Paul Bragg's "The Miracle of Fasting"

Paul Bragg is also known as the "Father of America's Health Movement". He was a worldwide lecturer and advisor to Olympic Athletes, Royalty and Stars. Dr. Paul Bragg authored 22 Health Books and was the originator of Health Food Stores and Founder of the Health Movement! He is responsible for more firsts in the history of Health than any other individual.

Here are some of Bragg's Amazing Pioneering Achievements that the World Now Enjoys:

-- Bragg originated, named and opened the first Health Food Store in America. Now they are around the world.

-- Bragg Crusades pioneered the first Health Lectures throughout America.

-- Dr. Bragg and Bernarr Macfadden opened the first Health Spa, which soon became the new Miami Beach.

-- He opened the first Health Restaurants. During the depression years in New York City they served millions of healthy meals for a penny each. Bragg Books inspired health followers to open Health Restaurants - The Good Earth and others.

-- He was the first to pioneer for pure water and made millions aware of its importance.

-- He introduced Juice Therapy in America by importing the first hand-juicers from Germany. He was the inspiration to Jay Kordich the Juiceman.

-- Bragg introduced his new idea, pineapple juice, then later tomato juice, to the American public. These were erroneously thought to be too acid. These health beverages have now become favorite of millions worldwide.

-- He was the first to introduce and distribute honey nationwide. Before that, it was available only at farmers' roadside stands. He inspired millions to give up white sugar for honey and replace white flour products with healthy whole grain flours.

-- Bragg pioneered Radio Health Programs from Hollywood three times daily.

-- Paul and his daughter Patricia pioneered a Health TV show from Hollywood to spread "Health and Happiness"... the name of the show! It included exercises, health recipes, visual demonstrations and guest appearances by famous, health-minded people.

-- He worked with Luther Burbank in California to develop new varieties of healthful, organically-grown fruits and vegetables.

-- He pioneered and made available nationwide the first health foods: herbal teas, health beverages, seven-grain cereals and crackers, health cosmetics, health candies, calcium, vitamins and mineral supplements, wheat germ, digestive enzymes from papaya, herbal and kelp seasonings and liquid amino acids from soybeans. He inspired others to follow suit... Schiff, Thompson, Twin Labs, Shaklee, Herbal Life, Gardenburger and hundreds of others. Now there are thousands of health items available through hundreds of companies and thousands of stores worldwide. The health food industry found strength in joining together with the National Nutritional Foods Association Bragg founded.

-- He inspired millions to "go organic" in their gardening and was the inspiration to Organic Gardening Magazine.

Every day I'll try to post some quotations from the book "The Miracle of Fasting" by Paul C Bragg.
Here they are:
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"Man's days shall be 120 years." - Genesis 6:3

Most people - because of their unwise habits in diet, drink and excesses - die prematurely, long before fulfilling their potential. Wild animals, undisturbed, live out their full term. Man is the only exception. Sadly, not more than ONE in a MILLION lives out his natural life.

All people of sound mentality naturally desire a long, healthy, pain-free, happy & useful life. With our natural intelligence - super health, happiness and longevity should be the RULE instead of the exception.

Physical weakness, flabbiness and sickness have always seemed criminal to me - a sacrilegious abuse of that miracle instrument, the human body.

The "secret" of the glow of ageless health lies in maintaining internal cleanliness and regeneration. This requires eating natural, organically grown live foods, combined with healthy practices such as fasting, drinking distilled water, exercising and deep breathing.

When you purify your own body with systematic fasting and live foods, you crave daily exercise, and by exercising you sculpt your body to become the person you want to be. Just think, from this minute on you can mold your body to physical perfection. [ No, ugly is not a new beautiful, ugly is just plain ugly...].

With the knowledge found in the book "The Miracle of Fasting" you will find out how you can reap the most of life, physically, mentally and spiritually!

The human race is a miracle unique study, and an intriguing one! But the natural laws which govern man are simple and understandable if ONE [Yes, YOU!]
takes the time to learn and observe how he (she) functions from day to day!

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"Men do not die, they kill themselves." - Seneca

-- What is the Most Significant Discovery of the Modern Age?
-- Internet? Nuclear Bomb? Space Travel? iPhone?
None of the above compare with FASTING...

The greatest discovery by modern man is the method to rejuvenate himself physically, mentally and spiritualy by fasting. [P.S.: By the way I am fasting right now typing these words. I do it every Saturday, one day a week for 24 hours from 7:00 pm on Friday night till 7:00 pm on Saturday night. Usually by the end of the day of fasting I feel myself very light, like an angel ready to fly.]

