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One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation. – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within. – Paracelsus

I feel like a wisp of cloud, full of light and energy. It’s a magical rest for my whole system. – Author Unknown

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry. – Charles Baudelaire

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting. – Benjamin Franklin

Every one has a doctor in him; we just have to help him in his work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. – Hippocrates

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself. – Augustine of Hippo

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. – Thomas Tusser

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. – Herbert M. Shelton

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem. – Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program fo

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency. – Plato

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner. – Mahatma Gandhi

See how you feel, and always give in gracefully if that particular day is not your day to fast. – Mimi Spencer, The FastDiet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the

The job of fasting is to supply the body with the ideal environment to accomplish its work of healing. – Joel Fuhrman

Fasting strengthens control over our appetites, thus contributing to self-mastery. – George Romney

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. – Mahatma Gandhi

The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice. – Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program fo