Category: Health & Medicine

The Fasting Cure

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Chapters

3. Part 3

The question most commonly asked was how long should one fast, and how one should judge of the time to stop. I personally have never taken a "complete fast," and so I hesitate i...

4. Part 4

It must be a curious experience to go for three months without tasting food. It is no wonder that the stomach and all the organs of assimilation forget how to do their work. The...

6. Part 6

And I have known others to have this same experience. Bernarr Macfadden, in particular, told me that he could not get along upon the nut and fruit diet while closely confined in...

7. Part 7

Am enclosing clipping which shows that prominent men up here in the great Northwest are not afraid to try out certain methods of fighting disease merely because they are thought...

8. Part 8

Fasts have benefited me and I recommend them, as few people will live on beef till their blood gets pure; that an exclusive diet of beef _will_ make pure blood I saw demonstrate...

1. Part 1

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5. Part 5

I will try in a very limited space of time to tell you what keeps me a slave here at home. I got Mr. X---- down from ---- to put papa and mamma on the fasting cure--papa had a b...

2. Part 2

My sensations on this milk diet were almost as interesting as on the fast. In the first place, there was an extraordinary sense of peace and calm, as if every weary nerve in the...

9. Part 9

I am trying to get at the truth about these questions, and I know that you are trying to do it also. For three years I did myself incalculable harm by accepting blindly statemen...