Skeptic Posted July 17, 2012 http://www.allaboutfasting.com/benefits-of-fasting.html Fasting will: rest the digestive system allow for cleansing and detoxification of the body create a break in eating patterns, while shining a spotlight on them promote greater mental clarity cleanse and heal "stuck" emotional patterns lead to a feeling of physical lightness, increasing energy level promote an inner stillness, enhancing spiritual connection ---------------------------- Some Benefits of Fasting Antiaging effects Better attitude Better resistance to disease Better sleep Change of habits Clearer planning Clearer skin Creativity Diet changes Drug detoxification Improved senses (vision, hearing, taste) Inspiration More clarity (mentally and emotionally) More energy More relaxation New ideas Purification Reduction of allergies Rejuvenation Rest for digestive organs Revitalization Right use of will Spiritual awareness Weight loss from Staying Healthy with Nutrition, by Elson Haas, M.D. ----------------------------- "Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within." Philippus Paracelsus, one of the three fathers of Western medicine "Instead of using medicine, better fast today." Plutarch, a Greek biographer and moralist "The best of all medicines is resting and fasting." Benjamin Franklin "Everyone has a doctor in him; we just have to help him in his work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. ...to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness." Hippocrates, one of the three fathers of Western medicine "A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors." Mark Twain, in My Debut As a Literary Person "Nature heals, the doctor helps!" Paracelsus, writing about activating the "doctor inside", or our own healing nature "Every fool can fast, but only the wise man knows how to break a fast." G.B. Shaw, writer "Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor." Egyptian pyramid inscription, 3800 B.C. --------------------- Modern M.D.s "I believe that fasting is the "missing link" in the Western diet." "From a medical point of view, I believe that fasing is not utilized often enough." ".... fasting is one of the best overall healing methods because it can be applied to so many conditions and people." "Fasting is the single greatest natural healing therapy. It is nature's ancient, universal 'remedy' for many problems. Animals instictively fast when ill." all from Elson Haas, M.D. in Staying Healthy with Nutrition "Due to [the] effects of fasting, a fast can help you heal with greater speed; cleanse your liver, kidneys, and colon; purify your blood; help you lose excess weight and water; flush out toxins; clear the eyes and tongue; and cleanse the breath." James F. Balch, M.D., in Prescription for Nutritional Healing "Therapeutic [water] fasting accelerates the healing process and allows the body to recover from serious disease in a dramatically short period of time." "Fasting, combined with nutritional competence, removes the most significant causes of disease." "Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to healing are removed. Health is the normal state. Most chronic disease is the inevitable consequence of living a life-style that places disease-causing stressors on the human organism. Fasting gives the body an interlude without those stressors so that it can speedily repair or accomplish healing that could not otherwise occur in the feeding state." "The job of fasting is to supply the body with the ideal environment to accomplish its work of healing." "The body's wondrous ability to autolyze (or self-digest) and destroy needless tissue such as fat, tumors, blood vessel plaque, and other nonessential and diseased tissues, while conserving essential tissues, gives the fast the ability to restore physiologic youth to the system. By removing or lessening the burden of diseased tissue, including the fatty tissue narrowing the blood vessels, fasting increases the blood flow and subsequent oxygenation and nutrient delivery to vital organs throughout the body." all from Joel Fuhrman, M.D., in Fasting and Eating for Health "Man is the only 'animal' who persists in eating when he is sick, even though he may have no appetite and food makes him nauseous." "Fasting is a calming experience. It is restful. It relieves anxiety and tension. It is rarely depressing and it is often downright exhilarating." Alan Cott, M.D., from Fasting: The Ultimate Diet "Fasting is the strongest appeal to the human being's natural powers of healing and self-rejuvenation, on both a spiritual and corporeal level." Heinz Fahrner, M.D. "I often observe in the fasting participants that by four days of fasting, concentration seems to improve, creative thinking expands, depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties fade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural joy begins to appear. It is my hypothesis that when the physical toxins are cleared from the brain cells, mind-brain function automatically and significantly improves and spiritual capacities expands." Gabriel Cousins, M.D. (psychiatry) "Although beginning my practice in fog-covered medical superstition, I came to the conclusion that only nature can practice medicine." "I contend that during illness feeding becomes a burden to the sick. It uses energy that otherwise would be used to fight the illness." both from Dr. Edward Dewey "I must say in all seriousness that fasting when combined with a properly selected diet is the nearest approach to a 'cure-all' that is possible to conceive-- profoundly simple and simply profound!" John Tilden, M.D. "Religious ascetics, who led their lives abstaining from food, came to the conclusion that fasting improved not only their spiritual state, but also their physical condition, and through fasting many diseases could be cured." Dr. Inamura Motoo "I assert that fasting is the most efficient means for correcting any disease." Adolph Mayer, M.D., from his book Fast Cures - Wondercures "Fasting creates a condition of low concentration of toxic wastes in the circulatory system. This is sensed by the plasma membrane of each cell and each cell will then let go of its load of toxic wastes." Ron Kennedy, M.D. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Malika Posted July 17, 2012 Jazaka'allah kheyr for sharing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bluelicious Posted July 17, 2012 I knew this already but thanks for the reminder. This is a good thread for those who don't fast and think they are gonna starve. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blessed Posted July 17, 2012 No doubt that fasting has many health benefits, have been reading about protection against some brain diseases and how fasting 2 days per week was the best way to lower calories but the ultimate benefit and the reason why Muslims fast is to attain Taqwa. InshaAllah. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skeptic Posted July 17, 2012 *Blessed;851446 wrote: ... the reason why Muslims fast is to attain Taqwa. InshaAllah. That's true Blessed ... "TAQWA" is mentioned in the Quran numerous times ... Almost each time that TAQWA is mentioned, it takes on a different meaning depending on what precedes its mention ... So when the Quran gives the attaining of "TAQWA" as the ultimate reason, TAQWA in that verse means PROTECTION ... PROTECTION against many diseases and also desires .. That's why The Prophet SAW strongly suggest men and women to marry when they can, and those who can't should FAST cuz fasting greatly reduces desires thus lust in the fasting person decreases greatly ... WALLAHU ACLAM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The-freeman Posted July 18, 2012 **********PLEASE STOP THE ANTI-ISLAMIC ATTACKS************************ This is your last warning. Admin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
