Nice post, but just one correction within it....
Fasting is NOT starvation.
Fasting is where the body lives upon its own internal food reserves until the return of hunger and until they are depleted (anywhere from 20 to 90 days).
Starvation begins where the fasting period ends, and where the body then begins to feed upon its own vital organs.
Fasting has been used from time immemorial as a powerful tool of nature to heal and cleanse the body.
The works of Shelton, Carrington, Tilden, Jennings and many more, illustrate this fact of nature.
All animals in the wild will abstain from food when they are sick or ill, until they are well again.