According to history available, mankind used to seek his food and clothing by hunting and gathering. He took what he could find. If there was an abundance of edible plants and animals, they got along fairly well. If, due to adverse weather situations the plants and animals were scarce, they suffered.
Gradually various ones (probably the lazy ones) had an insight to be cultivators instead of just gatherers. They even thought up irrigation. This allowed more free time and a more constant supply of food. This in turn made possible the domestication of animals. One cannot domesticate an animal without feeding it.
Only in recent times has mankind begun to think in terms of cultivating desirable states of health or well being instead of treating illness. Illness is seen as an attack on the person from an unseen force.
Since a few have begun to see illness as a normal adaptation to a stressful lifestyle, it has been found that one can cultivate a desirable state of health or well being.
One's state of well being is balanced to one's environment, inner feeling, activity, and nutrition.
To have a lower amount of stress in one's everyday living usually requires at least some change in one's lifestyle. For instance, it requires an aim and practice to have a desirable inner feeling at all times. Much of each newsletter is devoted to this idea. At least some self discipline is required to have a somewhat optimum activity - some balance between work, play, and rest. Considerable self discipline is required to have a more or less optimum state of nutrition.
None of this lifestyle change is difficult, except deciding to do so. One only uses common sense, not faddism.
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