yo tamee fasting is the shit, theres lots of different forms of it though, definatley worth looking into, google it and youll find a ton of info... its way healthy too, gives your body a much needed chance to rest and gives it energy to cleaning your body of stuff it would not normally have energy to do since its so busy digesting all the food we eat and our organs are so clogged from so much junk, theres a lot of crap in your body you know. toxins from water, food, food additives and preservatives, air pollution, household cleaning products, etc, it really builds up but were so used to it we dont even notice... it basically starts your body feeding on itself and really cleans it up of any dead cells or toxins or stuff that doesnt belong. its actually the natural state of a lot of animals, if animals in the wild ever get sick the first thing they do is stop eating. some snakes and animals can go for years without food... its a very heady experience too. if you just drink water for an entire day i guarentee you will start to feel almost high after like the 3rd or 4th hour, and you wont get hungry if you keep drinking water. a lot of times when we feel hungry its actually our body just asking for more water. its very nice really i think, makes you a looot more aware and you notice a lot of things you normally wouldnt. one fifth of the food we eat actually goes to our brain, and we dont usually eat food thats really good for us....
Oh. Wow. Thanks. That was pretty much just want I needed. I tried fasting yesterday and I made it to 6 or 7 pm I think until I had to eat something, so I went to the co-op and bought some organic oranges and organic walnuts. that was pretty good. I also ate some white bread with organic strawberry jelly on it, which I probably shouldn't have done. You're right, though, the whole day I noticed that I was much more aware of everything and I felt really at peace.
Fasting is da bomb. Drink lots of water, though. Just adding to what Fractual already said: it sure is a heady experience. Downright trippy. After a few days you'll experience a feeling of euphoria like you can't imagine. It's a great way to clean out your tubes if you're trying to detox (alcohol, drugs, cigs, meat, fat, whatever). I'm almost tempted to gunk up my body again just so I can fast and clean house. Pass me the gin.
Read this before fasting. Doctors frown on fasting for health By Bill Hendrick Cox News Service ATLANTA -- Joslyn Chandler, 24, occasionally fasts. "I do it for health, but I've also lost weight on it," says Chandler, a longtime vegan -- someone who eats no meat or dairy products. Chandler, who works at the Life Grocery & Cafe health food store and restaurant in Marietta, Ga., practices the "raw foods lifestyle." The diet, she says, recommends fasting once a week. "I just generally feel better on the raw foods lifestyle," she says. Chandler started fasting before hearing of research published recently hinting that, if mice provide any clue, fasting every other day could help people tone their hearts, lower their blood pressure, improve their memories and maybe even live to be 100. Slow down, though, before joining the fast track. Nutritionists and other experts warn that animal studies sometimes don't mean much, if anything, for people. Chris Rosenbloom, a nutritionist at Georgia State University, frets that "fasting isn't normal or healthy" and could be harmful. "If you're fasting for religious reasons, fine, but in terms of fasting for long-term health, I'm not aware of benefits," says Rosenbloom. "Animals on restrictive caloric diets may have longer life spans and fewer chronic diseases, but there aren't any studies to show the benefit with people, though some subscribe to the philosophy. Without food, we can become irritated, disoriented, fuzzy-headed. I wouldn't recommend it as a way to improve longevity or health or to lose weight." Even if fasting makes people physically healthier, it also could addle them enough to step off a curb and get hit by a car. "There are many weird and extreme approaches to dieting, but balance is necessary for a good diet," says Emory University nutritionist Nancy Anderson. "Our brains require blood sugar or glucose to function, and if deprived, one could assume it would impair mental abilities," she says. "People would be much better off if they just would watch their calorie intake. Most studies on starvation and near-starvation indicate that that would weaken your immune system, even for simple diseases like colds." But fasting might offer numerous benefits, reducing the risk of contracting everything from Alzheimer's disease to diabetes, if the mouse study pans out with people, says Dr. Mark Mattson, whose research was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Mattson and his colleagues at the National Institute on Aging, part of the federal National Institutes of Health, are now designing a similar experiment using humans. "Would humans see the same long-term benefits? We think so, but don't know," Mattson says. But mice are one thing, people another. In fact, we may be more like rats -- which also were tested in a separate study by the researchers, also led by Mattson. Mattson found that mice deprived of food for a whole day gorged the next, consuming all the calories they'd been deprived of and more. The mice lived 30 percent to 40 percent longer than normal, but they didn't lose any weight. In the similar study on rats, the bigger critters -- distant cousins of mice but different in many ways -- lived longer, healthier lives, just like the mice. But only the rats experienced the added benefit of weight loss. What would happen to people remains to be seen. "We don't know if they'd lose weight like rats or just live longer and healthier like the mice and rats, or whether they'd benefit at all," Mattson says. Art Seiden, 46, a chiropractor, has been thinking about fasting since