eliminating pills for high blood
pressure and diabetes as well as
lowering the rate of cancer and risk
of developing other serious diseases.
Fasting can also be used as a tool to
uncover the source of food allergies.
Fasting can retrain your taste buds,
reboot your system, and cause your
body to look forward to healthy foods.
Metabolism is the sum total of all
the chemical reactions in the body,
soul, and
spirit. I chalAlthough a
lenge you to
pure water
find a better
fast is best,
way to bring
about extreme
drink pure,
metabolic
homemade
changes in the
juices (diluted
body in just
three to four
with one-third
days! To maindistilled water)
tain positive,
along with wadramatic metabolic changes
ter to provide
gained from
your body with
fasting, we
the vitamins,
must consider them
minerals,
as “routine.”
and enFasting three
zymes it
days four
times per year
needs to
(when seaheal.
sons change,
for example)
as well as one to two days per week
is good!
As caretaker you must make a decision; what will you do? There are a
lot of pills you can take if that’s the
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route you want to go. In just a few
short years you will be the typical
sixty-five year old taking eight drugs
a day—that is the option and it’s
your call.
It is not a good idea to “jump into”
a fast because it shocks the body.
Instead, try to wean your body from
heavy foods by eating raw fruits and
vegetables two days prior. Follow this
same pattern for a few days afterward, as well, rather than inundating
your body suddenly with harsh,
heavy foods.
Although a
pure water
fast is best,
drink pure,
homemade
juices (diluted
with one-third distilled water) along
with water to provide your body with
the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes
it needs to heal. Fresh juice made
from green leafy vegetables, apples,
beets, cabbage, carrots, celery,
and grapes are also great to drink.
A “watermelon only” fast in the
summer is great! Chew and eat the