Fasting and Health.
When wisely followed, the practice of fasting is most beneficial, mf m »°y people really never feel the sensation of natural hunger. All they have is a. morbid craving for food, which comes of habit rather than from any actual -need felt by the stomach. Natural ' hunger stimulates the palate, and is felt in the mouth as well as in the internal organs. It makes the plainest food seem delicious, and, when being satisfied, is a source of such enjoyment as the average well-fed' man has no conception of. borne suffer, it is true, from insufficient food but not so many as those whose ills arise from ovor-nutrition, their Age**"" *«np continually overstrained. A h ? bjt ous fasting would do wonders for them. Ihe system would recover its lost tone and in the case of mental workers the brain would work with an ease »nd lightness that would surprise them, for the brain is one of the chief sufferers from the practice of overeating.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 76
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167Fasting and Health. Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 76
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