Fasting: the Utimate Diet for Weight Loss and Health

In biblical times, fasting was very popular and used toelimination systems. Your body knows how to fast.
heal or cure many different diseases. The bible has 74When you are not using your mouth to bring in food,
references to fasting. Both Jesus and Moses fastedthe body makes it into an organ of elimination. This is
for 40 days. It was after this fast that Jesus preachedthe very reason that your tongue gets coated while
and performed miracles like walking on water andyou are on a fast. The best thing to rejuvenate the
bringing the dead back to life. Many 'dumb' animals alsobody 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 ishis Denver center, said "I must say in all seriousness
a valid experience. It can benefit any otherwise healthythat fasting when combined with a properly selected
person whose calories now have the upper hand in hisdiet is the nearest approach to a 'cure-all' that is
her life." Philippus Paracelsus, a Swiss physician andpossible to conceive-- profoundly simple and simply
one of the 3 fathers of Western Medicine (includingprofound!" With juice fasting, people can still work thier
also Hippocrates and Galen), said "Fasting is thejob during it. During the water fast, it is best to just rest.
greatest remedy-- the physician within." Elson M HaasA famous scientist, Alex Carrel, M.D., says "The
M.D. says on his website "Fasting is the single greatestelimination of waste products by fasting increases
healing therapy."longevity."
If you fast too long, you can die but if you drink tooGabriel Cousins, MD, says "I often observe in the
much water at one time, you can die. The mostfasting participants that by four days of fasting,
common problems of modern day people, like beingconcentration seems to improve, creative thinking
overweight, having trouble sleeping, feeling tired duringexpands, depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties
the day and headaches, are the things that fasting isfade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural
best for. On forums, people will ask about cleansingjoy begins to appear. It is my hypothesis that when the
the body and others will say that you do not to dophysical 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, youimproves and spiritual capacities expands."
are adding more toxins to the body by eating, whichPrescription for Natural Healing by James Balch M.D.
can cause this cleansing to get backed up or wayand Phyllis Balch CNC says "Fasting is an effective
behind. This is similar to the two opposite medicaland safe method of detoxifying the body...A technique
processes that take place in the human body calledthat wise men have used for centuries to heal the sick.
anabolism and catabolism. These are the processesFast regularly and help the body heal itself and stay
where the body is breaking itself down while it is alsowell. Give all of your organs a rest.
rebuilding itself. At the same time that the body isFasting can help reverse the aging process, and if we
cleansing itself, you are eating and bringing in moreuse it correctly we will live longer, happier lives. Each
toxins or creating metabolic waste to use medicaltime you complete a fast, you will feel better. Your
jargon (2: the technical terminology or characteristicbody 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 doand the degenerative diseases so common in this
anything to cleanse the body, the quickest way tochemically polluted environment we live in. When you
cleanse the body is to do nothing, meaning to eatfeel a cold or illness coming on or are just depressed--
nothing, drink water and rest. Fasting gives your bodyfast!" When you lose your appetite, your body is telling
a rest or vacation, especially the liver, digestive andyou to stop eating. Copyright 2007 by Chuck Bluestein.