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this was a response i forwarded regarding an article posted on msnbc.com…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18595886/

i consider myself a fairly healthy individual. i stay away from refined sugars, bleached flours, coffee and almost anything artificial. most of my diet is made up of vegetables, whole grains and legumes. i eat meat infrequently and in the last year or so have started to avoid drinking alcohol. about three years ago i did the master cleanse for just over a week and i felt great. i didn’t spend a long time in the bathroom and found myself having a lot of extra time during those few days. my energy levels were balanced and i worked most of those days, sometimes for fourteen hours. after it was over, i found that i had almost reset my eating behaviour. i didn’t eat meat or anything fried for months after and i think it was two months before i even had a glass of wine.

tongue color and texture is a good sign of health and i had the cleanest pinkest looking tongue i had ever seen and my eyes were as white as could be. for me, the experience was a positive one and i have to wonder if these doctors have even attempted something like the master cleanse or have they just analyzed it by text? historically, western medicine has been, quite often, very close-minded and wrong about about judging eastern ideas. while this particular philosophy, the master cleanse, comes from a western mind, it is no doubt inspired by old traditions. just because it is old, doesn’t mean it is right, or has value, but where was acupuncture 20 years ago? now major medical insurance companies are willing to pay for it because it can be very effective.

it’s funny, people go crazy for the atkins diet because they can eat sausages all day long, but when it comes to fasting, the fattest of all nations seems to get skeptical. no, fasting is not the end-all, be-all fix for our bodies, but it is something that can aid a healthy life-style and add discipline to an area where america seems to need it most. from our love of low-mileage gas guzzlers to the tables of the local claim jumpers restaurant, it is clearly obvious that we are a people addicted to consumption. in a way, fasting seems, to me, to possibly be a way for people to escape that mentality.