THERAPEUTIC FASTING OF ALL KINDS: WATER, JUICE, URINE, LIQUIDS

"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."--Albert
Schweitzer, M.D., 1875-1965, Alsatian medical missionary, theologian
and musician

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its
work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the
greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our
medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to
feed your sickness."--Hippocrates, M.D., 460-377 B.C., Father of
Western Medicine

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest
her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper
diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."--Thomas Edison,
1847-1931, America's greatest inventive mind (patented 1093: light
bulb, phonograph, microphone, carbon telephone transmitter, motion-
picture camera, et. al.)

"Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's
U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone
discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be
applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice.
Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension,
autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed
that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative
to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come
when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional
approach will be considered malpractice."--Joel Fuhrman, M.D., from
his book, Fasting And Eating For Health: A Medical Doctor's Program
for Conquering Disease



Today, every intelligent Cybernaut understands that a greater degree
of health, clarity of consciousness, restored vitality, enhanced
spirituality, and freedom from premature aging and dis-ease are well
worth the effort required to achieve them.

As Michael Rosenbaum, M.D., Director of the California-based
Orthomolecular Health Medicine Medical Society, notes: "The hidden
cause of many chronic pains, diseases and illnesses may be invisible
toxins, chemicals, heavy metals and parasites that invade our
bodies. . . .Chances are slim that your doctor will tell you that
toxins may be the root cause of your health problems. He or she may
not even know about how these toxins are affecting your
body. . . .As your cells go, so goes your health. If your cells have
been invaded by toxins and dangerous chemicals, your resistance to
disease is diminished. Clean and nourish your cells, and you're on
the road to better health."

Wonderfully, scientific fasting is both therapeutic or curative, as
well as prophylactic or preventive. Therapeutically, according to
Otto Buchinger, Sr., M.D., one of my greatest, unmet mentors of
therapeutic fasting supervision, it's advisable for many of our
modern illnesses, including the following: allergies, cardiovascular
disease, chronic diseases of the digestive system, degenerative and
painfully inflammatory illnesses of the joints, myriad disturbances
in one's eating behavior, glaucoma, initial malfunction of the
kidneys, tension and migraine headaches, as well as the skin
diseases. Preventively, it's designed to cleanse, and to regenerate,
rejuvenate and restore a person's sense of well-being, in body, mind
and soul. As Doctor Buchinger would conclude: "When the body fasts,
the soul is hungry; when the body becomes lighter, the soul also
craves relief." Prophylacticly, fasting also actively guards against
physical and mental fatigue or exhaustion.

"Fasting is, without any doubt, the most effective biological
method of treatment. . .it is the 'operation without surgery'. . .it
is a cure involving exudation, reattunement, redirection, loosening
up and purified relaxation. While fasting, the patient improves her
or his physical health and gains much. But he or she will have
neglected the most important thing if the hunger for spiritual
nourishment that manifests itself during fasting is not satisfied."--
Otto Buchinger, Sr., M.D., Germany's great, self-described "fasting
therapist," who founded the most famous of several renowned,
European Buchinger Kliniks in 1952, serenely overlooking Lake
Constance, in his eighth decade. His grandson, Andreas Buchinger,
M.D., now directs the Buchinger Klinik in Bad Pyrmont, Germany.
(Those requiring a residential facility may contact FCI for
information regarding this renowned juice-fasting clinic.)

More specifically, Doctor Buchinger proved that preventive fasting
is indicated to reduce risk factors for: hypercholesteraemia
(elevated cholesterol level), hypertonia (high blood pressure),
hyperlipoidaemia (elevated blood-fat level), cigarette smoking,
obesity and gout, as well as hyperuricaemia (elevated uric-acid
level), lack of exercise, and both psychological and social stress.

