 According to her book "The Science of Fasting", she studied under Edward Hooker Dewey, M.D., a champion of fasting.She created a "sanitarium", Wilderness Heights, in Olalla, Washington, where inpatients fasted for days, weeks, or months on a diet of small amounts of tomato and asparagus juice and occasionally a small teaspoon of orange juice.While some patients survived and publicly sang her praises, dozens died under her care.