Considered by many to be the definitive work on the subject. This is really
an encyclopedia of fasting. The print is small so instead of being a 300+
page book on fasting, it is more like a normal 800 page book on fasting.
It covers every area in great detail. It has a great deal of informtion on
fasting from over 100 years ago.

Herbert Shelton wrote 40 books over his 60-year career in health education
and "natural hygiene." He supervised over 50,000 fasts of chronically ill
and terminal patients, losing only three. Shelton's teachings on fasting
inspired Ghandi as well as such popular authors as Fuhrman, the Diamonds,
Mercola and Graham. Harvey and Marilyn Diamond said of Shelton: "A man of
astounding intelligence and understanding, Dr. Herbert Shelton was the
greatest health oracle of the 20th century."

One of the key tenets of natural hygiene is toxemia + enervation = disease
and that symptoms of disease are remedial efforts by the body to return to
balance. For example, a fever is instituted by the body to speed metabolic
action and kill germs. It is a healing event that should be allowed to run
its course, not a dreaded enemy to be suppressed.

The best action to take when first becoming ill is to stop eating and rest,
which goes contrary to the prevailing advice to take a drug, eat to keep up
your strength, and keep on going. When you fast, you are not starving your
body of nutrition, because it obtains all the nutrition it needs from its
own tissues. But in doing so, the not inconsiderable amount of energy that
would have been spent in digestion is now spent in repair of tissues and
elimination of toxins.

Long fasts of up to three months followed by healthy living practices can
(but not always) reverse chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis,
heart disease, colitis, migraines, mental illness, even cancer. (See also
Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering
Disease.)

Download File Size:13.73 MB

---