Therapeutically, Buchinger's 100,000-plus fasting "cures" proved the
efficacy of scientific, therapeutic fasting for. . .: (1)
cardiovascular and circulatory diseases including coronary diseases
(arterial sclerosis), infarct prophylaxis and its after-care,
circulatory disturbances in the arteries and veins, ulcus cruris
(ulcers of the periosteum), migraine and glaucoma; (2) diseases of
one's digestive system including gastroenteropathies (disorders of
one's stomach and intestines), chronic obstipation (sluggishness of
one's bowels and consequent constipation), chronic hepatopathies
(diseases of the liver), cholecystopathy (bilary tract diseases),
Chron's disease, both chronic colitis and ulcerative colitis
(enteritis, intestinal ulcers); (3) all diseases of the locomotory
system including articular and non-articular rheumatism, arthroses
and the degenerative diseases of the vertebral column, and also
tendomyopathies (problems involving muscles and ligaments); (4) skin
diseases including allergies of the skin and of the mucus membranes,
psoriasiform dermatoses (psoriasis and related skin diseases), and
the chronic eczemas; (5) respiratory system diseases including both
bronchial asthma and chronic sinusitis bronchitis (diseases of the
paranasal sinus and the upper respiratory tracts); (6) psychosomatic
disturbances and states of exhaustion including bulimic disturbances
of eating habits, and depressive moods with various causes (eg.,
during menopause), and (7) as the follow-up treatment of malignant
diseases (eg., cancer).

In short, prolonged, scientific fasting has proved itself, over
millennia, as humanity's oldest, fastest, safest (biochemically),
and the most effective weight loss, detoxification, healing and
longevity enhancing modality known to our species--both curative, as
well as preventive medicine of the very first order--and here are
the reasons why:

Just as migrating whales and hibernating bears, as well as much
smaller beings, including caterpillars, hedgehogs, salamanders,
salmon, snakes, spiders, tadpoles, turtles and woodchucks, do live
for many months each year without eating, your precious body is
brilliantly designed to live on its own stored substances. As just
one example of an animal close to many human's size, a boa
constrictor, up to 15' in length and 200 lbs., can survive on its
own stored substance, if it has to, for up to a year between kills.
Similarly, during skillful, scientific, therapeutic and prolonged
juice-fasts (and every reputable fasting book on Earth today begins
with a warning that no one should ever undertake a prolonged fast
without veteran, professional supervision, initially), your body
will brilliantly live on its stored substance via autolysis, or
autodigestion. Marvelously, it decomposes and burns all the cells
and tissue that are aged, damaged, diseased, weakened or dead.
In other words, your own body will autolyze, or self-digest, its
most inferior and impure materials and metabolic wastes, including:
fat deposits, abcesses, bumps and protuberances, calluses, damaged
tissue, dead and dying cells, furuncles (small skin abscesses, or
boils), growths, morbid accumulations, and amazingly, various kinds
of neoplasms (abnormal growths of tissue, or tumors). In Fasting And
Eating For Health, Joel Fuhrman, M.D., notes, p. 10: "The fast does
not merely detoxify; it also breaks down superfluous tissue--fat,
abnormal cells, atheromatous plaque, and tumors--and releases
diseased tissues and their cellular products into the circulation
for elimination. Toxic or unwanted materials circulate in our
bloodstream and lymphatic tissues, and are deposited in and released
from our fat stores and other tissues. An important element of
fasting detoxification is mobilizing the toxins from their storage
areas. This process occurs best and most efficiently during total
fasting."

Regarding benign tumors, Doctor Fuhrman adds, p. 176: "Fasting is a
safe and effective approach for not only fibroid tumors, but also
most of the noncancerous tumors. Nasal polyps, lipomas, benign
ovarian tumors, and benign tumors of the breast often respond
favorably to therapeutic fasting, especially when the person is not
very overweight." At FCI, our 35 years of experience in supervising
the world's largest, nonresidential fasting clientele mirrors these
findings. For example, read our Website's archieved Fasting Journal
article entitled, "Fasting Removes A Client's Jaw Tumor"
(www.fasting.com/jawtumor.html).

New cell growth is stimulated and speeded up as the required
proteins are logically resynthesized from decomposed cells (during
autolysis). Thus, your serum albumin reading, or blood-protein
level, remains constant and normal throughout your fast, as your
body very wisely uses protein and other stored nutrients where
needed. Again, Germany's late Otto Buchinger, M.D., after
supervising over 100,000 juice-fasting "cures," eventually concluded
what is clearly stated in the book, Fasting: The Buchinger Method,
page 22: "The need for protein diminishes during the fast, until in
the second week, it has been reduced from 100 grams to from 15-20
grams a day, and this amount is, in fact, quite sufficient while
fasting."

