Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally

by Ann Wigmore

Why Suffer?( How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally) <> Paperback <> AnnWigmore <> HealthyLivingPublications

Genres: Health, Nutrition

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1985

About the author

Dr. Ann Wigmore, teacher, healer, Living Foods Lifestyle® founder and Center director and author of numerous books and articles on Living Foods, dedicated her life to educating the world about the transforming qualities of this wonderful lifestyle. She wrote over fifteen books, distributing over one million copies,[citation needed] and lectured in thirty-five countries.The Vegetarian Times Magazine once stated, "Dr. Ann Wigmore is to sprouts what George Washington Carver is to peanuts. Both are food geniuses of a sort. The next time you see sprouts on a salad bar or in a store, thank Dr. Ann."

In 1968, Ann Wigmore co-founded the Hippocrates Health Institute, a health resort in the United States, with Viktoras Kulvinskas. Known as "the mother of living foods", she was an early pioneer in the use of wheatgrass juice and living foods for detoxifying and healing the body, mind, and spirit.

In her autobiography, Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally, Wigmore recalls observing her grandmother using herbs and natural remedies as a child in Lithuania.

Dr Ann was Founder-Director of the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute in Puerto Rico and the Ann Wigmore Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts. She died an untimely death from smoke inhalation in a fire in her Boston center in February, 1994. At the time of her death, she was 84 years young and had more energy than most 20-year-olds!

Today, her methods are still being taught at the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute.

Reviews

[Deja Bertucci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ann Wigmore is the lady who figured out wheatgrass--that you could drink it, and that it was healing. My mom handed me this book over Christmas, and I though hey, why not? I was expecting it to be a preachy weirdness, but it's actually a gorgeously written memoir about growing up in Eastern Europe with her healer grandmother and all of her animal friends who repeatedly saved her life. In fact, a really cool part of reading this for me was realizing my mom read me parts of it when I was a little girl. My whole life I've wondered where this story came from about soaking in a mud puddle and bullfrog jumping on a little girl's face to save her from a flash flood, and this book is where it's from! That was exciting. And the story of how she comes up with wheat grass is pretty incredible. I told some of my coworkers the story over a fancy work dinner when we were traveling, and my boss said, "Deja, that's a WEIRD story." And I said "I know." It made me want to write a screenplay about this woman's life. But I wouldn't want it to be a salespitch for wheatgrass, because honestly that stuff is terrible and reading this didn't make me change my mind about it. But it was seriously one of best memoir-type books I've read in awhile. A pleasure.

[Dana · Rating 4 out of 5]

An autobiography of the author's (founder of the Hippocrites Institute) life. Follows her life growing up in Eastern Europe where she was raised by her grandmother during the war. Her knowledge of the healing power of nature began here. It was during (It's been a while, so all the details may not be exact) Abandoned by her parents when they came to America, she was eventually sent for to join them only to be ostracized and treated more as a burden/property than their child. The story continues with her discovering wheatgrass to heal gangrene and the prospect of her losing her legs/life. Not too sentimental, but very touching and inspiring to see the possibility of faith and determination and the cures available in the earth's abundance.

[Coen · Rating 5 out of 5]

my bible. sure, a lot of the stuff in the book sounds like ann just made it up and you think to yourself: "that's bullshit and ridiculous, ann!" but perhaps it's ridiculous that we THINK it's ridiculous. society falsely makes us think that everything in this book is impossible. that's the sad part.

[Teri · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a memoir of Ann Wigmore's life and how she came to develop her natural healing practices, which are used at Hippocrates Institute. She was born in Lithuania and her childhood was in the midst of WWI. She was born with very poor health and her parents didn't want her because they didn't want to be bogged down by an unhealthy child. Her grandmother adopted her when the parents moved to America. Her grandmother was a healer and she'd place Ann in a muddy riverbank up to her neck for hours at a time... she believed there were healing properties in the mud. In time, thanks to her grandmother, Ann did heal. Her grandmother predicted that Ann would one day become a healer of great influence and it was true. Ann watched and helped as her grandmother tended to wounded soldiers and to anyone else who would come to her for help. When Ann was a teenager, she moved to America to live with her parents, who still didn't want her. Her father took her on as slave labor at his company until she became a legal adult and then she left them. She married young and the relationship was abusive. But in time she had a strong desire to help others heal and was finally able to work on that lifelong goal. She began experiments with wheatgrass juice on incurable patients who had little hope left and was able to reverse cancer and other diseases. She, herself, got cancer and healed herself. Eventually she helped to found the Hippocrates Institute, where they teach patients how to take responsibility for their own health, using a raw vegan diet, wheatgrass juice, hydrotherapy and other natural healing remedies.

I really enjoyed the book and thought it could make a good movie. She didn't have an easy life for much of it, and unfortunately it ended when her apartment caught fire and she didn't survive. But she left many books behind and her Hippocrates Institute, which is still in operation. I plan to read more of her books. I should add that it's thanks to Ann and her grandmother that we even know that wheatgrass is such a remarkable healer of the body. She was the one who brought it to the forefront.

[A.soorianarayanan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good biography of a person who toiled a lot to help others and advocated the " wheatgrass " juice for cures and encouraged individuals to take care of their own health.

[Joseph Oyebanji · Rating 5 out of 5]

God send

Amazing read from a lady who saw sooo much! Ann was no doubt a God send! I highly highly recommend!

[Seemy · Rating 3 out of 5]

In a way this book is good and my low rating is a bit harsh - but I read this book after being recommended it from another health related book - and it was indeed a good reminder of the health benefits from things like wheatgrass to even goats milk versus other milk types - but to get to that there was a lot of her personal story - which although inspirational in some way and hard to believe in others - was not what I purchased the book for and had to wait and shift through large parts of the book to get to specific health related material about the benefits of wheatgrass and so on -

I think I should have purchased her wheatgrass specific book which am confident would serve me far better for my preference and style of book - but yeah this would be great for people who like some entertainment and story along the way - but for health learning I typically prefer a straight forward and direct book discussing that topic specifically

...but one thing I liked about this book was Ann’s spiritual faith which goes a long way too

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[Andreas Michaelides · Rating 5 out of 5]

Indeed like the title of the book says, Why Suffer? Why would you want to give yourself, heart attack or a stroke or diabetes II or some form of Cancer? Why would you do that? I tell you why because we are nutritionally ignorant, and thank goodness for people like Ann Wigmore and her books.
Indeed why suffer while the only thing you can do is become a vegetarian or a vegan or adopt a plant based diet. The percentage of getting one of the above illnesses and others drops significantly.
A lovely book, its the writer's autobiography and it shows you step by step how she end up adopting a plant based diet through difficult personal injuries both physically and psychologically.
I related and connected with the writer a lot especially when she was describing her life as a little girl in Lithuania living with her grandmother, I admit it made me cry.