withdrawal from a fast) ............................................. 363
13.7. How to prepare Bolotov’s whey (serum) .... 369
13.8. What are the potential complications during
withdrawal from fasting? .......................................... 371
14. What’s the ideal scheme for conducting a dry
fractional fast at home? ..........................................  379
15. How many kinds of dry fasting exist? ............  384
15.1. Interesting facts: Secrets of Japanese monks
...................................................................................... 392  15.2. Interesting facts: Dry fasting and dousing
with cold water ........................................................... 399
16. How should you conduct a long dry fast? ...... 401
17. Dry fractional fasting. Who do we recommend it
to?............................................................................  473
18. How to come out of a 9 -day dry fasting course?
.................................................................................  480
A nutritional program for coming out of a fast .. 495
19. What diseases can be cured through dry fasting?
.................................................................................  499
19.1. Dry fasting for acute diseases. ...................... 499
19.1.1. Fasting for acute infections (acute
respiratory diseases, influenza) ........................... 502
19.1.2. Dry fasting for the relapse of gastric ulcer
or duodenal ulcer, chronic pancreatitis,
cholecystitis, colitis, etc. ....................................... 516
19.1.3. Dry fasting for diabetes ......................... 521
19.2. Dry Fasting for chronic diseases .................. 524  19.2.1. Dry Fasting for endointoxication and
atherosclerosis............................................................ 529
19.2.2. Dry Fasting for hypertension .................... 532
19.2.3. Why dry fasting helps fight chronic diseases
...................................................................................... 539
19.2.4. Dry fasting for cystic tumors in the body  543
19.2.5. Dry Fasting for Infertility .......................... 546
19.2.6. Toxemia in Pregnant Women .................. 551
19.2.7. Endometriosis ............................................. 558
19.2.8. Dry Fasting for Benign Tumors ................ 561
19.2.9. Mastopathy ..................................................  566
19.2.10. Prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia
...................................................................................... 568
19.2.11. Dry Fasting for Bronchopulmonary
Diseases....................................................................... 573
19.2.12. Cardiovascular Diseases: Hypertension
and Atherosclerosis ................................................... 591  19.2.13. Neurological diseases: degenerative disc
disease, protrusions, disk herniation, migraine.
................................................................................. 600
19.2.14. Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylos ing
spondylitis, deforming osteoarthrosis, infectious
polyarthritis........................................................... 604
19.2.15. Can dry fasting treat AIDS and hepatitis
C?............................................................................ 627
19.2.16. Dry Fasting against Cancer ................ 631
19.2.17. Dry Fasting against Skin Diseases ..... 637
19.2.18. Functional Nervous System Disorders
................................................................................. 649
19.2.19. Dry Fasting against Obesity ............... 652
20. How does doctor Filonov debunk myths about
dry therapeutic fasting? ..........................................  679
Literature ..............................................................  722

 Foreword by the curator of English and
Italian edition Vera Giovanna Bani
Between 29 June and 13 July 2019 I had the
honor and the privilege of organizing the first
dry fasting practice in Europe (Strunjan - Slove-
nia), with Dr. Filonov and his team of masseurs:
his daughters Olga Kulikova, Anastasiya An-
tonova and nephew Andrey Cherkasskyj. We
worked with a fantastic group of almost thirty
people, all Italians except for one German girl,
one French and one Swiss. The experience was
wonderful, effective and constructive for every-
one (see the p hoto dossier at the end of the
book).  But how did this project of disseminating
dry fasting begin?...
…In October 2016, I began to get interested in
dry fasting without suspecting that this path
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world. I disco vered that in the post -war Soviet
Union, where pharmaceutical lobbies were en-
tirely inexistent, and a strong spirit of innova-
tion and scientific research prevailed, a medical -
scientific approach entailing therapeutic fasting
was formally consolidated. Drawing on a tradi-
tion previously established in Russia, the mech-
anisms of therapeutic fasting had been success-
fully investigated and clinically tested on thou-
sands of patients over the course of 60 years.
This provided the scientific foundation that
eventuall y made it possible for the Ministry of
Health to approve its methodological indica-
tions. Many Russian doctors had the oppor-
tunity to cultivate this approach and even
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defined.
In November 2016, I worked to meet Dr. Fi-
lonov, who is considered the top dry fasting ex-
pert in Russia. I offered him to become the fore-
runner of dry fasting in Italy and he gave me
“carte blanche”. Thus, in March 2017, thanks to
the invitation of the Italian University of Health
heade d by Dr. Valdo Vaccaro, I had the oppor-
tunity to introduce Dr. Filonov to the Italian au-
dience.
In the summer of 2017, I tested this fantastic
method on myself at Dr. Filonov’s headquarters
in Altai Republic (Ust -Sema, West Siberia) and
finally in mid -December 2017 the monograph,
Digiuno secco. Gli ultimi sviluppi della digiuno-
terapia in Russia  (Dry Fasting: the latest
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It’s the first non -Russian book about dry fasting!
This 687 -page volume comprises the al most
complete version of the first book by Dr Filonov,
Suchoe lechebnoe golodanie. Mify i realnost (Dry
medical fasting. Myths and reality) and selected
chapters of his second book, Lechenie organizma
sobstvennymi silami  (Curing the body with its
own strengths)1.

1 Our monograph in italian: Digiuno secco. Gli ultimi sviluppi della
digiunoterapia in Russia  (Dry fast: the latest developments in fasting
in Russia), Macerata, edizioni Simple 2017, brings together the
translation of the two writings of S. Filonov and is composed as fol-
lows:
- Suchoe lechebnoe golodanie. Mify i realnost  - (Therapeutic dry
fasting.  Myths and reality), 2008. This book is reported here in
an almost integral version, separated into the shorter chapters:
Interesnye svedeniya o suchom golodanii (Interesting facts about
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aly: its emergence attracted the attention of the
community of complementary medicine sup-
porters, and many bought it without hesitation,
despite its weight and hefty price.
Nonetheless, we’d like to emphasize, however,
is that the subject of our work has had repercus-
sions outside of a circle of enthusiasts of the al-
ternative medicine scene: today, our website Si-
berika.it receives continuous requests for

dry fasting), Zenshchina, kotoraya ne est  (The woman who does
not eat ), Solntseedy  (The sun -eaters)
- Lechenie organizma sobstvennymi silami (Curing the body with
its own strengths), 2015 - the chapters regarding the vetero -
slavic massage Staroslaviyanskie metody lecheniya  (Vetero -
slavic treatment methods) have been omittedy

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 my home. On more than one visit h e had proclaimed that his writing was for the public,
that he wanted it to go to good use. He generously made the offer that I should r eprint his writing wherever I saw fit.
This is one of those occasions. I have incorporated several short piece s of Terry’s writing into The 80/10/10  Diet. His
comparative anatomy assessment of the natural diet for humans, whic h I have included in a somewhat revised form as Chapter 1, is
the longest of them.

