Talk:Percy Cerutty

'Death sentence' Comment - concern over factuality
This article is very short on references and especially the passage concerning the 'death sentence' of two years to live delivered by Cerutty's doctors. The Australian Dictionary of Biography is at odds with the idea that Cerutty was terminally ill. It reads: "In 1939 Cerutty suffered a nervous breakdown which obliged him to take six months leave from the P.M.G. It became a period of self-examination, during which he walked, read philosophy, psychology and poetry, wrote the first of some two hundred poems, joined a weightlifting club and resolved to resume running. Contemptuous of doctors, he decided to take charge of his own health, and applied himself to alternative medicine and natural diets, boasting that he had 'completely rebuilt' his body. Weightlifting added ten lb. (4.5 kg) to a wiry, eight-stone (51 kg) physique." Do other editors agree that the passage in the article is not factual and requires amendment? Or is there something I have missed? If so, where are the references. Jamesmcardle 11:38, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

'Extreme' diet Comment
Was Cerutty's recommended diet 'extreme'? Elliot mentions only that they did eat more (cooked) vegetables and had muesli which was an unusual food in the '60s, and that the food at Portsea was provided by Cerutty's wife Dorothy (who deserves some credit for her contribution I think!)Jamesmcardle 01:09, 29 July 2016 (UTC)