Fasting Made Easy: Rid Your Body of Harmful Toxins. Develop a Personal Fasting Plan that is Right for You. Maintain a Fasting Lifestyle and Be Healthy,
By Don Colbert
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Fasting can provide fantastic health benefits to your whole being. While it may seem like a "sacrifice," Dr. Don Colbert, author of the bestsellers Toxic Relief and the bible Cure series, believes fasting is "a powerful tool for health, cleansing, and spiritual empowerment." In this easy-to-understand instruction manual that offers a step-by-step fasting protocol for better health, Colbert explains the needs, benefits, and lifestyle of fasting from both physical and spiritual perspectives. Discover the how, when, why, and other practical matters regarding a healthy approach to fasting.
Your overall health will improve as you:
- Give restorative rest to your digestive tract.
- Cleanse your body of undesirable toxins.
- Boost your immune system to prevent disease and illness, thus giving you a longer life.
- Make yourself look better and help your skin become clearer.
- Melt away toxic fat to help you feel better.
- Repair and rejuvenate every organ, including your brain.
- Bring spiritual cleansing and renewal to your relationship with God.
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Fasting Made Easy - Don Colbert
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FASTING MADE EASY by Don Colbert, MD
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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)
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Cover design by Judith McKittrick
Interior design by Terry Clifton
Copyright © 2004 by Don Colbert, MD
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Colbert, Don.
Fasting made easy / Don Colbert.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-59185-451-2 (casebound)
1. Fasting. 2. Fasting--Health aspects. 3. Detoxification (Health)
I. Title.
RM226.C65 2004
613.2--dc22
2004006320
ISBN-13: 978-1-59185-451-7
E-book ISBN: 978-1-59979-649-9
This book is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice and treatment from your personal physician. Readers are advised to consult their own doctors or other qualified health professionals regarding the treatment of their medical problems. Neither the publisher nor the author takes any responsibility for any possible consequences from any treatment, action, or application of medicine, supplement, herb, or preparation to any person reading or following the information in this book. If readers are taking prescription medications, they should consult with their physicians and not take themselves off of medicines to start supplementation without the proper supervision of a physician.
Contents
Introduction
1 Why Should I Fast?
2 Physical Benefits of Fasting
3 Mental and Spiritual Benefits of Fasting
4 How Should I Fast?
5 A Juice-Fasting Protocol
6 A Fasted Lifestyle
Epilogue
Appendix A: Nutritional Program Designed for Your Liver
Appendix B: Juice Fasting According to Blood Type
Appendix C: Your Fasting Journal
Appendix D: Resources
Notes
Introduction
What—me, fast? Forget it!
Most of us, if we think about fasting at all, think of it as something we would never voluntarily do. Oh, we might do it once in a blue moon—on doctor’s orders or if we’re seeking God for an especially important decision. But it’s certainly not something we would ever consider making part of our lifestyle. Life is uncertain enough as it is without intentionally skipping meals!
And yet you have picked up this book. Something in you is drawn to the idea of fasting. Maybe you have heard what a great method it is to detoxify your body. Or maybe you are wanting to step up your walk with Christ and make fasting a spiritual discipline you can embrace. Maybe a little of both.
Either way, Fasting Made Easy is for you.
Fasting is good for you on so many levels. There are few things you can do for your body that have the power to so radically improve your physical health that fasting has. We live in a toxic environment, and fasting is a mighty cleanser. On the spiritual side, fasting begins to break the stranglehold your hunger may have over your behavior. The Bible talks about this as the flesh warring against the spirit. Fasting is part of crucifying the flesh, which leads to greater self-control and harmony with God’s Spirit.
There are a number of different kinds of fasts Some are more radical than others. Some restrict food and drink exclusively, while others ask you to abstain from something else—like watching television, perhaps. The kind of fasting I recommend in this book, juice fasting, is extremely helpful to clean out the toxins in your body and may help jump-start you into a healthy lifestyle that includes periodic fasting. I hope it will bring you closer to God as well.
So don’t be alarmed. Fasting doesn’t have to be scary. It will improve your health physically and spiritually. And I will be with you every step of the way.
Chapter 1
WHY SHOULD I FAST?
If you have watched a news telecast in the last year, you have listened to reports of the perils of the polluted environment in which we live. Environmentalists continually plead for help to save our world from air pollution and water pollution as well as from other causes
that involve preserving and restoring our good green earth.
Unfortunately, in spite of their pleas, the world you live in is increasingly more dangerous to your health with every passing day. The air you breathe is filled with industrial air pollution, along with carbon monoxide and other elements that threaten your health. In addition, the unrestrained use of chemicals in many businesses is contaminating your environment and damaging your health. Common household cleaners and other personal products contaminate your home environment as well.
Threat of a Toxic Environment
You can live without food for several weeks and without water for several days, but you can only live for minutes without air. However, breathing polluted air can be detrimental to your health. When the air you breathe is polluted, dangerous contaminants pour into your lungs and through your bloodstream, and they are eventually pumped by your heart to every cell in your body. Even air-conditioned buildings, where many people spend the majority of their time, are not free from harmful toxins, chemicals, and bacteria that get trapped in the building and are recirculated through heating and air-conditioning systems.
Sick building syndrome
Out-gassing is a term used to describe the air contamination of new buildings, where building materials emit harmful gasses—such as formaldehyde from carpets, solvents from paints, and other chemicals from fabrics, couches, curtains, glues, and more—into the air. Older buildings may emit airborne mold, dust mites, or dangerous bacteria, which are pumped into the air through air-conditioning units. Volatile organic compounds are also emitted from copying machines, laser printers, computers, and other office equipment.
How does the pollution of inside
air affect your body? Referred to as sick building syndrome,
many ailments can be directly related to these unhealthy breathing conditions. If the building where you work does not have clean air, you may experience headaches; itchy, red, and watery eyes; sore throat; dizziness; nausea—as well as problems concentrating. Other symptoms of sick