I read today about the California prisoners who've gone without food for 45 days now to protest the practice of keeping people on solitary for a year or more. A judge decided that the prisons can force feed them. This is barbarism. Their rationale is that some of the fasting prisoners have been mislead. I almost expect to hear the Shrubism: " ( Read more... )

( a few studies and sites I've run across while working on a paper on fasting )

( a collection of links that give an idea who is fasting and why these days )

http://www.fasting.org/Articles/articles/meet.htm

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( today I transitioned to eating only pureed fruits and vegetables )

read slim book The Fasting Primer (her other book was The Nutrition Bible)
by Internationally Renowned Naturual Food and Health Expert
Dr Alvenia M. Fulton, naturopath
who was also a pastor, first woman to attend her seminary
she died at 92 in 1999 in Chicago
( the rest, sorry I was slow to put it behind a cut )

( notes mostly from gastroenterology lecture by SSL )

( notes from Dr Thom lecture )

( a traditional vegetarian naturopathic meal )