Benedict Lust  Benedict Lust (February 3, 1872 – September 5, 1945) was a German-born American who was one of the founders of naturopathic medicine in the first decades of the twentieth century. Lust was born in Michelbach, Baden, Germany. As a youth, he became ill and was treated by Fr. Sebastian Kneipp, a famous advocate of the water cure system. In 1892, he moved to the United States as Kneipp's official water cure representative. Lust attended the New York Preparatory College. He graduated from the Universal Osteopathic College in 1897 and the Eclectic and Naturopathic College in 1904. He received an M.D. from the Eclectic Medical College of New York in 1914. In 1896, Lust began his career as a naturopath by opening a health center and health food store in New York City. He also opened the New York School of Massage in 1896 and the American School of Chiropractic. He published several German and English language magazines advocating hydrotherapy and natural cure. One of his regular customers at the time was Bernarr Macfadden, the popularizer of physical fitness and natural medicine. He married Louise Stroebel on June 11, 1901. Benedict Lust was a disciple of Adolf Just, a German naturopath. Lust established a branch of Just‘s Jungborn in the Ramapo Mountains of New Jersey and translated in 1903 Just‘s book "Kehrt zur Natur zurück!" into English under the title "Return to Nature; the True Natural Method of Living and Healing and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained". In 1901, Lust opened the American School of Naturopathy in Manhattan. He served as the organization's only president. In 1919, the Naturopathic Society of America was dissolved and Lust founded the American Naturopathic Association to supplant it. He operated the "Herald of Health and Naturopath" journal. He was also associated with Bernarr Macfadden's "Physical Culture" magazine. Lust established health resorts known as Yungborn in Butler, New Jersey and Tangerine, Florida which acted as the Winter Campus for the American School of Naturopathy until 2001. He published and translated August Engelhardt's book, "A Carefree Future" in 1913. In 1918, he published the "Universal Naturopathic Encyclopedia" for drugless therapy, and also published "Nature’s Path" magazine.