Re: weight/elasticity

Hello micaiah,
#1. water/fat-loss ratio on a fast?
Well the body is approximately 70% water, where this water-loss is counted as being mimimal, as you have to keep hydrated. The loss of actual fat can be demonstrated here after the fasting period has ended and death has occurred from starvation.

Yeo's physiology gives the estimated losses that occur in death from starvation as:--

Fat 97% Spleen 63%
Muscle 30% Blood 17%
Liver 56% Nerve Centers 000

According to Chossat, the losses sustained by the various tissues in starvation are as follows:-

Fat 93% Nerves 2%
Muscles 43% Pancreas 64%
Liver 52% Spleen 70%
Blood 75%

The fat disappears first, and then the other tissues in the inverse order of their usefulness. The essential tissues obtain their nourishment from the less essential, by enzymatic action, a process which has been termed autolysis.


#2. The elasticity and contours of the skin, and in particular the shape of the abdominal area, can be recovered on a fast quite easily, but this becomes progressively more problematic with age: a younger person will recover their shape and elasticity more readily than someone who is much older.

DR SHELTON..........
"The exquisite texture and delicate pink color of the skin that develop while fasting attests the rejuvenation the skin undergoes. The clearing up of blotches and blemishes with, even the disappearance of finer lines in the skin, are particularly significant as showing the benefits the skin derives from a period of physiological rest.
That the circulation of the skin is much improved by a period of physiological rest is demonstrated by the way that the blood thoroughly and instantaneously responds to a pinch of the skin. This true "pink of condition" is invariably observed toward the end of the fast and indicates the greatly improved condition of the body. This is to say, the improvement in the skin mirrors the improvement that has taken place within."

REJUVENESCENCE THRU FASTING.............
"The rejuvenating effect upon the skin is visible to all who have eyes to see. Lines, wrinkles, blotches, pimples and discolorations disappear, the skin becomes more youthful, acquires a better color and a better texture. The eyes clear up and become brighter. One looks younger. The visible rejuvenation in the skin and eyes is matched by manifest evidences of similar but invisible rejuvenescence throughout the body."

"The layman may see these remarkable changes in the skin for this often becomes as fine-grained and smooth, almost as that of a child. Drs. Carlson and Kunde, of the department of Physiology of the University of Chicago, showed that a fast of two weeks temporarily restores the tissues of a man of forty to the physiological condition of the tissues of a youth of seventeen."

Regards

Chrisb1.

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