Guest guest Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 I have no fear, nor listen to fear-mongers....fasting is an excellent way to heal the body. I suggest reading Dr. Joel Fuhrman, MD "Fasting and Eating for Health" book among many others. My husband just completed his DAY 8 Water-Fast (Monday) at Noon. He began re-feeding at 12:30pm (every 2 hrs - whole juicy fruit). He lost 20 lbs, but with all the good food we eat, will be back to his old self in no time. Blood pressure continues to be in the 120/80's range. (It began around 190/100's with no meds.) He is very excited to finally have a lowered number. His kidney pains also completely disappeared. No conventional doctor could have helped him achieve these dramatic results. Most carry 5-10 lbs of toxins and are released from cells during fast. I plan on doing one myself next year. JA Smith, 3 year raw vegan, age 48 San Diego BTW, Mike violinmike2002 what other lists do you sub to? I really like your posts on both this and hygiene lists. js Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 --- > BTW, Mike violinmike2002 what other lists do you sub to? > I really like your posts on both this and hygiene lists. js > Thanks- I don't to many lists. I would like to take this opportunity to speak about motivation to leave this info I do. I was a young teen when my father bought a pizza store and worked there. he was about 270lbs. By the time I was 16 I was over 200 and I hit a 40 waistline. Both parents were overweight. No one at school, although I took physed, had any real help for me although I could barely run around the track. I had painful cystic acne on my face chest and back , the kind that are like little volcanoes with more under the skin than on top. ,A dermatoligist prescribed an antibiotic and ultraviolet rays. I would continue to have problems with these cysts until my early 40's. Allergies to grass ragweed and pollen meant allergy shots and a constant reliance on decongestant sprays and allergy pills. By the time I was 18 I got off the weight and down to 180 by myself but since I hadn't modified my eating behavior I often gained it back. By my late 20's I was back to 240. I discovered fasting when I was 40 but not the raw food and still hooked on fast food as I had been a delivery courier on the road often long distance and developed that habit. I was hooked on coffee as well . After Fasting one needs raw food and natural foods after to make it work. And exercise at least walking a lot. Took me a couple of years to walk that walk. The internet wasnt a source of info when I started fasting. By following natural hygiene my skin cleared up , I stopped all allergy pills, I've kept about 25 of the weight I should keep off. Recently someone who hasn't seen me in a long time said I looked ten years younger. Just following natural hygiene in a non fanatic way. I still should get some more weight off so I'm no Jack LaLanne I had a muffin today- I had some frozen yoghurt and some tea. I ate a cookie. But I had a raw salad for lunch and fruit for breakfast. I'm off dairy products since they are mucus producing for me but I still drink soy milk something the hygienists wouldn't. I don't eat red meat or chicken but will eat some salmon and if I was somewhere and meat was all I could have in a dinner I'd have a little but not very often. Food combining from hygiene helps to digest foods better. But I also honor my family. Both parents got adult diabetes. My father who just wanted to drive his taxi around during his golden years suddenly stopped at 68 with a heart attack and quad bypass that left him weakened in the legs. He'd still sneak a cigarette and some junk food although he dropped some weight and got bowel cancer and died at 71 after chemo and radiation. They wouldn't listen to me. They trusted their doctors although they've both received shitty health care all their lives. Soon I'll post more about how disease starts. What I most want the younger people to know is just because they can eat whatever they want at 25 like I did doesn't mean its going to be like that 20 years later. And God help you 40 years on. You'll probably live for some doctor to torment with toxic procedures and toxic drugs. Fasting isn't some toy to play with .There is wrong and right information on the internet, if I can point a few people to consider changing their ways even in a moderate way its worth it to me. The golden years have not been golden for either parent. Our digestive system is not really different then 5000 years ago when we ate some grapes and simple fare but now we load chemical compounds in flavor enhancers, preservatives, antibiotics in factory beef and chicken from animals that never run free or eat their natural diets into our bodies and expect to be healthy. But if theres air pollution in our town we don't miss a chance to say what THEY should do about it. I still like cheezies. But fasting helped to wean me off caffeine and fries and pepperoni slices, and I know that there are certain foods I cannot start because I will gobble til they are finished.So I know I can't eat the cheezies and over time my body feels good when I put raw food or lightly cooked food into me and sick and tired when I don't. There werent many diets I could stick to for very long. I like what Harvey Diamond said in his 2003 book Fit for Life not Fat for Life the sequel to the original Fit for Life. If you eat more living food then dead food then you will stay living. " The plain fact is that everything is set up to addict us to cooked food " " Walk into an average grocery store and what do you see? You see thirty aisles of cooked processed ( thereby dead ) food and a produce section shoved over on the side with the only living food in the entire store " " Kill not the food that goes into your mouth. For if you eat living food the same will quicken you, but if you kill your food the dead food will kill you also. For life comes only from life, and from death comes always death. For everything which kills your food kills your bodies also... Therefore eat not anything which fire has destroyed... for your body is that which you eat " Essene Gospel of Peace Dead Sea Scrolls This is proported to have been said by Jesus, but whoever said it had something important to say. Start today. Its takes at least 30 days to modify behavior. Small successes are still good successes. Little fasts still have good benefits and give confidence for longer ones. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Thanks, Mike. I am really struggling right now and needed to hear what you wrote. I lost my Mom (she was only 59 and looked younger) to cancer. She smoked up until she found out she had cancer and nuked probably 95% of her food. I eat better than her, but I still struggle with eating the way I should. I don't want to end up in the grave as young as she did. Thanks for helping to motivate me more. ~Wendy _______________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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