Fasting: 10 Reasons Why Every Healthy Human Needs To Regularly

1. Detoxify And Cleanse Vital Organs (Including The Brain)

2. Give The Digestive System Much Needed R&R

3. Eliminate Sugars/Fats/Chemicals –Kick  Cravings

4. Break Self Destructive  Chemically Induced Emotional Patterns

5. Lose Weight & Keep It Off

6. Optimize Exercise Routines & Tone Muscle Mass

7. Discover True Focus & Mental Clarity

8. Learn True Hunger; Build  Iron Will

9. Live Longer. Look Better. Have An Age Proof  Brain

10. Learn The Joys Of Doing Something Positive  You Never Thought You Could Do

If these claims sound to you like Faddish New Age snake oil, consider that the following was written 811 years ago: “There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the sound box is stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire. The fog clears, and new energy makes you run up the steps in front of you. When you fast, good habits gather like friends who want to help. Fasting is Solomon’s ring. Don’t give it to some illusion and lose your power, but even if you have, if you’ve lost all will and control, they come back when you fast, like soldiers appearing out of the ground, pennants flying above them. A table descends to your tents, spread with other food, better than the broth of cabbages.” Jamaluddin Rumi, 1207 AD. But here’s the intriguing part :

What Jamaluddin was telling his friends and neighbors was already ancient news.  Hippocrates was handing out goatskin pamphlets in the Agora in 375 BC extolling the virtues of fasting and the Pharaohs before him were carving fasting tips in stone  around 3011 B.C.  Fact is , fasting has been discovered as the next  new thing by practically every generation down through the ages, including our present era as more and more state and university sponsored research and clinical studies conducted in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. continue to conclude that  Fasting may be the best hope for fighting the obesity epidemic and is far superior to drug therapies currently being prescribed  for geriatric quality of life issues.

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