The best health insurance is staying healthy, and this guide tells how to fast for optimum health
Philippus Paracelsus, pioneering 16th century Swiss physician once said; "Fasting is the greatest remedy – the physician within." A juice fast is different than a ‘water-only’ fast. As its name implies, a juice fast allows for some fruit and vegetable juices. In contrast, a water-only fast is severe and possibly dangerous – because it doesn’t flush out toxins from the body as effectively as a juice fast. For a person without fasting experience, the release of too many toxins during a water-only fast could prove harmful. A person’s body is continually trying to cleanse itself. One of the healthiest things a person can do is to facilitate that process. That’s what a proper juice or cleansing fast does. This 120 page illustrated booklet articulates the essentials a person needs to know about fasting, including safety issues, benefits, myth-busting, and the most effective methods. The mention of the phrase ‘your highness’ in the book’s title, refers to the ‘natural high’ that comes about during the latter stages of a successful fast.
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A person’s body is continually trying to cleanse itself. One of the healthiest things a person can do is to facilitate that process. That’s what a proper fast does.
A juice fast is different than a ‘water-only’ fast. As its name implies, a juice fast allows for some fruit and vegetable juices. A water-only fast is severe and possibly dangerous because it doesn’t flush out toxins from the body as effectively as a juice fast. For a person without fasting experience, the release of too many toxins during a water-only fast could prove harmful. That’s why, for all but experienced fasters, a juice fast is preferable.
You may wonder what the word ‘highness’ is doing in the book’s title. It’s a rarely used word that usually heard in relation to royalty, as in; ‘your highness.’ Though the analogy could apply to all people in an altruistic way, the word ‘highness’ in this context refers to ‘a higher state of consciousness.’ Latter parts of the text will elaborate on aspects of that, and show how ‘getting high’ need not involve drugs – and a properly done fast will induce a natural high.
When a person sleeps, he/she allows the body a respite from eating. During that ‘down time’ the body will try and deal with the excesses of the previous 15 hours’ indulgences. That’s why the first meal is called breakfast. The grim reality is that most of us eat copious amounts of food, and much of that is still undigested when we wake to start filling up again. The body tries valiantly to clean itself, but it’s often a losing battle. The proof of that is the overweight and misshapen bodies we see everyday. Those bodies usually belong to people who eat more than their digestive tract can process. Granted, it’s more complicated than that, but too-slowly digested foodstuff is a primary reason for obesity.
The average meat eater has about 15 pounds of partially digested meat in his or her gut at any one time. It’s not a pretty picture, but this text is about telling it straight, and not beating around the bush. If you’re squeamish, you can skip the next few sentences, but it needs to be said: The average gut has inert bits of stuff stuck in the colon. It’s the consistency of soft plastic and it serves no good purpose at all. At times, it partially blocks the colon, forcing its walls to extend, and thereby slowing down bowel movements (BM) that should move faster – thereby increasing putrification and enabling toxins to get re-absorbed into the blood and body.
All people have toxins stored in the tissues of their bodies. It starts in the womb and, unless a person lives an astonishingly clean lifestyle, the build-up continues. Even breast milk contains measurable amounts of toxins. Trace amounts of toxins permeate much of the air we breathe, as well as the liquids and solids we ingest. The oceanographer Jacques Cousteau commented in his latter years that, of the thousands of underwater dives he had taken all over the world, no body of water was free of detectable pollution.
One major contributor is formaldehyde, a residual gas that we breathe from furniture and building materials. It's particularly prevalent in newly built or refurbished sites. After Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans residents were issued mobile homes by the U.S. Federal government. Many inhabitants got sick. A few years later, it was found that the mobile homes were emitting formaldehyde. The units got recalled, but not until residents had breathed foul air for many months.
