Paul Chappuis Bragg (February 6, 1895 – December 7, 1976) was an American
alternative health
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food advocate and fitness enthusiast.
Bragg's mentor was
Bernarr Macfadden
Bernarr Macfadden (born Bernard Adolphus McFadden, August 16, 1868 – October 12, 1955) was an American proponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He founded the long-running magazine pub ...
.
He wrote on subjects such as
Detoxification (alternative medicine)
Detoxification (often shortened to detox and sometimes called body cleansing) is a type of alternative-medicine treatment which aims to rid the body of unspecified "toxins" – substances that proponents claim accumulate in the body over ...
,
dieting
Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity. As weight loss depends on calorie intake, different kinds of calorie-redu ...
,
fasting
Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see " Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after ...
,
longevity
The word " longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography. However, the term ''longevity'' is sometimes meant to refer only to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas ''life expectancy'' is always d ...
,
orthopathy
Orthopathy (from the Greek ὀρθός ''orthos'' 'right' and πάθος ''pathos'' 'suffering') or natural hygiene (NH) is a set of alternative medical beliefs and practices originating from the ''Nature Cure'' movement. Proponents claim that f ...
and
physical culture
Physical culture, also known as Body culture, is a health and strength training movement that originated during the 19th century in Germany, the UK and the US.
Origins
The physical culture movement in the United States during the 19th century ...
.
Medical experts criticized Bragg as a
food faddist
A fad diet is a diet that becomes popular for a short time, similar to fads in fashion, without being a standard dietary recommendation, and often making unreasonable claims for fast weight loss or health improvements. There is no single defini ...
and promoter of
quackery
Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, ...
.
[ Cramp, Arthur J. (1936)]
''Nostrums and Quackery and Pseudo-Medicine, Volume 3''
Press of American Medical Association. pp. 145-147
Early life
Bragg claimed to have been born in 1881 in either
Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is part of Northern Virginia and borders both the city of Alexandria and Arlington County and forms part of the suburban ring of Washington, D.C. ...
or Pinkle, Virginia,
but genealogical research indicates he was born on February 6, 1895, in
Batesville, Indiana
Batesville is a city in Franklin and Ripley counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,520 at the 2010 census, making it the largest community in both counties but is not the county seat of either. The Batesville Casket Company ...
, where his father was Editor/Publisher/printer of the "Batesville Democratic Herald" newspaper.
Bragg grew up in
Washington, D.C.
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with his parents, Robert Elton Bragg (1866-1944), who had procured a U.S. Civil Service position there, and Caroline (Chappuis) Bragg (1859-1934). He had two brothers, James Elton Bragg and John Harrison Bragg. His father was employed by the
U.S. Printing Office. However, in the 1972 Edition of the Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar System booklet, at page 12, and in later editions, Bragg claimed both that his father was "a splendid farmer" and that "I am the oldest of 16 children".
There is no evidence of a sister named "Louise" that Bragg claimed to have tutored to good health in his "Miracle of Fasting" publications, Paul Bragg and his two brothers did have a half brother named "Rufus Albert Chappuis" (1880-1948), from an earlier marriage of their mother, Caroline.
Career
![Paul Bragg fined 1935](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Paul_Bragg_fined_1935.png)
At some point, Bragg enlisted with the Washington D.C. National Guard for "three Years", as is shown on his 1917 Draft Registration, which he filed with the
Indianapolis, Indiana
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draft board that year.
Although Bragg had claimed participation in both the 1908 (London) and 1912 (Stockholm) Olympics as a member of the
United States wrestling team, the "Encyclopedia of American Wrestling" (Pub. 1988, Mike Chapman, author) does not show any such person as a member in either year.
In 1915 Bragg married Neva Cecelia Parnin (1897-1988) at the Chapel of St. Barnabas in
New York City
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. They moved to
Indianapolis
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, where Bragg became an agent with The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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.
Several years later, Bragg returned to the East Coast and was employed by various
YMCA
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London, originally ...
s & school districts in physical or athletic director capacities, his last known position before moving to California being football coach for the 1920 season at Connersville High School, Connersville, Pennsylvania.
