People all over the world have discussed the health benefits of fasting:
Jesus said, "For the sake of health, God advises you to abstain from eating. Fasting can cleanse the stomach, be healthy and be sick. "
Japanese hunger strike leader Yasuhiro Kojima said: "Sleeping in the body is the main cause of illness. The hunger strike sweeps the pathogen out of the body, purifies the inside, and naturally exerts self-healing power to make the disease recover quickly. "
Dr Mark Ou Yi of the United States said: "The root cause of this disease is the accumulation of blood containing pathogenic substances in body tissues. Fasting can expel these pathogenic substances and make the disease heal. "
Dr. Gao Ping, director of the Department of Physiology of the National Institute of Nutrition, said: "Fasting will destroy diseased cells and make them all excreted, which is equivalent to cleaning all organs in the body and transforming them into new bodies."
Japanese fast warden Shigatse Zong said: "Fasting can restore its secretory function, thus playing the role of natural healing and curing diseases."
Kentaro, a physician at Keno Hospital in Japan, said; "Fasting one day a week can prevent all diseases ... Fasting one day a week is easy for everyone."
There are also many discussions about the experience after fasting:
Sinclair, a famous American writer, said: "After fasting, I found a completely healthy, pure and happy new realm of life."
Dr. Imamura, a Japanese fasting expert, said: "I have such enthusiasm for fasting because I have seen too many cases of chronic diseases that cannot be cured after three to five years in modern medicine." After years of experience, I have confirmed that there is no other way but to fast for health or rejuvenation. "
Dr. Fowles, editor of American Life and Health magazine, said: "When I fast, I feel more energetic, alert and sleep better. ..... for the sake of physical and mental health, try fasting. "
An 85-year-old scientist in the Soviet Union said: "Fasting is the key to health, and I am proud of my flexibility. I have perfect health because I follow the natural law of fitness-fasting, which purifies the cells in my body. I believe that 99% of patients are caused by improper diet. They regard their bodies as garbage bins, often eat unnatural food, often drink unnatural drinks, and often eat and drink. In this way, all the toxins will gather in the body. If you want to be physically and mentally healthy and enhance your physical vitality, then start fasting. "
Japanese priest Koya Sun said: "Fasting is a treatment that should be tried for any incurable disease, even if the doctor says it won't work." According to our experience, if you can receive special guidance, the pain of fasting is far less than you think. On the contrary, because you practice it with the belief that you can recover, it will bring hope and fun. In addition, being with friends can encourage each other, which is also a kind of practice. "
The above remarks about fasting are based on the relevant chapters of "Fasting Hygiene Law" in Professor Duan Jing's "Aspects of Healthy Eating" in Taiwan Province Province. The following is a compilation of fasting methods in this chapter of this book for readers' reference:
(1) The method of fasting can be divided into three stages. The first stage is fasting, which is a prelude to fasting and generally lasts for three days; The second stage is formal fasting, and you can only drink water, usually for 5 days, 7 days or 10 days; The first stage is the eating period, because the digestive power of the stomach has not recovered, so it is advisable to drink rice soup first, from rice soup to porridge and then gradually increase to the daily diet, usually for one week.
(2) The specific course of treatment of hypertension, mild heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, asthma, gastric ulcer, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, common cold and other diseases with this method (but I think fasting therapy should usually be carried out under the guidance of full-time staff to prevent accidents and side effects).
(3) In yoga, there is also a "one-day fasting method", which only needs to be fasted for 24 hours every once in a while ... The interval can be arranged according to your physical and mental needs, usually once every six days, that is, fasting every Sunday. It can also be used once every three days to speed up the recovery and health of the disease. After a day of hunger strike, people can go to work and attend classes as usual, without changing their daily life style, and can gradually receive the purpose of "curing diseases and strengthening the body."
(4) In addition, people have developed many methods of moderate fasting, which are safer and more feasible and can be implemented at home.