Unfortunately today, most Western diets are heavily laden with
artificial flavors and chemically-created coloring agents; toxic
pesticides and fungicides, herbicides and insecticides; rancid oils,
and other indigestible chemicals which overburden our delicate
system. As this toxic overload accumulates decade after decade,
augmented also by environmental pollution, medications and drugs
(which are all toxic), it eventually interferes with normal
functioning and our body's elimination becomes impaired. During
scientific fasting, large amounts of these accumulated poisons and
metabolic wastes are, during autolysis, very quickly eliminated
through the greatly enhanced cleansing capacity of all the
eliminative organs--kidneys, liver, lungs and skin. Several typical
symptoms seen during this process could be darker urine, the
possibility of catarrhal elimination of excess mucus (a.k.a.
rhinorrhea--a mucous discharge from the nose), continuous discharge
through the colon, etc.

For perhaps the first time in your entire life, you afford a
physiological rest to the digestive, assimilative and protective
organs of your precious body. Fresh fruit and vegetable juices; an
alkalinizing vegetable broth scientifically designed both to help
rebalance you biochemically, as well as to maintain the electrolyte
balance in your brain throughout your fast, plus specific
detoxification teas require little digestion, and are quickly
assimilated from the upper digestive tract.

Thus, most of the 10% of bodily energy normally involved in your
mastication, digestion, assimilation, and elimination is freed. This
is another reason you'll feel more, not less, energy throughout
scientific juice-fasting (unlike the physically debilitating
weakness water-fasters experience--often forcing them into bed-rest,
even in the very heart of their day . . .a situation FCI's global
fasting clientele, all intelligent beings fully involved in their
normal work, lifestyle, exercise and study routines throughout their
skillful juice-fasts, have no time or desire for).

Additionally, these many fruit and vegetable juices, broth, and
herbal detox teas all supply excellent energy, vitamins, minerals,
live enzymes, and other nutrients necessary to enhance health during
the fast. By providing much of the body's daily caloric needs with
easily-absorbed juices, the release of toxins from the fat cells is
much more gradual and gentle. In fact, FCI now offers all clients,
worldwide, the option of taking liquid multi-vitamin/-mineral
supplements to augment this process. Additionally, juice-fasters
will be far more likely to continue a healthy diet, once they've
broken their fast, because they'll have become naturally accustomed
to the taste of raw vegetables and fruits, as well as to vegetable
broth. In fact, many, post-fast, lose their appetite entirely for
addictive drugs such as caffeine, nicotene and even alcohol--none of
which will be taken during FCI Programs--as well as their old
addictions to refined sugar, junk foods, and many other deleterious
dietary habits (all covered in FCI's 60-pg. "Lifetime Optimum Health
Plan TM," which every client receives).

Part of the heightened clarity of consciousness which scientific
fasters experience results from fasting's rejuvenating,
regenerating, normalizing and stabilizing effect on all the most
vital physiological, nervous and mental functions. As early as 1972,
Dr. Yuri Nikolayev, director of the fasting unit of the Moscow
Psychiatric Institute, reported on the use of scientific,
therapeutic fasting to successfully treat over 7000 patients, all
suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and
various neuroses, concluding: "The hunger treatment [as Soviet
psychiatrists term fasting] gives the entire nervous system and the
brain a rest. The body is also cleansed of poisons, and the tissues
and the various glands are renovated. Resting of the brain forms the
basis for the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders.
Treatment through fasting is an internal operation, without a
scalpel."

Throughout the past 50 years in Russia, therapeutic fasting has been
found to be the most efficacious treatment for schizophrenia. As
Allan Cott, M.D., noted in Fasting: The Ultimate Diet, on pp. 34-
35: "Seventy percent of those treated by fasting improved so
remarkably that they were able to resume an active life." About
Doctor Nikolayev, who now has over 30 years' experience fasting over
10,000 patients, fellow psychiatrist Doctor Cott writes, p. 34: "An
epochal breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia came when
Doctor Nikolayev discovered that his patients responded to fasting
treatment after all other forms of therapy had failed."