Acknowledgments

I wish to offer my gratitude to the many people who made this book possible. It is not  possible to name them all, as so many
folks played an important part in its creation.
First, my special thanks go to the following people, each of whom worked with me a nd helped me to clarify my thoughts on
the subject matter in this book: Gail Davis, Dave Klein, Ken Lyle, Laur ie Masters, Tim Trader, Laurie Clifford, Robert Sniadach,
Bruce Brazis, David Rodenbucher, Catherine Galipeau, and John Pierre.
Contributions came in many forms, from information to editing, from resea rch to relief. Some of you provided me with the
necessary sounding board that I needed, others asked the questions that broug ht clarity to some aspect of this project or another.
Some folks provided help simply by sharing the details of their program with m e, including the problems and solutions they had
discovered along the way. I wish all of you could know how important your influe nce really was.
For their behind-the-scenes contributions, I would like to especially th ank Dennis Nelson, David Taylor, Justin Lelia, Josh
Steinhauser, Tom Cushwa, Gideon and Jackie Graff, Nancy Parlette, Todd Ew en, Dr. Deborah Wood, Charlie Mort, Craig
Bishop, Coby Siegenthaler, Suzanne Slusser, and Shari Leiterman.
I wish to thank John Robbins and Michael Greger for giving me their kind per mission to reprint some of their previously
published work, and also Antonia Horne for allowing me the privilege of  including excerpts from her late husband Ross Horne’s
work.
Many people simply pushed for me to put this body of work into print, as they wanted to s how it to their dear ones. Each of
you contributed in your own special way, giving something that made it poss ible for me to get on with my work. For this I thank you.
It means a great deal to me that you would think my work so valuable as to be wil ling to take the energy to prod me into writing this
book. Those of you who actually gave up your precious time in order for me to move forw ard with this project provided invaluable
support.
Many people helped with the creation of the Frequently Asked Questions s ection, providing questions and, in many instances,
appropriate responses. My appreciation goes to Randall Phelps, Janie Gardene r, and Jack Whitley for their help with editing the
FAQs.
Marr Nealon, your efforts to help me promote this cause were (and continue  to be) stupendous, thank you.
To my niece, Shyella Joy Mayk, thank you for all your fitness motivation, su pport, and your endless help with my website.
And to Liati Natanya Mayk, her sister, thank you for keeping me intellect ually honest and helping me maintain my perspective
through the relaxation of music.
To Gail Davis, my publicist, thank you for the long nights of proofreading and y our continual input on how to illuminate this
book and my business so that they would evolve into everything I knew they cou ld be.
The hours just kept speeding by while I worked on The 80/10/10  Diet. I often lost track of time, and sometimes also lost
track of commitments, appointments, meals, my personal needs for physical a ctivity, and even sleep.
Fortunately, I am extremely blessed, in that I have a personal angel i n my life who makes it her full-time job to look after me. I
wish to thank my beautiful wife Rozi, for her selfless and endless atte ntion while I worked on this book. Without her constant help
and support, I would never have been able to have made time for this book. Even if I h ad been forced to try, I do not think I would
have successfully or healthfully been able to complete it without he r.
Thank you, Rozi, for paying attention to so many of life’s little and big  details. I would have let them slip in pursuit of finishing
this task. I can only hope that you feel as rewarded by me as I do by you, and as support ed.
I am forever indebted to my loving parents, Marty and Bea, who have always t aught me how to be a successful adult by their
shining example. My wish is that in raising my own child, Faychesca, I am able to employ the same parenting skills that they have
shown me, with at least a modicum of their competence and grace.
Special Thanks
I would especially like to extend sincere appreciation to my editor, Laurie  Masters of Precision Revision
(www.GreenSongPress.org) and to Carina Honga, whose position is as varie d as all the tasks we have encountered. The time these
wonderful women have devoted to researching, editing, and organizing thi s book amounts to years. Their dedication, writing skills,
and teamwork have taken this book to a new level.
Laurie, thank you for keeping me honest through your amazing research s kills and for distilling my writing down to what I was
actually trying to say. Y our signature knack for “rototilling” a disj ointed manuscript and turning it into a coherent book has once
again proven invaluable. I am forever grateful for your steadfast comm itment to me and to this project and for your tenacity in
keeping its zillion details on track. Thank you in particular for your person al contributions to this book (notably Chapter 8 and
Appendix D). I am convinced you are the best editor this side of the universe.
Carina, adding you to our team was one of the best things I have ever done. Tha nk you for your tireless efforts to complete
any and every thing that was asked of you with incredible speed and skill.
Introduction

Americans have been told for more than forty years that we are eating  too much fat, yet our consumption of this nutrient has
remained essentially unchanged during that time. 1 We have made no headway in eating less fat, despite massive educationa l
programs, the carbohydrate-loading craze, leaner meats, low-fat fiber- filled cereals and bars, and low-fat desserts, dairy products,
and entrées.

We Are Fatter (and Sicker) Than Ever
Meanwhile, as a nation, we have become the fattest people on Earth and are  still getting fatter. Two-thirds of all Americans
are overweight, half of them obese. Because obesity is so common, few of  us realize that our current view of “normal” body fat
levels has been skewed to allow for several dozen extra pounds. Sadly, mor bid obesity is rapidly moving up in the ranks of “causes
of preventable death” statistics in our nation. Consider the followi ng:

Nearly One-Third of the Calories in the U.S. Diet
Come from Junk Food 2
by Sarah Yang, Media Relations | 01 June 2004
U. C. Berkeley News

Gladys Block, professor of epidemiology and public health nutrition at the Uni versity of California, Berkeley, published a study
in the June 2004 issue of the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis.
The study reveals that three food groups—sweets and desserts, soft drin ks and alcoholic beverages—comprise almost 25
percent of all calories consumed by Americans. Salty snacks and fruit -flavored drinks make up another five percent, bringing the
total energy contributed by nutrient-poor foods to at least 30 percent of the tot al calorie intake.
“What is really alarming is the major contribution of ‘empty calor ies’ in the American diet,” said Block. “W e know people are
eating a lot of junk food, but to have almost one-third of Americans’ cal ories coming from those categories is a shocker. It’s no
wonder there’s an obesity epidemic in this country.”

The standard American diet (SAD) is a sad testament to the rampant ph ysical and mental decay of the most prosperous
nations on Earth. As our consumption of junk foods, animal products, chemical a dditives, toxic pesticides, and genetically modified
organisms have increased, our health has plummeted. The numbers are s taggering:

Obesity: In 2000, poor diet including obesity and physical inactivity caused more than 320,000 U.S. deaths and numbered
among the top preventable causes of disease. 3 Obesity is the leading cause of all three of our top killers: heart disea se, cancer, and
stroke. 4

Heart disease: Although the first recorded heart attack is said to have appeared in Brit ish medical literature just over a
hundred years ago (1878), more than one in five Americans now suffers from  some form of cardiovascular disease, and more than
2,500 Americans die from it each day. 5 In 2001, just under 700,000 Americans died of heart disease


