Re: Vitamin C

Hello #90563,
Vitamin C or Ascorbate deficiency is not an issue for anyone on a water-fast, unless the faster has been inadequately supplied Vitamin C in their pre-fast diet: I cannot recollect anyone within the annals of fasting literature, from the beginnings of Natural Hygiene in the mid 1800's, who suffered from scurvy for example.

Dr. Jackson says that: "In scurvy, the gums are markedly congested and swollen in about 80 per cent of adult human cases, * * * The alveolar bone and peridental membrane undergoes necrosis, with consequent loosening of the teeth, and ulcerations or pyorrhea may occur.

In pyorrhea we see inflammation and ulceration of the gums, pus formation, loosening of the teeth, necrosis of the jaw, and even falling out of the teeth. In numerous cases of pyorrhea that we have cared for, the gum inflammation has subsided, the ulcers have healed, pus formation has ceased and the loosened teeth have become firmly fixed in their sockets, and all of this has occurred while the patient was fasting. The effects of fasting must not be confused with the effects of a white-flour-lard-pie-pasteurized-milk-mashed-potato-diet.

Not only do such conditions not develop during even a prolonged fast, but they are improved and many of their symptoms completely removed by a fast. This remarkable evidence of the value of fasting is explained by the fact that there is a disproportionate loss of the various constituent elements of the body during the fast and a redistribution of some of these, which results in a near approach to normal body chemistry."

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch18.htm


Regards

Chrisb1.

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