When to Incorporate Fasting Into a Nutritional Plan
Fasting can be a healthy part of your nutrition
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We all have memories of how we looked and felt when we were younger. It’s sometimes hard to get those memories out of our minds or be satisfied with our current level of fitness, age, beauty or size. We make legitimate efforts to lose weight or to improve our health and eating habits.
And with all of the information that is available today it is sometimes difficult to figure out what supplements to integrate, how many multi-vitamins you should be taking, the number of hours of sleep or how much exercise you really need.
Another one of those factors that plays a part in a healthy diet is fasting. In most cases people don’t think of fasting as part of a healthy eating plan but instead as part of a radical diet designed to lose 20 pounds in 2 days. However, because of the way in which our bodies were designed, an occasional fast is actually good for the body and works with the way in which the body functions.
Let’s consider how we used to eat. Prior to current Western standards food wasn’t plentiful. In fact, we used to farm or hunt for everything that we ate. No grocery stores, meat markets or canned foods. If a person ate they took care of the food themselves. And, because that this was life our bodies were designed to accommodate to the abundance of food that we are faced with each day has led to an increase in obesity and obesity related health problems.
Fasting is a period of abstinence from all foods. That period can be 24 hours or a couple of days. The individual drinks fluids or juices to provide the body with fluids and calories that are easily digestible.
Current medical theory or studies hold no real information about fasting. Because the source of the money dictates not only what studies are performed but also many times can slant the conclusions there are legitimately no real studies on the health benefits of fasting. There is no real money behind fasting. After all, it is free!
However, there are very many case studies on a practice that has been popular for centuries. Fasting has been a part of ancient cultures, mourning rituals, initiations and diet plans for centuries. People have used juice fasts and water fasts to accomplish their tasks. But, doctors recommend that no extended fast should ever be undertaken without the use of juice to add a few calories to the mix.
The objective of a fast isn’t to totally eradicate calories from the body but to stop or slow the digestive system and allow the body to detoxify. It’s important to drink at least 10 ounces of water to help the body flush out the toxins during this detoxification process.
And, traditional medicine physicians don’t have anything to say that is bad about the occasional 24 hour fast unless the individual has a metabolic disorder that would be adversely affected by a fast.
Fasting also gives the digestive system a rest. Juices require very little digestive energy and are quickly taken into the body. Most of the energy that is usually used in this process is then freed up to be used to help repair body tissues. People then have more energy during the day, and not less that is felt by those who experience a water fast.
People who use fasting in their dietary regimen also experience an increased ability to overcome addictions to caffeine, nicotine or smoking. Juice fasts also help people to alleviate constipation, bloating and gastritis as well as helping to lower cholesterol levels.
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