Man can create a quality of agelessness and with fasting it's possible to prevent premature ageing and premature death!

The dread of "growing old" and becoming a burden to himself and others is one of the man's greatest fears! The fear of becoming sick, senile, helpless and unable to care for one's self is rooted deep in every thinking person's mind. With the complete knowledge of fasting and Paul Bragg's Healthy Lifestyle outlined in the book "The Miracle of Fasting" you can banish forever all your fears of premature ageing!

With a 24 hour complete WATER FAST WEEKLY you can keep the toxins removed from your body and flush the rust and crystals from your moveable joints and muscles.

Fasting Conserves Energy - Your Vital Force in Life!
We eat food and as it passes through the body, it must be masticated, digested, assimilated and then the waste is eliminated. We have FOUR great organs of elimination: the bowels, the kidneys, the lungs, and the skin. In order for these eliminative organs to work perfectly, the body must build a high Vital Force of body energy reserves.

It takes a tremendous amount of Vital Force to pass a large meal through the gastrointestinal tract and also eliminate the waste via the 30 foot tube that runs from the mouth to the rectum. It takes the great power of Vital Force to pass liquids through the 2 million filters of the human kidneys. It takes Vital Force for the chemical power of the liver and the gallbladder to do their work in preparing food for the billions of body cells. It takes great Vital Force for the lungs to deeply inhale up to 2 quarts of oxygen with each breath, to purify the entire bloodstream in your body and expel the toxins and the carbon dioxide. It takes great Vital Force for the skin (often called your third kidney) with 96 million pores, to throw off body toxins in the form of skin rashes, pimples, sweat, and foul body odors.

When we fast (stop eating) all the Vital Force that has been used to convert food into energy and body tissue is now being used to {write a new Squidoo Lense?} to flush poisons from the body! Fasting is the ONLY way to rid the body of the many commercial poisons like pesticides in the food and deadly chemicals in the air.

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Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.
Dr. Weir Mitchell

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The amazing human body is a miraculous collection of individual cells. When nourished by healthy foods that provide the basic needs for growth and normal function, humans can live to 120 years or more! But when people toy with their body and pollute it with chemicalized, toxic, unhealthy foods, water and air, naturally the body responds adversely! When food is polluted and its entire composition altered by toxic chemicals, the body's cells become sick, function poorly and cannot keep adjusting to the irritating toxins forced on them -
causing ilness, premature ageing and death!

A vast amount of chemical poisons contaminate our food. Most commercial interests are NOT CONCERNED WITH OUR HEALTH & LIVES. The economic bottom line is their main concern. It's best and safer to eat live, organically grown foods whenever possible. Avoid complicated, chemicalized, preserved foods.
And fast faithfully 24-36 hours weekly to rid yourself of toxins and help your body to stay healthy and clean. When you don't feel up to par
(colds, flus, mucus, pains, aches, etc.), then it's time to take a 3, 5 or 7 day complete fast and give your body a thorough detox cleansing!

Remember, when you fast, your Vital Force is doing all the cleansing. And your body is repairing and healing itself! Following a fasting regime of ONE day a week you will feel greater than you have ever felt. Internal cleansing puts you on the road to Super Health. Don't forget to drink plenty of water when you are fasting to flush toxins out of your body!
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Happines is not being pained in body
or troubled in mind.
-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President

Let me ask you a question: "Would you use sodium, a caustic alkali, to season your food? Or chlorine, a poisonous gas?" "Rediculous questions," you say.
"Nobody would be fool enough to do that!"

Of course not. But the shocking truth is that most people do just that because they don't know that these powerful chemicals constitute the inorganic crystalline compound known as SALT.

For centuries, the expression "salt of the earth" has been used to designate something good and essential. This idea is erroneous! Salt may actually help to BURY you!

- Salt is not a food! There is no more justification for its culinary use than there is for potassium chloride, calcium chloride, barium chloride or any other chemical on the druggist's shelf.

- Salt cannot be digested, assimilated or utilized by the body! Salt has no nutritional value! Salt has no vitamins, no organic minerals and no nutrients of any kind! Instead, it is harmful and causes trouble in the kidneys, bladder, heart, arteries, veins and blood vessels. Salt is the main cause of waterlogged tissues that cause swelling and edema.

