But if Russell had some strange ideas, Rutherford went over the hill and far away. It is a kind description of Woodworth to call him a crackpot. The Golden Age became a forum for the most extravagant claims about science. And above all, Woodworth was a champion of his very special ideas about medicine and health. At breakfast is no time to break a fast.
Good buttermilk is a health drink at meal times and in between.
Do not take a bath until two hours after eating a meal, nor closer than one hour before eating. Drink a full glass of water both before and after the bath. One major point in all the propaganda was the idea that aluminium cookware was the source for all sorts of horrible diseases. Jehovah s Witnesses would therefore be very skeptical towards eating out, and might often blame a food poisoning on the cooking vessel instead of the food. You can find quite a few letters from readers in this period telling how wonderful it was that their child had been healed from various diseases by heeding the warnings in The Golden Age against aluminium cookware.