词条 | Victor Herbert (hematologist) |
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CareerHis post at the end of his career was Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and Chief of Mount Sinai's Hematology and Nutrition Research Laboratory in the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center.[3] His self experimentation to prove the health benefits of folic acid by living on diet of thrice-boiled chicken, marshmallows and jelly was reported on in the third episode of the BBC series the Medical Mavericks.[3] Military serviceHerbert served in four wars: World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the first Gulf War. On retirement his rank was Lt. Col. (Green Berets).[4] Criticism of nutrition quackeryHerbert was critical of alternative medicine claims and nutrition quackery.[1][5] He was the author of Vitamins and `Health' Foods: The Great American Hustle with Stephen Barrett and the book Nutrition Cultism.[6] The latter was described by The New England Journal of Medicine as "a must for all readers who value the importance of nutrition in public health but are chagrined by the pretenders who exploit the public with food frauds, dietary cures, and nutrition nonsense."[1] His book The Vitamin Pushers (1994), also co-authored with Barrett was an exposé of quacks in the health food industry, based on more than twenty years of research.[7][8] Awards
Selected publicationsHerbert authored over 800 scientific papers, many book chapters, and several books. Books
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References1. ^1 2 NCAHF - Obituary of Victor Herbert, MD, JD, M.A.C.P., F.R.S.M. 2. ^Scott, John M. (2004) Victor Herbert (1927–2002), The American Society for Nutritional Sciences J. Nutr. 134:1678-1680, July 2004 3. ^Mosley, Michael (2009) Medical Mavericks, BBC 4. ^1 2 victorherbert.com 5. ^Jerome, N. W; Moore, Melinda. (1981). [https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/34/6/1171/4693154 Book Review: Nutrition Cultism]. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 34 (6): 1171-1173. 6. ^Sampson, Wallace. (1983). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1010670/?page=1 Vitamins and `Health' Foods: The Great American Hustle]. The Western Journal of Medicine. 138 (1): 126. 7. ^Olson, Robert E. (1996). [https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/63/3/406/4651346 The Vitamin Pushers: How the Health Food Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods]. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 63 (3): 406-407. 8. ^[https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87975-909-4 "The Vitamin Pushers: How the ""Health Food"" Industry Is Selling America a Bill of Goods"]. Publishers Weekly. External links
6 : 1927 births|2002 deaths|American hematologists|American skeptics|Critics of alternative medicine|Scientists from New York City |
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