Re: Fuhrman / Fasting / Fitness? Where too now?
Hi Willow,
according to the tried and tested methods of Natural Hygiene, fasting is only a kick-start to a much healthier and more totally fulfilling life.
In decades past, people fasted mainly to recover their health and where the obesity issue was of a secondary nature, as this was really not a problem in a not too affluent society.
Obesity and overweight come from affluence and a materialistic society, and the reason why there is so much emphasis today on losing weight with the latest money-spinning diet craze.
A prolonged fast or an
Elimination Diet (over a longer period of time) will eradicate toxemia and re-eductae the body into craving natural foods and where the taste & desire for adulterated processed foods seem unclean and undesirable. This has to be experienced to be believed.
The length of fast is really immaterial, but will take a much shorter time than an elimination (plant-based) diet as endorsed by Dr Fuhrman: a series of short fasts will eventually eliminate toxemia, with proper living habits in between, but an extended fast will accomplish this elimination much more quickly and where this could be a short as 10 days, or as many as 30 plus days; it really depends on the signs and signals of your own body with the clearing of a coated tongue and when the breath becomes sweet and the urine which was formerly dark becomes light in color.........even to the return of natural hunger or a "finish fast".
Sometimes more than one extended fast is needed to accomplish the maximum internal house-cleaning.
The body is however ALWAYS striving to eliminate its toxic overload caused by wrong foods and wrong food combinations and a lowered state of nerve energy or enervation, and where an
Elimination Diet will achieve this end but over a longer time frame than one or even two extended fasts.
If you work WITH the body.........it will work FOR you.
Commitment is absolutely vital as mentioned by Dr Fuhrman, and where there is nothing on earth that will focus the mind more, than a life-threatening disease as in my own case, but this will depend on your psychological commitment in overcoming adversity such as extreme obesity and other motivations as well.
The answer to your own and others health problems such as excessive weight, lies within your desire to live according to physiological principles that are endorsed and supported by Nature.................Natural Hygiene.
http://orthopathy.net/history.html
http://naturalhygienesociety.org/present.html
You will never EVER look back.
Regards
Chrisb1