You can actually start a fast anytime as long as you are not affected by any serious chronic disease. In a diseased condition, however, it is still much safer if you prepare your system for a fast through a low protein diet. This diet should be rich in positive mineral elements. Also, the low protein diet can also have raw food and should be done in a systematic natural treatment type of method.

Negative pathogenic materials, especially those in large amounts, should be eradicated from the tissues. If these are somehow still in the circulation, they must be neutralized by the positive alkaline mineral elements first.

Your system should be purified sufficiently. Once this is achieved, you can then start your fasting. Because your system is no longer in a good condition for food digestion and assimilation, fasting then becomes imperative.

The four (4) kinds of fasts:

The Regular Fast
This is where there’s no food. Sufficient water is only needed to quench the thirst. Water will then be used to dilute the pathogenic materials. It can also help facilitate in the elimination of these materials through the skin and kidneys.

The Dry Fast
The dry fast means total abstinence from both drinks and food. It is an efficient method to promote the elimination of morbid disease and matter taints.

The Seven Day Fast
The seven day fast cannot basically produce any weakening results or harmful results.

The Long Fast
The long fast can extend from one up to seven (or even more) weeks. This depends on the individual indications and the vitality of the patient, though.

What’s the big deal of drinking fruit juices while fasting?

Mineral salts, which are found to be necessary in neutralizing the negative pathogenic materials with which the circulation is flooded in during a fast, can be found in fruit juices. Apart from being rich in vitamins (which can stimulate vital activities), fruit juices also have neutralizing and eliminating effects and are great tonics and antiseptics. Moreover, a lot of people who undergo fasting find their routine more bearable and “pleasant” even when they take in diluted fruit juices.

A word of caution, though. Fruit juices should not be taken in large quantities. They should not also be taken in pure or “untouched.” This is because they may excite the digestive process.

To prepare diluted fruit juices, just add the juice of, let’s say, half an orange or half a lemon to a tumbler of cold water. Make sure that the water is of natural or room temperature. Avoid using ice water!