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...Does the FDA Count...
...Does the FDA think that it is serving the public interest when it condemns as false a concept of obesity control merely because it -is contrary to the preponderant conventional beliefs? We believe that much of the tremendous success of the book is due to the satisfaction of readers with the results they obtained through following the dietary regimen recommended in the book. We consider that we had an absolute right to publish a theory of diet by a reputable physician...
Nominal author of the book is Dr. Herman Taller, 50, a Rumanian-born physician who practiced obstetrics in Brooklyn and recently moved to Manhattan on the strength of his expanding royalties. But, said the FDA, publishers Simon & Schuster sent Taller's manuscript to a freelance sports writer, Roger Kahn, to be revised "in more of a mail-order inspirational technique." The book absolved fat ties of their guilt by crediting them with a metabolic abnormality. It exhorted them to eat as much as they wanted of most fat foods, especially those containing unsaturated fats (see following story...
What got Taller into trouble with the law was that first printings of the book included an endorsement of a specific manufacturer of safflower oil (CDC capsules), and copies of the book were used to pro mote the capsules. (They are now off the market, following FDA action.) In court proceedings. Dr. Taller refused to answer more than 50 questions about his financial relationship with the corporation that manufactured the capsules...
...Said FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to promote these worthless safflower oil capsules for the treatment of obesity, cardiovascular diseases and other serious conditions. One of its main purposes was to promote the sale of a commercial product in which Dr. Taller had a financial interest." To this, Simon & Schuster retorted: "There is nothing in the record which could possibly support these vicious and irresponsible innuendoes...