he heard about Mattson's study. He's been fighting his own battle of the bulge for over a decade. "Nothing else has worked -- not regular exercise, not cutting back," Seiden says. "I do fast on Yom Kippur, from sundown the day before to sundown the next day, and have done it all my life. But I don't lose weight. Maybe it takes more than just 24 hours. I weigh 230 and should be at 190." Seiden, who walks for exercise and plays basketball, softball and baseball, realizes that his extra weight undermines his long-term health. And he wants to look trimmer. He figures that if he can fast once a year for religious reasons, he could do it more often if his doctor gives him the OK. But for now, such approval is unlikely, says Dr. Laurence Sperling, director of preventive cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Doctors don't recommend fasting, and that won't change unless studies on humans produce the same results as the ones on rodents, says Sperling, who does find the study on mice "very interesting." "Although this is provocative data, more investigation is needed before this would be a recommended form of dietary therapy," Sperling says. Even for short periods, fasting can be dangerous for some people with diabetes or other existing medical problems, Sperling says. "I would not recommend experimenting with this kind of [fasting] regimen before consulting with your physician," he says. "People already fast for religious reasons, but for shorter periods." But "to compare mice and men would be difficult," he says. Bill Hendrick writes for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. E-mail: bhendrick@ajc.com
lol!! "If you fast, you will be hit by a car." (Parents, here's another reason why you shouldn't send your kids to Georgia State.) But yeah, please do your research... just don't rely on Cox News service for it. lol
that doctors fucked, just try googling fasting...there is an ample amount of info that says it is very verrrry healthy... of course you have to use some common sense when you fast, but if you cant do something simple like that i say you deserve to walk in front of a car...
I think this is more about some people becoming dis-oriented from a lack of food,then not paying attention to their surroundings.
if you're body feels like fasting your body will let you know as for myself- i'll take the chance of eating regular meals!
" In evaluating Page's detox diet, Dillard says, "Certainly, the human body carries huge loads of petrochemicals. We know people usually die with the full burden of PCBs they've ever been exposed to -- from fish, animals -- stuck in their liver. DDT sticks around, too." But can fasting remove these? "Theoretically, yes," he says. "When fat is mobilized, anything that is fat-soluble should be mobilized, too -- should, that is," Dillard tells WebMD. Although there are no studies of juice fasts/diets, water fasting does have some scientific evidence behind it -- "but very scant," admits Strychacz. In the book Triumph Over Disease, Jack Goldstein, DPM, outlines his true story in overcoming ulcerative colitis by sticking to strict water fasting and a vegetarian diet. Goldstein is one of very few people who has tested his own tongue scrapings, urine, feces, even perspiration during a water fast, Strychacz says. "He found that the contents [during a fast] are different than normal -- that toxins like DDT do get removed." Strychacz would like to conduct a study of fasting's effects on atherosclerosis. "Look at Dean Ornish's low-fat diet. He claims not only to arrest but actually reverse atherosclerosis. That's huge. I would argue that if a low-fat diet will reverse it, then what about a no-fat diet?" Some still consider fasting -- in any form -- to be "out there." "When I review diets that are not based on science, the question I ask myself is: Would I feed them to my family? In this case, the answer is a clear no," says Susan Roberts, PhD, chief of the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and a professor of nutrition at Tufts University in Boston. But the psychological or spiritual effect can't be discounted, says Dillard. "People love the idea of cleansing, of purification rituals, going to the Ganges, to the spa. It has powerful psychological, religious, spiritual meaning. That has its own positive effect on health. But we need to separate that from saying this is science or good medicine." http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/11/1671_52826.htm?pagenumber=4
Hehe. It's one of those things like an ice cream head freeze. It's like owwweeeEEholySH!TthatHURT! and then five minutes later the euphoria kicks in, and you wanna do it again. Can anyone relate? umm... anyone...? nvm
Yeah, if you have a brain freeze than it doesn't matter you'll go for another one-I've done it before. about fasting, I was just reading on Hatha Yoga and about the benefits of fasting and how animals do it when they're sick. Even going on a raw fruit and vegetable juice fast is suppose to be good for you. I've never personally fasted for more than one day before my dad said "that can't be good" so i had to stop, but now i'm tempted to it again. I feel like i have toxins floating around in my body...
Ever notice how the only argument against fasting is something inane like "that can't be good"? Check out the articles posted by Motion. The opponents say meaningless things like: - "more investigation is needed" (ok, then shut up and do it) - "fasting isn't normal" (please define 'normal', Herr Doktor) and my favorite: - "Would I feed them to my family? In this case, the answer is a clear no." (from a friggin Ph.D, no less) Calgon take me away.
Here's an objective summary of the debate: While fasting is respected and frequently practiced by Eastern cultures, Western science frowns upon it because it has not been studied sufficiently. Those are the facts; interpret/research them as you like.
