The following is a concise statement of the philosophy of Natural Hygiene, as conceived and compiled by the eminent health teacher T. C. Fry.
Natural Hygiene Philosophy
Natural Hygiene holds that life should be meaningful and filled with beauty, goodness and happiness.
Natural Hygiene holds that the human spirit is inherently good, righteous, and virtuous, and that its exalted character will be realized under ideal life conditions.
Natural Hygiene holds that superlative well-being is normal, natural, and necessary to the realization of the highest human ideals.
Natural Hygiene holds that supreme human excellence can be realized only in those who embrace those principles and practices which produce well-being.
Natural Hygiene, which encompasses all that bears upon human well-being, constitutes the optimal way to realize the highest possible order of human existence.
Natural Hygiene, alone, is in harmony with nature, in accord with the principles of vital organic existence, correct in science, sound in philosophy and ethics, in agreement with common sense, and successful in practice and a blessing to humankind.
Natural Hygiene recognizes that the human body is a fully self-sufficient organism, that it is self-directing, self-constructing, self-preserving and self-healing. It is capable of maintaining itself in superb functioning order, free of disease, if its inherent organic needs are properly met. Foremost among these needs are fresh air, pure water, rest and sleep, wholesome foods, cleanliness, comfortable temperature, pleasant environment, sunshine, exercise, constructive work, emotional poise, recreation, self-mastery, and spiritual development.
Natural Hygiene recognizes that humans are constitutionally adapted to a diet primarily consisting of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds consumed in the fresh, raw, natural state.
Natural Hygiene recognizes that diseases are caused by improper life practices, especially dietary indiscretions. Illness proceeds from reduced vital energy and the consequent toxicosis (blood, cell, and tissue poisoning). Insufficient vital energy occurs because of extraordinary dissipation, stress, overindulgence, excess or deficiency of the normal essentials of life, or pollution of the body with substances not normal to it. Accordingly, recovery from sickness can be achieved only by discontinuing these causes and supplying conditions favorable to healing.
Natural Hygiene recognizes that a thoroughgoing rest, which includes fasting, is the most favorable condition under which an ailing body can purify and repair itself.
Natural Hygiene, which teaches that exalted well-being can be attained and maintained only through biologically correct living practices, is not in any sense a healing art or a curing cult. The idea that diseases can be prevented or overcome by substances or therapies abnormal to our natural being is completely mistaken.
Consequently, Natural Hygiene emphatically rejects drugs, medications, vaccinations, and treatments (except in rare, extenuating circumstances) because they undermine health by interfering with or destroying vital body processes and tissues.
Therefore, Natural Hygiene regards the body and mind as the inviolable sanctuary of an individual’s being. Natural Hygiene holds that every individual has an inalienable right to have a pure and uncontaminated body, to be free of abnormal compulsions and restraints, and to be free to meet his/her needs as a responsible member of society.
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