Many FCI clients arrive each year suffering from various levels of
depression, some already on anti-depressant drugs, wanting to get
off them, but all wondering how therapeutic fasting will affect this
aspect of their body-mind-spirit healing. In his scientific book,
Fasting And Eating For Health, Joel Fuhrman, M.D., notes, page
19: "Fasting has been repeatedly observed to alleviate neuroses,
anxiety and depression. (Yashiro, N., "Clinico-Psychological &
Pathophysiological Studies On Fasting Therapy," The Sapporo Medical
Journal/Japan, 1986; 55(2): 125-136.) It appears from these studies
that fasting improves our ability to adapt to frustration and
external stress. One Japanese clinic fasted 382 patients with
psychosomatic disease, with a success rate of 87%."

Neither depression nor institutionalization are necessary to gain
fasting's mental benefits, of course, as UCLA research associate Dr.
Amy Mathews attests: "I had absolutely lost all hope of losing
weight, especially in my thighs, when I decided to try fasting. On a
40-day FCI Program, I lost 26 lbs.; had more energy than usual; was
never hungry; slept very well; felt extremely upbeat; was always
calm and exceptionally relaxed, even in very stressful situations;
often experienced unusual perception and mental clarity concerning
my life's situations and problems, and felt quite peaceful. This is
one of the best things I've ever done for myself--not only
physically rewarding, but also mentally and spiritually, as well."

Signs of premature aging, loss of one's interest in sex, and a
bulging waistline--all obvious signs of insufficiently-functioning
endocrine or sex glands, and diminished sex-hormone production--are
usually reversed during all the revitalizing effects of scientific
juice-fasting. Thus, perhaps you can now understand why all three of
our Fathers of Western Medicine fasted and also prescribed it--
Hippocrates, Galen and Paracelsus (who diagnosed fasting nearly 500
years ago as "the greatest remedy, the physician within").

Scientific fasting enhances longevity, as Doctor Fuhrman notes in
Fasting And Eating For Health, p. 27: "If we restrict the calories
an animal can eat, by underfeeding it or periodically fasting it, we
can significantly prolong its life. In fact, periodically fasting
animals can double their natural life span. (Masoro, E.J.,
Shimokawa, I., Yu, B.P., "Retardation of the Aging Process In Rats
by Food Restriction," Annals of the New York Academy of Science,
1990; pp. 337-52; Goodrick, C.L., Ingram, D.K., Reynolds, M.A.,
Freeman, J.R., Cider, N.L., "Effects of Intermittent Feeding Upon
Growth, Activity, and Lifespan In Rats Allowed Voluntary Exercise,"
Experimental Aging Research, 1983; 9: 1477-94.)"

Finally, both therateutic and preventive fasts have always addressed
all aspects of mind-body-spirit medicine, as Doctor Buchinger, who,
it's worthwhile repeating, supervised over 100,000 juice-
fasting "cures," noted in About Fasting: A Royal Road to Health,on
page 10: "During the five-thousand odd years of humankind's history
which today we can survey, fasting represented, in all ages and
climes, a way of healing and sanctification of far-reaching
importance. The religious fast, which we find in all the higher
religions of humankind, served at the same time to preserve the
health of the body, the temple of the immortal soul. But, greatly to
the loss of sick humanity, the healing fast was overlooked by
medicine during the many decades of scientific-materialistic
thought. Newly discovered at the turn of the 20th century, it has
today regained a worthy position as a royal road of healing. . . .We
must restore fasting to the place it once occupied in an ancient
hierarchy of values 'above medicine'. We must rediscover it and
restore it to honor, because it is a necessity," concluded this
giant among Europe's finest fasting therapists, Otto Buchinger, M.D.

FCI is proud to have spent these past 35 years helping to polish the
cutting edge of this globally-emerging paradigm shift into
Integrative Medicine. . .into the new, preventive, mind-body-spirit
Healing Revolution presently sweeping the U.S. and much of our
developed world, thanks in no small part to this mighty Internet now
connecting our human family as never before. Einstein concluded
there are no accidents in our Universe, so we'll take him at his
word, and accept that it's no accident that today, FCI is blessed to
supervise our world's largest, nonresidential, scientific,
therapeutic and preventive fasting clientele, representing 220
nations.

