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Fasting

The fasting diet abstains from solid foods for varying lengths of time. Some fasters drink juices; others only take water.
How to do a Juice Fast
From Cathy Wong, About Guide to Alternative Medicine, A general primer on juice fasting. Information on side effects, timing, and benefits of juice fasts.
Crab Apple - Malus sylvestris - Flower Essence Remedy
Crab Apple flower essence is a helpful remedy during fasting periods.
Does Fasting Make Any Sense?
Subhamoy Das, About Guide to Hinduism, takes a look at fasting from several angles.
Fasting diet - breaking the fast
If you fast for several days without solid food, the way that you begin eating again is very important.
Fasting
A one day fast is not likely to cause anyone harm. Two or three day fasts are tolerated well by most healthy people.
An Alternative Diet
Are you ready for a little humor? I'm afraid some of us take dieting to the extreme--why be so calorie strick and serious?
About Fasting
A page of general information on fasting, why it's done, how it's done, who should and shouldn't fast.
Fasting
A page of general information on fasting, why it's done, how it's done, who should and shouldn't fast.
Adventures in Therapeutic Fasting
Excerpt from "Healing, Personal to Planetary", written by Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D.
Breaking The Fast
If you fast for several days without solid food, the way that you begin eating again is very important.
Fasting: The Therapeutic Fast
This lengthly article by Evarts Loomis, M.D. covers many aspects of fasting process: history review, self-evaulations, types of fasting, time-span of fasting, withdrawal from fasting, and more.....
Juice Fasting
Excerpts from Sam Bisers Newsletter "Herbal Therapy for Serious Illness" featuring medical Herbalist Dr. Richard Schulze.
Fasting and Yoga
"Loss of appetite is an indication that the system is overcharged with toxins and nature is trying to correct this by giving a chance to the waste accumulation in the organs to escape from the system. "
Juice Fasting
Honestly, a juicer is a prequisite to juice fasting. You'll want to drink fresh juice from organic produce and pure water.
Preparation For Fasting
From a yogic perspective. Good information about the ways to approach the various types of fasting diets available.
Fasting
Breslov Research Institute archived notes on the subject of fasting.
Gallstones Cleansing Recipe
This is dietary remedy recommended by Dr. Hulda Clarkto avoid gallbladder surgery.
Spiritual Benefits Of Fasting
Fasting Center International article discussing the spiritual componets of therapeutic fasting.

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