HELPFUL DIETS FOR THE SICK A – FASTING (IMPROVINF WELL-BEING)
If fasting has improved your well-being, do not encourage a friend or neighbour who suffers from Graves’ disease (exophthalmic goitre) or tuberculosis to undertake the same treatment. Such a course would definitely be harmful because you cannot cure these two diseases by fasting. Be very careful, therefore, about recommending a fast to others. A long and complete fast might also prove dangerous to people with certain types of heart trouble, even though the fruit juice diet would make it less strenuous since the body is being nourished to the necessary extent while the work of cleansing is going on. If a liver disorder is suspected, take vegetable juices or Vogel’s vegetable juice mixture, rather than fruit juices, because the fruit acids do not usually agree with the patient. Carrot juice is particularly good in such cases. You see, then, that each case should be considered individually with respect to what one can or cannot do.
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