WHEN
EMBARKING UPON A HEALTH REGIME…...
by
KK Fowlkes
When
embarking upon a health regime, it is good to know the experiences of those
who went before. Ann Wigmore
has had many experiences and many letters of appreciation from people who
attended her institute. Does it
make any difference if the experience happened many years ago?
No. Truth is always
truth. For this reason the
experience is still valid. Living
food is always living food. Wheatgrass
is always wheatgrass. The
results should be approximately the same.
Why not exactly the same? Everyone’s
body is different.
Below
you should find a letter from a Dr. Taylor to Ann Wigmore.
We would differ on one item since more is known about the different
grasses now. We would use
barley grass for arthritis because it is high in organic sodium.
People who are arthritic, are very low in organic sodium both in the
lining of their stomachs and in their joints.
A
lifetime of eating high protein meats or dairy products robs the body of
organic sodium because sodium is used to help buffer the acidic residue from
these foods. Once the sodium is
used up, the body then begins to use calcium and then magnesium to buffer
with. This is one reason that
many arthritic people also have osteoporosis.
(This
experience was taken from Ann Wigmore’s Newsletter Volume 1, Number 4,
November 15, 1982)
Transcripts
of a Cassette Recording of Dr. Ann and Dr. Keith B. Taylor
Dr.
Taylor: I am Dr. Keith Bennett Taylor. I am an optometrist from
Illinois. I do a lot of visual therapy for slow learning children. Now we
have found in the last five or six years that it is very wise to implement a
program of live food at home for these children. They are hurting themselves
by eating too much sugar -- too many candy bars and pop, which is poison to
the system. About 5 years ago I heard of the Hippocrates program through
somebody from Toronto, Canada. He said that the Hippocrates program was
helping folks with health problems. At that time, I had very severe
arthritis in my shoulders, knees, and fingers. It got so bad I couldn't sit
on the toilet or get off it without help, and I had to stay up in the middle
of the night from the pain. So I went to my local physician, whom I highly
regard, and I got some medicine. This killed the pain but it didn't do the
arthritis any good, so I went to the arthritis sanatorium and I got two more
pills, and five or six of their hot, wet heat pack treatments, and
that didn't do any good. Then I went to the chiropractor and had some
chiropractic treatments which were very relaxing, and some acupuncture, and
that didn't do any good. Since I had physiological chemistry in medical
school, I knew something about the chemistry of the human organism, so I
talked to some people at Hayman about this Hippocrates Health Institute in
Boston. My wife and I called and I said I have severe arthritis. Could I get
help? And they said we don't care what you have, it all comes from the same
thing -- deficiencies and waste accumulations. I made reservations, my wife
and I came out here, and spent the most productive two weeks I've ever spent
in my life. I had to come up in a wheel chair, I had to be practically
carried up the steps when we came in here, I could hardly get up to the
room, and when I left i had no arthritis, it was gone. And it's been gone
ever since, after 3 years, because we are very careful to see that we stay on the
fresh live foods program. The new life style is wonderful.
Dr.
Ann: How is your energy now?
Dr.
Taylor: Oh, very good. My energy is fine, it's beautiful -- I work in
the office all day long. I'm never going to retire, I'm just going to keep
working. I feel like a young person.
Dr.
Ann: Yes, it is wonderful indeed, and that you so much for sharing your
story.
See
Ann's basic menu in our newsletter archives:
The
Wheatgrass Habit
