Beers, Clifford

Why had the mental health movement, as it is called now, been as successful as it had during the half century since igoo " asks Robert H. Felix. (Mental Illness, p. 3. ) He gives the credit for this to Clifford Beers and the mental health propaganda machinery he built. The success of the Mental Health Movement to which Felix refers is not measured, however, by the development of effective treatments for mental illness, but by the profession s ability to find many cases of the disease, and to channel into its coffers commensurately huge portions of the federal and state tax levies. 

Clifford Whittingham Beers sparks the founding of the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene, the first state association of its kind and the beginning of the organized mental health movement in the United States. Beers s book, A Mind that Found Itself An Autobiography, is published An insane man is an insane man, and while insane, should be placed in an institution for treatment. ... 

Clifford Whittingham Beers, A Mind That Found Itself, p. ai8. 

It is quite difhcult to estimate daily phenolic acid consumption because of different nutritional habits of populations or individual preferences. The total intake of polyphenols was estimated at approximately Ig/day and phenolic acids account for about one third (ca. 330mg/day) of this intake. Another independent estimation for phenolic acids was at 200mg/day. Regularly consumed beverages such as wine, coffee, beer, and tea provide a major part of phenolic acids in the diet [61,79,80]. Fruits, fruit juices, and chocolate also constitute a significant part in the diet. Clifford estimates... 

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