Herbal Health

This actually happened in England. A broken-hearted 50 year-old man, whose wife left him for a younger lover, decided to end it all by starving himself to death. He ran away into high mountains, abstained from all eating, contemplating his broken marriage and occasionally sipping fresh water from the mountain springs. He expected to expire in a few days. But to his surprise, the desired death would just not come. In fact, he noticed with dismay, that as the days went by, he felt better and stronger.

The end of the story is that in due time – after 74 days in the wilderness without food – the man finally changed his mind (fasting does improve mental capacity and contributes to a logical and clear thinking!), feeling that she wasn’t worth killing himself for, after all, that certainly there must be other women in this world. He returned to civilization and lived happily for another 30 years – with a new wife!

I know personally of a young man of 27 in Sweden who fasted 143 days. No, it wasn’t an anti-Vietnam demonstration, but to “cleanse, regenerate and rejuvenate his body and mind” (as many great philosophers, including Plato and Socrates, did in the past). And he lived to tell about his experience in a book called “Man Who Ate His Muscles.”

One 54-year old Scottish woman fasted 249 days on juices and not only did she not harm herself, but she lost 74 pounds and got rid of her Painful arthritis, as a pleasant side effect!

I have supervised hundreds of fasts in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Mexico and have seen most remarkable results in recovery from a great variety of ills. Many of my patients fasted up to 40 days and, almost without exception, all have told me that they felt stronger and had more vitality after the fast than before it – in addition to the fact that most of their symptoms of ill health had completely vanished during the fast.

Miss B.B. fasted for her heart condition and many vague but persistent symptoms of aging – she was well over 70. She amazed the whole Spa by increasing her daily walking distance, until at the end of her 40-day fast (she called it “40 days and 40 nights”) she walked 5 miles a day. Although she did experience a few so-called fasting crises during her long fast (caused by accelerated elimination of accumulated wastes from her body) she felt healthier and stronger on the 40th day than she did on the 1st day of fasting. And you should have heard the ovation she received from the Spa guests when she finally broke her fast.

So, to answer the question “Is fasting safe,” I can truthfully say – after studying fasting for 30 years with some of the greatest fasting specialists in the world (Dr. Are Waerland, Dr. Ragnar Berg, Dr. Otto Buchinger, Jr., etc.) and evaluating their results as well as my own experience with hundreds of patients – that fasting is not only the most effective healing method known to man, but also the safest.

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GENERAL HEALTH

It consists of your thoughts and feelings about sex, what arouses you and what doesn’t, and your actual sex activity. Although each person’s sex life is uniquely shaped by family, social, religious, and other influences, much of what we think, feel, and do sexually is not unique – other men and women share the same pattern. Each sexual style is the sum of those common attitudes and behaviors.

We discovered, for example, one sexual style we call The Pansexual. The men and women in this group are generally happy and take sex in many forms. One American in five is pansexual.

At the other end of the sexual spectrum, there’s The Nonsexual. This is the style of one person in seven. They are unhappy in most aspects of their lives, and they dislike their bodies. No sort of sexual stimulation arouses them; they have a low sex drive.

Parade’s survey revealed other surprising findings:

•   Men and women are more alike sexually than they are different. Up to now, most sex researchers treated men and women almost as two distinct species.

•   Age does not dictate sexual style. In fact, once you adopt a certain sexual behavior, you may respond to sex that way for the rest of your life.

•   Neither religious devotion, nor marital status, nor political leaning powerfully influences how you take your sex, although each factor may exert some influence.

•   Homosexuals may not be as aroused by traditional foreplay (such as kissing, hugging, and touching) as heterosexuals are. Homosexuals are more likely to be aroused by extremely erotic behavior. Eleven percent of the men and women in our sample had had some homosexual experience.

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GENERAL HEALTH