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