Research has shown that obesity markedly increases the risk of depression. One study of more than 9,000 adults concluded that depression, and other mood and anxiety disorders, were about 25% more common in the obese people studied than in the non-obese. Several community surveys in the United States and Canada have shown associations between obesity […]
The Physiological Benefits of Fasting
Research using fasting has been reported since 1880. The medical journals contain hundreds of articles documenting the value of fasting in improving the function of the entire body. Some of the illnesses that benefit or are relieved from fasting include type two diabetes, angina, arthritis, allergies, inflammatory disease, and hypertension. In addition, scientific literature indicates […]
Fasting and Cardiovascular Diseases
Studies examining the effects of water-only fasting on patients with heart disease began in the 1960s with Garfield G. Duncan who noticed improvements in chronic cardiac disease. Researchers have found fasting beneficial in the treatment of a variety of cardiovascular issues, including improving arterial health, reducing triglycerides, atheromas, and total cholesterol, increasing HDL/cholesterol ratios, and […]
Fasting and Hypertension
Garfield G. Duncan was a physician who began researching diabetes in the 1920s, and then nutrition in the 1940s. By the 1960s, Duncan was a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he began researching obesity. Duncan routinely fasted his obese patients, noting vital statistics, such as blood pressure, and what percentage regained […]