The Natural Hygiene Diet by James Michael Lennon

Jennings is considered to be the father of Natural Hygiene. Many had been sick themselves and unable to cure themselves through the “science” they had learned. The first doctors that formulated the ideas behind Natural Hygiene were all very disillusioned with the practice of medicine in their times. ( )Ģ) Recommending sick patients to eat a rich diet of meat, butter and other rich foods to “regain their strength.”ģ) Bleeding and blood letting as a cure to disease remained popular ( )Ĥ) Heroin was routinely prescribed for the common cough ( )ĥ) Many doctors did not wash their hands before performing surgery Many harmful practices were common, such as:ġ) Bathing infrequently due to the false belief promoted by some doctors that bathing too often was bad for health.

Natural Hygiene was known at the time as “Nature Cure” and later as “Orthopathy.”Īround the year 1850, medicine had made some great progress but was still very primitive compared to what it is today.ĭoctors at the time had very little clue about what causes disease. Natural Hygiene is essentially a health system that was developed in the last part of the 19th century by medical doctors who became disillusioned with the practice of medicine at the time.Īlthough Natural Hygiene had inspiration from European writers, it’s essentially an American system developed in the United States.

To understand Natural Hygiene, we must look at its history and how it came about. And finally, some concepts of Natural Hygiene are downright wrong. Others are incorrect but still lead to positive results when applied. Some of these concepts are still very accurate and healthful. In this series of articles, I’ll be looking at the concepts of Natural Hygiene and dissecting them, one-by-one. But because this health philosophy has been created by doctors and researchers that lived 50 to 150 years ago, it’s no longer fully up-to-date with modern science and research, and what we’ve discovered about the human body. I consider Natural Hygiene a great health philosophy that can have a tremendous, positive influence in your life. ( I told the full story of what happened in my book Raw Food Controversies.) In my first few years as a raw foodist, I became extremely sick and it was only the Natural Hygiene concepts that saved me and helped me regain my health. I ended up accepting it completely after studying it carefully. It was such a paradigm shift that completely changed my world. When I first got into Natural Hygiene, I viewed it as quasi religion. I first discovered the raw food diet through the writings of Albert Mosséri, who was a disciple of Herbert Shelton, who’s considered the grand-father of the modern Natural Hygiene movement. Natural Hygiene is one of the health philosophies that influenced me the most.

The Natural Hygiene Diet by James Michael Lennon