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Fasting is something which we should all do monthly and which should last a minimum of two consecutive days, ideally bi-monthly or quarterly and for five to seven consecutive days. If you are going to fast make sure that you are in reasonably good health and do not have any of those diseases or complaints such as diabetes because you can upset yourself by fasting if you are diabetic. Assured on these points, then you should make sure that your internal plumbing is in good order and that you are not suffering from hold-ups in the rear delivery department, i.e. constipation! You should take a natural Senna laxative the day beforehand, so that you are fairly empty inside before you start. Then you completly stop eating, but you do not stop drinking. If you are fasting you would be well advised to take anything which the medical profession calls a clear liquid diet - and that doesn't include alcohol. 

Only drink plenty of water, organic fruit and vegetable juices only, but nothing of a solid nature whatever. Not even milk, because milk is too solid for this purpose. The consistency of the “drink” should be like water and not like milkshakes, so some “smoothies” are out. For better results cut out all tea and coffee for the duration of fasting. Do NOT drink “energy drinks” whilst fasting as they make a mockery of fasting - also the way people constantly drink these “energy drinks” sadly they are just going to end up diabetic later on in life due to the high sugar contents.

Fasting is giving your stomach, intestines and bowel a well deserved break from constantly being overworked by the volume of food - or what is passed off as food these days - that people cram down their throats without another thought. Now, do not think that you are going to fast and eat sweets, biscuits or the usual between meal snacks as that is not fasting, that is cheating and that is making the whole thing a farce. So stop eating all solids, do quite a bit of resting. You “WILL” loose weight and rediscover hunger pains when you do the seven day fasting, but it's not going to kill you. You will not rediscover real hunger pains until at least day five of your fasting.

Don't get any fruit or vegetable drinks that are made from concentrates, it must be 100% pure fruit or vegetable juice. All concentrates are around 80% recycled tap water, which means they have very little nutritional value and therefore a waste of time drinking. Most of all today’s food is processed which means it lacks essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals, hence the reason for insisting on organic. Organic has nothing added and nothing removed; exactly as nature intended and full of goodness.

Whilst fasting, you can sit and read, listen to the radio or watch TV, but no gallivanting off to the cinema or to the pub or anything of that nature, as they are completely forbidden. If you do you will deplete your fat resources faster than will be comfortable and you may get headaches. So when fasting, you do absolutely nothing; but rest. 

You see, if you are going to fast your body has got to keep on working and the only way it can keep on working is to gradually absorb the stored up food in your body cells; that means your fat cells - which today people have more than plenty of those. If you go racing around, going out on social occasions, or doing manual work, then you will lose weight far too quickly and will definitely risk collapse. To give you an idea of what I am talking about let me tell you that of late there have been an astonishing number of really obese people who have had an operation to short-circuit perhaps six or ten feet of their intestines so they do not absorb their food so much. If too much of the intestine has been short-circuited then the person loses weight too rapidly and all sorts of strange things happen. Go carefully, then, if you are going to fast. Stop eating and stop working, rest a lot, and by "rest" it is meant that you should not go out and do shopping or go to any entertainments. If you want to fast and get all the benefits of fasting without any of the drawbacks you will have to forego not merely solid food, but also mobility.

You need a lot of fluid otherwise you will become quickly dehydrated, and if you are dehydrated you will affect your health very badly. It is a horrible thing to happen to one. Certain people with poor health find that if they do fast their liver becomes affected, so make sure that your health is good enough before you go in for any of these things like fasting. How long should you fast?  Well, until you start seeing things, if you like. You can go quite easily five or seven days without food and with much good results, but try a two day weekend fasting for starters, take thing slowly as it's not a race. 

You can only fast so long as you feel the need to fast. You should not fast more than seven days without taking the advice of your doctor; if you feel uncertain about fasting. If he is the ordinary crummy type of fellow who can see no further than his medical text books, he will tell you straight out that you are crazy to fast, but that is because he's never done it. However, for your own protection, you should always get medical advice if you are going to fast for more than seven days. When you start to eat after - well, don't just gulp down burgers and pizzas or you will have all sorts of troubles, indigestion and all the rest of it, and very bad indigestion it will be.

