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You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. One night back in 1971, talk show host Dick Cavett was interviewing a guest.

His name was Jerome Rodale.

Rodale was an author and magazine publisher. For the previous 20 years, he promoted controversial,

non-traditional health and nutritional advice. He was an early proponent of organic gardening and healthy living. In his autobiography, he described himself as a, quote, weak and sickly young man.

But when he started growing everything he ate, he found the results to be miraculous.

Rodale had a small but devoted audience for most of the 50s and 60s, but once the counterculture

took hold, the circulation of his publications skyrocketed.

His Organic Gardening and Farming magazine sold 720,000 copies in 1971, and his health magazine

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