The people listed all seem to hold normalized views according to their time and place. Some of the entries seem to unnecessarily hold people up for ridicule, such as Linus Pauling, while Oregon State University operates an Institute named after him with information on micronutrients and other health topics: https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/health-disease

I think this article has been cobbled together out of low-quality sources reporting on a nothingburger that they wish were a phenomenon, but it's not.