pimg class=”alignright” title=”Cancer” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/cancer.jpg” alt=”cancer” width=”320″ height=”240″ /strongem#8220;Everyone has a physician inside him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick is to feed your sickness.#8221; #8211; /emHippocrates/strong/p
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pstrongem#8220;Instead of using medicine, rather fast a day.#8221; #8211; /emPlutarch/strong/p
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pstrongem#8220;No kibble today, thanks. I#8217;m feeling a bit under the weather.#8221; #8211; /emFido/strong/p
pFor thousands upon thousands of years (during most of which overweight, let alone obese, people were fairly rare), therapeutic fasting was a common protocol for the healing of many a malady. From famous sages like Plato, Aristotle, and the aforementioned Hippocrates and Plutarch to cancer patients unable to eat during chemotherapy to pet dogs and cats who suddenly lose once-voracious appetites upon falling […]
Original post by Mark Sisson
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