About Maximilian Bircher-Benner
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, M.D. was a Swiss physician and a pioneer nutritionist credited for popularizing muesli and raw food vegetarianism. During the first year the clinic was open, Bircher-Benner developed jaundice, and he claimed he recovered by eating raw apples. Bircher-Benner's sisters, Alice Bircher and Berta Brupbacher-Bircher, created many recipes using raw foods to help a diet of raw foods seem more appealing. Eventually, Bircher-Benner gave up meat entirely and became a vegetarian.
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