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Hello ohjacqui,
fasting to completion or a "finish" fast means that all of your bodily food reserves have been used, and this is the demarcation point between where fasting ends and starvation begins. This can even be where the skeleton condition has been reached. In other cases a fast to completion can be within several days or a week or two weeks if that is all that the body requires to complete all of the cleansing and healing that the body needs to accomplish.

Fasting to completion is revealed by several unmistakable symptoms which are:..........

Dr Shelton..........
"The usual indications for breaking the fast (these help to determine the dividing line between fasting and starving), are as follow:

#1. Hunger invariably returns.

#2. The Breath, which during all or most of the fast has been offensive, becomes sweet and clean.

#3. The Tongue becomes clean. The thick coating which remained on it throughout most of the fast vanishes.

#4. The Temperature, which may have been sub-normal or above normal, returns to exactly normal, where it remains.

#5. The Pulse becomes normal in time and rhythm.

#6. The Skin reactions and other reactions become normal.

#7. The Bad Taste in the mouth ceases.

#8. Salivary Secretion becomes normal.

#9. The Eyes become bright and eye sight improves.

#10. The Excreta loses its odor. The Urine becomes light.

"Besides the usual signs that it is time to break the fast, Prof. Levanzin lists a feeling of cheer and elation as a manifestation that the time has arrived for the termination of the fast. I cannot do better than quote Carrington's descriiption of the feelings of the patient at this stage. He says, Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition, p. 544: "A sudden and complete rejuvenation; a feeling of lightness, buoyancy, and good health steals over the patient in an irresistable wave; bringing contentment and a general feeling of well-being, and of the possession of a superabundance of animal spirits."

Circulation improves, as is seen by the resumption of the normal pinkness under the fingernails. The increased rapidity with which the blood flows back into the skin, when this has been forced out by pressure, is another indication of the rejuvenating effect of the finish fast.

The PRIMARY indication that the fast is to be broken is THE RETURN OF HUNGER; all the other indications which I have enumerated are secondary. Often one or more of these secondary signs are absent when hunger returns, but one should not refrain from breaking the fast when there is an unmistakable demand for food, merely because the tongue, for example, is not clean. Inasmuch as all the signs do not invariably appear in each case, do not hesitate to break the fast when hunger returns."

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch30.htm


"A 'finish fast' does not always mean a long fast. It does not mean a fast until all of the body's food reserves are exhausted. It is a curious fact that hunger will return in three days, even where there are abundant reserves on hand, if three days are all that are required for the patient to get well; whereas, it will not return for five weeks or longer, even where there are fewer reserves on hand, providing this time is required for the body to eliminate its accumulated toxins. Fortunately, in most cases it will be perfectly safe for the patient to fast until hunger returns.
I have been repeatedly asked by anxious patients: "Are you sure that my hunger will return? Does this always occur?" My answer is: You need have no worry about this matter. You may rest assured that your hunger will return and it will do so in all its youthful intensity and zest."

Hereward Carrington says: "However long the fast may continue, no danger whatever from starvation need be feared, since hunger will always return before the danger point is reached. Thus, so long as hunger is absent, it is a plain indication that no food is required. . . . I cannot too strongly impress this point upon my readers--that natural hunger, and that alone should indicate the terminus of the fast. . . That this signal is invariably given at the proper time, and in the proper way, and that absolutely no danger from starvation need be apprehended until the signal has been given, is absolutely true. . . . The artificial breaking of the fast; the taking of food in the absence of real hunger, for the reason that the ignorant attendant thinks the patient has 'fasted long enough,' is an abomination, and an outrage upon the system which cannot be too strongly deprecated."--Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition, pp. 546-547.
Carrington says: "However long the fast may continue, no danger whatever from starvation need be feared, since hunger will always return before the danger point is reached. Thus, so long as hunger is absent, it is a plain indication that no food is required. . . . I cannot too strongly impress this point upon my readers--that natural hunger, and that alone should indicate the terminus of the fast. . . That this signal is invariably given at the proper time, and in the proper way, and that absolutely no danger from starvation need be apprehended until the signal has been given, is absolutely true. . . . The artificial breaking of the fast; the taking of food in the absence of real hunger, for the reason that the ignorant attendant thinks the patient has 'fasted long enough,' is an abomination, and an outrage upon the system which cannot be too strongly deprecated."--Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition, pp. 546-547.

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch23.htm



The return of hunger then is an unmistakable demand for food, which does not diminish with the passage of time; in fact this intensifies with each consecutive hour if nourishment is not taken. Just as in real thirst, the body will demand liquid to a greater and greater extent until it is satisfied.
True hunger is felt in the throat, and is an all-body feeling and is not usually felt in the abdominal regions. If you have ever felt the demand for sleep, you will know exactly what I mean.

Regards

Chrisb1.


 

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