| Today we live in a convenience age. You can save | | | | we have already said that is nothing new age about it |
| time by eating fast food and you can get better by | | | | at all as it has been around for a very long time. |
| taking a quick acting pill. But chronic diseases are on | | | | Hippocrates according to some claims to be the father |
| the upsurge and there appears to be a veritable | | | | of modern medicine. His sensible motto provides the |
| epidemic of cancer. It seems in this age of McDo | | | | backbone to the 'The Hippocratic Oath' to which all |
| nald's health is degenerating. Could there be a | | | | doctors swear. This is "do no harm". He prescribed |
| connection I wonder? If we were to take a minute to | | | | abstinence from food while a disease was on the |
| look back at history we would see that something | | | | increase and particularly so as it approached the |
| altogether not convenient has been around for several | | | | healing crisis. Moreover another piece of wisdom from |
| thousand years, and that is fasting. Fasting or forgoing | | | | the same source was 'eat sparsely at all times". Unlike |
| food is the world's most ancient and natural healing | | | | some pharmaceutical medicines none of these |
| procedure. When animals feel unwell they stop eating | | | | practices do harm. Essentially it is a good idea to leave |
| and rest. They know something that humans appear | | | | the table with room for a little more, and follow the |
| to have forgotten and that is by ceasing eating the | | | | very sound advice recommended by our |
| body triggers a very powerful cleansing process. This | | | | grandmothers "feed a cold and starve a fever." |
| 'cleanse' reaches down into every cell and produces | | | | More recently both Dr. Kelly and Dr. Roderigo |
| truly remarkable therapeutic results. | | | | suggested that all disease began in the intestinal tract. |
| What happens when you fast? After 24 hours of | | | | By cleaning the intestines you get rid of the toxins |
| zero food intake the digestive system no longer has | | | | which are the main constituents of all disease. Fasting |
| anything to do. Thus digestive enzymes that usually | | | | and cleansing with the help of enemas and colonics |
| drain a lot of the body's energy to accomplish their | | | | have become increasingly more popular with those |
| task travel not to the stomach but to the intestines and | | | | truly anxious to bring their health up to speed. Such |
| into the bloodstream where they gobble up waste | | | | treatments have been heartily embraced by people |
| matter which comprises decaying and moribund cells, | | | | like the Swedes and more and more clinics are |
| metabolic refuse and other pollutants. At the same | | | | popping up in the United States. |
| time as this cleanse is taking place organs and glands | | | | Back in the early 1990s a centre specialising in this |
| get an unaccustomed holiday and this break gives | | | | form of cleansing took root on the Thai island of Koh |
| them an opportunity to purify and rejuvenate. | | | | Samui which was at the time a much favoured |
| Altogether this operation results in enhanced immune | | | | destination of back-packers. In 1997 the the Health |
| system function which at the end of the day means | | | | Oasis Resort Resort. came into being and offers a |
| that health is restored and illness killed off. Benjamin | | | | de-tox programme at a reasonable price in a very |
| Franklin said long ago "the best form of all medicines | | | | beautiful and peaceful setting. If this powerful form of |
| are rest and fasting." | | | | health care interests you perhaps you should check it |
| Main stream opinion today tends to dismiss this | | | | out! |
| health-promoting trend.as "faddy and New Age". As | | | | |