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Wild plant pioneer Franz Konz
 Franz Konz with wife and son 'What, you’ve never heard of Franz Konz?' an acquaintance asked incredulously while we were talking about raw food. 'It’s about time you did! And if you’re going to subscribe to a magazine, you ought to order 'Natürlich Leben' published by Franz Konz together with Helmut Wandmaker and Dr. Probst. - I was familiar with the names of the other two - both of them raw food pioneers. I became curious and thus read a few copies of 'Natürlich Leben' and subsequently contacted Franz Konz directly. After a visit and a long discussion, a friendship of sorts developed. 'Good cooking' leads to stomach cancer Franz Konz was born in Cologne, Germany on May 16, 1926. After his Abitur (A-levels), he trained as a tax inspector and revisor. For some years, he worked as a tax expert and while training as an interpreter for English he was teaching tax law and graphology at the Volkshochschule (community college). Very early on, he started to write about tax law. In the meantime, more than 5 million copies of his book series '1000 Steuertricks' (1000 tax tricks) have been sold. His mother was a cook in the home of a nobleman and thus Franz Konz always ate 'good food' at home. He paid for this with stomach problems at the age of thirty. He saw several doctors, but none of them could help him. When in 1962, after a biopsy, he received the terrible news that he had stomach cancer, his life changed radically. After his illness had taken Wild plant pioneer Franz Konz him from hospital to hospital where no doctor could help him, an aunt pointed him in the right direction. She advised him to try Kneipp therapy and a raw food diet. He was immediately free of pain. As soon as he started eating the way he used to, however, the pain began anew.
 A delicious raw-food meal A self-taught expert In 1964, Konz went to the USA and became acquainted with natural hygiene. He studied medicine at Cleveland University. In Germany, he conTinued his medical studies at the University of Cologne as a self-taught student. Whenever he tried to eat cooked food, his pain returned. His first step to defeating stomach cancer was vegan raw food. However, the more he read about the subject and particularly by close self-observation, 20 years ago he realized that 'Urkost' - original food, i.e. wild plants, was the only right kind of diet for humans in order to be free of illnesses and health problems or to heal people if no organic damage had already been sustained. Franz Konz became a reformer for healthy living and after 30 years completed his revolutionary masterpiece ‘Der grosse Gesundheits Konz’. He Franz Konz with wife and son A delicious raw-food meal Raw-Food also founded the 'Bund für Gesundheit' (health league) to which 8500 enthusiastic members now belong. Franz Konz enjoys expressing his opinions clearly and concisely. He is a stranger to the idea of being careful of certain lobbies, particularly with regard to traditional medicine. As a logical consequence, medical organizations accused him of endangering people’s health and went to court against him. However, the cases against him were dismissed and by now, the third edition of his book (more than 1000 pages long) has been printed. At the age of 72, Konz is extremely healthy and the father of a daughter of 3 1/2 and a one-year-old son (cover photo), both of whom are given only original food and are quite obviously in perfect health. Franz Konz is the main editor of the magazine ‘Natürlich Leben’ and leads a number of seminars all over the world. His seminars, in which he tries to make the participants enthusiastic about original, natural food and medicine, are always booked up very quickly. Anyone who would like to be introduced to original food and original medicine by Franz Konz ought to register for the 1999 EVU congress in Widnau, Switzerland, as soon as possible, where Konz and other raw food experts (Dr. Bauer, Arosa, Dr. Graham, Florida, Arne Wingquist, Sweden, Dr. K.Probst, Germany, David Wolfe, USA) will be teaching about the advantages of natural food in theory and in practice.
For contact: Bund Für Gesundheit,Talstr. 36, D-52525 Heimsberg, Germany,
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