Jay:
 >For One, Paul Bragg wrote the book, "The Miracle of Fasting."
 >Paul Bragg died in his early to  mid-nineties...

Because he wrote a book on fasting I am sure. :)

 >IN A WATER SKIING AND/OR SURFBOARD ACCIDENT.

It is well-known that fasting enthusiasts make the worst skiers
and surfers. :)

 >Interestingly,  Jack Lalanne was a student of Paul Bragg.

I find it more interesting that Jack's older brother, who is still
going strong, is not into health.

 >Whether it was James Calab Jackson, MD, of Dansville,
 >NY's "Home on the Hill" spa, or the much better known
 >John Harvey Kellogg, MD of Battle Creek and cereal fame,
 >these quacks were neither fleecing nor killing their
 >patients.

Well, it was not for a lack of trying.  I understand that
Kellogg's low-fat regime based largely on various
concoction from grains was enough to break the spirit
of the strongest of men. :)

 >It is easy for Hollywood to put together a fictional film
 >(bordering on the >libelous) such as The Road to Wellsville,
 >which makes a mockery of Dr. Harvey Kellogg.

I cannot imagine why.  :)

 >All these women were quacks, of course, because they
 >advocated fasting,  water cures, sunlight, exercise and good diet.
 >You will learn of them in  detail in The Greatest Health Discovery,
  >by the American Natural Hygiene Society.

If a credible organization such as the ANHS says so, it surely
must be true.  :)

 >Of course, it's in the name itself. "Quack" is a condemnatory
 >word. Even eye-witnessed murderers are called "suspects"
 >well into the legal process.  "Quacks," by definition, cannot be
 >good. Even witches, a familiar childhood symbol of evil, are cut
 >more slack: "Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"  Dorothy was
 >asked. No one has ever asked me, "Are you a good quack, or a
 >bad quack?"

It only weakens your position when you use examples of quackery
in mainstream medicine to defend and justify fringe quacks like
Fry and (by inference) Bernarr.

Peter