The Benefits of Fasting

Fasting is not just for the spiritual. Some nutrition experts advocate fasting for purely health reasons.
For societies like America where people eat rich diets, fasting for 24 hours allows the digestive system to rest from all that processed foods.
Below are some of the known benefits of fasting:
Detoxification – he body has a built-in process of eliminating toxins through the colon, liver, lungs, lymph glands and skin. Fasting hastens detoxification because when the body doesn’t take in food, it draws from its fat reserves for energy. When these fats are converted to energy, they release the chemicals from the fatty acids into the body’s system and are exerted.
Healing – fasting diverts energy from the digestive system to the metabolism and immune system. Tumors and other abnormal growths are deprived of the body’s usual supply and become more prone to self-destruct. Also, the body is able to produce protein to replace damage cells more efficiently resulting in healthier tissues and organs. This is the reason why people lose their appetite when sick with tonsillitis or colds: so the body can divert its energy from the digestive to the immune system.
Longer life – fasting also lowers the core body temperature. And because hormone production is more efficient, the body releases growth and anti-aging hormones. The results are rejuvenation and a longer life. (serendip.brynmawr.edu)