How long did Norman Walker live?
Jerry Story
source says 119 years. Another says 109 years. Another says 106 to
130 years. Another says 117 years. Does anyone know?
Anyway he was into juicing. Someone told me veggy juice is dangerous
because of concentrated sugar. It didn't seem to be that dangerous
for Norman Walker. Carrot juice is supposed to be especially bad.
Norman Walker included lots of carrot juice.
Laurie
"Jerry Story" <jst...@edmc.net> wrote in message
news:4fdac879.03031...@posting.google.com...
> I did a Google search to find out how long Norman Walker lived. One
> source says 119 years. Another says 109 years. Another says 106 to
> 130 years. Another says 117 years. Does anyone know?
now-defunct rawlife mailing list. I have no idea how valid it is.
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"Well, having a little too much time on my hands, I made a timeline
to try and validate some of the Walker age claims. I say he was
easily 100 years old. Just the time between his first book and
his last book was 45 years. And it was a full 71 years between
his 1910 laboratory and his final 1981 book. Even if the age he
first got sick is wrong, if he was 30 when he established the
Lab, he was over 100 by the time he died.
I'm going to assume two things here: Dr. Walker's date of
death is probably more accurate and provable than his date
of birth, and the 45 years between his first and last book should
be fairly accurate...and verifiable.
Other than that, it is the word of quite a few honest and
reliable sources, that say he was at least 108-118 vs.
the word of, well, Dr. Bernarr. That pretty much says it
all right there!
But working back from the date of his death, I don't see
any huge problems sticking out, which surly would have
happened if numerous people, Dr. Walker included,
started exaggerating things.
* Dr. Norman W. Walker, Natal Day (birth day)
January 28, 1867. (unconfirmed)
(http://www.hacres.com/healthtips2.asp?tipid=111)
* He [Dr. Walker] was seriously ill in his
early 40's when he was convinced to go the
natural health route.
(http://www.hacres.com/articles.asp?artid=45)
* (Of course at that time I was a very young man)
One doctor after another gave me no hope beyond
a few weeks, as cirrhosis of the liver, coupled
with the excruciating pains of neuritis, were
considered definitely fatal. (Pure & Simple,
Natural Weight Control, published 1981) [Note,
he recovered, and then got seriously ill again
at a later point -- Jay]
* Dr. Walker began his journey into nutrition
in his early 50s after he became very ill.
(http://www.hacres.com/healthtips2.asp?tipid=111)
* In 1910, Dr. Walker established the Norwalk
Laboratory of Nutritional Chemistry and
Scientific Research in New York.
* 1930 the development of the Triturator Juicer.
* His book _Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices_ Published
Annually Since 1936
Formerly titled: Raw Vegetable Juices
* _Pure & Simple, Natural Weight Control_ published
copyright 1981.
* "Dr. Norman W. Walker, famous author and
pioneer in the field of nutrition and health,
particularly in the use of FRESH RAW VEGETABLE
JUICES, departed from his physical body, limited
to time and space, at his home in Cottonwood,
Arizona, the evening of June 6, 1985.
-- Mr. Woodside, A Tribute to Dr. Norman Walker
Jay"
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> Someone told me veggy juice is dangerous because of concentrated
> sugar.
Since there is so much misinformation in contemporary nutribabble, I'd
suggest you, and everyone else, develop the habit of asking these
unidentified someones where THEY got the concept and try to trace it back to
the source. Generally, people who do not care about the accuracy of their
beliefs, and that included the great majority, can't remember where they
picked up various ideas, and you'll get: "Oh, I read it somewhere." or "I
heard it somewhere.".
This problem of "lost sources" relates to the fact that in school we
were NEVER taught to challenge the validity of what we were forced to learn,
and we were conditioned into the false belief that 'education' is about
mindless memorizing of concepts and regurgitating them on exams. That is,
we were not taught to THINK about the possible validity of the concepts
presented. "Education" teaches people WHAT to think, not HOW to think.
Thus, in order to not get trapped into others' muddled mental morasses,
it is necessary to remember the source for all concepts learned. That way,
when one discovers later on that a particular source was unreliable, all
concepts associated with that source can be discounted. This is far too
much work for the majority, and so they just babble on incoherently, making
believe they actually understand something, when all they are doing is
propagating other peoples' errors. Thus, totally idiotic concepts, like
"living enzymes", are constantly being propagated and renewed in the raw
food community, and are impossible to eradicate.
Laurie
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