J. I. Rodale

Jerome Irving Rodale ( born August 16, 1898 in New York; † June 8, 1971 ) was an American writer and publisher. He was one of the founders of the " Organic Food " movement and one of the first dedicated advocate for organic farming, which he made ​​known through the written by him and laid him in books.

Life

Under the influence of the ideas of Albert Howard Rodale was convinced that preventing illness through appropriate diet could be substantially supported. An " organic " agriculture with the cultivation of food (or their precursors ) without pesticides and artificial fertilizers, but using natural compost is the key to a healthy diet. In addition, he wrote numerous popular science books and published this he founded specifically to the publishing house Rodale Press (today: Rodale Inc.). Other authors who dealt with issues from this area were laid by him. He founded in 1942 the journal Organic Farming and Gardening, which was at times the most widely read gardening magazine in the world. Its economically successful project in 1950 was the founding of the journal Prevention ( magazine ) | Prevention, the first magazine ever popular science issues of the influence of nutrition focused on the health and has been extremely successful in the Anglo-American world.

Rodale died at the age of 72 years during the recording of a talk show on the second cardiac death, immediately after he had confessed in an interview: "I have decided to be one hundred years old. " And "I've never felt better in my entire life! "

The line of Rodale Inc. was acquired by his son Robert. Today Rodale is one of the largest U.S. magazine publishers. Among others, the Men's Health and Runner's World to appear in it. The publisher also produces books, such as the book of the film An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.