Bernarr Macfadden and the Physical Culture Movement: Fasting's Forgotten Champions
Discover how Bernarr Macfadden and the Physical Culture Movement championed fasting as a health tool over a century before intermittent fasting went mainstream.
Most people who fast today discovered it through a podcast, a book, or a friend who lost weight. Few know that the practice they're following was passionately championed over a century ago by a group of unconventional health reformers who believed that food — specifically too much of it — was the root of most human illness. Chief among them was Bernarr Macfadden, a man whose story is as extraordinary as his ideas. Upton Sinclair, in his 1911 book The…
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