Jericho
New member
I noticed you have enough time to try and plug your blog again (sorry, new members aren't allowed to post their blog links and this site isn't here to drive up your web traffic numbers) and write about how right you are but not enough to post any of the current and valid medical studies you claim are on your blog.
Somehow, I can't see any weight loss site that promotes healthy and long term lifestyle changes not calling you on the effects of this extreme weight loss idea. Throwing around 'dr oz' as reason to do something doesn't hold much water for me. Money talks for him now...
45 pounds in 35 days...sounds REALLY healthy. How much of that is water and how much of that is your own muscle mass?
200 fasting doctors in the US are 200 fasting doctors making money off people thinking that this is the right way to lose weight. You know what else there are? Laser weight loss clinics. Magic diet pills pushed by doctors as an end all.
Money talks...
But let's look at some of your studies from your blog..
Study 1: Effect of Fasting Terapy on Liver Function Disorders (1988)
Result: 10 day fasting aided mild liver function disorders, mainly on hypernutritional fatty liver, alcoholic liver injury and drug-induced liver injury.
10 days..not 35..and not about weight loss.
Study 2: Fasting Therapy for psychsomatic disorders in Japan (1979)
The following diseases were considered as suitable indications for the therapy; irritable colon, behavioral disturbance of eating, functional disorders of the G-I tract, neurocirculatory asthenia, labile hypertension, variable psychosomatic symptoms of puberty, conversion hysteria and many kinds of neurosis with somatic complaints. The mechanism of effectiveness of the therapy is discussed from the psychological and biological aspects
Result: It is concluded that the regulating mechanisms of the autonomic nervous system and endocrine system may change the whole functioning of the body including the brain, resulting in a spontaneous deconditioning of maladaptive bodily and mental behavior and an improved homeostatic adjustment to life.
Problem...study doesn't actually give the length of the fast nor any other info outside a conclusion of a 10 year study with no other real data. Again, don't know the length (don't know if it was long term fasting) nor any results as far as weight loss.
Study 3: Fasting-enhanced immune effector mechanisms in obese subjects (1982)
Result: These results indicate that fasting has differential influences on immune function rather than a uniformly deleterious effect. Of potential import, this nutritional alteration appears to actually enhance certain effector functions of the host defense system.
14 day fast..not about weight loss..and not really conclusive as this being an overall good thing against the side effects of long term fasting.
Study 4: Vegetarian fasting of obese patients: a clinical and biochemical evaluation. (1982)
Result: Fasting according to the described regimen thus seems to provide a safe method for treatment of obese patients.
Read deeper. Before and after the fasting period the patients were hospitalized and put on a standardized weight-maintaining diet; at the health center they consumed vegetable juices containing less than 1 MJ and 3 g of protein per day. You know what this really is? A medically supervised low calorie diet...not fasting at home.
I'd go on and on but one thing I keep noticing in every study on your site. The medically supervised fasting was 14 days tops, not 35. Very few even had to do with weight loss AND those that do didn't have follow ups on if the weight stayed off.
Look, you want to do a fast and take your health in your own hands? Fine. Just don't expect on this site not to get called on it and questioned and debated. It is an open forum.
I would, again, just point out that you seem more interested in driving people to your blog than this site.
Somehow, I can't see any weight loss site that promotes healthy and long term lifestyle changes not calling you on the effects of this extreme weight loss idea. Throwing around 'dr oz' as reason to do something doesn't hold much water for me. Money talks for him now...
45 pounds in 35 days...sounds REALLY healthy. How much of that is water and how much of that is your own muscle mass?
200 fasting doctors in the US are 200 fasting doctors making money off people thinking that this is the right way to lose weight. You know what else there are? Laser weight loss clinics. Magic diet pills pushed by doctors as an end all.
Money talks...
But let's look at some of your studies from your blog..
Study 1: Effect of Fasting Terapy on Liver Function Disorders (1988)
Result: 10 day fasting aided mild liver function disorders, mainly on hypernutritional fatty liver, alcoholic liver injury and drug-induced liver injury.
10 days..not 35..and not about weight loss.
Study 2: Fasting Therapy for psychsomatic disorders in Japan (1979)
The following diseases were considered as suitable indications for the therapy; irritable colon, behavioral disturbance of eating, functional disorders of the G-I tract, neurocirculatory asthenia, labile hypertension, variable psychosomatic symptoms of puberty, conversion hysteria and many kinds of neurosis with somatic complaints. The mechanism of effectiveness of the therapy is discussed from the psychological and biological aspects
Result: It is concluded that the regulating mechanisms of the autonomic nervous system and endocrine system may change the whole functioning of the body including the brain, resulting in a spontaneous deconditioning of maladaptive bodily and mental behavior and an improved homeostatic adjustment to life.
Problem...study doesn't actually give the length of the fast nor any other info outside a conclusion of a 10 year study with no other real data. Again, don't know the length (don't know if it was long term fasting) nor any results as far as weight loss.
Study 3: Fasting-enhanced immune effector mechanisms in obese subjects (1982)
Result: These results indicate that fasting has differential influences on immune function rather than a uniformly deleterious effect. Of potential import, this nutritional alteration appears to actually enhance certain effector functions of the host defense system.
14 day fast..not about weight loss..and not really conclusive as this being an overall good thing against the side effects of long term fasting.
Study 4: Vegetarian fasting of obese patients: a clinical and biochemical evaluation. (1982)
Result: Fasting according to the described regimen thus seems to provide a safe method for treatment of obese patients.
Read deeper. Before and after the fasting period the patients were hospitalized and put on a standardized weight-maintaining diet; at the health center they consumed vegetable juices containing less than 1 MJ and 3 g of protein per day. You know what this really is? A medically supervised low calorie diet...not fasting at home.
I'd go on and on but one thing I keep noticing in every study on your site. The medically supervised fasting was 14 days tops, not 35. Very few even had to do with weight loss AND those that do didn't have follow ups on if the weight stayed off.
Look, you want to do a fast and take your health in your own hands? Fine. Just don't expect on this site not to get called on it and questioned and debated. It is an open forum.
I would, again, just point out that you seem more interested in driving people to your blog than this site.