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Rasmus Larssen Alsaker
1883–1960
A Norwegian-born physician who built a career in the United States, he wrote widely on diet, preventive health, and natural living in the early 1900s. His books reflect a strong belief that everyday habits could shape long-term well-being.
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Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
by Rasmus Larssen Alsaker
About the author
Born in Norway in 1883, he later became a Norwegian American physician and health writer. He earned his M.D. from Bennett Medical College in Chicago in 1910 and went on to publish books aimed at general readers rather than medical specialists.
His work focused on food, hygiene, exercise, and what he saw as the value of simple living. Titles associated with him include Maintaining Health and Eating for Health and Efficiency, books that helped make him a recognizable voice in early 20th-century popular health writing.
He died on June 14, 1960. Today, he is remembered less as a mainstream medical figure than as a prolific advocate of preventive health ideas that found a wide audience in his time.