Water Fasting Anyone?

koosdel

Fasting means the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time......nothing to do with cleansing !

seriously? no offense but do you know anything about fasting? other than knowing that it involves abstaining from food, that is. fasting has EVERYTHING to do with cleansing. the body expends a tremendous amount of energy digesting food. when you're not preoccupying your body with the tasks of digesting food, absorbing nutrients and eliminating waste, it focuses all of its energy pulling out and flushing toxins from the body. haven't you ever felt a loss of appetite when you're sick? that's your body instinctively telling you to fast, so that it can expend more energy fighting off the virus that's attacking you. in the same way, fasting when you're not sick (well, when you're without symptoms, anyway) allows your digestive enzymes to focus on eliminating the dead, damaged or diseased cells in your body as well as flush out accumulated toxins.

and this goes for everyone else in this thread who claimed fasting is "stupid." there are a tremendous number of great books out there on this subject if you ever care to educate yourselves. here are three examples:

http://www.amazon.com/Fasting-Eating-Health-Medical-Conquering/dp/031218719X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318293532&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Juice-Fasting-Detoxification-Healing-Power/dp/1878736655/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1318294618&sr=8-9

http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Fasting-Throughout-Spiritual-Rejuvenation/dp/0877900396/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1318294753&sr=8-10

those books also detail numerous accounts where fasting has improved conditions such as chronic pain, skin irritations/disorders, high blood pressure, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, digestive disorders, autoimmune illnesses, migraines/acne/allergies etc etc, i could go on. it's a very interesting subject if you care to learn a bit more about it.

Yeah, and they are all wrong.

On a side note; http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/160163157X/ref=mp_s_a_7?qid=1318296443&sr=1-7

3shirts

Fasting means the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time......nothing to do with cleansing !

seriously? no offense but do you know anything about fasting? other than knowing that it involves abstaining from food, that is. fasting has EVERYTHING to do with cleansing. the body expends a tremendous amount of energy digesting food. when you're not preoccupying your body with the tasks of digesting food, absorbing nutrients and eliminating waste, it focuses all of its energy pulling out and flushing toxins from the body. haven't you ever felt a loss of appetite when you're sick? that's your body instinctively telling you to fast, so that it can expend more energy fighting off the virus that's attacking you. in the same way, fasting when you're not sick (well, when you're without symptoms, anyway) allows your digestive enzymes to focus on eliminating the dead, damaged or diseased cells in your body as well as flush out accumulated toxins.

and this goes for everyone else in this thread who claimed fasting is "stupid." there are a tremendous number of great books out there on this subject if you ever care to educate yourselves. here are three examples:

http://www.amazon.com/Fasting-Eating-Health-Medical-Conquering/dp/031218719X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318293532&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Juice-Fasting-Detoxification-Healing-Power/dp/1878736655/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1318294618&sr=8-9

http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Fasting-Throughout-Spiritual-Rejuvenation/dp/0877900396/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1318294753&sr=8-10

those books also detail numerous accounts where fasting has improved conditions such as chronic pain, skin irritations/disorders, high blood pressure, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, digestive disorders, autoimmune illnesses, migraines/acne/allergies etc etc, i could go on. it's a very interesting subject if you care to learn a bit more about it.

Yeah, and they are all wrong.

On a side note; http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/160163157X/ref=mp_s_a_7?qid=1318296443&sr=1-7

Agreed. Having a book published doesn't automatically make you correct. Think how many respected science works are now incorrect thanks to further research in the field and that's without mentioning religious texts. By definition they can't all be right!

I don't think it's a coincidence that those books all have 'spiritual' or religious connotations

PBJunkie

How gullible must one be to believe Water fasting will work and keep the weight off, not to mention being healthy??? Seriously

3shirts

the body expends a tremendous amount of energy digesting food. when you're not preoccupying your body with the tasks of digesting food, absorbing nutrients and eliminating waste, it focuses all of its energy pulling out and flushing toxins from the body. haven't you ever felt a loss of appetite when you're sick? that's your body instinctively telling you to fast, so that it can expend more energy fighting off the virus that's attacking you

You HAVE to be joking. Where exactly do you get the energy from to fight illness if you aren't eating?! The amount of energy used to digest and process food is a tiny fraction of the energy you gain from that food. How on earth do you think the we humans actually function?!
You really shouldn't be giving advice, your ignorance is actually dangerous.

PBJunkie

Fasting means the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time......nothing to do with cleansing !

seriously? no offense but do you know anything about fasting? other than knowing that it involves abstaining from food, that is. fasting has EVERYTHING to do with cleansing. the body expends a tremendous amount of energy digesting food. when you're not preoccupying your body with the tasks of digesting food, absorbing nutrients and eliminating waste, it focuses all of its energy pulling out and flushing toxins from the body. haven't you ever felt a loss of appetite when you're sick? that's your body instinctively telling you to fast, so that it can expend more energy fighting off the virus that's attacking you. in the same way, fasting when you're not sick (well, when you're without symptoms, anyway) allows your digestive enzymes to focus on eliminating the dead, damaged or diseased cells in your body as well as flush out accumulated toxins.

and this goes for everyone else in this thread who claimed fasting is "stupid." there are a tremendous number of great books out there on this subject if you ever care to educate yourselves. here are three examples:

http://www.amazon.com/Fasting-Eating-Health-Medical-Conquering/dp/031218719X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318293532&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Juice-Fasting-Detoxification-Healing-Power/dp/1878736655/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1318294618&sr=8-9

http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Fasting-Throughout-Spiritual-Rejuvenation/dp/0877900396/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1318294753&sr=8-10

those books also detail numerous accounts where fasting has improved conditions such as chronic pain, skin irritations/disorders, high blood pressure, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, digestive disorders, autoimmune illnesses, migraines/acne/allergies etc etc, i could go on. it's a very interesting subject if you care to learn a bit more about it.

You have been brainwashed by the media and another money making scheme

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