- Salt causes serious medical problems and can act as a HEART POISON. It also irritates the nervous system.

- Salt acts to rob calcium from the body, bones, etc. and attacks mucous lining throughout the body.

Hey, if salt is so dangerous to health, why is it used so widely? Mainly because it's a HABIT (!) ingrained over the years. But it's a habit based on a serious misconception that the body needs it.

Many people never eat salt and never miss it!
Your wise body doesn't want it. Once a person is free of the salt habit, salt becomes repulsive to the taste as tobacco is to a nonsmoker! Among certain animal species, salt acts as a POISON, and pigs have been known to die after ingesting large doses of salt.

Do you have edema, kidney problems, high blood pressure? Do you find salt in canned, bottled and frozen foods? Do you know that there's salt in milk, ice cream, and most commercial foods?

Add it all up and you can see why HEART DISEASE is the #1 KILLER in America - nation of salt-a-holics!
Cheese, frozen and canned vegetables, breads, potato and corn chips, and most all popular foods are saturated with salt.

Please, beware of harmful salt! It kills you.

Do you it salt & salty foods? Sure, you do. Do you drink coffee every morning (or 5 times a day)? Sure, you do. Do you smoke? Use alcohol? Use refined white sugar or eat products with this devitalized material in it? What devitaminized and demineralized foods are dragging you down and enervating you? Is your willpower weak or strong? Who is the boss of your body? Your bad habits? Or does your mind control your appetites? Remember that flesh is dumb and can't think for you. Only with positive thinking can you overcome the bad habits that your flesh might crave.

If you really do crave glorious health, and unbelievable strength, tremendous vital force and a trim and fit body you will be proud of, start now working with faithful Mother Nature today and not against her!

It's because of your bad habits that things start to break down and decay in your body! Your bad habits enervate and rob your energy! This is the important point: as energy drops and you become enervated, you
do not have enough energy for your body to properly cleanse. Low energy brings on slow functioning in all the basic eliminative organs: the bowels, kidneys, skin and lungs. There is no energy to function at full natural capacity. Then poisons of all kinds are not completely flushed out of the body, but instead are deposited inside, slowly building up and taking a terrible toll!

Poisons start to collect in various parts of the body, causing you illness, aches and pains. These are Mother-Nature's flashing warning signals that you are not living the healthy lifestyle that She & God intended for your body! Perhaps you blame everything and everybody for your problems, instead of analyzing your lifestyle habits for the real causes!

Any sickness is Mother-Nature's way of showing you that you are filled with toxic wastes and internal pison. Dead people don't have colds. It's only when you are alive and have Vital Force that you have physical problems. By fasting, you are working with Mother Nature to help expel the wastes & poisons you have accumulated in your body. Every animal in the wilderness knows fasting, for it's the only method animals use to help overcome any physical trouble that befalls them. This is pure animal instinct. We humans have lived so long in this soft civilization that we have lost this natural instinct to fast when health problems occur in our bodies.

Fasting clears away the thousand little things which quickly accumulate and clutter the body, mind and heart. It cuts though corrosion and renews our contract with God & Mother Earth.

Enjoy fasting at least one day a week and you not only will live a longer, happier, healthier life but save hundreds of dollars what you spend on your food and doctors.

Good luck to all of us!

I have come to regard autointoxication (self-poisoning) as the worst enemy in the fight for Agelessness and Longevity. It is so common and yet so rarely recognized. Those morbid moods - the worry, tensions, stresses, frustrations, nervousnes and needless - are foreign to a healthy state. You should always be optimistic, happy, carefree, self-confident and at peace.

Ageless Mother Nature will not let you get away with abusing your body. You must pay a high price every time you insult your body with dead and devitalized foods. Of course, you could take drugs to deaden or stimulate your body, but you are living in a fool's paradise if you think you can eat any old thing and then swallow some kind of magic pill and get away with it. You pay a dear price every time you make a garbage can of your stomach! Your heart and arteries suffer. Your spells of autointoxication (self-poisoning) are shortening your life. Each attack leaves its mark and, for this reason, it's something to dread. Please, don't poison your bloodstream. Learn to defend and protect yourself against all possible autointoxication by living The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle.

Once a week make it a habit to take a complete water fast, lasting at least 24 hours. On the days you do eat, consume only natural, organic and unpoisoned foods. Let your mind rule your body.
Flesh is dumb! You can feed your stomach anything.
Starting from now you just have to use common sense
and eat with new health intelligence.

Thank you!

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