EDIT..Re: hello everyone.

Well a big thank you to one and all.

Hello to you T2.

As we know fasting is but a state of nutrition/inanition, and where my main concern these days lies in the state of ones food reserves to undertake a fast of any great length today with safety.
Decades past, and in the days of the early pioneers of Natural Hygiene, food quality was infinitely superior compared to today, and for various reasons including soil depletion. This chapter from "The Hygienic System Vol II" was first written in 1935 on soil depletion..........
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020126shelton.orthotrophy/02012...


Even todays organic food is inferior in compostion to the foodstuffs of those days.
Ones food reserves today are therefore lacking in quality and quantity and this has a very strong bearing on the safety of water-only fasting carried out to any great length.

Although I know a great deal about the fast and the fasting process after its study over the last 33 years, in all of that time nutrition has taken a back-seat: my mind has been changed by the experience of Dr Joel Fuhrman MD (and others) where he uses quality natural foods to reverse and cure many diseases. Unless we feed the body and its cells optimally, then optimal health is unattainable and we are more susceptible to disease.

I do totally agree with you T2 in the following.............

"Our diets are probably corrupted by our social circumstances and culture and our inherited nutritional histories. This occurs at many levels. One is the corruption of our taste buds and seasonal eating patterns by the current food convenience we are swamped in. In particular the removal of bitter tastes from our diet".

Local food sources are the future, if not the here and now, as this preserves the nutritional content of food which is depleted in global transportation and storage: glad to hear that you are following this way of life.

The Corporate food Industry has much to answer to.

The best taste I have experienced lately?
Freshly extracted organic carrot juice with both Chlorella and Spirulina Powder stirred in. Exquisite.
Whole ripe organically grown avocados are my favorite food of all time. My wife loves avocados, but when she eats them when not organically grown, her lips swell to about 4 times their size and her face becomes ruby red.
Beware of non-organically grown produce my friend; just because there is no visible reaction in eating non-organic, they could be doing you more harm than good.

Glad to be back.

Chrisb1