Home > Fasting > Benefits of Water Fasting
Posted on April 18, 2009 in Fasting
Water fasting refers to person abstaining from food and taking only water. It is a healthy form of fasting. It is a safe method of healing.
Benefits of Water Fasting
- Cleanses circulatory, respiratory, urinary and digestive systems and destroys all impurities in the body. Deposits of uric acid are eliminated.
- One heals and gets detoxified more easily with water fasting. The digestive passageways as well as organs are able to rest completely, which allows the energy flowing to be used for cleansing and repairing of damaged tissues.
- It is effective in treating Diabetes type II
- Body balance is restored through elimination of wastes.
- Very good treatment for obesity.
- It is beneficial in epilepsy condition. It reduces the length, severity and number of seizures.
- It helps in improving poor immune functioning while fasting.
- It increases the cell mediated immunity as well as immunoglobulin levels.
- It increases one’s life-span.
- It provides relief to the digestive system.
- It is helpful in chronic cases of cardiovascular diseases as well as congestive heart failure, reduces tryglycerides, athermos, increased HDL levels and total cholesterol.
- It controls allergic reactions such as hay fever and asthma.
- Water fasting helps dries up the accumulation of abnormal fluids such as edema in the legs and ankles and swelling in the abdomen.
- High blood pressure is corrected within weeks without the usage of drugs.
- It restores your taste buds for wholesome food items.
- Helps in overcoming addictions and bad habits. It reduces cravings, caffeine, alcohol as well as other drugs.
- Makes you feel motivated to start something new and begin life fresh again.
- Water fasting helps one lose weight.
- It is helpful in treating osteoarthritis as well as rheumatoid arthritis.
- It increases the deposits of new bone area that are affected by osteoporosis.
- Psychosomatic diseases also respond to water fasting.
Water fasting is very beneficial in many ways to maintain good health. It is therapeutic in nature.
» Filed Under Fasting
Comments
Leave a Reply
September 30th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
I WOULD LIKE TO DO A 7 DAY JUICE FAST, BUT I JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT TYPE OF JUICE TO BUY, SO CAN U TELL ME SOME NAMES OF JUICES TO GET FOR MY JUICE FAST, PLEASE……… I REALLY WOULD APPRECIATE IT…… MEL….
February 15th, 2010 at 8:06 am
I do a 21 day water fast once a year- part of the process of ending the fast is to juice fast before returning to a normal diet.
Do not buy juice from concentrate. Ideally, you should have a juicer (you can buy them for relatively cheap if you aren’t looking to spend a lot of money) and use only FRESH juice.
If that is out of the question for you, try going to a local health foods store (Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, etc) and asking if they carry fresh juices.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I recently bought the Lexen manual juicer – $45.00 – it does just as good a job as very expensive auger juicers. It’s very satisfying to produce your own cold-pressed juice by hand. Although described as a wheatgrass juicer, I bought it for fruit & vegetable juicing. It’s great for carrots – and the ejected pulp is perfect for muffins! I mention this because I’m about to do a water fast (my first) to address some cardiovascular problems. The juicing will help before and after the fast. Physician, heal thyself! Good luck to you all.
February 17th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
They say juice fasting is effective to cure bowel disorders, how true is it? How good is it compared to water fasting?
- Jay
September 22nd, 2011 at 6:37 pm
iwant to try this water fast if it will reduce my body weight but am confused as to what type of water to take for a most effective result ie icewater or hoy/warm water?
2what kind of fruits are better at reducing weight during the fruit fasting period?thanks