RARE “Weight Loss Pioneer\" Herman Taller Hand Signed 3.25X5.75 Card For Sale

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RARE “Weight Loss Pioneer\" Herman Taller Hand Signed 3.25X5.75 Card:
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Up for sale "Weight Loss Physician" Herman Taller Hand Signed 3.25X5.75 Card. 

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Herman Taller (5 May

1906, Baia de Aramă - June

1984, Warsaw, Poland) was a Romanian-born American doctor who advocated weight loss based on a low-carbohydrate diet with

polyunsaturated fats including safflower oil. He was the author of the controversial best

selling book, Calories Don't Count. The FDA charged

that the 1961 book, which cited a specific source of safflower oil capsules in

the first printings, existed solely to promote the sales of safflower oil capsules. In 1962, FDA Commissioner George

Larrick said: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to

promote these worthless safflower oil capsules for the treatment of obesity,

cardiovascular diseases and other serious conditions. One of its main purposes

was to promote the sale of a commercial product in which Dr. Taller had a

financial interest." To this, publisher Simon & Schuster replied:

"There is nothing in the record which could possibly support these vicious

and irresponsible innuendoes." The FDA's Larrick went further: "The

book is full of false ideas, as many competent medical and nutritional writers

have pointed out. Contrary to the book's basic premise, weight reduction

requires the reduction of caloric intake. There is no easy, simple substitute.

Unfortunately, calories do count."  Despite this, the book

sold more than two million copies. Later, after a trial,

and an unfavorable appeal on the confusion of the jury instructions about

misdemeanors, Taller was found guilty of mail fraud and conspiracy in 1967, fined $7000,

placed on probation for two years, and sentencing suspended on some charges. In

the October 1962 pocket book edition of "Calories Don't Count" there

is no mention of safflower oil capsules. Safflower oil is mentioned as the oil

highest in polyunsaturated fat content at the time of writing. The main

component of the diet is polyunsaturated fats; corn oil and sunflower oil are

also suggested as good sources. The intake of oil recommended in the book is

around 3-4 oz per day. "What got Taller into trouble with the law was that

first printings of the book included an endorsement of a specific manufacturer

of safflower oil (CDC capsules), and copies of the book were used to promote

the capsules." 

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