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Well if you look at a bunch of the comments people seem to think you need some sort of nutrients going into your body or that water fasting is unhealthy. People have fasted since the beginning of time, but when you're brainwashed with "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" your entire life, it's tough to break through that. Couple that with the propaganda that most of us have been raised with in the last 20-25 years of "you should eat every two to three hours" to keep your metabolism going, is it any wonder why people think nothing but the purest substance, that accounts for over 80 percent of our body would be "unhealthy?"
Your own body fat is feeding you and as I mentioned in an earlier post, every cell in your body retains nutrients in the event of a fast or a famine. Additionally, your body attacks diseased cells in your body (i.e. tumors) and eliminates dead cells more aggressively than a juice fast.
Our bodies are equipped to handle water fasting.
There is nothing wrong with a juice fast, but you are eating into your muscles more that way over the long-term. If someone were to do a juice fast for a three day weekend, they'd be fine. I have a book from about 1981 or 82 that has a collection of Muscle and Fitness' "best" articles at the time and one of the body builders (or ghost-written) came down hard on steroids and the health benefits of fasting for a quick detox while maintaining workouts.
There's a growing movement of people doing intermittent fasting, which is fasting - although many are adding coffee to the fast which activates your liver, which does NOT make it fasting. With water fasting, you can look at it as the same way as I.F. with the exception you are extending your fasting window.
A good PDF to check out of various studies on fasting and fitness (I imagine most people into health are into fitness) is "Eat. Stop. Eat" by Brad Pilon.
For all those that are on the fence with water fasting, the only expense you have to put out is having something other than tap water. That's it. You dont' need to get you colon cleaned or get nutrient supplementation or even take your own collection of pill if you are a normal functional individual. The purest water you can get. That's it. Do your own research or check out someone like Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Jason Fung or some other doctor who can give them more information on fasting.
theres so many benefits to fasting,
you lose weight even quicker with dry fasting apparently