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Forget Everything You Have Ever Read About

Fasting

The amount of anti-fasting misinformation that can be found on the Internet is
astounding. This is despite the fact that our bodies were designed to fast, and that
almost every major religion and culture has some sort of fasting built into its rituals to
this day, and that most scientific studies that require blood collection also require

their subjects to be fasted.

Information on fasting and dieting is prevalent in cyberspace and in popular diet
books. However, this information should be read with extreme caution. Ridiculous
statements such as “Fasting will KILL your metabolism,” “fasting deprives your body of

nutrients and does nothing to help you modify your dietary habits,” “The weight loss
from fasting comes entirely from muscle,” or “The weight loss from fasting comes entirely
from water” and finally “If you do not eat every 5 hours your liver releases sugar, which
causes an insulin surge making you gain fat even without food” are typical of the fasting
misinformation that is available.

This is an example of ‘authoritative parroting’ where people simply repeat what they
have had heard from authorities on the topic, without actually stopping to check and
see if what they have heard is correct. So the same misinformation is passed on,
regurgitated, repeated, and made true; solely on the basis of the source, rather than

whether or not it is actually correct.

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