Aajonus Vonderplanitz

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Aajonus Vonderplanitz (Born John Richard Swigart; April 17, 1947 – August 28, 2013) was an American alternative nutritionist and food-rights activist who focused on raw foods, particularly raw meat and dairy. He was a controversial figure who fought legal battles, implemented legal loopholes for consumer access to raw milk, and developed a diet based largely on raw meat: the primal diet. His later years, marked by his allegations of conspiracies and by his infighting within the raw food community, drew him notoriety even among advocates of alternative healthcare and food rights. He claimed that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in his early life, but later experienced remission and rejuvenation upon adopting a diet consisting of raw carrot juice and raw dairy by age 21. He later began informal nutritional counseling. By age 25, he had adopted a raw plant based diet; at age 29, he added raw meat, which he claimed vastly improved healing. After 1997, when his first book, We Want to Live...

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