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   From: ELDon@ADC.com   
      
   "rbb"   
   > Fasting can be about all kinds of things. Sometimes, it's even a death   
   > wish, thinly disguised.   
   >   
   > Ether St. Vying   
      
      
      
   Rainbow and Ether,   
      I really enjoyed this post and thought it showed the kind of extremism   
   you see in a lot of folks who fast for discipline's sake. A week long fast   
   doesn't strike me as an unhealthy thing to do as long as you are physically   
   fit. Fasting to lose weight is really stupid. Only a good, healthy exercise   
   and a reasonable diet strikes me as the healthiest way.   
      
   I tried that atkins diet and reached my goal weight on it of 175. The I   
   promptly went into atrial fibulation. I gained all the weight back within a   
   year and much more. The when I tried the atkin's diet again to try to relose   
   it I went into atrial fibulation and even had to have "cardioversion" before   
   we realized it was the atkins diet that was causing it in my case.   
      
   The "chemical state" that diet puts your body in is very, very unhealthy   
   even if you are losing weight. Fasting is the same thing without the   
   protein.   
      
   Basically Atkins is a protien fast with very little carbs. a Fast from   
   carbs. Many people can get away with it but it weakens the liver and other   
   organs of the body and doesn't act as a solution long term because the   
   weight loss is not maintainable.   
      
   Even Atkins himself died at a young age from heart failure so that should   
   tell you something right there.   
      
   X-Fasting (extreme fasting is even more harsh than that.) just fast for a   
   week and call it good. Those long fasts are a dance along the Razor's edge   
      
   Eldon.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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