious soup.

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PLOWBOY: Do you have any advice for overweight people?

ELWOOD: Natural foods will slenderize you . . . and, if you're underweight, they'll help you put on those needed pounds. Many years ago I had a roommate who was so skinny she looked tubercular. She weighed 85 pounds and her hip bones stuck out. I was the same height and overweight at 130 . . . so we both went on a vegetarian, raw food diet. After two months of sprouted wheat, an occasional baked potato and a very fine quality raw milk, we both weighed 110 pounds.

PLOWBOY: Was it the amount of food you ate, or the foods themselves?

ELWOOD: We both ate the same amount. She gained and I lost. A beautiful balance will occur within your body when you stop eating unhealthy, refined commercial foods.

PLOWBOY: Do you think there's a danger that education about nutrition will become a panacea? If many personality and mental problems can be traced to nutritional deficiencies, isn't it too easy to say the millenium will be realized if we'll all just eat properly?

ELWOOD: We're born into challenging and difficult environments and have enough problems without having to cope with hunger, too. Ancel Keys said he could make any person partially crazy by withholding food — semi-starving him — then restore the individual to sanity by returning him to a proper diet. Even though that theory has been proven by thousands of experiments with animals, the far-reaching effects of food on personality and ability are not yet fully appreciated. Conditions are changing, however, and more people are beginning to realize that they're actually being starved by what I call "fraud foods".

PLOWBOY: I've heard that you and some of your most enthusiastic students have started a project designed to encourage that growing realization.

ELWOOD: Yes, it's called Hope Of the World, or H.O.W. It's a non-profit organization designed to raise funds for the establishment of an experimental rural community in which we'll do research on the relationship between bio-organic gardening and nutrition. We hope that the community will support itself as a health resortpschool and by selling its garden produce and crafts. We want H.O.W. to be a model ecologically sound community.

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