01Five decades in nutrition

The people who built American nutrition. In their own voices.

Bonnie Jarrett Thiele put the field's founders on the air in 1978 and on her conference stage for thirteen years after that. She kept the tapes — an audio record of a movement, made by the people who made it.

1978–82Live on WRNG Atlanta
13Health by Choice conferences
3 hrsEvery broadcast, phones open
40+Years in practice

The tape catalogue is being built now. Recordings appear here as each one is logged, and are published only as rights are cleared. Here's how that works.

02What's here

One archive, three ways in


The Archive

Radio interviews, conference keynotes and television episodes, catalogued speaker by speaker — including the ones we cannot yet publish.

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The Podcast

Bonnie and her daughter Beth on supplements — what's actually in the bottle, where the claim came from, and whether it holds up.

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03From the archive

The pioneers


Nobel laureates and self-taught crusaders shared these stages. We document all of them — plainly, with the record intact.

Beatrice Trum Hunter

1918–2017 · M.A. Columbia Teachers College

Published The Natural Foods Cookbook in 1961, a full decade before the natural foods movement existed, and spent the next fifty years as its most careful journalist.

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Emanuel Cheraskin

1916–2001 · M.D. Cincinnati; D.M.D. Alabama

Chairman of Oral Medicine at UAB, author of 700+ scientific papers and 17 textbooks, and the man who coined "psychodietetics" — the argument that diet shapes mental state.

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Linus Pauling

1901–1994 · Ph.D. Caltech, 1925

Coined the term "orthomolecular" in 1968 and gave the vitamin argument its most credentialed advocate — the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

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All pioneers