Cory Shaw

Today is day 1 of a long journey of healthy eating and the benefits that come from it. In my first post, I mentioned that I’ll be doing a 5-7 day juice fast. After some internet research on juice fasting (quite a bit of the good info i found in google groups), it is clear that there is a lot of contradicting opinions on the methods, length, benefits, etc… of fasting.

I suspect that this is partly because there is not a lot of scientific study around fasting, and partly because people fast for very different reasons.

From what I can tell, people fast because:

• It is part of their religion, and doing so brings them closer to their God.
• It is a quick-fix for loosing a lot of weight in a short amount of time (don’t get me started on quick-fix anything)
• It detoxes the body of the build-up of crap (for lack of a scientific word) that processed foods leave behind

I am fasting because of the detoxification effect and to help me segway into my new diet.

Through that research I found some books (and authors) that people recommended…

A few Authors of fasting literature:
Arnold Ehret
Dr. Paavo Airola
Paul Bragg
Alan Cot

A couple of recommended books (by others) :

I have checked out #1 from my local library and will be picking it up tonight. I have also bought a “Jack Lalanne’s Power Juicer” (i bought it at Super Target for $75 after the instant rebate)…it seemed to be the best balance of price and quality I could find.