Living
Naturally
 After
studying native cultures for many years, Weston Price wrote
of the people he had come to know:
“One wonders if there is not something in the life-giving
vitamins and minerals of the food that builds not only
great physical structures within which their souls reside,
but builds minds and hearts capable of a higher type of
mankind in which the material values of life are made secondary
to individual character.”
The fundamental difference between the way most people
live today and the way most people have traditionally
lived can be understood in that one sentence. Today, traditional
foods and the great physical structures they build are
for the most part gone, and with them hearts and minds
that place primary value on individual character.
To live naturally is first and foremost to act consciously
to evolve and promote a way of life that embodies these
age-old values, in a world that mostly does not – no
easy task. It is said that one becomes what one thinks
about often enough and long enough. As our thoughts
shape us, so too do our foods. Food is perhaps the
most direct
choice we have to profoundly change ourselves and influence
our culture. We will become what we choose to eat,
as individuals and as a people.
 So to live naturally, choose food carefully. Support
farmers who nurture the earth. Drink raw milk. Think about
the
land, the sea, and the animal life of the world. Until
modern times, most people have lived together with
animals and the land. “When you have a cow, you have it
all,” wrote William Corbett, a nineteenth century
essayist and farmer. It is not practical to have a cow,
you say? Well, in many ways living naturally is profoundly
not practical. The norm today is highly unnatural. To
find the peace that living even somewhat traditionally
may bring requires breaking the mold.
The nutrients, formulas and special foods described on
this website have been of great help to us in breaking
out of the mold of mainstream medicine. We think of them
not as panaceas, but simply as useful tools. Our hope is
that you too will find them useful in your own path to
greater heatlh and living naturally.
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