Re: will fasting help me conceive a baby if im obese
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I do tend to rely on Dr
Shelton because of his unique experience: he fasted over 60,000 patients into health in mostly chronic states of disease, and had no qualms about the consequences; he served several prison sentences for his beliefs for what the medical authorities described as "practising medicine without a license". This is unlikely to happen nowadays by fasting practitioners for the fear of litigation and those same consequences.
Fasting in pregnancy IS recommended, especially when suffering from morning sickness and other symptoms of contemporary mums-to-be........
Shelton.
"In another volume we have called attention to the fact that chronic "disease," even that form called tuberculosis, frequently abates during pregnancy. Great changes, developmental changes akin to those of puberty and adolescence, take place in a woman's body during pregnancy. Weak hearts, weak lungs, weak kidneys, weak nervous systems are strengthened. Glands long dormant awaken to activity. Her whole body undergoes a strengthening, renovating process.
This is the meaning of the nausea, vomiting, ("morning sickness"), lack of appetite and other symptoms that so many women experience during the early weeks of pregnancy. No woman in good health, who is living sensibly, ever has the slightest trace of these symptoms. No woman who has undergone a thorough renovation just prior to becoming pregnant, and who lives sensibly during this time, ever experiences these "symptoms of pregnancy."
They are not symptoms of pregnancy. They are symptoms of renovation. They indicate that nature is undertaking a house cleaning, that the body is to be put into its best shape preparatory to pregnancy and parturition. If they are heeded all will be well. If they are not heeded, nature will usually succeed in her work in spite of opposition and interference. Sometimes she fails. Always her success is more complete and more satisfactory if we cooperate with her.
The development of these symptoms is a sure sign that a house-cleaning is necessary. When anorexia, nausea and vomiting develop, absolutely no food but water should be taken until these have disappeared and there is a distinct call for food. There should be no fears about fasting. You may be sure that these symptoms will end and nature will call for food as soon as her renovating work is completed and long before there has been any damage to mother or fetus. A fast is just what she is calling for in the plainest possible manner, and a fast she usually gets even if she has to keep throwing the food back into the woman's face as often as she eats it for days. Rest is called for as loudly as the fast and should be had."..............
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch26.htm
The article continues and is well worth the read.
Regards
chrisb1.