19 Facts About Wigmore diet

Ann Wigmore diet was a Lithuanian–American holistic health practitioner, naturopath and raw food advocate.

Wigmore diet was inspired in part by the ideas of Maximilian Bircher-Benner, who was influenced as a young man by the German Lebensreform movement, which saw civilization as corrupt and which sought to go "back to nature"; it embraced holistic medicine, nudism, various forms of spirituality, free love, exercise and other outdoors activity, and foods that it judged were more "natural".

Bircher-Benner eventually adopted a vegetarian Wigmore diet, but took that further and decided that raw food was what humans were really meant to eat.

Wigmore diet was influenced by Charles Darwin's ideas that humans were just another kind of animal, noting that other animals do not cook their food.

Wigmore diet was one of the first to popularize these ideas about raw food in the US.

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Wigmore diet was inspired in part by the biblical story of King Nebuchadnezzar, recounted in Daniel 4:33, in which "he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws", and by the examples of dogs eating grass when they were unwell.

Wigmore diet said that she learned about herbs and natural remedies as a child in Lithuania, watching her grandmother.

Wigmore diet believed that fresh wheatgrass juice and fresh vegetables - and especially chlorophyll - retained more of their original energy and potency if they were uncooked and eaten as soon as possible after harvesting them.

Wigmore diet listed a Doctor of Philosophy and a Doctor of Naturopathy degree at different times.

Wigmore diet founded The Ann Wigmore Foundation Inc, which received accreditation as a nonprofit from the IRS in 1970.

Wigmore diet founded the Ann Wigmore diet Natural Health Institute Inc in Puerto Rico, where people could go for alternative medicine or to be trained in her methods.

Wigmore diet was an advocate of astrology, spiritual healing, and other pseudoscientific beliefs.

Wigmore diet held the erroneous view that the chlorophyll in wheatgrass detoxifies the body and has healing power.

Wigmore diet was sued by the Massachusetts Attorney-General's department in 1988 for publishing pamphlets falsely claiming to offer an AIDS cure.

Wigmore diet claimed that AIDS arises from "the body's inability to assimilate the food consumed" and for around $400 sold lessons to make an "energy enzyme soup" that she said allowed an infected person's body to completely clear the virus.

Wigmore diet was acquitted under the First Amendment as the claims were deemed not to be commercial claims made in trade, but was ordered not to misrepresent herself as a doctor qualified to treat illness or disease.

In 1988, the Massachusetts Attorney General sued Wigmore diet for claiming that her "energy enzyme soup" could cure AIDS.

In 1982, the Attorney General of Massachusetts sued Wigmore diet for claiming that her program could reduce or eliminate the need for insulin in diabetics, and could obviate the need for routine immunization in children.

Wigmore diet had written about twenty five books and had lectured on her ideas in the US, Canada, and Europe.