 were designed to secrete smallamounts of mucus for lubrication. The lungs eliminate used air and the tissues are
lubricated with mucus-like secretions too. These secretions are types of
eliminations, but are not intended for the elimination of toxins. When toxins aredischarged in mucus through tissues not designed to handle them, the tissuesthemselves become irritated, inflamed, weakened and thus much more subject tobacterial or viral infection. Despite this danger, not eliminating surplus toxinscarries with it the greater penalty of serious disability or death. So the body, in itswisdom, initially chooses secondary elimination routes as far from vital tissues andorgans as possible. Almost inevitably the skin or skin-like mucus membranes suchas the sinuses, or lung tissues become the first line of defense.
 Thus the average person’s disease history begins with colds, flu, sinusitis,
bronchitis, chronic cough, asthma, rashes, acne, eczema, psoriasis. If thesesecondary eliminations are suppressed with drugs (either from the medical doctoror with over the counter remedies), if the eating or lifestyle habits that created thetoxemia are not changed, or if the toxic load increases beyond the limits of thistechnique, the body then begins to store toxins in fat or muscle tissues or the jointcavities, overburdens the kidneys, creates cysts, fibroids, and benign tumors tostore those toxins. If toxic overload continues over a longer time the body willeventually have to permit damages to vital tissues, and life-threatening conditionsdevelop.
Hygienic doctors always stress that disease is remedial effort. Illness comes
from the body’s best attempt to lighten its toxic load without immediatelythreatening its survival. The body always does the very best it can to remedytoxemia given its circumstances, and it should be commended for these effortsregardless of how uncomfortable they might be to the person inhabiting the body.Symptoms of secondary elimination are actually a positive thing because they arethe body’s efforts to lessen a dangerously toxic condition. Secondary eliminationsshouldn’t be treated immediately with a drug to suppress the process. If yousquelch the bodies best and least-life-threatening method to eliminate toxins, thebody will ultimately have to resort to another more dangerous though probablyless immediately uncomfortable channel.
The conventional medical model does not view disease this way and sees the
symptoms of secondary elimination as the disease itself. So the conventionaldoctor takes steps to halt the body’s remedial efforts, thus stopping theundesirable symptom and then, the symptom gone, proclaims the patient cured.Actually, the disease is the cure.
A common pattern of symptom suppression under the contemporary medical
model is this progression: treat colds with antihistamines until the body getsinfluenza; suppress a flu repeatedly with antibiotics and eventually you getpneumonia. Or, suppress eczema with cortisone ointment repeatedly, andeventually you develop kidney disease. Or, suppress asthma with bronkiodialatorsand eventually you need cortisone to suppress it. Continue treating asthma withsteroids and you destroy the adrenals; now the body has become allergic tovirtually everything.
The presence of toxins in an organ of secondary elimination is frequently the
cause of infection. Sinuses and lungs, inflamed by secondary eliminations, areattacked by viruses or bacteria; infectious diseases of the skin result from pushingtoxins out of the skin. More generalized infections also result from toxemia; in thiscase the immune system has become compromised and the body is overwhelmedby an organism that it normally should be able to resist easily. The wise cure ofinfections is not to use antibiotics to suppress the bacteria while simultaneouslywhipping the immune system; most people, including most medical doctors, donot realize that antibiotics also goose the immune system into super efforts. Butwhen one chooses to whip a tired horse, eventually the exhausted animalcollapses and cannot rise again no matter how vigorously it is beaten. The wisecure is to detoxify the body, a step that simultaneously eliminates secondaryeliminations and rebuilds the immune system.
The wise way to deal with the body’s eliminative efforts is to accept that
disease is an opportunity to pay the piper for past indiscretions. You should go tobed, rest, and drink nothing but water or dilute juice until the condition has
passed. This allows the body to conserve its vital energy, direct this energy
toward healing the disordered body part, and catch up on its waste disposal. Inthis way you can help your body, be in harmony with its efforts instead of workingagainst it which is what most people do.
Please forgive another semi-political polemic here, but in my practice I have
often been amazed to hear my clients complain that they have not the time nor theability to be patient with their body, to rest it through an illness because they havea job they can’t afford to miss or responsibilities they can’t put down. This is asad commentary on the supposed wealth and prosperity of the United States. Inour country most people are enslaved by their debts, incurred because they hadbeen enthralled by the illusion of happiness secured by the possession of materialthings. Debt slaves believe they cannot miss a week of work. People who feelthey can’t afford to be sick think they can afford to live on pills. So people pushthrough their symptoms by sheer grit for years on end, and keep that up until theirexhausted horse of a body breaks down totally and they find themselves in thehospital running up bills to the tune of several thousand dollars a day. But thesevery same people do not think they can afford the loss of a few hundred dollars ofcurrent income undertaking some virtually harmless preventative maintenance ontheir bodies.
Given half a chance the body will throw off toxic overburdens and cleanse
itself. And once the body has been cleansed of toxemia, disagreeable symptomsusually cease. This means that to make relatively mild but unwanted symptomslessen and ultimately stop it is merely necessary to temporarily cut back foodintake, eating only what does not cause toxemia. These foods I classify ascleansing, such as raw fruits and vegetables and their juices. If the symptoms areextreme, are perceived as overwhelming or are actually life-threatening,detoxification can be speeded up by dropping back to only dilute raw juices orvegetable broth made only from greens, without eating the solids. In the most
extreme cases hygienists use their most powerful medicine: a long fast on herb
teas, or just water. I will have a lot to say about fasting, later.
When acutely ill, the most important thing to do is to just get out of the body’s
way, and let it heal itself. In our ignorance we are usually our own worst enemy inthis regard. We have been very successfully conditioned to think that allsymptoms are bad. But I know from experience that people can and do learn anew way of viewing the body, an understanding that puts them at cause over theirown body. It allows you to be empowered in one more area of life instead ofbeing dependent and at the mercy of other peoples decisions about your body.
Finally, and this is why natural medicine is doubly unpopular, to prevent the
recurrence of toxemia and acute disease states, person must discover what theyare doing wrong and change their life. Often as not this means elimination of theperson’s favorite (indigestible) foods and/or (stress-producing) bad habits.Naturally, I will have a lot more to say about this later, too.
Chapter Three
Fasting
From The Hygienic Dictionary
Cure.  [1] There is no “cure” for disease; fasting is not a cure. Fasting facilitates natural healing
processes. Foods do not cure. Until we have discarded our faith in cures, there can be no intelligentapproach to the problems presented by suffering and no proper use of foods by those who are ill.Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, v. 3, Fasting and Sunbathing.  [2] All cure starts from within
out and from the head down and in reverse order as the symptoms have appeared. Hering”s Law ofCure. [3] Life is made up of crises. The individual establishes a standard of health peculiarly his own,which must vary from all other standards as greatly as his personality varies from others. Theindividual standard may be such as to favor the development of indigestion, catarrh, gout, rheumaticand glandular inflammations, tubercular developments, congestions, sluggish secretions and excretions,or inhibitions of various functions, both mental and physical, wherever the environmental or habitstrain is greater than usual. The standard of resistance may be opposed so strenuously by habits andunusual physical agencies—that the body breaks down under the strain. This is a crisis. Appetitefails, discomfort or pain forces rest, and, as a result of physiological rest (fasting) and physical rest(rest from daily work and habits), a readjustment takes place, and the patient is “cured.” This is whatthe profession and the people call a cure, and it is for the time being—until an unusual enervation isbrought on from accident or dissipation; then another crisis. These crises are the ordinary sickness ofall communities—all catalogued diseases. When the cold is gone or the hay-fever fully relieved, it doesnot mean the patient is cured. Indeed, he is as much diseased as before he suffered the attack—thecrisis—and he never will be cured until the habits of life that keep up toxin poisoning are corrected. Torecover from a crisis is not a cure; the tendency is back to the individual standard; hence all crises areself-limited, unless nature