1 honey fasting. Brew 30 ~ 40g honey with a glass of water at a time. If you drink it three times a day, you can drink it in the morning, noon and evening. In this way, the total calorie intake in one day is about 360 calories, which can basically achieve the purpose of reducing fat and not wasting muscles. Moreover, compared with the authentic fasting, the hunger in fasting is much less, which dilutes the impression that fasting is very painful.
2 meters of soup is fast. Patients can only drink rice soup for one week or 10 day. One bowl at a time, 25 grams of brown rice. If you like to eat a little thicker rice soup, you can increase it to 30 grams per meal. You can add a small amount of salt when eating. Take it twice a day in principle. For people with gastroptosis and weak stomach, fasting with rice soup is the best method after authentic fasting. The longest fasting time for rice soup is 35 days ... After 35 days of massive defecation, this is the long-awaited defecation. After defecation, my physical condition is better.
③ Fruit juice fasting. There are also many organizations that practice juice fasting. The method is to let patients drink juice squeezed from pears or peaches two or three times a day, and nothing else is allowed ... This method is incomparable to authentic fasting. This method was initiated by Germans, and now it has been popular in Europe, benefiting 65,438+10,000 people. (I think it is best to choose apples, carrots, peaches, pears and other fruits for fasting juice, and remember to choose persimmons, black dates, hawthorn, ginkgo, oranges, tomatoes and other fruits with astringent effects such as tannin, gum and persimmon gum to prevent side effects).
④ Clear soup and fasting. First, put 10g kelp and 10g dried shiitake mushrooms into a bowl of water and cook them with slow fire until they taste, then take out kelp and shiitake mushrooms, then put 30-40g soy sauce and 30g brown sugar into the soup and drink them all while they are hot. This is the weight of one time, once at noon and once at night, and the practice is the same. This method is simple, delicious, nutritious and won't have a strong feeling of fasting, which is well received.
Let's briefly talk about the correlation between fasting therapy and human immune system:
Fasting can improve immunity and heal itself. Fasting therapy can also be called starvation therapy, which is unique in enhancing immune function. German immunologist Herman Geisen pointed out in his book "Immune Training": "Hunger therapy under the guidance of experienced doctors provides us with a unique rehabilitation opportunity. Through such treatment, we can strengthen the body's resistance, remove the' garbage' and self-healing ability in the body, and make the immune system reorganize the tissues of the human body without the pressure of digestive tasks, and remove the garbage left in the body due to years of constant overeating. So hunger therapy is usually called' surgery without scalpel' by our doctors, which is really reasonable. ..... However, the main purpose of this hunger therapy is not to lose weight, it is just a popular' side effect'. The main purpose of hunger therapy is to rebuild health, promote the regeneration of immune system, and make it receive the requirement of releasing huge energy instantly. Therefore, even people who are not fat can and should receive moderate starvation therapy. The elderly can also apply this therapy if they are full of energy. Of course, in individual cases, individual people are not suitable for this therapy. " A foreign scholar also pointed out that the basis of "fasting" in religious circles is firstly the wisdom of folk medicine, and secondly the inside story of religion.
With regard to the mechanism of hunger therapy to improve immune system function, modern medical research has confirmed that hunger therapy can achieve the purpose of enhancing immunity and treating diseases by readjusting the stable function of internal environment. Some medical experts also pointed out that there are moving phagocytes and fixed phagocytes in human and animals, and the important function of these two kinds of cells is to destroy pathogenic microorganisms that invade the human body. After starvation therapy, the vitality of phagocytes is enhanced, and the immunity and disease resistance of human body are greatly enhanced, so that pathogenic microorganisms invading the body are eliminated in time, and the original lesions gradually disappear, and people are healthy.
It is worth noting that the implementation of hunger therapy must be carried out under the guidance of experienced doctors or experienced people, and it must not be blindly chaotic to avoid adverse consequences.