Lelord Kordel
Lelord Kordel | |
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Warsaw, Poland | |
Died | July 3, 2001 | (aged 92)
Occupation(s) | Health and nutrition writer |
Lelord Kordel (December 16, 1908 – July 3, 2001
Career
Born in
When Kordel returned to America in the early 1930s, he opened the California Nutrition Clinic in
After the war, Kordel began writing books on healthy living and nutrition. While living in
He created a health product company in 1949, Kordel's Nutritionals.[4][5] He was also president of Detroit Vital Foods, Inc.[6]
In 1962, Kordel stated that he had never been ill and he would live to the age of 120 because of his diet.[7]
Dieting
Kordel was an advocate of a
Kordel criticized vegetarianism in his writings as a danger to health which he believed was responsible for anemia, malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies. He argued that protein is the key to living and that most vegetarians eat a low-protein diet that fails to satisfy hunger.[11][12]
Kordel made false statements about dieting, for example linking the overconsumption of carbohydrates with cancer.[8] He also made the false claim that vitamin E foods have a beneficial effect on sex organs and that lack of this vitamin may cause sterility.[13]
Reception
In 1946, Kordel was convicted of misbranding dietary supplements and fined $4,000. For example, he falsely advertised a herbal tablet, "Gotu Kola", as offering "erect posture, sharp eyes, velvety skin, limbs of splendid proportions, deep chest, firm bodies, gracefully curved hips, flat abdomens and even pleasing laughter."[10]
Kordel came into dispute with the Federal Trade Commission in 1957 and Food and Drug Administration in 1961. Whilst president of Detroit Vital Foods, products from the company, "Michigan Brand Korleen Tablets" and "Frutex Fruit Salad" were discovered to be misbranded with false health claims. The products were advertised in Kordel's lectures and publications for treating practically all diseases.[14][15] After a long appeal process, Kordel was fined $10, 000 and served one year in prison in 1971.[16]
Professor of Bioethics Sana Loue in Forensic Epidemiology: Integrating Public Health and Law Enforcement, noted that:
Kordel had consistently represented in lectures and advertising material that specified chemicals could improve health and that such "natural nutrients" were the constituent elements of the products Korleen and Frutex. It was claimed that Korleen could successfully treat cirrhosis of the liver and eliminate varicose veins. Frutex was claimed to be an effective preventive strategy and cure for bleeding gums, sore throat, earache, swollen neck glands, pneumonia, and acute rheumatism. In the criminal case, both Kordel and Feldten were convicted of having violated provisions of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and were fined and sentenced to prison. A fine was also imposed on the company.[17]
Nutritionist
Publications
- Health the Easy Way (1946)
- Health Through Nutrition (1950)
- Eat and Grow Younger (1952)
- Lady, be Loved! (1953)
- Sexual Vigor and Nutrition (1953)
- Eat Your Troubles Away (1955)
- Live to Enjoy the Money You Make (1956)
- How to Make People Like You (1959)
- Cook Right – Live Longer (1962)
- Eat and Grow Slender (1962)
- Eat Your Way to Happiness (1962)
- Eat Right and Live Longer (1965)
- How to Keep Your Youthful Vitality After Forty (1969),[20]
- Secrets for Staying Slim (1972)
- Natural Folk Remedies (1974)
- Health the Easy Way (1976)
- You're Younger Than You Think (1976)
- The Easy, Low-Cost Way to Total Beauty, (Putnam Publishing Group, 1979, ISBN 0-399-11914-0)
- Total Beauty the Kordel Way (1983)
Gallery
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Kordel with Eva Gabor, 1956
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Kordel with Dennis Weaver, 1960
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Kordel in 1961
References
- ^ "Death record for Lelord Kordel, SSN: 546-01-3972". Social Security Death Master File. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ Dear, Pamela S; Chapman, Jeff. (1981). Contemporary Authors; the International Biobibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works. Gale Research Company. p. 295
- ^ Eat Your Troubles Away, Belmont Publishing, 1961 reprint of World Publishing edition (promotional copy, back cover)
- ^ biographical information at Kordel's website Archived 2010-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ US vs Kordel, 1969 Supreme Court. OpenJurist.
- ^ United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs Detroit Vital Foods, Inc. OpenJurist.
- ^ "I Will Live to be 120 Says A Man Who's Never Been Ill". The Straits Times (22 July 1962). p. 9
- ^ a b c d Deutsch, Ronald M. (1961). The Nuts Among the Berries. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 171-177.
- ^ ISBN 0-257-65224-8
- ^ a b Herbert, Victor; Barrett, Stephen. (1985). Vitamins and "Health" Foods: The Great American Hustle. G.F. Stickley Company. p. 90
- ^ Kordel, Lelord. (April 5, 1970). Vegetarian Diet Involves Some Danger to Health. Morgantown Sunday Dominion Post. p. 26
- ^ Kordel, Lelord. (February 3, 1976). Low Protein Questioned. Sentinel and Enterprise. p. 18
- ^ Frauds and Quackery Affecting the Older Citizen. (January 15, 1963). Hearings Before the Special Committee on Aging United States Senate Eighty-Eighth Congress First Session. Part 1 Washington, D.C. pp. 38-42.
- ^ Kleinfeld, Vincent A; Kaplan, Alan H. (1965). Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Judicial and Administrative Record, 1961-1964. Commerce Clearing House. p. 755
- ^ Tatkon, M. Daniel. (1968). The Great Vitamin Hoax. Macmillan. p. 75
- ISBN 978-0-87975-909-4
- ISBN 978-0-7637-3849-5
- ^ Stare, Frederick J. (March 10, 1964). Health Frauds and Quackery. In Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging United States Senate Eighty-Eighth Congress Second Session Part 3. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 297
- doi:10.1086/399066.
- ^ Best of Health: The 100 Best Books, Sheldon Zerden, p. 465
Further reading
- Julius Cohen. (1949). United States v. Kordel. In Materials And Problems On Legislation. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. pp. 109–131