In 1921 Bragg and his family, now also including two young daughters, Neva Pauline/Polly and Lorraine Agnes Bragg (both born in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 1917 & March 10, 1919, respectively), came to California, where Paul was again employed by the YMCA. Son, Robert Elton, was born in Los Angeles County on March 25, 1922. It is unknown how long Bragg stayed with the Los Angeles YMCA, but in 1922 he was in charge of the Physical Education Department at San Luis Obispo High School, and in 1924 he was a physical education teacher at Redondo Union High School,
Redondo Beach, California
Redondo Beach (Spanish for ''round'') is a coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area. It is one of three adjacent beach cities along the southern portion of Sa ...
.
Around 1926, Paul Bragg became an
entrepreneur
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in the health field, first by opening an establishment on N. 7th Street, Los Angeles, called "Health Center of Los Angeles" and then, in 1928, "Bragg Health Center" on South Hill Street, Los Angeles. To publicize these businesses, he wrote a weekly health column (in the early days they were "advertorials") in ''
The Los Angeles Times
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'' from 1926 to 1928 which he sometimes called "Newslets" and other times "Health Notes". The health services that business endeavors offered are described in the advertorials and columns.
1929 was the beginning of Paul Bragg's health lecture tours where he went to various American cities (San Antonio & Dallas, Texas in 1929; San Francisco & Oakland, California and Denver, Colorado in 1930), rented a facility,
advertise
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d heavily, then gave a series of lectures—usually over a period of five or six consecutive evenings. His lectures were free, but he did charge a fee for post-lecture private consultation. ($20 circa 1935—approximately $343 in 2015 dollars per CPI calculation—according to testimony in a Maryland court case against him).
1929 was also the
copyright
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year of the first health book attributed to Bragg as author, ''Cure Yourself''. Since book stores or book departments in retail stores in that era were usually only accessible in the more highly populated areas, another purpose of Bragg's lecture tours was most likely to promote and sell his books.
In 1930, Bragg was sued in
Federal Court/San Francisco by
St. Louis Estes, a Los Angeles-area raw food health lecturer/manufacturer, charging
copyright infringement
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, stating "A 1929 publication of Bragg is a rearrangement of material in an earlier book on raw food written by Estes." The outcome of this lawsuit is unknown.
Bragg gave health lectures at churches.
In 1934, Betty Thompson an 18-year-old church musician testified in Superior Court that Bragg attacked her in April, 1932. She sued Bragg for damages of $100,000.
Later life
During the Braggs' first decade in California, Paul and Neva Bragg divorced, and in the 1930
U.S. Census, Neva & her new husband, August Busch, were shown living with the three Bragg children in
Los Angeles, California
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.
Bragg married Gertrude Elizabeth Brownlee (born July 6, 1902, Eau Claire, Wisconsin) on February 17, 1930, in
Clearwater, Florida
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. Brownlee was an Advance Manager for the Bragg lectures. On their Florida marriage license application, Bragg stated his age as 49, his residence as
Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, ...
, and his birthplace as Pinkle, Virginia.
Paul Bragg and Gertrude Elizabeth Brownlee Bragg were divorced in January 1932 in Los Angeles County, California. Paul Bragg never remarried.
Burbank, California
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city directories of the time reflect his residence in that city from 1935 to 1954, and that his food manufacturing company, Live Food Products, Inc., later Bragg Live Foods, Inc., was also located there during that period. Subsequently, he relocated to Desert Hot Springs, California, and later in the 1960s, at least part-time, to
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
.
Bragg was the inspiration and personal health and fitness adviser to several
Olympic
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Competitions
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athletes:
Murray Rose
Iain Murray Rose, (6 January 1939 – 15 April 2012) was an Australian swimmer, actor, sports commentator and marketing executive. He was a six-time Olympic medalist (four gold, one silver, one bronze), and at one time held the world records ...
,
Betty Cuthbert
Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, (20 April 1938 – 6 August 2017) was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 metres, 100 yards, 200 metres ...
of Australia, his relative Don Bragg (
pole-vaulter), and others.
Jack LaLanne
Francois Henri LaLanne (; September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011) was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was aged 15. He also had behav ...
, the original "TV Fitness King", said that "Bragg saved my life at age 15 when I attended the Bragg Crusade in Oakland, California".
Education claims
Although Bragg claimed advanced scientific degrees in newspaper and magazine interviews—including his 1975
''People'' article—there is no documentation. The 1940 Federal Census showed him living on National Avenue in
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, w ...
