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Race, women and health · Claim record

The magazine gave the whole of its lead article of 17 April 1929 — ten pages — to dietetic rules compiled by a naturopathic dietician, W. E. Reynolds of the Rocine School, which told readers that 'If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison' and that food left in aluminium and reheated could produce a poison 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'.

Claim ID claim-attitudes-ga-aluminium-lead-articleConcerns 17 April 1929Explicit statement
Explicit statement · 17 April 1929 Verified

The magazine gave the whole of its lead article of 17 April 1929 — ten pages — to dietetic rules compiled by a naturopathic dietician, W. E. Reynolds of the Rocine School, which told readers that 'If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison' and that food left in aluminium and reheated could produce a poison 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'. The Golden Age, 17 April 1929

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The Golden Age, “Good Health Dietetic Rules”

17 April 1929 · pp.451-460 · compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D. · Woodworth, Knorr & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York

“If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison, in the opinion of the scientists and doctors just quoted, the name of the poison being determined by the kind of food you cook.”

The lead article of the issue, running from the masthead page to page 460. Its title carries an asterisk, and the footnote at the foot of the first column of page 451 reads: “*Applicable to all of the nineteen chemical types of mankind. Compiled by W. E. Reynolds, N.D., Dietician, Rocine School, 3007 Water Street, Corpus Christi, Texas.” Its opening paragraphs credit the teachings of V. G. Rocine and of Dr Ralph Shadduck. It lists more than twenty chemists and physicians said to be 'a unit upon the opinion that aluminum compounds when taken internally by man are poisonous', and states that food left standing in aluminium and reheated can produce a poison 'often strong enough to cause serious illness and sometimes death'.

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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026; the quoted sentence is on the leaf mapped to printed page 458. Page 451 carries the issue masthead 'Volume X … Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 17, 1929 … Number 250', the article title with its asterisk, and the attributing footnote, which was read on that leaf and sits at the foot of its first column. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... April 17, 1929 ... Number 250'.

Corroborated by. src-hlth-ga-1929-0220-betts-aluminum-soil

Notes. The article carries no by-line at its head; the attribution to W. E. Reynolds is printed as an asterisked footnote on page 451. It is therefore a compiled contribution from a naturopathic dietician, not an unsigned article in the magazine's own voice. An earlier version of this record described it as unsigned and as the magazine's own voice; that was wrong and was corrected on 19 September 2026.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1929-0417-dietetic-rules

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