Fasting How To's. "One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive; the other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive.
" Americans eat way too much fat, way too much sugar, and way too much protein. In fact, Americans simply eat too much of everything. The way out of this dilemma is so easy that we usually miss it: consider occasionally fasting. I can almost hear the sound of yet another one of my books being slammed down, being put back on the shelf, or being quietly incinerated. While you are warming your hands from the imaginary glow that these pages would doubtlessly produce, may I continue? Look: nothing succeeds like success. Yes, you cannot accuse me of being in this just for the money, for not eating is certainly cheap enough.
One of the reasons fasting merits your attention is that anything else is so often ineffective or downright dangerous. Ever since George Washington's doctors killed him with their prescriptions (No kidding: Medical and Physical Journal, , 1800. FASTING First, fast. No, really. Fasting - Water Fasting - Fasting for Health. Historical records tell us that fasting has been used for health recovery for thousands of years.
Hippocrates, Socrates, and Plato all recommended fasting for health recovery. The Bible tells us that Moses and Jesus fasted for 40 days for spiritual renewal. Mahatma Gandhi fasted for 21 days to promote respect and compassion between people with different religions. For much of human history, fasting has been guided by intuition and spiritual purpose. Today, our understanding of human physiology confirms the powerful healing effects of fasting. Fasting is a powerful therapeutic process that can help people recover from mild to severe health conditions. Fasting provides a period of concentrated physiological rest during which time the body can devote its self-healing mechanisms to repairing and strengthening damaged organs.
Fasting gives the digestive tract time to completely rest and strengthen its mucosal lining. What follows are answers to commonly asked questions about fasting: Q. Q. A. Master Cleanse: Ingredients, Recipes, Instructions, in Detail. The Master Cleanse is a 10-day fast that is used for detox and weight loss purposes.
It has also been called the Master Cleanser Diet after the original book that described it, the Lemonade Diet, the Maple Syrup Diet, and the Cayenne Pepper Diet after some of the ingredients used, and the Beyoncé Diet after its most famous fan. Although the Master Cleanse is often referred to as a fast, it’s not really a complete fast, in that up to 1,300 calories are consumed each day in the form of sugars from the ingredients in the beverage that Master Cleansers prepare and drink. Background The Master Cleanse was originally developed in 1940 as a stomach ulcer cure by alternative health practitioner Stanley Burroughs (1903-1991). In 1976 Burroughs presented his diet in a book, The Master Cleanser, by which time he was promoting the diet not only for ulcers, but for weight loss and “every kind of disease,” claiming it would lead to “the correction of all disorders.”
Does it Work? Is is Dangerous? Fasting.