Fred J. Hart - American farmer, businessman, active in the field of radionics, established National Health Federation.

In 1912 he operated a hotel in Tulare. In 1915 he married Eva Porter daughter of a wealthy rancher in Salinas. He had one daughter Margaret Elizabeth Hart. He was one of the founders of the Monterey County Farm Bureau similar state and national organizations. He was manager of KQW (now KCBS) radio station in San Francisco and several other radio stations. He was chairman of the board of Electronics Medical Foundation for over 25 years. He organized the National Health Federation

National Health Federation

The National Health Federation is an international health freedom non-profit organization which describes its mission as protecting individuals' rights to use dietary supplements and alternative therapies without government restriction. The NHF also opposes public health measures such as water...

 in 1956. He founded the NHF after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration compelled his company to cease marketing untested devices for medical treatment. He was believer of radionics

Radionics

Radionics is the use of blood, hair, a signature, or other substances unique to the person as a focus to supposedly heal a patient from afar. The concept behind radionics originated in the early 1900s with Albert Abrams , who became a millionaire by leasing radionic machines which he designed...

 and influenced by views of Albert Abrams

Albert Abrams

Albert Abrams was an American doctor, well known during his life for inventing machines which he claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease. These claims were challenged from the outset...

after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and treated in one of Abrams' clinics.