Day 154- Nutrition Bite

Native Americans would customarily fast on air for four days (96 hours) and end the fast by drinking 3-4 quarts of herbal tea followed by regurgitation and a sweat lodge. Regurgitation removes toxins in the stomach, and sweating helps excrete poisons that have accumulated in the lymphatic system near the skin. This four-day prayer fast is still followed by dozens of people on ceremonial grounds in northern California. Each day of the fast a different lesson is taught by a spiritual teacher who also monitors the condition of the faster.

-Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford

Sugar Preacher’s Experience
I think 24 hours once a month is enough fasting for me. However, I admire those who can do it longer. The spiritual and physical benefits of a fast are innumerable.

Day 126- Nutrition Bite

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."

Hippocrates, M.D., 460-377 B.C., Father of Western Medicine

Day 119- Nutrition Bite

"Although nowadays the common response to illness is usually to "take something," it may be advisable to try the opposite. Therapeutic fasting is an excellent self-healing practice. It induces metabolic changes that are inherently cleansing and repairing.

The organs empty and rest, conserving energy, promoting the elimination of waste and accumulated toxins, and making cell regeneration much more efficient.

Fasting is mankind's most ancient healing strategy. Many traditional cultures, including Oriental, east Indian, and Native American, have long regarded it a dependable curative and revitalizing personal health measure. Hippocrates prescribed fasting, as did Galen and Paracelsus, and it was practiced by Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, and Mahatma Gandhi. In modern Europe, reputable clinics that support therapeutic fasting are quite common. In Sweden it's practically a national sport.

Proponents of fasting offer thousands of testimonials from recovered asthmatics, arthritics, insomniacs, and ex-sufferers of migraines, skin and digestive disorders, and dozens of other ailments. They maintain that - with the exception of serious conditions like tuberculosis, ulcers, diabetes, hypoglycemia, blood, liver, kidney and heart diseases- systematic voluntary abstention from eating is almost always a healthy first response to illness.

Dr. Bernard Jensen, author of "Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management" has supervised over 50,000 fasts at his center in Escondido, CA.

Therapeutic fasting means taking pure water while ensuring complete physical and emotional rest. This unique process maximizes the healing potential of the body, allowing it to “clean house” and quickly restore a state of higher health."

Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D.

Day 105- Nutrition Bite

"To this day I do not believe that I have ever discovered a healing technique quite as powerful as fasting. I have recommended fasting for 10,000 to 20,000 animals and have seen true miracles over these years of practice." Juliette de Bairacli Levy says that the two most important aspects of natural animal rearing are fasting and raw diet. You may read more about holistic animal health & nutrition.

-Bill Winter DVM

Day 98- Nutrition Bite

"Fasting is the world's most ancient and natural healing mechanism.

Fasting triggers a truly wondrous cleansing process that reaches right down to each and every cell and tissue in the body. Within 24 hours of curtailing food intake, enzymes stop entering the stomach and instead travel into the intestines and bloodstream. Enzymes then circulate and gobble up all sorts of waste matter, including dead and damaged cells, unwelcome microbes, metabolic wastes, and pollutants.

All organs and glands get a much-needed and well-deserved rest, during which their tissues are purified and rejuvenated and their functions balanced and regulated. The entire alimentary canal is swept clean. By rebuilding immunity, health is naturally restored and disease disappears.

If health and immunity are thereafter conscientiously maintained, the individual is no longer vulnerable to disease and dieting becomes unnecessary. Surely one of the most overlooked and yet most valuable modes of healing that will be rediscovered in the future of the medicine is the fast. This is because of the increasing interest in looking to oneself for healing powers. The fast is an inward process and cannot be entered upon only from an outer approach with any expectation of a lasting benefit. The person must invariably be involved with the overall results. This therapeutic encounter is in direct contrast to the usual non-involvement in the physician-directed, disease-oriented medical practice of today."

Evart Loomis M.D.

Day 91- Nutrition Bite

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

Egyptian pyramid inscription, 3800 B.C.

Day 84- Nutritional Bite

“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting”

-Benjamin Franklin

Day 69- Nutrition Bite

"A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free."

-Ghandi

Day 62-Nutritional Bite

“Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.”
-quran quotes (c. 651 AD)

Day 27-Nutritional Bite

The purpose of the fast is to allow the body full range and scope to fulfill its self-healing, self-repairing, self-rejuvenating functions to the best advantage. Fasting is probably the fastest and safest way or means of regaining health ever conceived by the human man. Fasting puts the body in a condition where all the Vital Force of the body is used to flush out the causes of body miseries.

-- Paul Braggs written in "The Miracle of Fasting".

Day 13-Nutritional Bite

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. 

Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

-Joel Fuhrman, M.D., from his book, Fasting And Eating For Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease

Day 6-Nutritional Bite

Fasting and detoxification for health is the worlds oldest and most effective system. Socrates, Plato, Gautama, Mohammed, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Hippocrates, Paracelsus, Mahatma Gandhi, Lao Tzu, Confucious and countless others both practiced and prescribed it.