Salubrious Living by Ben Klassen

Author:Ben Klassen [Klassen, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B000MNLKH2
Published: 2003-10-17T15:11:57+00:00

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Nature’s Supreme Healing Agency: How The Body is Restored to Health While Next

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Fasting

Perhaps the greatest discovery of the last century in the field of hygiene has been that of the value of fasting as a disease-remedying agent. Throughout history many people have fasted occasionally for religious reasons. Their aim was to purify the soul, not the body. Fasting once formed a standard rite of the three great religions: Christianity, Buddhism and Mohammedanism. Christ was said to have fasted 40 days and 40 nights. Wherever Buddhism has spread fasting has been kept alive. The Mohammedans have their month of “Ramadan” each year during which time they fast every day from sunrise to sunset. We even find that fasting was a religious rite of many of the earliest tribes of Indians of North and South America.

Scientists do not know anything about the relation of fasting to what is called the soul. However, they have discovered that fasting is of supreme importance in remedying the diseases of the body, that it is really the most rapid and effective means of doing this. It is often called “the fast way to health” and is recommended for those who desire to become well in the shortest possible time.

Fasting, in its modern phase, had its origin in the early part of the 19th century with the hygienists who lived at the time. Dr.

Jennings knew a little of fasting but did not employ it extensively. Sylvester Graham often recommended abstinence from food for a few meals. The same is true of some of the hygienists who followed Graham, including Dr. Robert Walter and Dr. Page.

However, it was left to Dr. Henry S. Tanner and Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey to discover how valuable fasting can really be. They are usually considered the fathers of scientific fasting and they are rightly deserving of this title.

The use of fasting as a means to eliminate disease has been restricted chiefly to the hygienists. Orthodox medicine has always condemned fasting although it has not carried out any investigations to determine its value. The idea of fasting to remedy disease is, to the medical mind, too fantastic to be given any consideration. It is placed on their list of “fads” in the hope it will die a natural death.

In spite of this attitude, hygienists have continued to use fasting in ever increasing numbers of cases and always with favorable results. It has become the foundation of all hygienic practice and is the chief measure which the hygienist uses to eradicate disease. Even though the medical practitioners continue to ignore it, fasting remains nature’s great means of allowing the body to accomplish it’s healing; and it is the only hope that many sick people may have.

DEFINITION OF FASTING

Before any understanding of the merits of fasting can be had you must gain a clear understanding of what fasting really is. One often hears of fruit fasts, fruit juice fasts, water fasts, milk fasts and many other types. Such unscientific terminology leads to much confusion and results in many misconceptions regarding the true nature of fasting.

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