, gives his age as "45" and the highest attained academic grade for him as "H1", which would be only one year of high school. On October 8, 1914, Washington, D.C.'s ''
Evening Star'' newspaper reported that Paul C. Bragg was appointed to the student staff of ''The Balance Sheet'', a newly planned newspaper of that city's "Business High School", as its "Athletic Editor". Currently, no books authored by Bragg refer to any specific educational accomplishments, but a 1977 publication he co-authored with Patricia Bragg, titled ''The Shocking Truth about Water'', appends the titles of N.D. and Ph.D. behind his name, although in earlier booklets he published under only his name prior to his death, such as "Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar System" (Thirteenth Printing 1972) and "Building Powerful Nerve Force..." (Fifth Printing 1973), he uses the titles "N.D." and "Ph.T", not "Ph.D" as editions printed after his death indicate.
Business
Patricia Bragg
Patricia Bragg is an American businesswoman, author, and health consultant. She serves as the nominal head of Bragg Live Food Products and Books, and Chairperson of the Bragg Health Institute. Alternatively: "mauitime.com/culture/in-the-name-of-t ...
, Bragg's former daughter-in-law, according to official records,
has since taken over Bragg's health empire, having previously married (and later divorced) Bragg's son, Robert Elton Bragg. She has stated that she was legally adopted by Paul.
The company they started and ran, Bragg Live Food Products, Inc. was sold to an investment group in 2019, and Patricia Bragg is apparently no longer associated with the company, but the new ownership continues to sell the products it is known for, like
liquid aminos and
apple cider vinegar
Apple cider vinegar, or cider vinegar, is a vinegar made from fermented apple juice, and used in salad dressings, marinades, vinaigrettes, food preservatives, and chutneys. It is made by crushing apples, then squeezing out the juice. Bacteria a ...
.
Death
Bragg died of a
heart attack
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in the
emergency room
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of South Shore Hospital in
Miami, Florida
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on December 7, 1976.
[Certificate of Death issued by the State of Florida, State File No. 76-084611, Register No. 15075.] He was 81 years old. Patricia Bragg reported that Bragg "was injured by a wave in the surf six months ago and his health began to decline after the accident". Bragg was cremated on December 10, 1976, by the Lithgow Funeral Center, Miami.
[ A memorial service was held in Hawaii and "participants brought flowers to scatter with Mr. Bragg's ashes in the Ft. DeRussey Beach waters off ]Waikiki
Waikiki (; haw, Waikīkī; ; also known as Waikiki Beach) is a neighborhood of Honolulu on the south shore of the island of Oahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
Waikiki is most famous for Waikiki Beach, which is one of six beaches in the district ...
."
Health beliefs
Bragg advocated using deep breathing, fasting
Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see " Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after ...
, organic food
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s, drinking distilled water
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, juicing
Juicing is the process of extracting juice from plant tissues such as fruit or vegetables.
Overview
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, exercise
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It is performed for various reasons, to aid growth and improve strength, develop muscles and the cardiovascular system, hone athletic ...
, listening to one's body, and many other techniques as methods of prolonging life span.
Medical experts criticized Bragg as a food faddist
A fad diet is a diet that becomes popular for a short time, similar to fads in fashion, without being a standard dietary recommendation, and often making unreasonable claims for fast weight loss or health improvements. There is no single defini ...
and promoter of quackery
Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, ...
.[Anonymous. (1931). ''Professor Paul C. Bragg, A Food Faddist and Sexual Rejuvenator Debarred from the Mails''. '']Journal of the American Medical Association
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'' 96: 288-289.
In 1931, the Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association
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The AMA's state ...
(AMA) issued an article on Bragg which stated that he was a "food faddist and sexual rejuvenator debarred from the mails." Arthur J. Cramp of the AMA dismissed Bragg as a "charlatan
A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or other advantages through false pretenses, pretense or deception. Synonyms for ''charlatan ...
". Bragg held pseudoscientific views about dieting and disease. He stated that tonsillitis
Tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils in the upper part of the throat. It can be acute or chronic. Acute tonsillitis typically has a rapid onset. Symptoms may include sore throat, fever, enlargement of the tonsils, trouble swallowing, and en ...
is the result of people eating "mucus forming foods", cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...
is caused by "gooey, slimy foods" and that colds
The common cold or the cold is a virus, viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the Respiratory epithelium, respiratory mucosa of the human nose, nose, throat, Paranasal sinuses, sinuses, and larynx. Si ...
are caused by the consumption of white bread
White bread typically refers to breads made from wheat flour from which the bran and the germ layers have been removed from the whole wheatberry as part of the flour grinding or milling process, producing a light-colored flour. This milling pro ...
or ice cream
Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as str ...
