Posted on 06/17/2014 12:49:38 PM PDT by Phillyred
and give you the Runs when start to eat again
I proved this to myself on a recent trip from Illinois to Orlando where four of the five people in our party cycled the intestinal flu. I immediately stopped eating, drank water the first day and green juices the second day. By the third day I ate a salad in the evening and made it home without incident.
I am certain that is what saved me!
Something tells me that such a strategy may cause more problems than it solves.
One day, ok.
Two days, I’m wobbling.
I don’t think I could do three days.
Does this also work for the booze-only for three days regimen? Or does it have to be water-only?
In ancient China, the custom was that ministers or advisors with something very important to discuss with the Emperor (assuming not an emergency) would fast for 3 days, bathe, and then go to see the Emperor.
If I can stay in bed for the three days...maybe.
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If I went for 3 days without eating I would die from a screaming bad headache caused by low blood sugar.
well, fasting is actually biblical, that other stuff you mentioned not so much.
3 day Budweiser fast? :-)
indeed... same method here.
3 days to rebuild the temple.
Pretty easy to ‘fast’ on chemo.
Worth the experiment, but I was thinking more along the lines of clear liquids.
if you have a high metabolism, fasting is ill advised, but for people above 50 or with very low metabolics, it makes sense... 3 days is no big deal.
There’s no such thing as “intestinal flu” or “stomach flu”. Flu is a viral infection that affects the whole body, and last several days to a week. What people call “stomach flu” is really just food poisoning.
It might be moderated with sugared drinks like Gatorade, not going overboard of course.
Survival training in Pensacola FL at AOCS, you went out day one, no food, day two no food, day three you packed it in and returned in time for evening chow.
We all heaped our plates, hungry as can be. A few mouthfuls and our shrunken stomachs were full.
Fasting can be entertaining, headaches, weakness, lethargy, the pre-occupation of the mind with something good to eat. You drink a lot of water, we had chlorine pills to “sanitize” what we were drinking, you just did it.
I think fasting for a reason—health, would not hurt anyone.
Coming off of a 72 hour or so fast guarantees you could order a kid’s meal and not finish it.
Well the germs can be ingested in other manners than their being in food.
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