[2] He promised people they could add years to their life by eating five "wonder foods": blackstrap molasses, brewer's yeast, skimmed milk, wheat germ and yogurt.

[1] At the age of sixteen, young Helmut joined his older brother, the Reverend Otto Hauser, a pastor, in Chicago, Illinois; shortly thereafter they moved to Milwaukee.

[1] Young Hauser sailed to America as a steerage passenger on the SS George Washington, and underwent immigrant inspection at Ellis Island on 14 August 1911.

Hauser's condition subsequently improved [citation needed] and he soon followed Lust's recommendation to seek further treatment in Switzerland to see if the new "food science" (Nahrungswissen) had anything to offer him.

Also among those seeking his counsel in later years were Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, and the Duchess of Windsor.

Garbo and her close friend Mercedes de Acosta would spend time at Hauser and Brown's houses in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Italy[2].

After purchasing Casa Cuseni, a grand villa in Taormina, Sicily in 1950, where he wrote his most famous book, Look Younger; Live Longer, he spent much of his time there with Frey Brown.

In 1951 the Food and Drug Administration seized copies of Look Younger; Live Longer, which promised to add five "youthful years" to your life, on the grounds that it was promoting the sale of one brand of blackstrap molasses.

[4] In 1963, Louis Lasagna commented that Hauser's writings were a "mélange of good sense, questionable nutritional advice, name-dropping, continental charm, and coy chattiness.