Hi Wheatgrass,

I'm no moderator but if you're going to make a comment like the one above, you should provide a source for it. Here is a link to Dr Graham's reply to a report about this rumour from the 30bananasaday website: Reply by Dr. Doug Graham on June 16, 2010 at 8:42pm (http://www.30bananasaday.com/xn/detail/2684079:Comment:585620) I hate to spoil the ending but he states that no one died although the client in question was treated with medicines in hospital (for inflammation following biting her cheek during refeeding) and wound up going into a coma.

Fasters do die but not in the percentages that patients under the care of medical doctors do. According to the Hygienist sources that I've read (Shelton, Hazzard, Moser, etc) these are accountable to 1) the fact that many seriously ill people come to fasting after the medical profession have sent them home to die, 2) because they were dying anyway and fasting was only used to make their last days or weeks more comfortable, or 3) because incorrect refeeding was forced on the individual (or self-induced.)

Having said that, DurianRider tells of his housemate who died due to not taking enough water and being taken to hospital and "put on life support. Renal failure ensued." (http://www.30bananasaday.com/xn/detail/2684079:Comment:585400)

Regards,
NH...

WY,
I concur with NH, as death in the fast is extremely rare and usually for the reasons he has stated.
Note how complications set in during the visit to the hospital, because of the swollen cheek and infection.

Electrolyte deficiencies are always the main concern when undergoing an extended fast of longer than 30 to 35 days, and this was experienced by Fuhrman himself, and the reason he terminated his own water-only fast on day 46.

Another reason why fasters should always ensure that their pre-fast diet is of the highest quality or nutrient-dense, and for some considerable time beforehand.
Shelton always maintained, that the safety of a fast is entirely dependent on the quality of ones food reserves, which in turn will determine its length.

Chrisb1.