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Beatrice Trum Hunter’s passion for health was inspired in high school by a book that described American consumers as unwitting guinea pigs for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
Robert Granoff, via Associated Press
Beatrice Trum Hunter
Died on May 17, 2017 at age 98
A Brooklyn-born public school teacher, Mrs. Hunter transplanted herself in midlife to a sylvan sanctuary in New Hampshire, where she compiled what was heralded as the nation’s first healthful natural foods cookbook.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.