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pork chops and passion for beer. Dr. Chine was first doctor at that time who called for radical reforms in the diet and treatment of disease through fasting.
And, of course, we should mention a physician Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), who widely used fasting, arguing that it is indicated to treat the plethora, arthritic, rheumatic and catarrhal symptoms, and apoplexy, scurvy, skin diseases, malignant ulcers and cataracts. His first rule was:
"For each disease, for the patient it is the best not to eat anything."
Is fasting dangerous?
Significant contribution to this problem was made by V.V. Pashutin, an outstanding Russian scientist- physiopathologist. He was the head of the Department of Pathological Physiology of St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy.
What he found through his research, was that during full water fasting if weight loss is 20-25% . . . NO pathological (damaging) changes were observed in the organs and tissues of the body. Such changes appear only when the weight loss is up to 40%.
It is however, not always beneficial for all types of
disease and cancers. Where other therapies may be
necessary for healing to take place. That’s why it’s best to do more research on this if you want to try this in your life . . .
But all-in-all fasting is probably more dangerous for the people who use it to treat and guide others to good health than to the patients themselves.
In Russia the Soviet government did not like fasting enthusiasts and promoters. Some of them, such as Alexai Suvorin, son of the publisher and owner of the printing press in St. Petersburg, were forced to leave the country. Others, such as N. Sutkovoy, Moscow economist, disciple of A. Suvorin, were imprisoned and then shot without a trial.
In United States, the late Allan Cott, M.D. was forced to close his private clinic where he treated people with fasting and other natural methods. Dr. Cott was tired of receiving letters with death threats and to listen to the same telephone threats from members of the pharmacological mafia, who feared that the
Viktor Pashutin found that fasting did not –vely affect any organs unless 40% of body weight was lost.
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