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list ener s.
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as w el l as man y
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disc o v er ed
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helped m y patient s
c onquer C andid a
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moder n times.C andid a c an be
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bod y, but onc e t her e
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int estines.
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C andid a spr eads
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ar e not absor bed b y
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bod y
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and that is the
experience you take into your own love
relationships.
It is also the experience you bring to Me.
From this experience you draw your
conclusions about Me. Within this
framework  you speak your truth. “God is a
loving God,” you say, “but if you break His
commandments, He will punish you with
eternal banishment and everlasting
damnation.”
For have you not experienced the
banishment of your own parents? Do you
not know the pa in of their damnation? How,
then, could you imagine it to be any
different with Me?  You have forgotten what it was like to be
loved without condition. You do not
remember the experience of the love of
God. And so you try to imagine what God’s
love must be like, based on what you see
of love in the world.
You have projected the role of “parent” onto
God, and have thus come up with a  God
Who judges and rewards or punishes,
based on how good He feels about what
you’ve been up to. But this is a simplistic
view of God, based on your mythology. It
has nothing to do with Who I Am.
Having thus created an entire thought
system about God based on human
experience rather than spiritual truths, you
then create an entire reality around love.  It
is a fear -based reality, r ooted in the idea of
a fearful, vengeful God. Its Sponsoring  Thought is wrong, but to deny that thought
would be to disrupt your whole theology.
And though the new theology which would
replace it would truly be your salvation,  you
cannot accept it, because  the idea of a God
Who is not to be feared, Who will  not judge,
and Who has no cause to punish is simply
too magnificent to he  embraced within even
your grandest notion of Who and What God
is.
This fear -based love reality dominates your
experience of love; indeed, actually  creates
it. For not only do you see yourself
receiving love which is conditional, you  also
watch yourself giving it in the same way.
And even while you withhold and  retreat
and set your conditions, a part of you
knows t his is not what love really is.  Still,
you seem powerless to change the way you dispense it You’ve learned the  hard
way, you tell yourself, and you’ll be damned
if you’re going to leave yourself  vulnerable
again. Yet the truth is, you’ll be damned if
you don’t.
[By your own (mistaken) thoughts about
love do you damn yourself never to
experience it purely. So, too, do you damn
yourself never to know Me as I really am.
Until you do. For you shall not be able to
deny Me forever, and the moment will  come
for our Reconciliation.]
Every action taken by human beings is
based in love or fear, not simply those
dealing with relationships. Decisions
affecting business, industry, politics,
religion,  the education of your young, the
social agenda of your nations, th e
economic goals  of your society, choices involving war, peace, attack, defense,
aggression,  submission; determinations to
covet or give away, to save or to share, to
unite or to  divide —every single free choice
you ever undertake arises out of one of the
only two  possible thoughts there are: a
thought of love or a thought of fear.
Fear is the energy which contracts, closes
down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards,
harms.
Love is the energy which expands, opens
up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares,
heals.
Fear w raps our bodies in clothing, love
allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to
and clutches all that we have, love gives all
that we have away. Fear holds close, love
holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love
amends.
Every human thought, word, or deed is
based in one emotion or the other. You
have  no choice about this, because there is
nothing else from which to choose. But you
have free choice about which of these to
select.
You make it sound so easy, and yet in the
moment of decision fear wins more often
than not.  Why is that?
You have been taught to live in fear. You
have been told about the survival of the
fittest and the victory of the strongest and
the success of the cleverest. Precious  little
is said about the g lory of the most loving.
And so you strive to be the fittest, the
strongest, the cleverest —in one way or another —and if you see yourself as
something less than this in any situation,
you fear loss, for you have been told that  to
be less is to lose.
And so of course you choose the action
fear sponsors, for that is what you have
been taught. Yet I teach you this: when you
choose the action love sponsors, then  will
you do more than survive, then will you do
more than win, then will you do more  than
succeed. Th en will you experience the full
glory of Who You Really Are, and  who you
can be.
To do this you must turn aside the
teachings of your well -meaning, but
misinformed,  worldly tutors, and hear the
teachings of those whose wisdom comes
from another  source.  There are many such teachers among you,
as always there have been, for I will not
leave you without those who would show
you, teach you, guide you, and remind you
of these truths. Yet the greatest reminder is
not anyone outside you, but the voice
within you. This is the first tool that I use,
because it is the most accessible.
The voice within is the loudest voice with
which I speak, because it is the closest to
you. It is the voice which tells you whether
everything else is true or false, right or
wrong,  good or bad as you have defined it.
It is the radar that sets the course, steers
the ship, guides the journey if you but let it.
It is the voice which tells you right now
whether the very words you are reading are
words of love or words of fear. By this measure can you determine whether they
are words to heed or words to ignore.
You said that when I always choose the
action that love sponsors, then I will
experience the  full glory of who I am and
who I can be. Will you expand on this
please?
There is only one purpose for all of life, and
that is for you and all that lives to
experience fullest glory.
Everything else you say, think, or do is
attendant to that function. There is nothing
else for your soul to do, and nothing else
your soul wants to do. The won der of this
purpose is that it is never -ending. An
ending is a limitation, and God’s purpose is
without such a boundary. Should there
come a moment in which you experience  yourself in your fullest glory, you will in that
instant imagine an ever-greater  glory to
fulfill. The more you are, the more you can
become, and the more you can become,
the more you can yet be.
The deepest secret is that life is not a
process of discovery, but a process of
creation.
You are not discovering yourself but
creating yourself  anew. Seek, therefore,
not to  find out Who You Are, seek to
determine Who You Want to Be.
There are those who say that life is a
school, that we are here to learn specific
lessons, that  once we “graduate” we can go
on to larger pursuits, no longer shackled by
the body. Is this  correct?  It is another part of your mythology, based
on human experience.
Life is not a school?
No.
We are not here to learn lessons?
No.
Then why are we here?
To remember, and recreate, Who You Are.
I have told you, over and over again. You
do not believe Me. Yet that is well as it
should be. For truly, if you do not create
yourself as Who You Are, that you cannot
be.
Okay, You’ve lost me. Let’s go back to this
school bit. I’ve heard teacher after teacher
tell us  that life  is a school. I’m frankly
shocked to hear You deny that.  School is a place you go if there is
something you do not know that you want
to know. It is not a place you go if you
already know a thing and simply want to
experience your knowingness.
Life (as you  call it) is an opportunity for you
to know experientially what you already
know conceptually. You need learn nothing
to do this. You need merely remember  what
you already know, and act on it.
I’m not sure I understand.
Let’s start here. The soul —your soul —
knows all there is to know all the time.
There’s nothing hidden


