Re: Dr. Shelton says that if you don't intend to fast to completion you shouldn't even start. ??

Hmmmm,

Quote...."Dr Shelton says that unless you intend to fast to completion you shouldn't even start"?

Shelton's experience, and the demand for his expertise, was largely with the recovery from disease, and many serious diseases at that. He found that the longer fasts accomplished much more successful results in disease- recovery, than a series of shorter ones. This was also the experience of his contemporaries such as Hereward Carrington PhD and Dr Tilden MD, Dr Hazzard, MacFadden and even the pioneers dating back to the mid 1800's.

Shelton...........
"We should not expect a few days of fasting to completely reverse pathological processes that have been decades in developing, or to enable the body to completely remove the pathological accumulations of years. Too many people go on a fast and, from ignorance of their own or that of their advisor's, give up before they have achieved the desired results. These people may often be heard to say: "I tried fasting and it did me no good."
There are patients who do not need a complete fast, and those who should not have a complete fast, as well as those who do not get well without a complete fast".
The body cannot undo, in three to four days of fasting, the results of years of surfeiting and of unhygienic living. The most rapid recoveries are seen in acute "diseases" and three to four days of fasting is seldom enough in these. Longer fasts are required in chronic forms".
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch23.htm

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The length of the fast is therefore determined by the reasons for doing so, and where if no pathological condition exists for recovery, a long fast is seldom necessary.

We should also bear in mind that the fast is only a catalyst for the body, as it is constantly striving towards better health, and where even a series of shorter fasts will accomplish this end: given sufficient time with careful and Hygienic living habits in between.........including the diet.

Regards

Chrisb1.