The Healthy People of the Loetschental Valley, Switzerland
The Healthy People of the Loetschental Valley, Switzerland
In 1931 and 1932, Dr. Price traveled to the remote Loetschental Valley in the Swiss Alps. The people of the valley lived in harmony with nature, which resulted in a seemingly peaceful existence. Dr. Price wrote of the superior character and health of these people and the sublime lands of the isolated valleys in the remote Swiss Alps:
They have neither physician nor dentist because they have so little need for them; they have neither policeman nor jail, because they have no need for them.2
This harmony is also evident in the production of food:
While the cows spend the warm summer on the verdant knolls and wooded slopes near the glaciers and fields of perpetual snow, they have a period of high and rich productivity of milk… This cheese contains the natural butter fat and minerals of the splendid milk and is a virtual storehouse of life for the coming winter.3
Reverend John Siegen, the pastor of the one church in the valley, told Dr. Price about the divine characteristics of butter and cheese made from the milk of the grazing cows:
He told me that they recognize the presence of Divinity in the life-giving qualities of the butter made in June when cows have arrived for pasturage near the glaciers. He gathers the people together to thank the kindFather for evidence of his Being in the life-giving qualities of butter and cheese when the cows eat the grass near the snow line... The natives of the valley are able to recognize the superior quality of their June butter, and, without knowing exactly why, pay it due homage.4(Emphasis added.)
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