Fasting is the basis of health( I)

"When your body is cleared of starvation and you lead a natural, healthy lifestyle, you are constantly feeling wonderful. Because nature created man for happiness, created him balanced, free from fears, stresses and overloads. "

Paul S. Bregg

"If you want to live longer, eat less! Who is stronger!?He who can take precedence over his whims, habits. "

Benjamin Franklin

The first step towards health is cleansing the body of waste and excess ballast. In our time - this is a scientifically proven method of recovery, but what science has proved to us, many centuries ago people used intuitively.

Any of the known religions cares not only about the moral, but also about the physical health of its people. To this end, the spiritual texts of both Orthodox and Muslims, Catholics, Lutherans, introduced the rules of carnal abstinence, restrictions on food and the date of regular fasting.

Fasting is from the ancient times established rules of abstinence from certain types of food, which contribute to prayer and help the inner growth of a person. At all times of the existence of Christianity, fasting was the most important aspect of human life. This is what they wrote about the post of the church teacher.

"The fasting of the body is food for the soul"( St. John Chrysostom).

"How much you take away from the body, so much power the soul"( St. Basil the Great).

"Animals that are multifaceted and obese can not run as fast as a lesser deer, like this the glutton can not be so active and successful in exploits, like the restraint"( Filaret of Moscow).

"The soul does not put up with anything like if anyone is abstinent in food"( Avva Pimen).

"Food unnecessary makes the body excessively loaded with a ship, which, with a small wave movement, goes to the bottom"( Abba Leontius).

Does the church teach us to strictly observe fasting? At first this was understood vaguely and instinctively, but was gradually formulated as clear and precise laws. Fasting is a powerful healing factor. Thanks to the post, all the slags that have sown the seeds of the disease in the human body can be removed in the simplest, lightest and most natural way possible. All acute diseases( from the point of view of the author) are nothing but the desire of the body to get rid of toxins that interfere with its normal functioning. We will be asked the question: where did these toxins come from, if our families live in ecologically clean areas and eat only organic products?. . Read more