Fasting and Eating for Health Quotes

“The power of the body is as evident as green grass, rainy days, and sunshine. It is by no means a mystical power: it arises from the same exceptional intelligence that produced you out of two microscopic cells and that heals your wounds when you are injured. It is the same set of natural human characteristics that allows you to eliminate waste or to “lose weight” when you change your diet. It is the same innate ability that allows an exhausted individual to go to bed (without eating) and wake up vibrant and full of energy for another 16 hours.”
― Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program For Conquering Disease

“The self-healing power of the body is often overlooked because it is rarely given a chance to act in a world that expects the quick fix.”
― Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program For Conquering Disease

“Therapeutic fasting accelerates the healing process and allows the body to recover from serious disease in a dramatically short period of time. In my practice I have seen fasting eliminate lupus and arthritis, remove chronic skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema, heal the digestive tract in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, and quickly eliminate cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure and angina. In these cases the recoveries were permanent: fasting enabled longtime disease sufferers to unchain themselves from their multiple toxic drugs and even eliminate the need for surgery, which was recommended to some of them as their only solution.”
― Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program For Conquering Disease

“As Dr. Fuhrman shows us, the right nutrients can turn on these abilities, while the wrong nutrients—which are all too common in the standard western diet—can leave these abilities buried forever. The most amazing results, however, come when the body is given a complete rest from the work of digestion and assimilation of food.”
― Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program For Conquering Disease

“Both types of diabetes accelerate the aging of our bodies. Having diabetes greatly speeds up the development of atherosclerosis, or cardiovascular disease. Diabetes also ages and destroys the kidney and other body systems. Forty thousand amputations per year are due to complications of diabetes. It is the leading cause of blindness in adults and of kidney failure.”
― Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program For Conquering Disease

“Therapeutic fasting goes back thousands of years, of course, and was long regarded by doctors as being more appropriate for philosophers than physicians. Researchers, however, have investigated what occurs when the body takes a short break from nutrients. They have studied the biochemical events that occur in the bloodstream, in the joints, in the fat tissues, and in the brain, and have found astonishing results.”
― Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program For Conquering Disease