To Eat or Not to Eat
Fasting makes a comeback in medicine: Report
New York: Fasting, practiced for thousands of years as a cure for a variety of diseases, is making a comeback slowly among the practitioners of modern medicine.
Buchinger, on Germany’s Lake Constance and a handful of other clinics around the world are beginning to offer fasting as one of their physical therapies and medical tourists from all over the world are flocking to take advantage, according to Newsweek.
The magazine said by fasting the doctors at Buchinger mean a “minimalist diet of 300 calories per day, veggie broths and juices for two weeks to several months, accompanied by blood tests, purges and other treatments”.
To Eat or Not to Eat
New York: Fasting, practiced for thousands of years as a cure for a variety of diseases, is making a comeback slowly among the practitioners of modern medicine.
Buchinger, on Germany’s Lake Constance and a handful of other clinics around the world are beginning to offer fasting as one of their physical therapies and medical tourists from all over the world are flocking to take advantage, according to Newsweek.
The magazine said by fasting the doctors at Buchinger mean a “minimalist diet of 300 calories per day, veggie broths and juices for two weeks to several months, accompanied by blood tests, purges and other treatments”.
To Eat or Not to Eat
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
