Arnold DeVries

Arnold Paul DeVries (November 30, 1921 – February 16, 1996) was an American natural hygienist, alternative health writer and pioneer of the Paleolithic diet. He authored several books on health and diet. He collaborated with the white supremacist Ben Klassen on his 1982 book, Salubrious Living.

Early life Arnold Paul DeVries was born in Kesley, Iowa, on November 30, 1921, and graduated from Aplington High School in 1939. He attended the University of Iowa. During World War II, he worked at an aircraft plant, and at the end of the war he worked as a bus driver in Los Angeles. DeVries was involved in the natural hygiene movement. He recommended exercise, fasting, sleep, and avoidance of medical drugs. Twenty-one of the book’s twenty-two chapters were written by DeVries. Historian George Michael noted that it was "surprising that DeVries would collaborate with Klassen with whom he seemingly disagreed on many issues."

Personal life and death He married Dorice E. Shemtob in 1959, she died in 1981. He married Mary K. Parmely in 1981, they divorced in 1993. He had three daughters.

Publications Nude Culture (1946) The Fountain of Youth (1946) Primitive Man and His Food (1952) The Elixir of Life (1952) Dangers In Modern Foods (1958) Health From the Soil (1958) Therapeutic Fasting (1963) Salubrious Living (with Ben Klassen, 1982)