 la Torre, MD, PhD, began his work on
dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) in the early 1970s shortly after his appointment as assistant professor in neurosurgery at the University of Chicago. Dr. de la Torre’s research revealed DMSO’s ability to quickly reduce intracranial pressure, restore cerebral blood flow, and stabilize respiration in nonhuman primates sustaining lethal traumatic brain injuries. For the next eight years, he extended his brain trauma findings and showed that intrave -
nous administration of DMSO was effective in
treating primary and secondary damage following experimental ischemic stroke and spinal cord trauma. These neuroprotective properties of DMSO have been broadly confirmed by other investigators in the last three decades.xii Authors
A host of other ailments amenable to DMSO therapy were reported at the inter -
national conference “Biological Actions and Medical Applications of Dimethyl
Sulfoxide” in 1983, chaired by Dr. de la Torre and sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences.
Besides his first faculty appointment at the University of Chicago, Dr. de la Torre
has held professorial appointments in neurosurgery and neuroscience at Northwestern University in Chicago, the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Case Western University in Cleveland. He was visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego, University of Valencia, Spain, and the Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Cerebrovasculaire, Paris, France. Dr. de la Torre has published more than 180 peer-reviewed research articles and has written or edited a dozen medical texts on pathology, neurotransmitters, and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. de la Torre’s training in neuroanatomy and neuropathology has led him to specialize in disorders of the brain, including stroke, cerebral trauma, and dementia. He continues his research as an adjunct professor of psychology at The University of Texas in Austin.xiii
Introduction
First isolated as a peculiar chemical compound by the Russian chemist Alexander
Saytzeff in 1866, dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) first proved to be a near-perfect solvent for decades until its other remarkable attributes became known to researchers and to millions of people around the planet.
DMSO is one of the most remarkable agents ever to come out of the world of
drug development. Its wide range of biological actions involving plants, animals, and humans has led to tens of thousands of articles written in the scientific literature from all parts of the planet since its medicinal discovery in 1964 by Jacob and Hershler.
1
These investigators first pointed out DMSO’s clinical applications and, in so doing, opened a Pandora’s box of medical and scientific research into the alleviation of dis -
ease, pain, and trauma.
 The earliest and most impressive observation made by Jacob
and Hershler1 was the ability of DMSO to penetrate the skin without damaging it.
A few drops of DMSO spilled on the skin would quickly cause a distinctive garlic
taste on the tongue, indicating its immediate transcutaneous penetration into the circulation. This fact alone placed DMSO in the exclusive club where small mol -
ecules (under 500 Da) can cross the integument and be considered in the possible realm of topical dermatotherapy. In later years, DMSO was tested intravenously and was shown to exert rapid and safe activity as a neuroprotective agent against various types of trauma in animals and humans.
With a team of collaborators, Jacob’s initial article and others that followed
described the effects of DMSO on pain, anti-inflammation, vasodilation, reduction of scar tissue, and antimicrobial activity, including its killing action against tubercu -
losis-resistant bacilli.
These findings have led to a steady cascade of scientific papers on both in vitro
and in vivo  systems that continue to the present time. Also, several dozen interna -
tional conferences have been held where investigators have reported the properties of DMSO on the biochemical, molecular, physiological, pharmacological, and medical systems linked to trauma and disease.
This book examines the major clinical uses of DMSO in humans as supported
by basic evidence derived from experiments in animals, including its effects as a powerful pain reliever, and in disorders such as osteoarthritis, interstitial cystitis, gastrointestinal inflammatory changes, scleroderma, respiratory distress, myasthe -
nia gravis, cardiac disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and spinal cord trauma.
In the case of DMSO, how does one categorize an agent with such a wide range of
biological and pharmacological activities? Can one small and simple molecule affect these medical conditions in a beneficial manner? And if so, what mechanisms are at play in these processes?
In order to explore the pharmacotherapeutic actions of DMSO on diverse medical
conditions, the book offers a critical analysis of the scientific research that examined DMSO’s action as a free radical scavenger; an anti-inflammatory, antipain, anticancer, xiv Introduction
cell membrane stabilizer; and aneuroprotective agent in preventing and treating
trauma and disease.
The ability of DMSO to act as a chemical chaperone and to enhance the penetra -
tion of an accompanying compound applied topically on the skin has opened the door to the field of drug delivery by percutaneous transport of selective molecules.
The book explores how the chemical structure of DMSO is able to react and deac -
tivate toxic molecules generated by DNA damage, free radical formation, inflam -
mation, infection, and tissue injury. Many toxic and potentially lethal molecules suppressed by DMSO include chemokines, interleukins, tumor necrosis factor, thromboxane, tissue factor, thrombin, and glutamate excitotoxicity.
Many of these toxic molecules appear as a secondary reaction to traumatic inju-
ries and countless of disorders to overwhelm the clinical picture and disease out -
come. For this reason, the biological actions and therapeutic usefulness of DMSO have been barely scratched on the surface despite thousands of articles indicating its clinical potential.
We hope this book will serve as a guide to explain the many facets of how DMSO
works and to open new doors in the search for better ways to help the ill and the suffering.
This book will be of interest to health-care workers, clinicians, basic scientists,
and health-conscious consumers who wish to know more about the biological diver -
sity and medical applications of DMSO.
REFERENCE
 1.  Jacob SW, Bischel M, Hershler RJ. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO): A new concept in
pharmacotherapy. Curr Ther Res Clin Exp.  1964; Feb;6:134–135.1
1Chemistry of DMSO
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF DMSO
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was first synthesized in 1866, and the finding was
reported a year later by the Russian organic chemist Alexander Saytzeff.1 Other
common names of DMSO are methyl sulfoxide and methylsulfinylmethane. A sulf -
oxide is a chemical compound containing a sulfinyl functional group  attached to two
carbon atoms. The DMSO molecule has a pyramidal structure containing sulfur, oxygen, and carbon atoms. The sulfur atom is in the center, while the two methyl groups, the oxygen atom, and a nonbonding electron pair are located at the corners (Figure 1.1). The sulfur atom serves as the positive dipole and activates the hydrogen atoms of the methyl groups making them weakly acidic and very resistant to removal in free radical reactions and allowing removal only by strongly basic reagents such as sodium hydride.
2
DMSO is produced as a by-product of wood pulping. Lignin, in the kraft pulping
liquor wastes, is a polymer of unknown structure and the principal source of DMSO. DMSO synthesis is derived from dimethyl sulfide, a by-product of the manufacture of paper.
Wood contains about 25%–30% lignin and sulfite waste liquors up to 6%.
3
DMSO is commercially made available in the United States by Gaylord Chemical Corporation, which also makes the highly pure grade of DMSO for drug delivery and health-care applications.
The principal impurity present in DMSO is water, and the purified solvent will
readily absorb water vapor if exposed to the atmosphere.
Solvents are classified as either polar or nonpolar, and the most common measure
of solvent polarity is the dielectric constant.
The sulfur–oxygen bond in DMSO is quite polar so that the liquid has a high
dielectric constant. This polarity and geometry lead to considerable organization in the liquid state in which DMSO molecules are associated into chains by dipole attraction.
3 Electrophiles are atoms, molecules, and ions that behave as electron
acceptors. Nucleophilic reagents such as DMSO behave as electron donors. The sul -
fur center in DMSO is nucleophilic toward soft electrophiles, which are molecules that readily accept electrons during a primary reaction step, while the oxygen is nucleophilic toward hard electrophiles, that is, electrons with a positive charge not easily delocalized.
4
Liquids with a high dielectric constant such as DMSO and water have a higher
solubility of substances when immersed in a medium. For that reason, the high dielectric constant of DMSO, which is higher than most organic liquids, makes it a uniquely universal solvent
2 (Table 1.1).2 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
The presence of a liquid structure