May all our global clients making this possible, year in and decade
out, be blessed with the superb health, serene happiness, and
enhanced longevity they all so richly deserve, for their courage,
discipline and commitment to themselves, which allow 98.5% of all
FCI clients, worldwide, to each complete their fasting Programs each
year, no matter what length they undertake, keeping in mind the
amazing fact that since 1996, FCI's 'average' client has undertaken
what has now become our most popular Program--FCI's Total
Detoxification--requiring 5 days of transitioning on each end to
intelligently enter and skillfully break one's fast, plus one's
chronological-age number + 17, in number of actual juice-fasting
days!

As FCI's Founder/Director, I find this incredibly humbling, and am
constantly filled with admiration and happiness for these
extraordinary accomplishments FCI clients achieve in our healing
partnerships (see FCI's online Fasting Journal for just a few,
representative case histories). Respectfully, Dennis Paulson

P.S. Who should not fast? Prolonged, scientific juice-fasting is
contraindicated for children under 18 (still forming bone and
teeth); pregnant and lactating mothers (since their own
detoxification will toxify their child, through their umbilicus or
milk); type I, insulin-dependent diabetics; those with laboratory
tests revealing significant liver or kidney disease (including renal
failure patients--those who've been hospitalized with kidney failure
and placed on dialysis, even if not currently on it; potassium
levels can increase, because of the kidneys' ability to move it out,
increasing the risk of heart attack, and such patients are often on
waiting lists for kidney transplants).

Likewise, fasting is contraindicated for those suffering
irreversible wasting diseases such as AIDS (advanced stage),
tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases such as advanced SARS
and H5N1 Avian influenza or other lethal bird flus; extensive
carcinomas and metastatic cancers (when fasting would contribute to
their malnourished state, perhaps resulting in an earlier death);
alcoholism (advanced stage); cardiovascular diseases such as
advanced old age, marked vascular diseases with poor circulation to
various parts of the body (eg., smoker's leg), and cerebral
degeneration due to arteriosclerosis (a.k.a. organic brain syndrome)
or Alzheimer's disease; serious cardiac diseases including heart
failure, severe cardiac rhythm disturbances, post-myocardial
infarction, and severe cardiomyopathy and valvular heart defects.

Additionally, fasting is contraindicated for those who are severely
weak and debilitated, or with diseases caused by undernourishment or
malnutrition, severe anemia and porphyria (a hereditary defect of
blood pigment metabolism); stomach and intestinal diseases such as
liver cirrhosis (cicatrization) of various causes, and bleeding
disorders of the stomach and intestines; psychiatric disorders
including severe manic-depressive illness, schizophrenia, severe
neuroses, severe anorexia nervosa or severe bulimia, and finally,
those with sufficient lack of understanding of the fasting process
and/or their perceived inability to do without solid food for a
prolonged period.

Similarly, FCI does not accept, as clients, those taking anti-
convulsant or anti-epileptic drugs to control grand mal,
psychomotor, myoclonic, and focal seizures, nor do we accept clients
on diuretics (egs., Furosemide, Lasix or Spironolactone),
anticoagulants (eg., Coumadin), or drugs for congestive heart
failure (eg., Digoxin). Clients on any of the many other drugs for
high cholesterol and high blood-pressure--other than diuretics--may
do our Programs, and will be instructed how to take such medications
during their fasting days. Finally, no 'diet drugs' may be taken on
FCI's Program, nor are they necessary.

P.P.S. What about water-fasting, you ask? In his 1999 instant
classic, Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic
Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine, Rudolph
Ballentine, M.D., Founder and Director of the Center for Holistic
Medicine in New York City, concludes, pp. 311-314: "Perhaps the most
universal of the all-out cleansing techniques is fasting. Its
efficacy is probably based on fundamental body rhythms. You are
designed to alternate nourishing and cleansing. Like inhalation and
exhalation, they work in tandem. When you are taking in and
processing nutrients, you are not geared to pulling out and
discarding wastes. . . .But, when the input of nutrition is stopped
for awhile, then a flurry of cleansing starts up. The rugs are
lifted and the dirty dishes are brought out of the cabinet where
they were stashed. Cleaning begins in earnest."

Dr. Ballentine does not recommend "water-fasting," which he says "is
more correctly termed starvation," adding the following words of
warning: "The destruction of starvation, and the cleansing and
repair that happen in a well-managed fast, are polar opposites.
Unfortunately today, when the average person is overburdened with
wastes and environmental toxins, and when reserves of essential
nutrients are low because of the ubiquity of 'empty-calorie' foods,
what is intended as a fast may well end up as starvation. Your best
insurance against such a catastrophe is to do a juice-fast. Juices
can eliminate much of the trauma of fasting. . . .

