Founder of Hippocrates Health Institute sued successfully twice, The Hippocrates diet originated in the 1960s with Ann Wigmore, a Lithuanian immigrant who, the institute claims, healed her own cancer with a raw diet. She ran the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, which looked more like a hippie commune than the upscale modern alternative health facility it is today.
Brian Clement moved the operation to Florida in 1987 in an event that Susan Lavendar, current director of the Ann Wigmore Foundation now located in New Mexico, calls simply “the split.”
“She lost the name Hippocrates and we’re not connected,” Lavendar told the Star. Others who were involved at the time told the Star that Wigmore was not supportive of the move to Florida, but there was no malice in the separation.
The U.S. attorney general successfully sued Wigmore in 1982 for claiming her “energy enzyme soup” could eliminate the need for insulin in diabetics and again in 1988 for saying her living foods diet could cure AIDS.
One of the buildings on the Florida campus of the not-for-profit Hippocrates Health Institute is named after Wigmore and Clement regularly highlights her role as the founder of the institute, but he says he was not involved with her at the time of the lawsuits.
According to 2013 Hippocrates tax records, the institute received $15.1 million (U.S.) in fees for its health education services. Clement and his wife, Anna Maria Gahns-Clement, were paid $529,363 and $432,291 in income and benefits that same year, according to the tax records.
The centre’s program costs $5,664 for the basic three-week package. Situated in bucolic West Palm Beach, the centre has accommodation options ranging from a group house with a shared washroom to private villas.
Clement says the average patient pays $300 per day.
Clement also controls Hippocrates Health Corp., a for-profit corporation registered in the state of Delaware. According to Vicki Johnson, the public relations representative hired by the centre, that corporation has no activity and “earns nothing.”
Brian Clement moved the operation to Florida in 1987 in an event that Susan Lavendar, current director of the Ann Wigmore Foundation now located in New Mexico, calls simply “the split.”
“She lost the name Hippocrates and we’re not connected,” Lavendar told the Star. Others who were involved at the time told the Star that Wigmore was not supportive of the move to Florida, but there was no malice in the separation.
The U.S. attorney general successfully sued Wigmore in 1982 for claiming her “energy enzyme soup” could eliminate the need for insulin in diabetics and again in 1988 for saying her living foods diet could cure AIDS.
One of the buildings on the Florida campus of the not-for-profit Hippocrates Health Institute is named after Wigmore and Clement regularly highlights her role as the founder of the institute, but he says he was not involved with her at the time of the lawsuits.
According to 2013 Hippocrates tax records, the institute received $15.1 million (U.S.) in fees for its health education services. Clement and his wife, Anna Maria Gahns-Clement, were paid $529,363 and $432,291 in income and benefits that same year, according to the tax records.
The centre’s program costs $5,664 for the basic three-week package. Situated in bucolic West Palm Beach, the centre has accommodation options ranging from a group house with a shared washroom to private villas.
Clement says the average patient pays $300 per day.
Clement also controls Hippocrates Health Corp., a for-profit corporation registered in the state of Delaware. According to Vicki Johnson, the public relations representative hired by the centre, that corporation has no activity and “earns nothing.”
