End of Day Six Fasting

Even though today started out really rough, the day ended better than it started.  I am sitting here watching Food Matters first time watching it and I found an interesting article on the web about why juice fasting is so good for you.  I have had several people make comments to me that I am being unhealthy.  So far everything I have read and watched on TV have said this is a good thing.   I found a great article on the internet about fasting that was written in 1971 called Benefits of Liquid Fasting  a fascinating article.  Here is my favorite part 

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I outlined a three-month program for Miss L.
First, one monthof fasting on juices. Then a controlled raw food diet with special vitamins and mineral supplements for four weeks. After that two more weeks of fasting and two weeks of dieting. I promised that she would lose 50 pounds and look more like 40 than 60. Miss L. followed my program religiously. She received two glasses of diluted fruit juice, one glass of vegetable juice, one glass of vegetable broth, and two cups of herb tea each day.* (See next chapter for detailed program and recipe for vegetable broth). In addition, she could drink any amount of plain water she wanted. She took long walks, up to five miles a day. She was advised to take enemas twice a day. For arthritis, she followed a special program of biological treatments with dry brush massage, hot and cold showers, special exercises, castor oil packs, and thermal baths. All symptoms of her arthritis disappeared completely by the end of the first 30 day fast. And she had lost 28 pounds. She lost an additional 12 pounds during the 30 days of raw food diet. She ate three meals of the most delicious raw vegetables and tropical fruits each day in addition to the regular juices... During an additional two weeks of fasting Miss A.L. lost 12 more pounds. By the end of three months, she had a total weight loss of 52 pounds."

So  what do I get out of this? WOW we have published about fasting since 1971?  I was four years old and this is the first time in my life I have heard about a juice fast when I watched Joe Cross' movie about three months ago!   The fact is if we give our bodies what they need instead of what drug companies and processed food companies market we can heal ourselves and be healthy.  I guess I am figuring out why I am following this juice fast and actually sticking to writing this blog.  


  As the great Hippocrates said, ""Let medicine be thy food, and food be thy medicine."


However how are we treating illness? Drugs and more drugs" I needed this saying to keep my resolve. It was a bit rough today but found I only drank four juices today. Tonight I prepped my juices for tomorrow. I will post the pictures on my day seven blog. The most interesting this is finding out  that my youngest daughter is actually putting together my juicer and making her own juices and she watches me in the evening make the juices.  Maybe I can talk her into trying one of my green juices.