Benefits of Fasting

In this modern society, often fasting is looked upon as a religious act. But it has a more scientific approach and helps us regain vitality. Sometime or other we all have either taken fasts or met a person taking up fast. Have we ever spent enough time to know what this fasting is about? When asked most of us will reply “it’s a religious act/ custom”. Some don’t know why they fast but do it as a habit. I don’t deny it has a religious touch but did you know that it is in fact a science also.

I have learned something new from fasting so I thought of sharing it with you all, and I promise to bring out a series of blogs for your information on the same.
Did you know that the word fasting is derived from the old English, ‘feastan’ which means to fast, Observe, be strict. Fasting refers to complete abstinence from food for a short or long period for a specific purpose.

History of fasting, and Benefits:

The practice of fasting is one of the most ancient customs. It is followed in almost every religion. The Mohammedan, the Buddhists, the Hindus and many others have their periods of strict fasting. The saints of medieval times laid great stress on this method. Fasting is nature’s oldest, most effective and yet least expensive method of treating disease. It is recognized as the cornerstone of natural healing...”

Fasting in disease was advocated by the school of natural philosopher, Asclepiads, more than two thousand years ago. Throughout medical history, it has been regarded as one of the most dependable curative methods. Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus and many other great authorities on medicine prescribed it. Many noted modern physicians have successfully employed this system of healing in the treatment of numerous diseases. Dr. Arnold Eheret, the originator of the Mucus less diet healing system, describes it as “nature’s only universal and omnipotent remedy of healing" and "nature’s only fundamental law of all healing and curing.

The common cause of all diseases is the accumulation of waste and poisonous matter in the body which results from overeating. The majorities of persons eats too much and follow sedentary occupations which do not permit sufficient and proper exercise for utilization of this large quantity of food. This surplus overburdens the digestive and assimilative organs and clogs up the system with impurities or poisons. Digestion and elimination become slow and the functional activity of the whole system gets deranged.

The onset of disease is merely the process of ridding the system of these impurities. By depriving the body of food for a time ,the organs of elimination such as the bowels, kidneys, skin and lungs are given opportunity to expel, unhampered, the overload of accumulated waste from the system.

Thus, fasting is merely the process of purification and an effective and quick method of cure. It assists nature in her continuous effort to expel foreign matter and disease producing waste from the body, thereby correcting the faults of improper diet and wrong living. It also leads to regeneration of the blood as well as the repair and regeneration of the various tissues of the body.

Bibi Venugopal

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