When you are fasting your stomach shrinks. It can shrink to the size of a small egg because there is no reason why it should be distended if you are not taking in solid food. Well, after seven days or so your stomach is the size of a small egg, and it has become used to being that size, so if you suddenly get sick of fasting and cram down a whole load of stuff then your stomach will have to distend far more than it likes doing so you will get much pain, and your intestines will have shrunk through having no material inside and the intestines too, will have to stretch enormously. Believe me, if you go and gormandize – “pigging-out” - after seven days of fasting you will get more aches and pains than you thought possible from such a simple thing. 

After a period of fasting take very light meals, light soups, milk and a few biscuits. Next day take a bit more. But do not go back to your normal food intake until about three or four days after. In that way you will get good results from your fasting, but contrariwise, if you go and stuff yourself after a fast you will harm yourself which will make your fast useless. Best plan of action would be to create a new sensible and nutritional regime before starting your fasting to include food for when your fasting has stopped.

Some of you have asked exactly what I was drinking to achieve a safe weight loss of 10Kg in one week;

Following these simple instructions you can easily loose between 8Kg in five days of fasting and a further 2Kg over the next two days as it's normal to continue loosing some weight days after ending your fasting. That is, until your system becomes used to eating again. I have achieved a 10Kg weight loss in a one week period without any problems what-so-ever.

Barley Water. You would help your kidneys enormously and help overcome arthritic and rheumatic conditions, if you would drink a lot of barley water. It's more beneficial if you make your own barley water than buy the stuff in the shops as that contains far too much sugar and additives. Here is the best way to make your own barley water:

When you have the barley water, either flavored with lemon, lime or orange, you will find it is very refreshing either hot or cold and very pleasant to drink. You cannot drink too much of it, it is most beneficial for any age group. A special note: sometimes the barley water appears bluish-pink tinged, which causes some people to think there is a defect; that is not so. If this occurs it is quite normal and safe to drink. 

Drink as much as you conveniently can of this barley water, and in a surprisingly short time you will find that your kidneys are much better and that you really feel better. At the same time as you are having barley water treatment, avoid the “white” of the egg. The yolks can be taken, but

Enemas don't seem to be fashionable these days as they were, but they CAN improve ones health immensely, helping towards alleviating constipation and other ailments. As we have mentioned, people just cram food down as if there's no tomorrow and by doing so they clog-up their systems which in turn makes them sick, moody and bitter. A correctly applied enema can do wonders in overcoming constipation and improving ones well-being. Not merely the internal system, but the lack of health which causes the constipation in the first case. Many people are constipated because they do not drink nearly enough water.

When we say water we do not mean tea, coffee, fizzy drinks or alcohol; we mean plain and simple water. 

One really must drink loads and loads of water if one is to be healthy, because when we eat this modern day processed food, it gets churned into a paste inside and then as it passes through the intestines nutritious substances are extracted from the paste and; inevitably, moisture also is extracted. So by the time all the unwanted residue from the food gets into the descending colon it becomes a hard, dry mass.

It is expelled by spasmodic screwing-like motions of the colon, and if the mass is too hard then it cannot be expelled, or if it is expelled it causes pain and irritation. The only way to make this mass easily removed is to be sure that there is adequate moisture in it so that it remains as a pliable paste. Too many of the modern day commercial laxatives on the market today are irritants, that is the action of the chemical in the laxative irritates the bowel and makes it twitch. Sometimes it irritates the bowel so much that moisture is drawn from the blood stream through the wall of the colon and saturates the mass of residue and that causes dehydration!

The colon is meant to serve as a reservoir from which the blood absorbs nutrients to circulate throughout the entire system. When the colon is toxic, or impacted with faecal matter, poisons are distributed instead and the condition of toxaemia arises. You then begin to feel hungry all the time and eat more than you need, because the nutrients are not absorbed and circulated normally.

