There are two different schools of thought on using adjunctive treatment modalities while fasting. The first school is adamant that a person fasting should not receive any additional therapies unless absolutely necessary. The second school believes that other therapies can enhance the experience of fasting and in some instances augment healing. Alan Goldhamer, widely considered […]
Fast Food Contributes to Depression
A recent study on depression treatment published in the Public Health Nutrition Journal found that eating fast foods and high-calories baked goods like croissants and muffins, on a frequent basis made participants around 50 percent more likely to develop symptoms of depression. The researchers also found that the more fast food a person consumes, the […]
How Nutrition Can Lengthen Your Lifespan
Want to recapture your youth, live longer and look younger? Diet and exercise may be your answer. Although the average life expectancy has tripled over the past several hundred years, from 25 to 75 years, we still have room for improvement, considering the fact that the potential human lifespan is 120 years. Many of the […]
Is Exercise While Fasting Safe?
Whether or not to exercise during a fast is yet another controversy. Some experts have called for complete bed rest, while others suggested taking in a game of golf. In a magazine article in the January 1976 issue of the magazine Cosmopolitan, Alan Cott recommended water-only fasting for weight loss and suggested that exercise could […]