Re: Chris-Question about Hereward Carrington
Hello LivingBlessed,
The book "Therapeutic Fasting" by Arnold DeVries is the book that inspired me the most amongst all the others that I sought 30 years ago, in the treatment of Leukemia. I think it is in chapter 4 if my memory serves me correctly without looking it up. Excellent book and a classic of Fasting literature.
You are absolutely right that it is better to prepare for a fast if possible by eating whole and raw foods that we are designed by Nature to eat anyway. Processed foods of any descriiption will impact the entire intestinal canal, which is between 30 to 35 feet in length (10 to 11 metres) and where the movement of unnatural foods along it can easily become clogged and stuck to the walls, causing constipation & other health problems by degrees. Is it any wonder that ones life-force and energy levels are reduced by the bodys attempts to extract what little nutrition there is available from this food, and then in the effort to expel it!!!
I wouldn't totally agree that the benefits and/or the efficiency of a fast are diminished in this way as the bowels and digestive system shut down, it is just that the "comfort" and tolerance to the fasting process is harder to bear by the symptoms you have mentioned such as intestinal gas and other symptoms.
By choice, it always better (much better) in many cases to prepare for a fast properly by eating those foods that we are designed to eat by Mother Nature herself, and where the fast can then be a much more enjoyable experience: in many cases this can mean the difference between a successful outcome, or prematurely aborting the fast because of extremely uncomfortable symptoms of detox.
Regards
Chrisb1.