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Fasting: The Utimate Diet for Weight Loss and Health

Article Summary: This article tells about the many benefits of fasting, which includes losing weight. It has quotes from several medical doctors and the New England Journal of Medicine.

The majority of people are afraid of not eating (fasting). There was this guy who was well known for walking on water, healing the sick and bringing the dead back to life who felt that He needed to fast for 40 days. His name was Jesus Christ (Yeshua ben Yoseph). All of his miracles and preaching were done after this 40 day fast. It was also done by Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi. But fasting is also done by 'dumb' animals.

The New England Journal of Medicine says "Fasting is a valid experience. It can benefit any otherwise healthy person whose calories now have the upper hand in his/her life." Philippus Paracelsus, a Swiss physician and one of the 3 fathers of Western Medicine (including also Hippocrates and Galen), said "Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within." Elson M Haas M.D. says on his website "Fasting is the single greatest healing therapy."

If you fast too long, you can die but if you drink too much water at one time, you can die. The most common problems of modern day people, like being overweight, having trouble sleeping, feeling tired during the day and headaches, are the things that fasting is best for. On forums, people will ask about cleansing the body and others will say that you do not to do anything since the body is constantly cleansing itself.

But at the same time this cleansing is taking place, you are adding more toxins to the body by eating, which can cause this cleansing to get backed up or way behind. This is like the anabolism and catabolism that happen in the human body. These are the processes where the body is breaking itself down while it is also rebuilding itself. At the same time that the body is cleansing itself, you are eating and bringing in more toxins or creating metabolic waste to use medical jargon (2: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group).

So when they say that you do not need to do anything to cleanse the body, the quickest way to cleanse the body is to do nothing, meaning to eat nothing, drink water and rest. Fasting gives your body a rest or vacation, especially the liver, digestive and elimination systems. Your body knows how to fast. When you are not using your mouth to bring in food, the body makes it into an organ of elimination. This is the very reason that your tongue gets coated while you are on a fast. The best thing to rejuvenate the body and mind is fasting.

John Tilden, M.D., who (in his Colorado center) fasted thousands of people, said "I must say in all seriousness that fasting when combined with a properly selected diet is the nearest approach to a 'cure-all' that is possible to conceive-- profoundly simple and simply profound!" With juice fasting, people can still work thier job during it. During the water fast, it is best to just rest. A famous scientist, Alex Carrel, M.D., says "The elimination of waste products by fasting increases longevity."

Gabriel Cousins, MD, says "I often observe in the fasting participants that by four days of fasting, concentration seems to improve, creative thinking expands, depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties fade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural joy begins to appear. It is my hypothesis that when the physical toxins are cleared from the brain cells, mind-brain function automatically and significantly improves and spiritual capacities expands."

Prescription for Natural Healing by James Balch M.D. and Phyllis Balch CNC says "Fasting is an effective and safe method of detoxifying the body...A technique that wise men have used for centuries to heal the sick. Fast regularly and help the body heal itself and stay well. Give all of your organs a rest.

Fasting can help reverse the aging process, and if we use it correctly we will live longer, happier lives. Each time you complete a fast, you will feel better. Your body will have a chance to heal and rebuild its immune system by regularly fasting. You can fight off illness and the degenerative diseases so common in this chemically polluted environment we live in. When you feel a cold or illness coming on or are just depressed-- fast!" When you lose your appetite, your body is telling you to stop eating. Copyright 2007 by Chuck Bluestein.

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Chuck Bluestein
Chuck Bluestein is a herbalist, nutritionist, and an expert on fasting. He has been searching for different ways for people to improve themselves. His website has information on Fasting, healthy diet, healing yourself with foods, Weight Loss, colds and flus and how to be happier.