"Think what you've just said. All foods should be healthy. We ate meat without any of the things they inject in cows and chickens these days. Bread tasted like bread. Now everything is refined, teens are fat, people have heart attacks at 39. Does that make me nuts? [...] In the thirties I was told I had a tumor down there. I met with a surgeon who was puffy faced and sweating and his hands trembled. He said he wanted to cut through my rectum to get at the growth. I stood and shouted, "Physician, heal thyself!" and I simply fled. A pure bean sprouts diet cured me in months and the tumor shrank and disappeared. I rest my case."
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On her longstanding health food advocacy, from 1974 interview with ; as quoted in Conversations with Classic Film Stars (2016) by Bawden, pp. 17–18
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Gloria Swanson
Gloria Josephine May Swanson (March 27, 1899 - April 4, 1983) was an American actress, producer and businesswoman. She first received notice acting in many silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for an Academy Award as Best Actress. She is best remembered for her role in Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard (1950), which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
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