Re: day 5,not feeling so good

"What I meant is if the juice or tea has any type of pulp or sediment from the tea in it and you drink it. It will cause your stomach to produce more stomach acid, which triggers the digestive tract to come into play because it things that solid food is coming."

Yes, but this doesn't make sense either. Juice with no pulp or sediment will have the same effect. If she is drinking anything but water, it is not a true fast. There are still things in "pulp" or "sediment" free juice and tea that the body has to digest. Somebody please correct me if I am wrong, or Sacristia, please verify your reasoning. Thank you very much, and Blessed be. Motherweary


http://soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch1.htm


A misuse of the term, fasting, is quite common. I refer to the use of the word fasting when a particular diet is referred to. We read and hear of fruit fasts, water fasts, milk fasts, etc., when talking of a fruit diet, a milk diet, etc. A fruit fast is abstinence from fruit; a milk fast is abstinence from milk; a Water Fast is abstinence from water.

The dictionary defines a diet as a "regulated course of eating and drinking, a specially prescribed regime. The daily fare, victuals, allowance of food; rations." To "diet" is "to regulate or restrict the food and drink according to a regime; to eat carefully or sparingly. To take food; to eat."

Fasting, as we employ the term, is voluntary and entire abstinence from all food except water. "Little driblet meals," says Dr. Chas. E. Page, "are not fasting. There should not be a mouthful or sip of anything but water, a few swallows of which would be taken from time to time, according to desire." We do not employ the word fasting to describe a diet of fruit juice, for example.