| In biblical times, fasting was very popular and used to | | | | elimination systems. Your body knows how to fast. |
| heal or cure many different diseases. The bible has 74 | | | | When you are not using your mouth to bring in food, |
| references to fasting. Both Jesus and Moses fasted | | | | the body makes it into an organ of elimination. This is |
| for 40 days. It was after this fast that Jesus preached | | | | the very reason that your tongue gets coated while |
| and performed miracles like walking on water and | | | | you are on a fast. The best thing to rejuvenate the |
| bringing the dead back to life. Many 'dumb' animals also | | | | body and mind is fasting. |
| do fasting. | | | | John Tilden, M.D., who has fasted over 1,000 people in |
| The New England Journal of Medicine says "Fasting is | | | | his Denver center, said "I must say in all seriousness |
| a valid experience. It can benefit any otherwise healthy | | | | that fasting when combined with a properly selected |
| person whose calories now have the upper hand in his | | | | diet is the nearest approach to a 'cure-all' that is |
| her life." Philippus Paracelsus, a Swiss physician and | | | | possible to conceive-- profoundly simple and simply |
| one of the 3 fathers of Western Medicine (including | | | | profound!" With juice fasting, people can still work thier |
| also Hippocrates and Galen), said "Fasting is the | | | | job during it. During the water fast, it is best to just rest. |
| greatest remedy-- the physician within." Elson M Haas | | | | A famous scientist, Alex Carrel, M.D., says "The |
| M.D. says on his website "Fasting is the single greatest | | | | elimination of waste products by fasting increases |
| healing therapy." | | | | longevity." |
| If you fast too long, you can die but if you drink too | | | | Gabriel Cousins, MD, says "I often observe in the |
| much water at one time, you can die. The most | | | | fasting participants that by four days of fasting, |
| common problems of modern day people, like being | | | | concentration seems to improve, creative thinking |
| overweight, having trouble sleeping, feeling tired during | | | | expands, depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties |
| the day and headaches, are the things that fasting is | | | | fade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural |
| best for. On forums, people will ask about cleansing | | | | joy begins to appear. It is my hypothesis that when the |
| the body and others will say that you do not to do | | | | physical toxins are cleared from the brain cells, |
| anything since the body is constantly cleansing itself. | | | | mind-brain function automatically and significantly |
| But at the same time this cleansing is taking place, you | | | | improves and spiritual capacities expands." |
| are adding more toxins to the body by eating, which | | | | Prescription for Natural Healing by James Balch M.D. |
| can cause this cleansing to get backed up or way | | | | and Phyllis Balch CNC says "Fasting is an effective |
| behind. This is similar to the two opposite medical | | | | and safe method of detoxifying the body...A technique |
| processes that take place in the human body called | | | | that wise men have used for centuries to heal the sick. |
| anabolism and catabolism. These are the processes | | | | Fast regularly and help the body heal itself and stay |
| where the body is breaking itself down while it is also | | | | well. Give all of your organs a rest. |
| rebuilding itself. At the same time that the body is | | | | Fasting can help reverse the aging process, and if we |
| cleansing itself, you are eating and bringing in more | | | | use it correctly we will live longer, happier lives. Each |
| toxins or creating metabolic waste to use medical | | | | time you complete a fast, you will feel better. Your |
| jargon (2: the technical terminology or characteristic | | | | body will have a chance to heal and rebuild its immune |
| idiom of a special activity or group). | | | | system by regularly fasting. You can fight off illness |
| So when they say that you do not need to do | | | | and the degenerative diseases so common in this |
| anything to cleanse the body, the quickest way to | | | | chemically polluted environment we live in. When you |
| cleanse the body is to do nothing, meaning to eat | | | | feel a cold or illness coming on or are just depressed-- |
| nothing, drink water and rest. Fasting gives your body | | | | fast!" When you lose your appetite, your body is telling |
| a rest or vacation, especially the liver, digestive and | | | | you to stop eating. Copyright 2007 by Chuck Bluestein. |