Amílcar de Sousa

Amílcar Augusto Queirós de Sousa (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈmilkaɾ awˈɣuʃtu kɐjˈɾɔʒ ðɨ ˈsozɐ]; 1876–1940) was a Portuguese medical doctor, and author of many health books, being the most famous O Naturismo (Naturism), published in 1912.

A native of Alijó,[3] Sousa corresponded with many well-known personalities from medicine and science, such as the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel,[4] the American medical doctor John Harvey Kellogg,[5] and the French physician Paul Carton.

He said that eating an egg was the same as ”eating a chicken embryo”[8] and that milk was “not the food of man.”[9] D. M. Richardson wrote in the magazine The Healthy Life (July, 1912): It is, by the way, interesting, to note in connection with this question of frutarianism, of fruit and salad eaters, that Dr. Amilcar de Souza, the president of the Portuguese Vegetarian Society, whose dietary, formed strictly of fruit and nuts, we quoted recently, has now added a cress salad to each of his meals.

His plan at the present moment is as follows: - two meals a day, at noon and at six o’clock, and at each of them twenty-five nuts, six apples, six oranges, twelve dates and cress salad.

[12] He was also an active defender of the interests of Duriense Viticulture, arguing, in conferences and articles in the periodic press, for the creation of the Casa do Douro as one of the necessary bodies to guarantee the high quality of Port Wine and promote the expansion of its Trade.