. Bragg firmly opposed the use of white bread and white flour and sold a substitute for each.
Bragg was criticized for his involvement in "mail-order quackery". He advertised a patent medicine called "Glantex" which he said could make people feel twenty years younger. In December, 1930 after a hearing the Postmaster General
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issued a fraud order against Bragg and his health center. He got around this by advertising himself as "Paul Chappuis".
In June 1932, ten dozen packages of Bragg's O.K.-Lax were seized.[''Misbranding of O. K.-Lax. U. S. v. 10 Dozen Packages of O. K.-Lax. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction''](_blank)
Notices of Judgement Under the Food and Drugs Act. United States Department of Agriculture, 1933. PP. 321-322 The product was misbranded with false and fraudulent curative effects. Bragg advertised O.K.-Lax as a "miracle substance" that cleanses the intestines and cures asthma
Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and easily triggered bronchospasms. Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, cou ...
, catarrh
Catarrh is an exudate of inflamed mucous membranes in one of the airways or cavities of the body, usually with reference to the throat and paranasal sinuses. It can result in a thick exudate of mucus and white blood cells caused by the swelling o ...
, and diabetes
Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ap ...
. An analysis of a sample by the United States Department of Agriculture
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revealed the product was made from ground leaves, bark, roots, fruit, and a laxative drug. In February 1933, the court ordered the packages to be destroyed by the United States marshal.
In March 1935, Washington, D.C.
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officials arrested and charged Bragg with practicing healing art without a license. He was fined $100.
Bragg was known to have misbranded his food products with false health claims.[''Federal Trade Commission Decisions, Volume 33''](_blank)
United States Government Printing Office, 1942. pp. 1774-1775[''FDA Report on Enforcement and Compliance''](_blank)
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1964. p. 31 His products were investigated by the Food and Drug Administration
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and Federal Trade Commission
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. He advertised "Bragg's Grass Tablets" as being rich in Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin and an essential nutrient for humans. It is a group of organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal (also known as retinaldehyde), retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids (most notably bet ...
, promoting health, and preventing sickness. In October 1941, Bragg agreed not to publish any further health claims about the product. The FDA reported in 1967 that Bragg's papaya tablets and other dietary tablets "contained false and misleading therapeutic claims and lacked adequate directions for use for the purposes attended."
Bragg was an anti-vaccinationist
Vaccine hesitancy is a delay in acceptance, or refusal, of vaccines despite the availability of vaccine services and supporting evidence. The term covers refusals to vaccinate, delaying vaccines, accepting vaccines but remaining uncertain abou ...
. He argued that vaccines are deadly and recommended that people not take them.[Bragg, Paul; Bagg, Patricia. (2006). ''Bragg Healthy Lifestyle: Vital Living to 120!''. Health Science. p. 42. ]
Selected publications
*''The Truth About Sex'' (1929)
''Cure Yourself''
(1929)
*''Live Food Cook Book and Menus'' (1930)
*''Paul C. Bragg's Personal Health Food Cook Book and Menus'' (1935)
*''The Bragg Toxicless Diet Body Purification and Healing System'' (1967)
*''How to Keep the Heart Healthy and Fit'' (1968)
*''Building Powerful Nerve Force'' (1969)
*''The Shocking Truth About Water: A Universal Fluid of Death'' (1970)
*''Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar System'' (1972)
*''Paul C. Bragg's Four Generation Health Food Cook Book and Menus'' (1972)
*''The Miracle of Fasting'' (1972)
*''Your Hair and Your Health'' (1972)
*''Hi-Protein Meatless Health Recipes'' (1978)
References
External links
Bragg.com
Paul and Patricia Bragg
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's website
How a Health Guru Helped L.A. Discover its Hiking Trails
By Nathan Masters
How Cultists, Quacks, and Naturemenschen Made Los Angeles Obsessed With Healthy Living
By Bianca Barragan
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1976 deaths
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