Re: Olivia..Re: Vitamins and Minerals while Fasting
I agree to be honest. Personally I wouldn't dream of it as I tend to be ultra safe. I have been made aware of the harm bad eating habits and lack of nutritional wisdom can do to people by someone who was battling with an ED. I am not saying that Olivia has an ED, on the contrary I think she has an excellent outlook, but I think misinformation here is the danger. I am very glad she has found curezone, because I don't think much of the fasting advice on youtube. Plus you get people over there saying "go on you can do it" without knowing the dangers. And some of those too may be anorexic wanabees.
Olivias motives are to be close to god. I respect the fact that others may have their own beliefs, if I was born into a catholic family I probably would be catholic and so on. My take on the god thing is this. Yes fasting can give you a claity of mind, and get rid of all the toxic stuff that goes into you, hence bringing you closer to god. BUT, if you consider that to be the equivalent of draining the fuel system of a car, then yes it is getting closer to god, but to be in touch with god surely you should be putting the correct fuel in the car, i.e a clean healthy diet. So I see our sin as eating junk food, not eating food, and the fast is merely a repair process to cleanse the system. To walk with god you should now eat the food that we were intended to eat. Finding out what that is is the hard part, because we are born into mankind not god. We have TVs and supermarkets rather than beautiful scenery and plants.
Olivia's journey to get closer to god has brought her to Curezone. When she ended up here there were enough "devils" to tempt her away but she and her husband were tough in seeing through that, and thankfully it didn't put them off. Here in various forums she'll find much better advice than on Youtube and from what her husband has said she seems sensible enough to sort the good from the bad.
Next step now for Olivia is to use all those lovely veggies to repair any damage that may or may not be done to her body. Fasting used properly can work miracles, and so can veggies.
If Olivia asks I'll post a link to a Youtube video showing the harm that bad eating can cause, but I see no point in being negative, I think it's time now to learn to eat properly.
I agree that another fast should only be done under medical supervision, but I don't think there is a doctor in the world that would agree to that.