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Aajonus Vonderplanitz (John Richard Swigart) was born on 17 April, 1947 in Denver, Colorado, U.S., is an American alternative nutritionist and activist (1947–2013). Discover Aajonus Vonderplanitz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As John Richard Swigart
Occupation Alternative nutritionist
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 17 April 1947
Birthday 17 April
Birthplace Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Date of death 28 July, 2013
Died Place Thailand
Nationality United States

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1947

Aajonus Vonderplanitz (April 17, 1947 – August 28, 2013) was an American alternative nutritionist and food-rights activist who focused on raw foods, particularly meat and dairy.

He was a controversial figure who conducted legal battles, implemented legal loopholes for consumer access to raw milk, and developed a diet based largely on raw meat: the primal diet.

His later years, marked by his allegations of conspiracies and by his infighting within the raw food community, drew him notoriety even among advocates of alternative healthcare and food rights.

He claimed that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in his early life, but experienced remission via raw carrot juice and raw dairy by age 21.

He later began informal nutritional counseling.

By age 25, he had adopted a raw plant based diet; at age 29, he added raw meat, which he claimed to vastly improve healing.

1971

He recalled ethically refusing $7.5 million to be made, in 1971, the Winston Man for seven years, and, in the 1980s, while earning money painting murals and such inside homes, and acting on the soap opera General Hospital.

1997

After 1997, when his first book, We Want to Live, was published, he became a leading alternative nutritionist.

He made miraculous claims of his clients' routinely curing their diseases, but did not publish any case documentation.

His protocols are untested by medical scientists and remain controversial.

Vonderplanitz founded the nonprofit organization Right to Choose Healthy Foods (RTCHF).

2001

In 2001, his effort led to the end of Los Angeles County's ban on the retail sale of raw milk.

To circumvent laws banning sale of unpasteurized dairy elsewhere, he invented "animal leasing", where a dairy farm is leased to a private food club, which elects to omit pasteurization.

Vonderplanitz's legal defenses of RTCHF's farmers and club managers were mostly successful.

2010

By 2010, food clubs under RTCHF numbered about 80 across the United States, including a few with over 1000 members.

In 2010, Vonderplanitz accused a non-RTCHF farmer of misrepresenting food source and quality when supplying certain foods to RTCHF's preeminent food club Rawesome, which had been attracting celebrity membership, in Venice, Los Angeles.

Waging negative publicity and a lawsuit against the farmer and Rawesome's owner, Vonderplanitz fostered the club's debacle while the government prosecuted the farmer and Rawesome's owner for distributing raw dairy.

Around his 10th birthday, Swigart claimed his alleged peritonitis was misdiagnosed as appendicitis, and his appendix was removed.

He also stated that his bones were brittle, that he "regularly" broke limb bones, and that at age 15 he was diagnosed with "juvenile diabetes".

Swigart first received family and community support, he recalled, when he found his first girlfriend in his junior year at Finneytown High School, whom he married two years later and had a child with.

Once he graduated, the new family moved elsewhere near Cincinnati.

While renting a small apartment at a business intersection, Swigart's wife worked as a utility-company secretary, and he as a short-order cook while attending the Cincinnati Institute of Computer Technology.

Their marriage was strained by their son's severe colic, her postpartum mood problems, his mood problems, and his extramarital affair with a female instructor at his trade school.

They divorced when he was 19 and he moved to Los Angeles to work in computer programming.

Swigart developed a stomach ulcer, and the surgical treatment caused a keloidal scar that was treated by radiation therapy, which caused multiple myeloma.

According to himself, once chemotherapy caused further illnesses, including psoriasis, bursitis, and severe periodontitis, he discontinued treatment of his terminal cancer, but a hospice worker, paying him volunteer home visits, gave him a small book on cancer treatment by raw carrot juice; within 10 days, the regimen ended his alleged dyslexia, and soon put his cancer in remission.

At age 22, Swigart began to promote himself as a nutritionist.

About a year later, he met a toddler who called him Aajonus.

Because he disliked his name, he accepted the new one and later took his European ancestors' last name, Vonderplanitz.

He mostly attributed his health gains over the next two years to raw juices and raw dairy.

By age 25, Vonderplanitz adopted a raw plant based diet.

Two years later, he travelled by bicycle in search for answers to nutrition while "liv[ing] off the earth" across North America and into Latin America.

Nearly three years later, he returned to Los Angeles with a proposed solution: eating raw meat.

Vonderplanitz claimed a diverse résumé, as by the time he was 40, he still had marginal income as a nutritionist.

2013

In 2013, at his farmhouse in rural Thailand, he fell through a faulty balcony rail and died a few days later.

Vonderplanitz was born John Richard Swigart in Denver, Colorado.

He spent most of his childhood and adolescence in the Cincinnati suburb of Finneytown, Ohio.

He described himself as a misunderstood and abused sickly child.

His older brother, allegedly resentful at the loss of maternal attention, "tortured [him] nearly daily".

According to himself, being "dyslexic" and "borderline autistic", conditions "which no one understood at the time", Vonderplanitz "rarely played with other children", and "embarrassed and frustrated [his] parents", fueling paternal "discipline" that led to several hospitalizations.