"Freshly-squeezed and extracted fruit juices and vegetable juices
contain a wealth of vitamins and organically-complexed minerals.
They will also supply the 400 calories or so that is your minimal
fuel requirement. Without that, your body begins to break down
protein structures to get it. What's more, fresh juices have a
cleansing effect of their own and, as an added bonus, if they are
taken immediately after being made, they are energizing and
exhilarating. A balanced regime of juices should be made from a
spectrum of fruits and vegetables."

Dr. Ballentine, who does not recommend juice-fasting more than three
days without expert supervision, is supported by the fact that none
of the world's best fasting clinics and centers--most all of which
have been based in Europe, historically--have done debilitating
water-fasting over the past 75 years. Like the world-renowned, self-
described "fasting therapist," Otto Buchinger, Sr., M.D., who
supervised over 100,000 "fasting cures," they've all done the wiser,
more efficient juice-fasting.

Among, for instance, America's few contemporary water-fasting
proponents, Joel Furhman is the best known because of his 1995 book,
Fasting and Eating For Health. Since scientific fasting has never
been taught in any of America's 127 med schools (irononically, in
light of the fact that all three Fathers of Western Medicine
practiced and prescribed it), Fuhrman is an autodidact who
revealingly describes having done only one prolonged fast (he speaks
throughout his book of "my fast")--while still a youthful college
undergraduate, at the San Antonio, TX, facility of a chiropractor
named Herbert Shelton, whose ideas Joel drew from for his book.
Because of the unnecessarily debilitating nature of water-fasting,
Joel admits that he spent all but 10 of his 46 fasting days in bed.

Compare that with the post-fast comments of the nine physicians
currently gracing FCI's home page, nearly all of whom have fasted
longer than their fellow physician Fuhrman, including Tom Stempel,
who completed FCI's 80-day Program (70 days of actual juice-fasting)
without missing a beat during his rounds as chief of surgery of a
Phoenix, AZ, medical center, and Kathryn MacKenzie, who completed
her 100-day Program (90 days of fasting) while working as an
oncologist at her Queens, NY, hospital. Another among those nine who
put the lie to Joel's unscienfitic, self-imposed limitations is a
psychiatrist about Joel's age who was doing psychiatry all week long
at the University of California at San Francisco, throughout his
juice-fasting Program at FCI, and on weekends--while Joel's patients
were advised, following Shelton's regime, to spend most of their
time in bed and not go out in the sun or exercise--trained for 6
hrs. each day, including 2.5-hr. nonstop runs up hilly mountain
trails on Mt. Tamilpais north of the City, preparing for the
upcoming Western States Ultramarathon, during which participants not
only run 100 miles, but climb 32,000 feet over the course of that
race. . .just as another world-class athlete, a Stanford University
swimmer, trained throughout her juice-fast at FCI and went on to win
Olympic Gold, setting American and Olympic records! I guess it's not
surprising that Furhman's reportedly never done another long fast
since, and curiously recommends in his book that no one ever fast
longer than. . .you guessed it, 46 days (again, with absolutely no
supportive scientific evidence for such an absurd hypothesis).

When Dr. Ballentine states that water-fasting is more correctly
termed "starvation," he's not kidding. Several of Shelton's clients
died while doing his regime, and a Federal grand jury awarded
$873,000 to the family of one who'd expired under this
chiropractor's supervision (something which has never happened at
Fasting Center International). Strangely, Dr. Fuhrman, who labels
scientific juice-fasting as "juice-feasting," reflecting his book's
unfortunate mis- and disinformation regarding the far superior juice-
fasting methodology, has apparently never had the courage to be his
own scientist and actually try juice-fasting. Had he done so, he'd
have discovered, it's worth repeating, why literally all our world's
best fasting clinics and centers (most all of which are in Europe)
have chosen to do the far superior juice-fasting over the past 75
years.