ight shoes compress the feet and constrict the muscles that move the toes so
that the muscles waste away. The toe motions become puny and weak. The toe
seeks room anywhere it can in an ill-fitting shoe. It curls
up and arches until the
toenail is nearly vertical. The affected toe may rise, contract, and overlap other
toes. Its tip may strike the ground with each step and become flat and squat. A
hard corn can form and the nail can split and grow inward. Although any toe may
be so affected, the second suffers most often. It is usually longer than the othertoes.
The experimental DMSO treatment was the same as with acute bunions—first
ultrasound and the drug applied and then a dressing with impervious plastic
wrapped over the solvent. A return visit by the patient in three days saw the pain
gone from the deformed toe, although the deformity remained. The pain might
return a day or two later if nothing was done to permanently correct the
malformation.
ARTHRITIS OF THE FEET
Arthritis can affect the joints anywhere in the body, including the feet. Arthritis in
the feet results in most instances from mechanical strain, not from infection. It is
sometimes associated with knock-knees, bowlegs, flat feet, and weak feet. The
condition also contributes to such deformities of the feet as fallen arches, high-
arched foot, hammertoes, bunions, and heel spurs.
Although arthritis cannot be cured at this time, the aching distress and
discomfort that accompany the disease can be partially relieved. Treatment of
arthritis of the feet must be directed both at the general cause and to the relief of
local symptoms.
The general treatment of the problem is the responsibility of your family
physician, for the entire body and its general breakdown may be involved.
Treatment may involve building up your resistance with diet, exercise, relaxation
techniques, weight control, and other things that might constitute your lifestyle.
Local treatment may include foot rest, heat applications, splinting, traction,
physical therapy, and the use of drugs. The specific causes will be looked at, such
as mechanical strains, allergic factors, climatic conditions, congenital defects,
tumors, infection, injury, toxins, disturbances of the circulation, poor nutrition, and
others.
Using DMSO as a local treatment, it’s likely you’ll be able to help yourself a
great deal. The following regimen of care may give relief to a red, hot, swollen
arthritic joint, whether in the heel, the ankle, or the big toe. Arthritic toes respond
quite well to this procedure:
1
.
Paint the acutely inflamed joint with a quantity of DMSO in about 70-percent
strength or a little higher concentration. Don’t go beyond 90 percent because
the method of wrapping that follows may bring about a severe skin reaction
from the DMSO under the hot wrap.2
.
Apply several layers of roller gauze over the entire foot that’s inflamed.
3
.
Rather than painting the skin directly, you might wrap with the gauze first and
then saturate it with DMSO.
4
.
Cover the whole area with rubber sheeting or thin foam rubber.
5
.
Apply a layer of flannel or felt that has been dipped in hot water and wrung
out.
6
.
Put hot water bottles around the inflamed area or cover it with an electric
heating pad wrapped in towels.
7
.
Hold in the heat by covering all the above with Turkish towels.
8
.
Elevate the foot and leg in bed to a level with the heart.
9
.
Continue this treatment for as long as you are comfortable with it, but not
longer than sixty minutes for any single application.
10
.
Reapply the DMSO every four or five hours, as needed.
11
.
After you’ve used this treatment for twelve hours (a maximum of three times),
remove pads, bottles, gauze, and wash the foot so as to take off any DMSO.
Apply a soothing lotion or ointment of the cortisone family, or aloe vera to the
treated foot.
Caution:
 Note that you are using two forms of therapy in this procedure—
DMSO with its anti-inflammatory properties, and moist heat with its own
inflammation-reducing effect. The heat seems to catalyze the DMSO into even
greater effectiveness. But I caution that you can get too much of a DMSO skin
reaction—even too much of an anti-inflammation response. Too much of anything
is no good. Therefore, I strongly suggest that you take precautions with this
treatment, at least the first few times you use it. Keep checking the condition of
your arthritic joint and the skin over it. Don’t allow skin irritation to set in. Take
your body temperature; if you become at all feverish, discontinue the procedure.
Remove the wrappings as described in step eleven and soothe the foot. This is a
highly powerful way to rid the involved foot of an arthritic inflammation.
In practice, in 1965, this method was used with success, but it was
administered by a doctor of podiatric medicine who knew the sort of reactions to
avoid. The pain, swelling, and other signs of inflammation disappeared from a
patient’s feet in the foot care office while the patient occupied a small treatment
room. He or she went home without discomfort, and the relief lasted several days.
HARD AND SOFT CORNSAbout 40 percent of all persons who visit a podiatrist do so initially because of
hard and soft corn problems, and women comprise 80 percent of these people.
Hard corns are growths of horny skin, generally on the top of the toes. Soft
corns grow between the toes. Both types can be easily distinguished from the
normal tissue surrounding them. Within a hard or soft corn is a central radix, or
eye, of hard gray skin, and around the center is a painful inflamed ring of skin and
flesh. The ring is raised and yellow. Pain usually is the main symptom.
The corns come from friction and pressure arising from an underlying
prominence of bone. The sharp edge on the toe bone rubs the skin from inside and
sometimes wrong-fitting shoes rub the skin from the outside. The skin eventually
dies and builds up layer after layer to create the corn. Irritation and pain increase
as the corn grows.
People suffering from corns can be relieved of their problem either temporarily
or permanently. Nobody has to feel the agony of hard corns. Temporary relief
does nothing to prevent the corns from growing again at the same place. It is
palliative.
Painting DMSO on corns was just such a temporary measure. It was done after
the corn was shaved to remove the horny skin causing discomfort. No padding
with moleskin was necessary after palliative corn removal if DMSO application
followed the procedure; however, the corn soon returned without permanent
removal of the underlying bony prominence.
CALLUSES
Calluses are thickened masses of skin that form on the weight-bearing surfaces of
the feet. They come from constant friction and pressure. The pathological callus
such as one developed on the ball of the foot is not healthy.
This kind of plantar callus is surrounded by an inflamed red rim and has fluid
permeating the underlying tissue. It is often swollen, hot, and painful and
frequently appears as a hard, dry, hornlike mass of yellowish or grayish skin. It
may be thick in the center and gradually taper at the sides. Within its center could
be a deep, hard, gray central area that seems like a pebble when removed.
Because the thickened skin of calluses loses its elasticity, the skin no
longer
stretches to normal length across the ball of the foot when the feet are flexed.
These calluses seem to “burn.”
Sometimes corrective treatment means redistributing the weight on the foot
with supportive orthotic devices worn in the shoes. Exercises may be prescribed.Footgear might be changed. Or surgical correction of the involved metatarsal bone
and the associated contraction of the toes may be required. Most of the time the
person with calluses goes to have them pared away. If DMSO is put on after such
paring, no moleskin padding is required to rid the area of tenderness. However,
DMSO does not penetrate the hornlike skin without such removal first.
PLANTAR WARTS
Plantar warts grow on the sole of the foot as raised lumps of flesh. They are
benign tumor-like growths that are well supplied with blood vessels and nerves.
You may mistake them for corns or calluses because they are covered with callus
tissue and because they hurt.
The plantar wart is pearly white, soft and spongy, and has tiny spots, black,
brown, or red, in its center. These spots are the blood vessels. Walking flattens the
wart so that it remains thickened and rough in texture. Varying in size from a
pinhead to a silver quarter, it may grow either singularly or in clusters. It hurts
severely when pinched.
Injury to the plantar of the foot allows entrance of a virus into the skin that may
cause the plantar wart to grow. In fact, there are wart seasons, those times in the
summer when people walk barefoot and bruise the bottoms of their feet


