Franklin Bicknell

Bicknell authored Chemicals in Food and in Farm Produce, in 1960. The book argued that birth defects both mental and physical are caused by alien substances added to foods. It was negatively reviewed in the British Journal of Industrial Medicine as scientifically misleading. A review in The Quarterly Review of Biology suggested that "while all will agree that we are against poisons in our foods, this volume contributes little to understanding how difficult it is at times to determine what is a poison."

In 1947, Bicknell wrote a controversial article "Dying England" in The Medical Press supporting Albert Howard's idea that English people are malnourished. The article made sensationalist media headlines. Bicknell stated that "England is dying from starvation" and that the average person was only getting 2,100 calories a day when they needed 3,000. He believed the British population were suffering from prolonged chronic malnutrition. Bicknell ended his polemic with "once we were a great, a prosperous, a happy nation: once we were well fed."

Bicknell co-authored Vitamins In Medicine in 1946 which was positively reviewed by the British Medical Journal as a "very fine work". The scholarly volume went through several editions and was positively reviewed by physician Paul S. Rhoads who noted that it was a comprehensive text written with skill and thoroughness. Bicknell argued for people to eat more dietary fats and meat. He advocated low-carbohydrate dieting and wrote the introduction for Richard Mackarness' book Eat Fat and Grow Slim in 1958.

Franklin Bicknell (20 March 1906 – 1964) M.D, M.R.C.P was a British physician, nutritionist and writer.