On the nature of Natural Hygiene (WAS: Question??? )

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Greetings RL and all,

What the present-day HLI folks, along with TC Fry, HM Shelton, and others

before them teach is Natural Hygiene indeed differs from what is available

today from ANHS. A number of years ago, some practitioners who were more

politically savvy managed to gain control of the ANHS board of directors,

and they basically expelled (but more politely) those who had been pillars

of NH for decades. When HLI was formed by those who had left ANHS, these

people put the spin you see below on HLI. But ANHS has devolved into little

more than a holding tank for a diverse collection of practitioners, none of

whom follows many of the original core teachings of NH. Some teach people to

eat animal foods, and all, to my knowledge, are in the business of selling

treatments and therapies.

In contrast, what I consider the genuine NH approach, the approach taught

within HLI and by Doug Graham, Tim Trader, Dave Klein (Living Nutrition

magazine), Dr. Virginia Vetrano (contemporary of Shelton), and myself, among

others, is rooted deeply in a belief in Nature's design. We do not use

medical interventions, except at times in the event of outside trauma (such

as an automobile accident or the like). Instead, we focus on eating and

living in ways that bring us closely into alignment or harmony with Nature's

design for our species. As we do this, our system's natural capacities

reassert themselves, our innate intelligence comes to the forefront, and we

begin to experience health, created from the inside, out.

In other words, we hold that it is not possible to create health from the

outside, in, by means of what I like to call " concoctions of the forebrain "

-- interventions such as drugs and supplements and the like. Rather, we

believe that the body, and indeed our entire being, creates health on its

own. Our role is to live as we are designed to live, to the best of our

present ability, and to give our system ALL that it needs to cleanse,

repair, and restore itself.

By " all that it needs " , I mean not only food, but also excellent rest,

activity (what some call " exercise " ), sunshine, fresh air, sufficient

hydration, laughter and play, work that one loves (and is therefore no

longer work), and so forth. I know of two places on the Internet where one

can fully explore this path:

- Doug Graham's site at VegSource

- the PathOfHealth group

I have learned, not only with respect to health but with respect to many

things, that almost everything I ever learned growing up was false. Not

necessarily that every bit of information was false, but rather than the

underlying premises, the foundation of beliefs and assumptions upon which we

were taught to think, are fundamentally flawed.

As I apply this realization to health, I am aware that almost all of us have

been taught to interpret symptoms as problems, to shop for diagnoses and

seek treatments, and so forth. It matters not to me whether these activities

occur in the presence of an allopathic practitioner (medical doctor), an

" alternative health practitioner " , whatever that may mean, or the like. What

I have come to comprehend, very deeply from within me, is that Nature has

neither diagnoses nor treatments, but only actions and consequences. If we

choose actions that create health, we shall eventually experience health. If

we choose otherwise, we shall experience otherwise.

Please note that the approach many of the NH folks describe, involving a

diet high in fruits (AND with a base of SWEET fruits) and tender greens and

low to nonexistent in most other things, is a diet that leads one into a

place of high, steady, dependable energy, wellness, and awareness that are

simply " off the map " of most people, even most RFs, to conceive. In this

sense, what we describe really is living on the cutting edge.

If you are willing, this way of eating and living will bring you

face-to-face with yourself: you will have the opportunity to know yourself

and the world around you as never before. I realize this may be said of

several approaches to RF, to a degree, but I assure that the extent to which

this becomes so with this approach expands, eventually and over time, far

beyond what most people may likely ever experience.

That is what is available, to those who would embrace and receive it.

I hope this explanation is helpful. Best to all,

Elchanan

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RawSeattle [ <RawSeattle >

RawSeattle ] On Behalf Of welltrainedmonkey

Friday, December 08, 2006 11:01 AM

RawSeattle

[RawSeattle] Question???

 

H Folks,

 

Am surfing on raw food stuff and came up with this

site: <http://naturalhygienesociety.org/questions.html>

http://naturalhygienesociety.org/questions.html

 

Don't know when this page was written but it's discussing the dangers of

fruitarianism....oh, and some stuff about which NH group you should

join....sorry not into politics, just information.

 

Anyone know anything this? I googled " fruitarianism dangers " but got nothing

helpful. To be specific (excerpt)

 

Why not join HLI?

Why don't we just join Healthful Living International? HLI is a relatively

new natural hygiene group also originating from discontent with ANHS. There

are of course many similarities, but there are also substantial differences.

HLI follows TC Fry's (fruitarian) ideas closely.

 

But his ideas on the ideal diet are contradicted by the ideas of Dr. Cursio,

Dr. Bass, Weston-Price and anthropological research. We want to take this

contradiction seriously, look at all arguments and present the result to the

public.

Thank you,

RL