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In the USA, Herbert Shelton, the pioneer practitioner of Natural Hygiene, also initiated and supervised numerous fasts in severely ill patients, often with amazing results.
If these two practitioners, and their countless followers, achieved such wonderful results, why are we not told more of fasting as a means of healing?
Well, to be sure, we are, but you have to search for reports of fasting benefits in the medical journals, where only now and then evidence appears which supports the results claimed for this most ancient, efficient and potentially inexpensive of healing methods.
In 1991, for example, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet published the results of a one-year study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who had been treated by means of fasting and a vegetarian diet.
WHAT PREVENTS THE WIDER USE OF FASTING?
The results of fasting patients with rheumatoid arthritis were so good that there can now be no doubt at all that fasting should be the treatment of choice for this condition – and for almost all auto-immune conditions in which the body’s defence systems attack parts of itself. That few rheumatologists employ fasting for their patients is indicative of both the lack of awareness of such studies by most doctors, and the power of the pervading idea that we have to ‘take something’ to assuage symptoms, or to control pain and disability.