Re: Fasting - Let's get back to the basics

Yes, being too far under-weight can pose problems when trying to get pregnant. However, sometimes people are under-weight because their body cannot uptake the nutrients from the food they are eating. In a case like that, fasting may be a wonderful way to clean out the intestinal tract so that it can begin to utilize the nutrients you are taking in.

In "The Miracle of Fasting", Paul Bragg tells us, ". . . when, I add most emphatically that there was a program to gain weight which included fasting, they would agree to the program but not on the fasting! They would cry out, 'Don't make me any thinner than I am! I'm down to skin and bones now. If you take my food away from me, I will look like a scarecrow!' Then I had to explain that they were thin only because their bodies were nutritionally unbalanced.

I told them that food and nutrition are not synonymous. A diet of unhealthy fats, refined sugar, and carbohydrates, plus ample milk, cream and more fattening foods wouldn't necessarily help them gain weight; their body might even get thinner on this diet. They must cleanse and heal their body by fasting and living a healthy lifestyle and take a multi-enzyme.

People are not nourished in proportion to the amount of food they eat, but in proportion to how much they digest and assimilate. When the organs of digestion and assimilation are maintained in poor working condition, eating too many fatty foods in an effort to gain weight defeats its own purpose.

Being underweight is usually due to faulty health. It's futile to stuff a lot of food into the body when assimilation and digestion are working at a low ebb. The secret of normalizing weight (up or down) is to make the detoxifying system more efficient through fasting. Then the underweight person rejuvenates the digestive and assimilative systems to work efficiently.

What the underweight person needs is exactly what the overweight person needs - a fast that gives the body a physiological rest."

I hope this gives you encouragement and lets you know you are on the right track. Good luck, Dr Mom Tweet