Fasting For Health
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Could This Practice Actually Be Dangerous?
Fasting involves
restricting your dietary intake to a liquid. The liquid may be
water, tea, or fruit juice. Proponents of fasting recommend
occasional regular short fasts, lasting two to five days, as
part of a general health-maintenance regimen. Advocates
recommend that longer fasts for health maintenance or the
healing of illness, lasting a month or more, be conducted under
medical supervision.
For fasts lasting more than one week, fruit
juices are given to supply the nutrients needed to maintain
health. Some add enemas as part of the detoxification
fasting regimen. Proponents claim that because the body is
relieved of its usual chore of breaking food down into its
elemental nutrients, fasting allows the body's inner
resources to focus on cleansing and healing. Cleansing is
said to be accomplished through the elimination of existing
toxins.
Fasting claims to enhance the immune system and reduces the
demands placed on it. In addition to its role as part of
health maintenance, some believe that fasting is an
effective way to treat illnesses, including arthritis,
ulcers, heart disease, asthma, and other problems.
The ancient belief that fasting purifies the soul has been
extended to the current view that fasting also can purify
the body. Fasting maintains and restores health through
physiological mechanisms. Included in these mechanisms are
shifting physiological effort from food conversion to the
elimination of toxins, reducing the immune system's
workload, releasing pesticides and other chemicals from body
fat, and eliminating the body of nonessential tissue.
It is helpful to look at these beliefs in terms of
scientific information about the well-studied sequence of
events that occurs when people start fasting. When body
weight declines, water and fat, but not toxins, are lost
from cells. Toxins are left behind. Nutrients are needed to
sustain immune competence, the ability of the body's
disease-fighting immune system to make antibodies and other
proteins and cells. Immune system failure, not enhancement,
occurs when people do not eat enough to provide the
nutrients that sustain proper immune function. Instead of
reducing its workload, fasting impedes the immune system.
Advocates explain that people feel sick when fasting because
toxins are leaving the body. Actually, fasting decreases the
immune system's ability to destroy and eliminate toxins.
Fasting also causes a drop in blood sugar levels, which
causes a breakdown of tissues needed for energy. This leads
people to feel sick because the brain and other tissues fail
to receive needed sugars, and the body's metabolism is
forced to remove the needed nutrients from muscle and liver
tissue. At the same time, the liver and kidneys are not able
to do their work of handling the by-products of protein
breakdown.
Fasting can harm all organs. It is extremely dangerous to
health, especially for those who are malnourished by chronic
illness, yet some proponents recommend fasting to treat
chronic illnesses. The slimmer the individual, the more
dangerous a fast will be. The longer the fast, the more
life-threatening it becomes. Studies show that when people
reach 56% of their appropriate body weight, death occurs.
The body cannot distinguish between intentional fasting and
starvation.
Solid scientific research does not support the claims of
fasting advocates. To the contrary, it contradicts those
claims and indicates the dangers of fasting, even with water
or juices. Reducing the number of calories you eat while
maintaining a normal, balanced diet will reduce your weight.
But consuming only water, tea, or juice is harmful, not
helpful, to health and should be avoided especially by those
who are ill.
Advocates believe that fasting can produce fatigue, anemia,
irregular heartbeat, body aches, nausea, dizziness, and
other negative effects. They refer to these as temporary
problems that precede feelings of well-being, mental
clarity, internal cleanliness, and other benefits.
Contrary to advocacy claims, fasting does not and cannot
heal medical conditions, assist immune or other
physiological function, or play a role in health
maintenance. The decreased supply of blood glucose leads the
body to break down muscle for energy, causing weakness,
depression, fatigue, and sick feelings.
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