Hippocrates Diet was influenced by Charles Darwin's ideas that humans were just another kind of animal, noting that other animals do not cook their food.
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10 Facts About Hippocrates Diet
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Hippocrates Diet was inspired in part by the biblical story of King Nebuchadnezzar, recounted in Daniel 4:33, in which "he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws", and by the examples of dogs eating grass when they were unwell.
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Hippocrates Diet said that she learned about herbs and natural remedies as a child in Lithuania, watching her grandmother.
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Hippocrates Diet believed that fresh wheatgrass juice and fresh vegetables - and especially chlorophyll - retained more of their original energy and potency if they were uncooked and eaten as soon as possible after harvesting them.
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Hippocrates Diet listed a Doctor of Philosophy and a Doctor of Naturopathy degree at different times.
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Hippocrates Diet founded The Ann Wigmore Foundation Inc, which received accreditation as a nonprofit from the IRS in 1970.
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Hippocrates Diet held the erroneous view that the chlorophyll in wheatgrass detoxifies the body and has healing power.
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Hippocrates Diet claimed that AIDS arises from "the body's inability to assimilate the food consumed" and for around $400 sold lessons to make an "energy enzyme soup" that she said allowed an infected person's body to completely clear the virus.
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Hippocrates Diet was acquitted under the First Amendment as the claims were deemed not to be commercial claims made in trade, but was ordered not to misrepresent herself as a doctor qualified to treat illness or disease.
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