Author: Herbert M. Shelton
Year of Release: 1978
Herbert Shelton wrote 40 books over his 60-year career in health education and “natural hygiene.” He supervised over 30,000 fasts of chronically ill and terminal patients, losing only three. Shelton’s teachings on fasting inspired Gandhi as well as such popular authors as Fuhrman, the Diamonds, Mercola, and Graham. Harvey and Marilyn Diamond said of Shelton: “A man of astounding intelligence and understanding, Dr. Herbert Shelton was the greatest health oracle of the 20th century.”
This book will teach you most of what you need to know to conduct a fast of any length. The chapters are:
1. Definition of fasting
2. Fasting among the lower animals
3. Fasting in man
4. Bill-of-fare for the sick
5. Autolysis
6. Fasting is not starving
7. Chemical and organic changes during fasting
8. Repair of organs and tissues during fasting
9. The influence of fasting on growth and regeneration
10. Changes in the fundamental functions while fasting
11. The mind and special senses during a fast
12. Secretions and excretions
13. Bowel action during fasting
14. Fasting and sex
15. Rejuvenescence through fasting
16. Gain and loss of strength while fasting
17. Gain and loss of weight during fasting
18. Fasting does not induce deficiency “disease”
19. Death in the fast
20. Objections of the fast
21. Does fasting cure disease?
22. The rationale of fasting
23. The length of the fast
24. Hunger and appetite
25. Contra-indications of fasting
26. Fasting in special periods and conditions of life
27. Symptomatology of the fast
28. Progress of the fast
29. Hygiene of the fast
30. Breaking the fast
31. Gaining weight after the fast
32. Living after the fast
33. Fasting in health
34. Fasting in acute disease
35. Fasting in chronic disease
36. Fasting in drug addiction
37. Fasting versus eliminating diets
This is the fasting portion only of what was originally published as Fasting and Sunbathing (The Hygienic System, Vol 3) (reprint). A newer title by Shelton is Fasting for Renewal of Life. It appears to cover much of the same information but in a more condensed, less technical form.