Word: larrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commissioner Larrick, in referring to criti cism of the book's major premise by various writers, failed to state that there is also very considerable dissatisfaction with conventional doctrines relating weight control to calorie control; he failed to state that there is indeed respectable scientific evidence supporting Dr. Taller's theory...
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...
...Commissioner Larrick had more to say: "The book is full of false ideas, as many competent medical and nutritional writers have pointed out. Contrary to the book's basic premise, weight reduction requires the reduction of caloric intake. There is no easy, simple substitute. Unfortunately, calories do count...
Placenta & Plankton. FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick singled out one large area of fraud: "There is extensive, big-time quackery in the cosmetics field, generally based on the exploitation of some 'miracle' ingredient that is supposed to restore youth and beauty to the unattractive or aging skin." Sample miracle workers: "human placenta residues, plankton from the water of a certain spring in France, pig skin extract, shark oil and orchid pollen...
...part, the medical profession itself has to shoulder some of the blame. Licensed M.D.s have written recent books promoting quack remedies. Several M.D.s were among the promoters of the seawater panaceas. And, Commissioner Larrick pointed out, there is always "the professional research quack-the M.D. who specializes in arranging for 'tailored studies' " of questionable cures-in a word, "rigged research...