The Living Foods Lifestyle

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The Raw and Living Foods Lifestyle (LFL) RCommunities

The Board of Directors of the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute,

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The following paragraph is part of a letter written to our students by Dr.

Ann Wigmore. It can be found in our class text book that is given to each

student upon their arrival to our Institute.

 

" Heartfelt greetings to our students:

 

Welcome to our learn-by-doing, health-rebuilding center. You will soon be

introduced to a new lifestyle, probably quite different from what you have

been taught all your life by your former teachers (family, friends and

doctors). There are, in fact, so many different notions regarding health

that it can become quite confusing at times, especially if you read many

books on the subject. Even some of my earlier books, like Why Suffer (which

I wrote over 30 years ago) can lead to confusion. At that time I was

teaching the use of " raw " (rather than " living " ) food, and I put a big

emphasis on the use of wheatgrass chlorophyll. Also, the level of disease

in our society was not as bad as it is now. Since that time, peoples'

bodies have become so depleted and polluted that I had to reformulate the

program, and I am still constantly refining this Living Foods Lifestyle

(LFL) R. "

-Dr. Ann

Wigmore, 1991 "

 

Hopefully, this will clarify some of your questions and thoughts about the

need to maintain the LFLR as a trademark and Dr. Ann's feelings about the

lifestyle. Many students, upon their first encounter with our lifestyle,

would ask for Celtic salt, pepper, garlic, onions, herbs, Nama Shoyu,

Bragg's Aminos, etc. Others wanted a transitional program in lieu of our

LFLR program to help them " eventually " accept Dr. Ann's Living Foods

LifestyleR. In response, Dr. Ann would firmly reply, " I CANNOT DILUTE MY

LIFESTYLE "

 

Ann Wigmore's mission was to create and educate people about a lifestyle

that was healing and aligned with the laws of nature. Dr. Ann followed

Hippocrates' belief that food was our medicine and medicine was our food.

But she didn't stop with food. Her lifestyle was a total approach to living

in order to change one's consciousness. She also knew this lifestyle was,

and, continues to be, a process. She trademarked Living Foods LifestyleR in

order to protect the integrity of her work and the elements of the Living

Foods LifestyleR which did/does not stop with food.

 

Her untimely death took many people by surprise because Dr. Ann was the

reflection of health. She died in an electrical fire at the Ann Wigmore

Foundation in Boston. Before she passed, Dr. Ann worked very hard with

Leola Brooks and Claudia Lalita Salas to insure that they would promote the

mission of the Living Foods LifestyleR as she had developed it towards the

end of her life. Dr. Ann wanted to know beyond any doubt that neither Leola

Brooks nor Claudia Lalita Salas would dilute her legacy.

 

Originally, the Ann Wigmore Foundation in Boston owned the Living Foods

Lifestyle trademark. After Dr. Ann's transition, the Ann Wigmore Foundation

relocated to New Mexico.

 

The new directors at the Ann Wigmore Foundation discovered that the

trademark had lapsed during the times following Ann Wigmore's death. The

directors for Puerto Rico and New Mexico recognized that holding this

trademark was essential as the guardians of the Living Foods LifestyleR

affirming Dr. Ann's strong feelings about having legal validation for her

work.

 

There are reasons for trademark and copyright infringement laws. Ann Wigmore

trademarked the Living Foods Lifestyle (LFL) R so that it would represent

the specific teachings that she developed. When someone uses that term to

represent things outside of Ann Wigmore's teachings, it creates confusion

about what the term means and represents. In part, the term " living foods "

is becoming more popular in the raw foods community because of its

association with Ann Wigmore and its promotion by Ann Wigmore.

 

We are happy to know that different elements of the Living Foods LifestyleR

are being used by other people. However, unless you do the program exactly

as Dr. Ann created it, it is not the Living Foods LifestyleR as she

intended. Further, please remember, that this lifestyle is about more than

just food. As a result, even if you do the food exactly as Dr. Ann

prescribed, you will probably be missing other elements of her protocol

which went beyond food.

 

Because of the educational nature of the mission and the profound effect Ann

Wigmore has had on the philosophy of health and healing world wide, there is

a need to have some control over how Dr. Ann's name and teachings are used.

Minimally the Living Foods LifestyleR trademark must be protected and

associated only with the complete program as designed and developed by Dr.

Ann.

 

Our intention is to protect the integrity of the Living Foods LifestyleR as

developed by Dr. Ann Wigmore. There are many people new to the raw foods

community that have been confused by the proliferation of the term living

foods as used to describe various types of raw foods preparation. Brand

names are imbued with certain attributes which assist in product

differentiation. We believe that one of the attributes of the term " Living

Foods Lifestyle " is the pioneering work of Dr. Ann Wigmore.

 

Please accept our sincere gradituted for your continued support of our

mission to protect the Living Foods LifestyleR trademark and the essence it

represents.

 

 

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Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute

 

Aguada PR 00602 USA

 

www.AnnWigmore.org

 

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