Franklin Bicknell was the consulting physician for French Hospital, London.
10 Facts About Franklin Bicknell
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Franklin Bicknell co-authored Vitamins In Medicine in 1946 which was positively reviewed by the British Medical Journal as a "very fine work".
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Franklin Bicknell argued for people to eat more dietary fats and meat.
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Franklin Bicknell advocated low-carbohydrate dieting and wrote the introduction for Richard Mackarness' book Eat Fat and Grow Slim in 1958.
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Franklin Bicknell authored Chemicals in Food and in Farm Produce, in 1960.
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In 1947, Franklin Bicknell wrote a controversial article "Dying England" in The Medical Press supporting Albert Howard's idea that English people are malnourished.
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Franklin Bicknell stated that "England is dying from starvation" and that the average person was only getting 2,100 calories a day when they needed 3,000.
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Franklin Bicknell believed the British population were suffering from prolonged chronic malnutrition.
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Franklin Bicknell checked with the Ministry of Food and contradicted Bicknell's claim that the average person was getting 2,100 calories a day.
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John Strachey commented that Franklin Bicknell had failed to take into account important factors such as the amount of food consumed in canteens and restaurants.