After graduation, she taught kindergarten at the school for a year. I taught them what's right, what's wrong, how to sing and dance, grow vegetables and flowers. I taught them healthy habits and never to have a swear word. What comes out of your mouth is living—words are living. Joining the cause During her school years, Bragg dreamed of being a Baptist missionary in Africa like her cousins.
But when she was 18, her father approached her with an idea. Just give me one year. You do what they want. She quickly discovered she was suited for the lifestyle. We were like two peas out of a pod. He said sometimes he even knew what I was thinking," she says.
During the plus years she worked with her father, she stayed mainly behind the scenes, assisting him on his lecture tours, appearing on his TV show and helping him write his books. But "they were always a team," recalls Matheson.
She was born to do his work. Matheson remembers Patricia in those days as "beautiful, with long, blond hair and very tan. Since then, "I've been going with someone for many years, but I just can't get around to thinking about marriage," she says. House of Health's McGee, who regards Patricia as his little sister, says, "She has had many opportunities to marry, but she's never found the right one.
I told her, 'You admired your father so much, it's impossible for other men to compare favorably with him. Although her friends believe Patricia's personality is as vibrant as her father's, they also agree it's not as forceful. Patricia recounts that when she joined the Bragg crusade, "My dad said, 'Just don't be too tough—don't hit them over the head with a stick.
You would think he had another 25 years left," says Sandy Gooch Lederman, founder of Mrs. Gooch's health food stores in the Los Angeles area. She's a character, a little spitfire. She's very engaging and a tremendous salesperson.
Patricia's approach to health crusading is more motherly, but just as persuasive as Paul's. We went on a cruise together, and before it was over, all the crew had at least three of her books. She doesn't miss a person. Patricia gets them moving in the right direction. She truly changes lives, one person at a time. Patricia relies heavily on celebrity stories to get her point across, tantalizing listeners with tidbits such as: "Steve Jobs called me five times, saying: 'Patricia, I've got to see you.
I've been reading the Bragg books since high school,' or J. Penney—a wonderful man, a brilliant man, so humble—told me we all have human angels. She talks so much about celebrities, she leaves little time for questions about herself. But like most things Patricia does, name-dropping serves a greater good. People can more easily relate to a celebrity health story than a nutrition textbook, she believes. Gault adds, "If you talk about famous people, there's something that hooks people into listening.
So many people are wrapped up in the star syndrome today. Taking over Shortly before Paul's death, Bragg Live Foods was making products in its Burbank plant—everything from natural candy to natural cosmetics. Patricia cites a long list of health products Bragg pioneered, including herbal teas, amino acids, juices and vitamin and mineral supplements.
At the same time, "Our attorney said it would kill me to keep all the products. She's also planning to introduce an apple-cider-vinegar drink.
She kept the company's Health Science division, which publishes the Bragg books she updates yearly. And she continued the health crusades, lecturing women's and church groups, prisoners, corporate gatherings and a host of other organizations around the world.
For a woman who has been around the world 13 times, leaving home isn't as much fun as it once was. Still, she frequently visits her acre organic macadamia nut farm in Maui and her acre organic farm in Australia that grows 30 types of organic fruits. She has properties around California, many inherited from her mother's family, which produce the ingredients for Bragg products.
Last year, she moved the Bragg headquarters to a acre organic farm in Goleta, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Surrounded by rosebushes, the house is aptly named "Patricia's Rose Cottage," and is decorated with dozens of dolls, stuffed animals, cheerful floral prints and mementos of her 8 cats. Like her father, Patricia has a Ph. She continues to keep abreast of health information, incorporating the latest studies into her books. The old walnut barn at her farm houses a library with hundreds of titles.
Subjects include organic gardening, babies and motherhood, allopathic medicine, self-help, aging, happiness and joy, psychology, health and healing, and cookbooks. She also applies that research to her products. Sandy Gooch Lederman adds, "You could always trust the Bragg products. Paul did his research, and he really believed in his products.
Patricia also devotes time to charitable causes funded by the Bragg Health Foundation. She also funds research with botanicals for alternative cancer solutions. His given age of 49 was not even consistent with his alleged year of birth. Paul also had some trouble with the authorities, as well as patients who sued him. From onward, Bragg k ept to the story of his birthday until he died, unless he was dealing with American officials.
Bragg married Patricia Pendleton. Patricia was born in Alameda County, California, on April 29, In , Robert and Patricia divorced, with the divorce being final in This is not the only instance of American health pioneers having inflated claims of age.
Many sources have claimed that Norman Walker, a juice fasting pioneer, lived to be well over years old. Recent research showed him to be 99 when he died , a ripe old age, to be sure, but far less than the claims made for him.
Bragg is himself the best testimonial for the value of his teachings. Many of the miraculous healing events that he cited in his own life, such as being cured of TB or passing mercury at his family homestead, do not jibe with when and where he was in those days. Did Bragg even fast all that much? He still looked pretty good at age eighty, but not that good. How much of his image was genuine?
While the message may have been worthy, the messenger was dubious. Being a life insurance salesman during World War I seemed an appropriate profession for him, as the entire industry was viewed as a scam in those days.
I was raised in Southern California and worked in Los Angeles for five years. About half of my friends in LA were either in the entertainment business, used to be in it, or were trying to break into it. In LA, everybody wants to be somebody, people adopt stage names and forget their pasts, or invent more marketable ones.
On a side note, while the California medical authorities were persecuting genuine alternative cancer doctors , Bragg received a free ride although the AMA attacked him early in his career. I saw a similar dynamic during my free energy days.
Caveat Emptor. A, November 29, It can be obtained by contacting the Florida Department of Health. Grayson enumerated that census record, on April 19, Social Security Administration.
Bragg and wife on Wednesday night, February 6 th , a boy. Moses and son. At Baltimore, he said, learning that an alarm was out for him, he had been frightened into confiding his identity to the boy. Later, after they reached New York, the boy left him, returned to Washington, and told the police.
For the games held in London, freestyle was the only style contested. The USA's team had six members, who were:. For the games held in Stockholm, Greco-Roman was the only style contested. There were only two American wrestlers on the team, who were:. Paul C. Bragg was passenger 30, and the record stated that he was born on February 6, in Batesville, Indiana, which is consistent with his draft card.
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