Bøger af Herbert M. Shelton

Learn what you like and eat what you enjoy appropriately. You will enjoy this book and rejoice in good health after you have restored your body to its natural state. Rejoice in life, rejoice in your friendships and especially your family. Health will make all of this possible, and it will only come from a healthy diet and a natural way of life. You will not have to start this eating program slowly but simply dive into it. Prove to your body that you are in control and that you will treat it well from now on. Remember that losing some battles with your appetite is not as important as winning the war against disease. Feeding yourself properly is not the private property of a religion as even an atheist can have a healthy body. In all ways, truth is where you find it, and the truth I have revealed in this book certainly did not arise with me. Truth is eternal and cannot be created or destroyed, but the lives of those who seek it can be helped while the lives of those who reject and ignore it can be destroyed.

This is the fasting portion only of what was originally published as "Fasting and Sunbathing" (The Hygienic System, Vol 3). Herbert Shelton wrote 40 books over his 60-year career in health education and "natural hygiene." He supervised over 30,000 fasts of chronically ill and terminal patients, losing only three. Shelton's teachings on fasting inspired Ghandi as well as such popular authors as Fuhrman, the Diamonds, Mercola and Graham. Harvey and Marilyn Diamond said of Shelton: "A man of astounding intelligence and understanding, Dr. Herbert Shelton was the greatest health oracle of the 20th century." One of the key tenets of natural hygiene is toxemia + enervation = disease and that symptoms of disease are remedial efforts by the body to return to balance. For example, a fever is instituted by the body to speed metabolic action and kill germs. It is a healing event that should be allowed to run its course, not a dreaded enemy to be suppressed. The best action to take when first becoming ill is to stop eating and rest, which goes contrary to the prevailing advice to take a drug, eat to keep up your strength, and keep on going. When you fast, you are not starving your body of nutrition, because it obtains all the nutrition it needs from its own tissues. But in doing so, the not inconsiderable amount of energy that would have been spent in digestion is now spent in repair of tissues and elimination of toxins. Long fasts of up to three months followed by healthy living practices can (but not always) reverse chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, colitis, migraines, mental illness, even cancer. (See also Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease.) This book will teach you most of what you need to know to conduct a fast of any length. The chapters are: 1. Definition of fasting 2. Fasting among the lower animals 3. Fasting in man 4. Bill-of-fare for the sick 5. Autolysis 6. Fasting is not starving 7. Chemical and organic changes during fasting 8. Repair of organs and tissues during fasting 9. The influence of fasting on growth and regeneration 10. Changes in the fundamental functions while fasting 11. The mind and special senses during a fast 12. Secretions and excretions 13. Bowel action during fasting 14. Fasting and sex 15. Rejuvenescence through fasting 16. Gain and loss of strength while fasting 17. Gain and loss of weight during fasting 18. Fasting does not induce deficiency "disease" 19. Death in the fast 20. Objections of the fast 21. Does fasting cure disease? 22. The rationale of fasting 23. The length of the fast 24. Hunger and appetite 25. Contra-indications of fasting 26. Fasting in special periods and conditions of life 27. Symptomatology of the fast 28. Progress of the fast 29. Hygiene of the fast 30. Breaking the fast 31. Gaining weight after the fast 32. Living after the fast 33. Fasting in health 34. Fasting in acute disease 35. Fasting in chronic disease 36. Fasting in drug addiction 37.

2013 Reprint of 1928 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book holds a unique place in the history of natural hygiene. It is a book for all times, all seasons, and all people. It was the first book to give detailed historical and practical credit to most all of the brilliant pioneers who were responsible for establishing the foundations for orthopathy. "Orthopathy" also called "Natural Hygiene," is an alternative medical philosophy derived from naturopathy. It advocates a vegetarian, raw food diet with periods of intermittent fasting.Contents: Health and Its Conditions and Requirements; The Laws of Life; Living Matter Cures Itself; Is Disease Friend or Foe; Early Orthopathic Ideas of Disease; Acute Disease a Curative Process; Self-Limited Disease; The Rational of Inflammation and Fever; Physiological Compensation; Acute Disease not a Radical Cure; Unity of Disease and Symptoms; Causes of Disease; Germs; Perversions; Feeding; Fasting; Sunshine and Sun-Baths; Physical Exercise; Hygiene of Health; Care of Wounds; Place of Art; Passing of the Plagues; Suppression of Disease and its Results.

2013 Reprint of 1963 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the fasting portion only of what was originally published as "Fasting and Sunbathing" (The Hygienic System, Vol 3). Herbert Shelton wrote 40 books over his 60-year career in health education and "natural hygiene." He supervised over 30,000 fasts of chronically ill and terminal patients, losing only three. Shelton's teachings on fasting inspired Ghandi as well as such popular authors as Fuhrman, the Diamonds, Mercola and Graham. Harvey and Marilyn Diamond said of Shelton: "A man of astounding intelligence and understanding, Dr. Herbert Shelton was the greatest health oracle of the 20th century."One of the key tenets of natural hygiene is toxemia + enervation = disease and that symptoms of disease are remedial efforts by the body to return to balance. For example, a fever is instituted by the body to speed metabolic action and kill germs. It is a healing event that should be allowed to run its course, not a dreaded enemy to be suppressed.The best action to take when first becoming ill is to stop eating and rest, which goes contrary to the prevailing advice to take a drug, eat to keep up your strength, and keep on going. When you fast, you are not starving your body of nutrition, because it obtains all the nutrition it needs from its own tissues. But in doing so, the not inconsiderable amount of energy that would have been spent in digestion is now spent in repair of tissues and elimination of toxins.Long fasts of up to three months followed by healthy living practices can (but not always) reverse chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, colitis, migraines, mental illness, even cancer. (See also Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease.)This book will teach you most of what you need to know to conduct a fast of any length. The chapters are:1. Definition of fasting2. Fasting among the lower animals3. Fasting in man4. Bill-of-fare for the sick5. Autolysis6. Fasting is not starving7. Chemical and organic changes during fasting8. Repair of organs and tissues during fasting9. The influence of fasting on growth and regeneration10. Changes in the fundamental functions while fasting11. The mind and special senses during a fast12. Secretions and excretions13. Bowel action during fasting14. Fasting and sex15. Rejuvenescence through fasting16. Gain and loss of strength while fasting17. Gain and loss of weight during fasting18. Fasting does not induce deficiency "disease"19. Death in the fast20. Objections of the fast21. Does fasting cure disease?22. The rationale of fasting23. The length of the fast24. Hunger and appetite25. Contra-indications of fasting26. Fasting in special periods and conditions of life27. Symptomatology of the fast28. Progress of the fast29. Hygiene of the fast30. Breaking the fast31. Gaining weight after the fast32. Living after the fast33. Fasting in health34. Fasting in acute disease35. Fasting in chronic disease36. Fasting in drug addiction37. Fasting versus eliminating diets