Re: Would you recommend fasting in these situations?

Would anyone recommend that people fast in these situations:

1. A person who has been caught in a fire and has severe burns.

Yes of course, along with other first aid measures

2. During pregnancy.

Yes if there is a distinct need..............

FASTING DURING PREGNANCY............
Symptoms of pregnancy of nausea, vomiting, ("morning sickness"), lack of appetite and other symptoms that so many women experience during the early weeks of pregnancy. No woman in good health, who is living sensibly, ever has the slightest trace of these symptoms. No woman who has undergone a thorough renovation just prior to becoming pregnant, and who lives sensibly during this time, ever experiences these "symptoms of pregnancy."

They are not symptoms of pregnancy. They are symptoms of renovation. They indicate that nature is undertaking a house cleaning, that the body is to be put into its best shape preparatory to pregnancy and parturition. If they are heeded all will be well. If they are not heeded, nature will usually succeed in her work in spite of opposition and interference. Sometimes she fails. Always her success is more complete and more satisfactory if we cooperate with her.

The development of these symptoms is a sure sign that a house-cleaning is necessary. When anorexia, nausea and vomiting develop, absolutely no food but water should be taken until these have disappeared and there is a distinct call for food. There should be no fears about fasting. You may be sure that these symptoms will end and nature will call for food as soon as her renovating work is completed and long before there has been any damage to mother or fetus. A fast is just what she is calling for in the plainest possible manner, and a fast she usually gets even if she has to keep throwing the food back into the woman's face as often as she eats it for days. Rest is called for as loudly as the fast and should be had.

If this renovating work is permitted full sway and the woman will eat and live sensibly, afterward, there will be no necessity for another fast during pregnancy.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch26.htm


3. A person with malnutrition?

Yes, if the cause of the malnutrition is from the malabsorption of foods and nutrients. Fasting will afford the digestive system a rest and rejuvenate the powers of digestion and the assimilation of these nutrients.
Being well nourished has little to do with the diet per se but of the digestion, absorption and assimilation of nutrients.

FASTING IN DEFICIENCIES............

"As knowledge of the causes of "disease" increases, it becomes increasingly evident that there are certain forms of "disease" which are in part due to food deficiencies--beri-beri, scurvy, rickets, etc. What these cases need is better nutrition, better food. Yet one can not always arbitrarily rule out the fast in "deficiency diseases." For, sometimes they are due to a lack of assimilating power on the part of the body and this is remedied by the fast. Dr. Weger, who has had much experience with fasting says: "If the body, because of its crowded nutrition, cannot assimilate vitamin-bearing food, it can be brought into the condition to do this by a purifying fast."

"The value of the fast in rickets and certain "diseases" of childhood is well established. Its value in anemia has been discussed elsewhere. There is no reason why fasting cannot be employed in dietary deficiencies with great benefit. Indeed the loss of appetite seen in men and animals fed on greatly deficient diets indicates strongly that a fast is called for".
Dr Herbert M Shelton ........
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch26.htm

Pernicious Anaemia and Fasting by Dr Virginia Vetrano.......
http://naturalhygienesociety.org/articles/vetrano1.html


Can you conjure up any other alleged reasons why anyone should not fast? I think you are clutching at straws now.
Contraindications to fasting are few and far between, but the benefits are stupendous.

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