Fasting and Weight Loss

"We live off 25% of what we eat. The doctors live off the other 75%." Benjamin Franklin

The health movement has backfired. Twenty-six thousand diets were studied and the Washington Post concluded that 99% of them had failed. While there is no useful function for excess fat, estimates that 2/3 of adults and 14.7 million children in the U.S. are overweight and at risk of developing a chronic disease. This begs the question, "Why are so many people overweight, sick and fatigued?"

Harvard's School of Public Health and the NIH both believe that ultra-processed foods are among the major culprits. Foods high in sugar, fat, salt, chemicals, corn syrup, and carbohydrates, as well as cereals, bread, soda, beer, margarines and spreads, meats and many other ultra-processed foodstuffs lining grocery store aisles are driving the weight gain. The shelf-stable breads are often no more than sophisticated emulsified foams. If we combine the increased production of ultra-processed foods with the growing list of proliferating all over our planet, the prospects are extremely troubling.

The worldwide obesity rate has nearly doubled since 1980. According to WHO, 4,000,000 people die each year as a direct result of obesity. Researchers have concluded that the growing obesity epidemic and chronic diseases are directly linked to the rise in ultra-processed food consumption. Going to a doctor to get a pill for the ill has become one of the main remedies. Regrettably, the pills only treat the symptoms and come with debilitating side effects of their own.

Surgeon General David Satcher warned, "Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in America, and could soon cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking... This is probably the most sedentary generation of people in the history of the world! This is not about aesthetics and it is not about appearances... We are talking about health!"

Let's pull back the curtain. When the cigarette industry declined, the owners that became filthy rich poisoning people, began buying into the food, chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerates. Many of the same scientists that created the addictive chemicals found in cigarettes are now busy developing the ultra-processed foods. The American Lung Association claims that there are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes, and when burned, they create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer. This begs another question, "What are these scientists putting into our food?"

Our society is all about drive through windows, double quarter pounders, triple quarter pounders with bacon and biggie beverages that have forced us to resize our cupholders. We've birthed the billion-dollar industries of diet programs, diet pills, liposuction and cosmetic surgery. One helping of today's ice cream has the fat of a half a stick of butter. Did you ever try to find something healthy in a convenience store? To sublimate our frustrations, we turn to the most basic sense gratification available. We eat!

People often overeat simply because their diets lack the proper nutrition. Even though they eat enough, they remain malnourished, which in turn causes the body to send more hunger signals. That often leads to the potato chips and Cheetos. A body may also be so caked with toxins and unnatural matter from the tongue to the rectum that they can no longer properly absorb nutrients. Lack of nutrients leads to fatigue, which in turn leads a person to reach for a candy bar, donut, soda, or a cup of coffee, and the vicious cycle continues. The body gets a quick surge, but as soon as the quick fix wears off, fatigue sets in again. Overcoming excess weight is sometimes no more difficult than cleaning out the body and shifting to a healthy diet.

Please allow me to present a bonafide and FREE solution, not only for weight loss, but for health restoration, freedom from toxicity, and for achieving optimum vitality. Fasting has no peer in weight loss. A person can average a pound of weight loss a day, though obese people have lost up to 2.5 pounds a day. Weight loss is more dramatic during the beginning of a fast, because of water loss and the elimination of salt. As metabolism slows, weight loss becomes less dramatic. If a person fasts to lose weight, one, three or seven day water or juice fasts are adequate. Longer fasts should be supported by medical consultation, a healthy diet, proper sleep and exercise.

I'm 75 years old and have fasted every Monday for decades. Fasting has kept my weight constant, my body healthy and my mind razor sharp. I never get sick or get headaches. I no longer think about food on Mondays and look forward to fasting because of the increased physical vitality and the enhanced mental clarity I achieve. My wife, who is my most ardent critic, has joined me in the one day a week fasts, experienced the benefits, and has become a zealous advocate for fasting.

Take advantage of my 50 plus years of experience and find out more about the extraordinary historic, spiritual and scientific marvels of fasting. by Marjan, additional articles and videos can be viewed on .