Victor Herbert (February 22, 1927 – November 19, 2002)[1] was an American hematologist who did ground-breaking work on folate and how its deficiency led to megaloblastic anemia and was a proponent of accurate and responsible nutrition information.
[2][3] His post at the end of his career was Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and Chief of Mount Sinai's Hematology and Nutrition Research Laboratory in the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
[3] His self experimentation to prove the health benefits of folic acid by living on diet of thrice-boiled chicken, marshmallows and jelly was reported on in the third episode of the BBC series the Medical Mavericks.
[1][5] He was the author of Vitamins and `Health' Foods: The Great American Hustle with Stephen Barrett and the book Nutrition Cultism.
"[1] His book The Vitamin Pushers (1994), also co-authored with Barrett was an exposé of quacks in the health food industry, based on more than twenty years of research.