The
Living
Foods
Lifestyle
®
Trademark
The
following
paragraph
is part
of a
letter
written
to our
students
by Dr.
Ann
Wigmore.
It can
be
found
in our
class
text
book
that is
given
to each
student
upon
their
arrival
to our
Institute.
"Heartfelt
greetings
to our
students:
Welcome
to our
learn
by
doing,
health-rebuilding
center.
You
will
soon be
introduced
to a
new
lifestyle,
probably
quite
different
from
what
you
have
been
taught
all
your
life by
your
former
teachers
(family,
friends
and
doctors).
There
are, in
fact,
so many
different
notions
regarding
health
that it
can
become
quite
confusing
at
times,
especially
if you
read
many
books
on the
subject.
Even
some of
my
earlier
books,
like
Why
Suffer
(which
I wrote
over 30
years
ago)
can
lead to
confusion.
At that
time I
was
teaching
the use
of
"raw"
(rather
than
"living")
food,
and I
put a
big
emphasis
on the
use of
wheatgrass
chlorophyll.
Also,
the
level
of
disease
in our
society
was not
as bad
as it
is
now.
Since
that
time,
peoples'
bodies
have
become
so
depleted
and
polluted
that I
had to
reformulate
the
program,
and I
am
still
constantly
refining
this
Living
Foods
Lifestyle
(LFL)
®."
-Dr.
Ann
Wigmore,
1991
Hopefully,
this
will
clarify
some of
your
questions
and
thoughts
about
the
need to
maintain
the
LFL®
as a
trademark
and Dr.
Ann's
feelings
about
the
lifestyle.
Many
students,
upon
their
first
encounter
with
our
lifestyle,
would
ask for
Celtic
salt,
pepper,
garlic,
onions,
herbs,
Nama
Shoyu,
Bragg's
Aminos,
etc.
Others
wanted
a
transitional
program
in lieu
of our
LFL®
program
to help
them
"eventually"
accept
Dr.
Ann's
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®.
In
response,
Dr. Ann
would
firmly
reply,
"I
CANNOT
DILUTE
MY
LIFESTYLE"
Ann
Wigmore's
mission
was to
create
and
educate
people
about a
lifestyle
that
was
healing
and
aligned
with
the
laws of
nature.
Dr.
Ann
followed
Hippocrates'
belief
that
food
was our
medicine
and
medicine
was our
food.
But she
didn't
stop
with
food.
Her
lifestyle
was a
total
approach
to
living
in
order
to
change
one's
consciousness.
She
also
knew
this
lifestyle
was,
and,
continues
to be,
a
process.
She
trademarked
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
in
order
to
protect
the
integrity
of her
work
and the
elements
of the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
which
did/does
not
stop
with
food.
Her
untimely
death
took
many
people
by
surprise
because
Dr. Ann
was the
reflection
of
health.
She
died in
an
electrical
fire at
the Ann
Wigmore
Foundation
in
Boston.
Before
she
passed,
Dr. Ann
worked
very
hard
with
Leola
Brooks
and
Claudia
Lalita
Salas
to
insure
that
they
would
promote
the
mission
of the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
as she
had
developed
it
towards
the end
of her
life.
Dr. Ann
wanted
to know
beyond
any
doubt
that
neither
Leola
Brooks
nor
Claudia
Lalita
Salas
would
dilute
her
legacy.
Originally,
the Ann
Wigmore
Foundation
in
Boston
owned
the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle
trademark.
After
Dr.
Ann's
transition,
the Ann
Wigmore
Foundation
relocated
to New
Mexico.
The
new
directors
at the
Ann
Wigmore
Foundation
discovered
that
the
trademark
had
lapsed
during
the
times
following
Ann
Wigmore's
death.
The
directors
for
Puerto
Rico
and New
Mexico
recognized
that
holding
this
trademark
was
essential
as the
guardians
of the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
affirming
Dr.
Ann's
strong
feelings
about
having
legal
validation
for her
work.
There
are
reasons
for
trademark
and
copyright
infringement
laws.
Ann
Wigmore
trademarked
the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle
(LFL)
®
so that
it
would
represent
the
specific
teachings
that
she
developed.
When
someone
uses
that
term to
represent
things
outside
of Ann
Wigmore's
teachings,
it
creates
confusion
about
what
the
term
means
and
represents.
In
part,
the
term
"living
foods"
is
becoming
more
popular
in the
raw
foods
community
because
of its
association
with
Ann
Wigmore
and its
promotion
by Ann
Wigmore.
We
are
happy
to know
that
different
elements
of the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
are
being
used by
other
people.
However,
unless
you do
the
program
exactly
as Dr.
Ann
created
it, it
is not
the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
as she
intended.
Further,
please
remember,
that
this
lifestyle
is
about
more
than
just
food.
As a
result,
even if
you do
the
food
exactly
as Dr.
Ann
prescribed,
you
will
probably
be
missing
other
elements
of her
protocol
which
went
beyond
food.
Because
of the
educational
nature
of the
mission
and the
profound
effect
Ann
Wigmore
has had
on the
philosophy
of
health
and
healing
world
wide,
there
is a
need to
have
some
control
over
how Dr.
Ann's
name
and
teachings
are
used.
Minimally
the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
trademark
must be
protected
and
associated
only
with
the
complete
program
as
designed
and
developed
by Dr.
Ann.
Our
intention
is to
protect
the
integrity
of the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
as
developed
by Dr.
Ann
Wigmore.
There
are
many
people
new to
the raw
foods
community
that
have
been
confused
by the
proliferation
of the
term
living
foods
as used
to
describe
various
types
of raw
foods
preparation.
Brand
names
are
imbued
with
certain
attributes
which
assist
in
product
differentiation.
We
believe
that
one of
the
attributes
of the
term
"Living
Foods
Lifestyle"
is the
pioneering
work of
Dr. Ann
Wigmore.
Please
accept
our
sincere
graditute
for
your
continued
support
of our
mission
to
protect
the
Living
Foods
Lifestyle®
trademark
and the
essence
it
represents.
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