It is always safe to give yourself an enema and the best position is when the patient lies perhaps on a towel on the bathroom floor or better still, in the bath. Lie on the left side with your knees drawn up. You can administer the enema yourself without any difficulty. If you have some really bad constipation trouble it is a very good idea to have a half ounce of tincture of myrrh and about fifteen drops of tincture of Echinacea. These should be added to a quart of water which is at approximately body temperature. Put this in your enema bag and inject it into the bowels. Keep it in as long as you can and the mixture will saturate the hard mass within the bowels and make it soft so that it may be passed without any pain. After you have expelled the first lot have another enema injection, but this time with a quart of body temperature water to which only fifteen drops of Echinacea has been added. That means you do not have the tincture of myrrh with the second enema. This second injection will help you get rid of any puss or catarrh which is lodged within your lower bowel.

Diets are a real cul-de-sac fad today, and spiralling totally out of control. All these trends are a total waste of money as all you need to do is eat sensibly - a balanced input - that means no snacks here and there - sensible meals which includes vegetables and/or fruit - whilst drinking plenty of water. The only real exercise you really need is detailed within “Breathing & Exercise”. By taking a brisk walk of at least 5 miles per day and drinking at least 2 litres of water alone - you WILL see changes in yourself and combined with sensible eating and fasting, your health and well-being WILL improve beyond belief.

All these diet fads are after your money and nothing else. The saying goes “You are what you eat” and that is very true. Today there is too much fast-food and ready meals, all packed with cheap contents to “pack-out” or “bulk-up” creating a produce that is unhealthy for the body, hence we have so much obesity.

Jamie Oliver - a well loved and renowned English chef created a big fuss in the UK regarding school dinners and showed the nation that a child's disrupted behaviour was largely down to poor nutrition - discipline was the other missing factor. Jamie changed their diets - cutting out all fast foods, chips, pizzas, burgers, the infamous “turkey twizlers”, Cola and all other fizzy drinks.

All those kids who had zero attention spans very soon changed and became model students, even their parents were amazed by the changes. Constipation is caused by eating and drinking such processed rubbish - with many it's over indulging - and when your body is clogged-up it doesn't work as it should it, therefore you become sluggish, cranky and bad tempered. Fasting will help.

If you look at the ingredients of any modern food dish, sweets, cakes, etc, you will see countless “e-numbers”. Now these e-numbers are the direct cause of disruptive children which has since been proven medically. The portions of each e-number; which is an unnatural manufactured additive, is perhaps safe in a single dose, but because nearly everything you eat has numerous e-numbers added to it, the accumulation totals of any e-number then becomes a danger. You need these unnatural manufactured additives as much as you need a nut & bolt through your neck.

There is a book out titled “Not on the Label” which informs us of what manufactures do to food before you get it, to “pack out” the product - mainly to increase weight so you pay more for the product. Amongst many other horrible things they do with food before you get it. This book is an eye opening account of modern food manufacturing practices and what has taken place over the last 20 years in how food is manufactured and delivered to your supermarkets and tables. Highly artificially refined and full of additives - the main reasons for obesity and an additional source to disruptive children.

How many of us actually understand the contents on food labels when we read them? This ignorance about the food we eat and the health implications; because of a continuous stream of additives, cannot continue being ignored. This book details some horrifying manufacturing practices involved everyday staple foods - such as bread, chicken, etc. The old saying “you are what you eat” has never been truer; and you will realise this as you read the book. This book details modern methods used principally in the UK and Europe, but the same food practices are used the world over.

It also pinpoints issues such as the vast amounts of power supermarkets wield over food suppliers both in price and their insatiable demands for cosmetic perfection in the goods they sell, the vicious cycle of underpaid agricultural workers and an unscrupulous reliance on adulteration of manufactured food and a high use of steroids and fertilizers on the farm. Over 85% of the world’s food is now controlled via the supermarkets only. If you care at all about the quality of the food you eat and the impacts of modern food adulteration on your health this investigative journalists book is one you should read. It'll change how you view what you see when you go to the supermarket.

Body Mass Indicator Chart

Using the above chart you can easily ascertain if you are overweight or obese; hopefully not clinically obese. If you are not within the right group you must take action now, otherwise you will suffer in later years. Use the chart as a "guide" as it's not 100 percent, but it's very close. The majority of people are overweight due to the quality and quantity of food they eat, drink and lifestyle. People are sleepwalking their way through life, oblivious to what going on, only conscious of false commercial sales pitches; it's time to wake up!

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