Norman W. Walker
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Dr. Norman W. Walker (January 4, 1886 - June 6, 1985) is recognized throughout the world as one of the strongest proponents for raw foods and vegetable juicing in the 20th century and a daily practitioner of raw food eating until the age of 99 years old, observed that "while such [dead] food can, and does, sustain life in the human system, it does so at the expense of progressively degenerating health, energy, and vitality." Norman Walker popularized fresh vegetable and fruit juices in the US and Canada.
Norman Wardhaugh Walker was born on January 4, 1886 in Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy. His parents were British. As a young man he discovered the value of vegetable juices while recovering from a breakdown in a peasant house in the French countryside. Watching the woman in the kitchen peel carrots, he noticed their moistness under the peel. He decided to try grinding them, and had his first cup of carrot juice.
Norman W. Walker left Liverpool, England aboard the British ocean liner Lusitania in 1910, arriving in New York, USA in October. Later, Walker moved to Long Beach, California. With a medical doctor, he opened a juice bar and offered home delivery service. From 1910 to 1930, they devised dozens of fresh juice formulas for specific conditions. Walker believed colon cleansing with fresh juices was the key to good health. Walker designed his own juicer, the Norwalk, in two parts--a grinder to grind the vegetables and a press to extract the juice. When the San Francisco health department banned unpasteurized vegetable juices, Walker began manufacturing his juice machine in Anaheim, California. He kept the plant going in spite of the steel shortage during World War II.
In the late 1940s, he moved to Utah where he found an old cotton mill, ideal for his juice plant, but he was again hampered by health department regulations. He sold the factory to his two sons, and started publication of his own health magazine, The New Health Movement Review. For several years, Walker ran a health ranch in Arizona. Eventually he gave up the ranch to devote himself to writing. Norman W. Walker died on June 6, 1985 in Cottonwood, Yavapai, Arizona, USA.
Bibliography
- Raw Vegetable Juices: What's Missing in Your Body? (1936) A revision of this book was published in 1978 under the title Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices: What's Missing in Your Body?
- Diet & Salad Suggestions, for use in connection with vegetable and fruit juices (1940, revised and enlarged edition 1947) Another revision of this book was published in 1971 under the title The Vegetarian Guide to Diet and Salad
- Become Younger (1949)
- The Natural Way to Vibrant Health (1972)
- Water Can Undermine Your Health (1974)
- Back to the Land ... for Self Preservation: a freedom, life-style, and nutritional commentary (1977)
- Colon Health: the Key to a Vibrant Life (1979)
- Pure & Simple Natural Weight Control (1981)
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