Just as a number of Dr. Fuhrman's family-practice patients have
elected, during the past decade since he wrote his water-fasting
book, to instead do FCI juice-fasting Programs, rather than suffer
unnecessarily in bed while being relieved of more than $5000 a month
in a drab motel or hotel room near Joel's clinic in America's most
toxic State (New Jersey), another FCI physician-client with the
courage to scientifically discover the water- vs. juice-fasting
difference (just as I did long before Joel ever thought of writing
his 1995 book, by doing and supervising others on both juice- and
water-fasts, the latter of which I would never do again, nor
recommend to anyone), told me the following several years after
completing FCI's 73-day Total Detox. Program:

"How blessed we are, Dennis, that we do not have to go hungry. I saw
how devastating hunger is in Africa on my first trips there
in '80, '81 and '82, but I did not discover, for myself, the meaning
of hunger--the true, visceral effect--until I did a water-fast (a la
the water-fasting method of Joel Fuhrman, M.D.--one I would not
recommend anyone try, and would never do again). It taught me,
though, the real pain of hunger--the cramps, and so forth. . .God-
awful stuff. We have it so good. Keep on, Dennis. You are a mighty
warrior for our planet. God bless you, Sir. As always, it's a
privilege to know you, mate. From deep to deep, John Green."

Further, Dr. Green, living out the true meaning of his Hippocratic
Oath by delivering more than 5000 babies in Africa before opening
his first clinic in his Australlian homeland, told me in Oct., 2005,
that he'd recently visited Dr. Fuhrman at his New Jersey clinic,
reporting that Joel no long supervises fasts. I don't blame him, but
know that FCI has always supported Dr. Fuhrman's noble efforts to
promote more intelligent dietary and lifestyle habits--particularly
going directly to the source of nutrients via a plant-based diet,
rather than running one's nutrients through the progressively more
toxic sort systems of animals. FCI, of course, has been promoting
this over our 35 years as the global leader in the field of
scientific fasting, giving each of our clients now representing 220
countries our 60-page Lifetime Optimum Health Plan, as the
intelligent follow-on to help them maintain the far greater health,
happiness and healing power they've been rewarded with, as a result
of their exemplary courage and discipline in doing this marvelous,
self-improvement technique which so many of our species' greatest
thinkers and spiritual teachers have done before us. May God bless
Joel in this noble efforts, two of the latest of which are available
at Amazon.com: Eat To Live and Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding
Kids Right.

P.P.P.S. And what about OptiFast and MediFast? Using the word 'fast'
in the names of medically sponsored 'diet' programs such as OptiFast
and MediFast, is not only an ethical misnomer (as clients are taking
solids 5 or 6 times daily, albeit ground into powder), but an
incredible sign that allopaths felt insecure enough about their
exhorbitantly expensive, failed 'diets' that they've long tried to
leverage our ancient and far more successful, completely
nonanalagous field of scientific, therapeutic fasting. To enlighten
you on precisely why such protein-modified 'diets' are very
destructive of your health--plus the fact that they're just 'diets,
which have traditionally "failed Americans 99.5% of the time over
the past 70 years," according to Washington Post research--FCI will
be happy to address such 'diets' at greater length for interested,
prospective clients, including the sobering (U.S.) fact revealed by
Joel Fuhrman, M.D., that: "Liquid-protein diets, or protein-modified
fasts, have caused the death of more than 60 people."

Further, as scientific fasting has never been taught, for example,
in any of America's 127 medical schools, allopaths--schooled
exclusively to deal with only symptoms, versus the causes which
prolonged, scientific fasting more wisely addresses--are completely
unqualified to supervise fasts, or even to give qualified opinions
one way or the other. In fact, most allopaths appear never to have
known, or to have forgotten, that all three Fathers of Western
Medicine practiced and prescribed prolonged fasting--Hippocrates,
Galen and Paracelsus, who diagnosed fasting as "the greatest remedy,
the physician within." As noted on our website, FCI has open-minded,
avant garde M.D.s in all specialties, including family physicians,
cardiologists, surgeons and psychiatrists, as well as TONS of
registered nurses, D.O.s and Ph.D.s in most all major fields doing
our Programs year in and decade out, globally, in increasing
numbers. . .proactively demonstrating true scientific inquiry.

Any questions, email or phone FCI. Email: FastMaster@...;
phone: 818-590-2536 (know that the best time to catch
Founder/Director Dennis Paulson, himself, with the least
interruption, is between 10-4, California time). For the Fasting
Center International home page, click here: www.fasting.com