 is low in calories, but it is fully consistent
physiological needs of the organism. Hunza rarely eat meat
and very little drink of milk. Proteins, they are mainly produced from
bread that is baked from wheat and barley, always with an admixture
bran. These grains and their husks apart proteins contain calcium
and mineral salts. Hunza eat brown rice, the husk is
contains vitamin. and in mineral salts, as well as potatoes directly
with the skin - it is especially a lot of protein and mineral salts.
a large number of Hunza consume beans and all sorts of
herbs, including common grass. But the main thing in their diet
- Fresh and dried fruits. Apples and apricots that they are eating
together with bones, more important to them bread. Due to such rigid
diet, these people are extremely hardy. For example, pass 100 -
200 km in a few days for them is the same as that for us the evening
walk... Hunza is always in a good mood, never get angry
and do not quarrel among themselves, quietly endure physical pain
and any adversity. "In the Hunza nerves strong as ropes, and the heart
gentle and compassionate, "- says the scientist. As a result, Mack did Kerison
concluded that it was the food has a definite impact on both our
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255physical health, and on the state of mind. No malnutrition
and the lack of calories causes the disease... and quality - of
what we eat. So, if the diet lacks certain
nutrients that are found only in natural
plant foods can be seriously damaged in the first place
our psyche... Most people eat too much is not so much
to satisfy hunger, but for the gastronomic pleasures. Hunza is
work hard, but eat little and not get sick. Hence, what
man eats less and is easier than its food, the more chances he has
closer to the ideal of health and happiness.
The experience of Mac Kerisona, which in science is known as
Experiment Kennels "- the location of his laboratory.
The researcher shared thousands of experimental rats into three groups
according to three groups: "Whitechapel" (District
London), "Hunza" and "Indians." All of them were kept in the same
conditions, but a group of "Whitechapel" received food that
Londoners consume (ie, one that Europeans eat) - white
bread products made with white flour, jam, meat, salt, canned food, eggs,
sweets, cooked vegetables, etc., Rat-"Hunza" received the same food,
that the people of this tribe. Rat "Indians" food, typical
Hindus and people of the East. Mack Kerison investigate the state
health of a generation who received three different diets, and opened
interesting pattern.
Animals from "Whitechapel" ill with all diseases,
that affect the residents of London, ranging from childhood diseases
and ending chronic and senile illnesses. This group was
rather nervous and belligerent, rat bite each other and even
bite to death "compatriots" to death.
Rat "Indians" for health and overall behavior
were similar to people who embody
in this experiment. A rat "Hunza" remained healthy
and cheerful, spent time in games and relaxing holiday.
What can be learned from these observations?
1. First of all: neither the climate nor religion, nor customs, nor the race is not
appreciable effect on health - is important only
food.
2. Food, and not something else can turn healthy people
in patients: it is enough to remove from the diet of some substances
considered, according to most people, unimportant,
ie, enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, fatty
acids, which are only in the plant world, and which
benefit only when they are used in its natural form.
3. The amount of food and its high energy value, ie,
calories, do not have any relation to health. Important
composition of food.
4. Even the morale of the individual may suffer if
in a diet lacking certain nutrients.
256
256Rats that lived in peace and friendship among themselves, became
aggressive and devouring each other when they are denied full
food needed for health. This indicates that any
social unrest, revolution and war depend on the incorrect
human nutrition.
Does not correspond to the nature of human food, not its weakness
as claimed by politicians, to blame for the bad state of society.
Thus, the quality of food, its composition, quantity, method
use and combination of influence on the preservation of health, safeguard
from diseases, maintain youthfulness.
Depend on the quality of nutrition and mental health, mental
balance, lack of neuroses and mental disorders.
To get a good quality therapeutic effect of
dry fasting, for it should ideally be prepared. Good
preconditioning is carried out for 2-3 months before
starvation and is designed to release the body against endotoxin.
It consists in carrying out various cleaning procedures
and changes in diet.
Good, quality food will allow the body to store up
necessary during the fasting vitality, create
conditions for full, high-quality purification. Edit
nutrition, clean the intestines and liver. If you do not,
that during a famine in the crude as a result of the large intestine
enzymatic processes of decomposition of faeces produced mass
poisonous gases (indole, skatole, hydrogen sulfide and others), which
Imbibing in the blood, pass around the body, causing severe
intoxication, and then as a bad breath and the smell of output
through the lungs and skin. Spending so hungry person feels only
pain and weakness. There is no feeling better in time
Hunger is not observed. After preconditioning, the output
endotoxins on hunger will not be so powerful and you can easily
spend a few wet training starvation. And only then
can be conducted dry starvation.
How did need to eat to be healthy? Reply
quite simple: when choosing foods should take an example
with longevity.
To determine the "longevity diet, researchers detail
studied and described the food of different regions of our centenarians
planet. However, to recommend on the basis of information obtained
a universal diet has proved impossible.
The fact that the power of longevity associated with the region of residence
and national traditions. For example, in Bulgaria's dominant
vegetable and dairy foods, and in Yakutia - animal products.
Whom should I take the example and what foods to choose: vegetable or
animals? The answer is simple enough: we must eat of the food that
most available in vivo. in cold
climate (north and winter in the mid-latitudes) is better to use
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257warms the body fat vegetarian diet, in the heat (tropical
and summer) - a cooling plant. So naturally,
that the northern peoples for centuries eat venison, Eskimos -
meat of whales and walruses by adding seal fat, and the residents
Located near the equator of the village Vilkabamba animal fats
constitute only two percent of total calories consumed
food, while life expectancy in this village
more than a hundred years! a famous Abkhaz centenarians observed
required at mid-latitudes climatic seasons supply:
in autumn and especially in the winter is dominated by meat products from
Dairy - cheese and yoghurt, spring and summer - flour products,
vegetables and dairy products.
Based on the foregoing, we can formulate the first
rule of natural power: the choice of food a person should
take into account the climatic conditions (ambient temperature
environment) in which it is located.
Indigenous peoples have genetically adapted to the natural
Natural Nutrition and resettlement in other climatic
conditions need to be familiar to a food. Why?
The researchers found that the muscles of any person consist of
muscle fibers of two types - red and white (hence - the name
opposing sides in a civil war? "), which
differ significantly among themselves.
In muscle indigenous tropical countries is dominated by white
fibers are used as "fuel" glucose from the blood.
The number of such fibers in the muscles of the individual reaches
90%. Since the body can not store glucose
in significant numbers, then those people need regular
(Not less than three times a day) consumption of plant foods, which
rapidly digested and replenishes the blood necessary for the operation
muscle glucose.
If you stay for people with muscles in the mid-latitudes
efficiency is markedly reduced in the winter, since they have
warming them to eat animal products, significantly
reducing the amount of natural plant foods for themselves. But
regular users of fats used for muscle
only in very small quantities, and eventually in humans
there obesity, atherosclerosis, diabetes (obese), ulcers and other
disease due to increased acidity of the body.
In muscle korennh of people living in cold climates
the number of red fibers, which are used for work not
glucose and fats, reaches up to 96%! The main part of the daily diet
power required (even in hot summer!) includes a sufficient
amount of animal fats, such people useful to use
evening as night fats in large numbers
stored in the muscle fibers and then slowly used
during the day.
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258When eating in hot climates mainly plant
food such people there is an obvious weight loss, fast
fatigue and reluctance to move, as well as nervous exhaustion due to
lack of fat, and (as a consequence) of excess alk


