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Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live is the most comprehensive research-supported and scientifically credible diet book, offering significant health improvement, longevity and sustained weight control, simultaneously. Dr. Fuhrman has successfully treated thousands of over-weight patients (with a variety of related medical problems) many of which were referred to him by other physicians because of his impressive results.

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Stephen Harrod Buhner is a master herbalist, psychotherapist, and founder and senior researcher for the Foundation of Gaian Studies, an organization that researches on the sacredness of the Earth, indigenous traditions and ceremonies, sacred plant medicine, and contemplative nature spirituality. His background makes qualifies him to write about the spiritual, physical and emotional dimensions of fasting.

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Dr. Cott’s book, has been a best seller since it was issued by Bantam in 1975. Describing the spiritual benefits of fasting, Cott says, "If a person makes fasting part of his life he’ll experience a heightened spiritual awareness. By taking a long fast or two and then fasting one day a week he’ll gradually find a growing peace and personal integration." Cott, an internationally respected New York psychiatrist, found fasting highly effective in treating schizophrenics. He went to Russia in 1970 and studied the work of Yuri Nikolayev, who prescribed fasts for mentally ill patients.

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Ehret considered by many to be one of the greatest proponents of fasting, tells in this 4-part book how to successfully conduct and complete a fast properly. It is of utmost importance to the health-seeker to know how long the fast should be continued -- and it is of special importance to know the correct manner of when and how to break a fast for optimal results. The idea behind rational fasting is that by following simple advice, much of modern technology in medicine will not be needed.

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This 650-page compendium is the most comprensive for complementary and alternative therapies and mental health. It contains a chapter on fasting contains a overview of the practice of therapeutic fasting in medicine and for psychological disorders. The chapter on schizophrenia discusses the work of Allan Cott, a New York psychiatrist, and Yuri Nikolayev, a Russian psychiatrist who had success in the 1970s treating schizophrenia with fasting.

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This book is a highly authoritative and comprehensive reference on natural medicine. The chapter on fasting, written by Dr.Alan Goldhamer from True North Health in Santa Rosa, California, and Trevor K. Salloum, N.D., is one of most informative and best researched articles available about fasting. The reference for volumes has approximately 10,000 citations to peer-reviewed literature providing standards of practice for natural medicine.

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Dr. Shelton's book on fasting harvests the results of his 45 year research on 30,000 fasts, by people of all ages and in all states of health and impairment. His research included the fact that food and nutrition are not synonymous, that you are not nourished by the food you eat but by the amount you digest and assimilate. His conclusion of the his studies, based on facts and not theories, is the awakening of the body's remarkable recuperative powers. Shelton was American alternative medicine advocate, author, pacifist, vegetarian, and supporter of raw foodism and fasting cures.