Natural Hygiene - comments (Denise)

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Denise we3deeves Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:53 PM Subject:

Re: [Raw Food] Natural Hygiene

 

I've been pouring over the International Natural Hygiene Society's website

all night (_http://inhs.ms11.net/present.html_

(http://inhs.ms11.net/present.html) ) hope that's the right link and I'm

seeing quite a few differences

in what they are saying and what is being said here (in regard to a Natural

 

Hygiene diet - not the other elements). They even won't promote ONE diet

because they say there is so much debate even among the hygienic

scientists. They

do say, however, that there does seem to be legitimate evidence that an all

 

fruit diet (long term) leads to problems and deficiencies??

 

They also say that you can be a natural hygienist eating raw fruits &

veggies AND eggs and raw dairy! There's a chart that shows the different

'NH

diets'...and a very interesting section on 'What is the optimal raw diet'

or

something to that effect.

 

They say that natural hygienists are more concerned with HEALTH rather than

 

the ethics of vegetarianism (in regards to the eating of wild fish and

eggs)....And that some famous hygienists promoted this way of eating after

doing

research w/feeding mice? It's very interesting to read the findings of

that

research!

 

Thoughts???

___

Here's the homepage. _INHS International Natural Hygiene Society -

honoring

Dr. Herbert Shelton_ (http://inhs.ms11.net/index.html)

___

Okay...now from reading the info on the International Natural Hygiene

Society web page, I see that there are several different ideas (in fact a

great

debate that's apparently gone on for some time) from Natural Hygienist

themselves on what, exactly, constitutes an optimal raw diet. I thought

from the way

it was talked about here, that frugavore/8-1-1 = N.H. period My

mistake!

 

~denise

_____

Hi Denise,

 

You are absolutely correct. Natural Hygiene refers to a broad collection of

opinions about achieving health in ways that are in harmony with Nature. So

the term encompasses a number of approaches to nutrition and other health

factors.

 

NH is not any particular approach to eating/food, but rather just that which

is " in harmony with Nature. " Of course, that may mean very different things

to various people. Most but not all have been vegetarian, many have been

vegan, and frankly very few have advocated 100% raw food. Also, many of them

are as fearful of fruit as the practitioner population at large, largely

because of unfounded fears about sugar. (Though the cite other reasons, this

one is usually primary.) For this reason, I do not associate myself closely

with the term " Natural Hygiene, " and you will hardly ever see me use the

term in my writings.

 

Several years ago, there was a " changing of the guard. " At that time,

several NH teachers, practitioners, leaders went off and formed their own

organization, Healthful Living International (HLI). Among these people are

Dr. Doug Graham, Dr. Virginia Vetrano, Dr. Tim Trader, Dave Klein (publisher

of Living Nutrition magazine). They have held several small but successful

symposia, but they lack leadership, resources, etc. Also, Dave and HLI in

some arrangement run the annual RawStock events, which have been a great

success.

 

80/10/10 is a specific approach to diet ... raw, vegan, high-oxygen,

high-water, high-fruit, low-fat, low-protein ... and to creating health in a

larger sense. Dr. Doug Graham created this approach a number of years ago,

and I to much of what he teaches. I intend to say much more about

that in an upcoming post tentatively entitled " Why 80/10/10? A personal

perspective. "

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

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