No one really knows where carrot cake came from although some believe that it evolved from the Carrot Pudding of medieval times, during the middle ages sugar and other sweeteners were difficult or expensive to come by in Britain and carrots had long been used as sugar substitutes. While a pudding would have been a […]
Buddha’s Fasting Experience
Buddha spoke highly of fasting and said that during his fasts, “My soul becomes brighter, my spirit, more alive in wisdom and truth.” Buddha’s fasting experience played a central role in formation of Buddhism. Around 500 B.C.E., Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) left his affluent family in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha believed that desire was the root […]
Fasting and Diabetes
The first physician to develop fasting protocols for treating diabetes was most likely G. Guelpa, a French physician. He detailed his experience in his 1912 book Autoin-toxiecation and Disintoxication, in which he discussed using fasting to treat diabetes and a variety of other conditions such as sciatica, obesity, pulmonary diseases, alcoholism, and melancholia (depression). Guelpa […]
The Fast Diet
In Dr. Michael Mosley’s popular new book The FastDiet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting, he prescribes that adherents eat their typical diet five days per week and then spend two days consuming a quarter of their normal calories. This amounts to about 500 for women and […]