As the World turns its focus to Veterans of past wars this November, the National Health Federation puts the spotlight equally on the wars our Veterans have fought without guns. Employing skill, savvy, wisdom and a great deal of persistence and innovative thinking Charles Crecelius shares some of his fascinating stories and experiences when he was on the front lines as President of the National Health Federation.

Rosemary, Charles’ assistant and I have been emailing back and forth since President Scott Tips and I interviewed Charlie at his home last month. His interview in full will appear in the Winter Issue of the Health Freedom News. Rosemary writes, “Charles has been busy revisiting the past through the collection of old publications he has to help refresh his memory.

I think this is so great for him to review his past when he was that freckled red haired dynamo keeping all those tops spinning around like he did. I think he has some things to add about trying to get the NHF started in Australia or some reasons why the seeds he planted there didn’t take root at the time he was working on that. He is just making notes now after reading your composition. While you are waiting to hear specifics from him, I’ll give you a copy of something I scanned some time ago to keep you entertained.”


It was clear Charles, at 90 is the consummate blogger and will keep us all entertained and inspired for hours with his stories. So we share them here, in his own words, the words of a seasoned fighter who was hard at work all over the World when some of us were still in grade school, helping to protect our freedom and healthy way of life. Hats off to you Charles Crecelius!

“One project I had some fun thinking about– Health monopolies put on a meeting on health quackery. Without knowing it we had scheduled a convention for the same city on the same day. That was fortunate. My wife, Jeanette and Clinton Miller (lobbyist for NHF) decided to try to attend their meeting which was close by. They were refused admittance to the meeting on health quackery. After that we kept our ears to the ground and found out where and when the next quackery meeting would be held. So on the same day at the same time we scheduled an anti-monopoly meeting with no exhibits, just anti-monopoly speakers. When it was over, we discovered that our meeting received more publicity…newspaper column inches, radio and TV. They had lost. We saw no more reports of future quackery meetings.”


Here Charles lists his U.S. Projects as President of The National Health Federation:

“There were two major projects, one, our food supplement legislation, two, our conventions. Clinton Miller did an excellent job shepherding our bill through both Houses of the US Congress. He quickly sensed the need to keep it a non-partisan bill. After a Republican Representative Hasmer introduced the bill in the House of Representatives, it needed to have an early Democratic co-sponsor. It took a few years to go back and forth getting that kind of sponsorship. It has to be kept somewhat balanced Republican and Democratic sponsorship as it moves forward. It took a few years to accomplish but in the end it was voted yes by every member of the House and the Senate then moved on to President Ford who gave his approval. The bill stated that vitamins and minerals were foods for special dietary use not the hundreds or thousands of words on pages that most bills are comprised of.”

Another: “Los Angeles put the issue of fluoridation on the ballot. We put on the large bill boards that used to line the highways across the nation including Los Angeles…we put signs on the L.A. billboards showing a skeleton drinking a glass of fluoridated water. With other publicity as well, we defeated fluoridation in Los Angeles. The press used the illustration of David vs. Goliath in their article.”


“There were two important court cases which our Science Director Dr. John Yiamouyiannis took on. He won both cases, one a State case, the other local. Although he won both, the cases required additional legal action to accomplish the victories and we lacked funds to follow through. John disqualified any testimony on their side of anyone who was only repeating information like a parrot would and had done no original research. Trying to discredit him, they would ask all kinds of questions trying to discredit his scientific qualifications such as “What is the value of Pi?” He would say, “Do you want it in decimal or fraction?” and he would peal off both. After he gave his testimony, the judge wanted to know when he would come back again. The judge enjoyed his testimony so much.”

It’s clear that Charles Crecelius has not only had a tremendous impact on the World, but he also had a life filled with fun and adventure achieving it for the sake of each of us today. Charles, you are an amazing inspiration and at 90 you show absolutely no signs of slowing in your commitment to global health freedom. We thank you and will honor you by seeking to match your level of commitment and sacrifice with our own efforts.