the old days of alternative health

I've been interested in alternative health long before it became a hip thing to do. When I first started visiting a local health food store, they were all tiny, cramped little shops in out of the way places. To think of a health food store in a mall such as GNC and others would have been ludicrous.

PREVENTION was around, and was a small niche magazine, not a wide circulation slick magazine as you see it in every supermarket these days.

And it was progressive back then if you could find a supermarket selling yogurt, let alone a wide line of whole grains, breads, low-chloresterol this, low-fat that, and on and on.

The big health guru of that time was Adelle Davis. I'm not sure if her books are still in print. They were long, heavily footnoted tomes on the scientifically proven beneficial effects of vitamins and minerals.