Introduction to "Fasting for the Healthy"
What is Fasting?
- No solid food. The faster only consumes liquids. (Vegetable broths, fruit and vegetable juices, teas and water.)
- No stimulants. Renunciation of alcohol, nicotine, coffee and sugar.
- Voluntarily and on one's own responsibility. Free will, since the psychological component is important.
Fasting is the renunciation of solid foods and stimulants – voluntarily and for a limited time.
Fasting is not:
- Hungering. Hungering is the involuntary removal of food.
- Special diet. Whoever eats fish on a Friday or renounces meat before Easter is not fasting, but is merely partaking in a special diet.
- Dieting. Eating calorie-reduced meals or carrying out a diet is not fasting.
"Whoever hungers, doesn't fast – Whoever fasts, doesn't hunger!"
Source: "Fasten für Österreicher", W.Bittner/H.Scherz, ORAC/Eigenverlag (GGF)
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