Rasmus Larssen Alsaker

Rasmus Larssen Alsaker (1883 – June 14, 1960) was a Norwegian American physician and alternative health writer.

Rasmus Larssen Alsaker
Born1883
Norway
DiedJune 14, 1960
St. Petersburg, Florida
OccupationPhysician, writer

History

Alsaker was born in Norway.[1] He obtained his M.D. from Bennett Medical College of Chicago in 1910.[2] He received his licenses to practice medicine in Illinois and Colorado (1910) and in Missouri (1915).[1]

He was Health Director at the Sun-Diet Health Foundation in East Aurora, New York; he was William Howard Hay's successor in the position.[3] Alsaker wrote a series of books teaching the "Alsaker Way" for health.[2] Alsaker believed that his dietary method could cure practically all diseases. Medical experts warned that Alsaker was misleading the public to self-diagnose and self-treat diseases of the heart.[2] A review noted that his views were near quackery and consist of "5 per cent banalities of elementary science and 95 per cent pseudo-scientific buncombe."[1]

Alsaker was the medical director for Bernarr Macfadden's Health Service Bureau and was an editor of the Health Culture magazine.[4] He also edited The Key to Health magazine.[5] Alsaker retired and moved to Florida in 1956. He was an amateur malacologist and collected volutidae shells.[4] He died on June 14, 1960 at St. Petersburg, Florida.[4]

Selected publications

References
  1. Anonymous. (1923). Some Quasi-Medical Institutions. Prepared and Issued by the Propaganda Department of the Journal of the American Medical Association. pp. 5-8
  2. Cramp, Arthur J. (1936). Nostrums and Quackery and Pseudo-Medicine. Press of American Medical Association. pp. 52-53
  3. Cramp, Arthur J. (1936). Nostrums and Quackery and Pseudo-Medicine. Press of American Medical Association. p. 155
  4. Abbott, Robert Tucker.(1975). American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors. American Malacologists. p. 511
  5. Todd, Jan; Roark Joe; Todd, Terry. (1991). A Briefly Annotated bibliography of English Language Serial Publications in the Field of Physical Culture. 1 (4): 25-40.
  6. "On Staying Young: Outwitting Old Age. By R. L. Alsaker". The New York Times.
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