ine and morphine.
Caution  Marijuana is a controlled substance in
North America. Research your local laws. Marijuana leaf
Capparis spinosa (Capparaceae)
Caper
Description  Shrub growing to 3 ft (1 m), with
spiny trailing stems, fleshy oval leaves, green buds,
large white flowers, and red berries in autumn.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the
Mediterranean region, caper thrives in open areas, often growing on stony terrain. The buds are harvested before the flowers open and are pickled for culinary use.
Parts Used  Root bark, bark, flower buds.
Constituents  Contains phenolic compounds.
History & Folklore  Though much favored as a
piquant food by the ancient Greeks, capers were said to disagree with the stomach. They remain a popular condiment to this day.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The unopened
flower buds are laxative and, if prepared correctly with vinegar, are thought to ease stomach pain. The bark is bitter and diuretic and can be taken immediately before meals to increase the appetite.
US_180-201_Brassica_dictamnus.indd   182 26/02/16   12:47 pm183Cari Ca papayaother medicinal plants
The root bark is purifying and stops internal
bleeding. It is used to treat skin conditions,
capillary weakness, and easy bruising, and is also
used in cosmetic preparations. A decoction of the
plant is used to treat yeast and vaginal infections
such as candidiasis.
Related Species  A decoction of the North
American C. cynophallophora  is taken to encourage
the onset of menstruation, and is used as a gargle
for throat infections.
Capsella bursa-pastoris syn. Thlaspi
bursa-pastoris  (Brassicaceae)
Shepherd’s Purse
Description  Annual or biennial with an erect
stem, rosette of basal leaves, 4-petaled white
flowers, and heart-shaped seed pods.
Habitat & Cultivation  Thought to be native
to Europe and Asia, shepherd’s purse is now found
throughout most temperate regions, and grows
profusely as a weed. It is harvested throughout
the year.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Contains flavonoids, polypeptides,
choline, acetylcholine, histamine, and tyramine.
History & Folklore  This herb’s name derives
from the appearance of the seed pods, which
resemble heart-shaped purses. During the First
World War, when the standard herbal medicines for staunching blood—goldenseal ( Hydrastis
canadensis, p. 105) and ergot ( Claviceps
purpurea )—were unobtainable in Britain,
shepherd’s purse was used as an alternative.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  One of the best
remedies for preventing or arresting hemorrhage,
shepherd’s purse has long been a specific treatment
for heavy uterine bleeding. While weaker-acting in
this respect than ergot, shepherd’s purse has none
of ergot’s toxicity and is better tolerated by the body.
It may be used for bleeding of all kinds—from
nosebleeds to blood in the urine. An astringent herb,
it disinfects the urinary tract in cases of cystitis, and
is taken for diarrhea. It is used in Chinese medicine
to treat dysentery and eye problems.
Research  Reports suggest that the plant is
anti-inflammatory and reduces fever.
Caution  Do not take during pregnancy.
Self-help Use  Heavy menstrual bleeding, p. 315.
Cardiospermum spp. (Sapindaceae)
Balloon Vine
Description  Deciduous perennial climbers
growing to 10 ft (3 m), with compound leaves,
small white flowers, and black seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation  Balloon vine is found
growing in tropical regions around the world.
Parts Used  Root, leaves, seeds.Constituents  Most Cardiospermum  species
contain cyanogenic glycosides.
History & Folklore  Native Amazonians string
balloon vine seeds into armbands that are worn to
ward off snakes.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  In Indian herbal
medicine, balloon vine root is used to bring on
delayed menstruation and to relieve backache and
arthritis. The leaves stimulate local circulation
and are applied to painful joints to help speed
the clearing of toxins. The seeds are also thought
to help in the treatment of arthritis. The plant as
a whole has sedative properties.
Caution  Do not take during pregnancy.
Carica papaya  (Caricaceae)
Papaya
Description  Herbaceous tree growing very
rapidly to 26 ft (8 m). Has segmented leaves,
yellow flowers, and large, black-seeded yellow
to orange fruits weighing up to 11 lb (5 kg).
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to tropical
America, papaya is now cultivated in tropical regions
throughout the world.
Parts Used  Fruit, latex, leaves, flowers, seeds.
Constituents  The fruit contains proteolytic
enzymes (papain and chymopapain), and traces
of an alkaloid, carpaine. Papain, which is found in
the milky white latex that flows from incisions
in the unripe fruit, is a protein-dissolving enzyme
that aids digestion.
History & Folklore  Papaya juice, shoots,
and latex were used in Mayan herbal medicine. In
tropical Latin America, the leaves are used as a
meat tenderizer.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Papaya’s main
medicinal use is as a digestive agent. The leaves
and the fruit can both be used (the unripe fruit is
especially effective). The latex from the trunk of
the tree is applied externally to speed the healing
of wounds, ulcers, boils, warts, and cancerous
tumors. The seeds are used as a gentle purgative
for worms. The latex has a similar but more violent
effect. The flowers may be taken in an infusion to
induce menstruation, and a decoction of
the ripe fruit is helpful for
treating persistent
diarrhea and
dysentery in
children. The ripe
fruit is mildly
laxative and the
leaves are used
to dress wounds.Caper’s  buds pickled
with vinegar have been
used as a condiment
since ancient times.
Balloon vine  leaves are
applied to relieve aching joints. Fruit
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184Carthamus tinC torius  other medicinal plantsCarthamus tinctorius (Asteraceae)
Safflower,
Hong Hua (Chinese)
Description  Annual herb growing to 3 ft (90
cm). Has long spiny leaves with 6 oblong-oval
leaflets, and groups of yellow flowers arising from the leaf axils.
Habitat & Cultivation  Thought to be native
to Iran and northwestern India, this herb is also
found in North America and the Far East. It grows in open areas and is gathered in summer.
Parts Used  Flowers, seeds, seed oil.
Constituents  Safflower contains lignans,
polysaccharides and a volatile oil. The seeds
contain a fixed oil, up to 80% linoleic acid.
History & Folklore  In 19th century North
American herbal medicine, safflower was used
to induce sweating, to promote the onset of a menstrual period and as a treatment for measles. Safflower flowers are falsely sold as saffron
(Crocus sativus, p. 89).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  In Chinese
herbal medicine, the flowers are given to stimulate menstruation and to relieve abdominal pain. The flowers are also used to cleanse and heal wounds and sores and to treat measles. In the Anglo-American herbal tradition, the flowers are given  as a treatment for fever and skin rashes. The unpurified seed oil is purgative.
Research  Chinese research indicates that
safflower flowers can reduce coronary artery disease, and lower cholesterol levels. Safflower contains a polysaccharide that has been shown to stimulate immune function in mice. Safflower oil also lowers cholesterol levels.
Caution  Do not take the flowers or seeds during
pregnancy (seed oil is safe).
Carum carvi (Apiaceae)
Caraway
Description  Aromatic annual growing to 2 ft
(60 cm). Has ridged stem, feathery leaves, and umbels of white flowers in midsummer. Exploding capsules each contain 2 small narrow seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation  Caraway grows wild
in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. It prefers sunny sites up to 6,600 ft (2,000 m) above sea level. It  is cultivated in Europe, Russia, North Africa, and the US, and the seeds are harvested ripe in
late summer.
Parts Used  Seeds, essential oil.
Constituents  Caraway contains a volatile oil
high in carvone (about 50%) and limonene. It also contains a fixed oil, flavonoids, polysaccharides, proteins, and furanocoumar


 by a healthy lifestyle,
does
 remove the causes of disease and
can
 dramatically accelerate
the healing process.
Many books have been written about “juice fasts,” “religious fasts,” “fasts for weight loss,”
etc., but they usually do not address fasting from a complete physiological point of view.
Fasting
Can Save Your Life
 describes the true physiological fasting process. This involves the abstinence
from all food or drink, except pure water, during a time when the person’s nutritional reserves are
adequate to maintain a vital organ function and structure. Only such a fast can maximize the body’s
healing potential.
In his own inspiring language, drawing upon his unparalleled experience of supervising over
40,000 fasts, Herbert M. Shelton reviews the major issues related to fasting. He explains how
fasting can often bring results that many would think impossible. He carefully addresses the
common misconceptions that the uninitiated have towards fasting. More importantly, he describes
fasting not as an isolated practice but as part of a comprehensive health care system he called
Natural Hygiene.
Dr. Shelton’s ideas about fasting and Natural Hygiene found their roots in the writings of a
group of progressive, nineteenth century medical doctors, including Isaac Jennings, M.D., Harriot
Austin, M.D., Susanna Way Dodds, M.D., Russell Thacker Trail, M.D., and John Tilden, M.D.
These men and women were among the first to recognize that
health results from healthful living.
They understood that a healthy life depends upon a clean environment—fresh air, pure water and
sunshine; a natural vegetarian diet—primarily fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and whole grains;
productive activity—sufficient exercise and rest; and emotional poise and self esteem. These ideas
came initially from common sense observations of “Nature’s Laws,” but they have been
rediscovered and scientifically validated by an ever increasing number of modern health reformers
in the fields of nutrition, ecology, physiology, and psychology.
Fasting Can Save Your Life
 is
not
 meant to be a how-to guide to self-conducted fasting.
Readers should take important note that all fasts should be conducted under the supervision of a
qualified doctor trained in the use of therapeutic fasting.
In 1978, Dr. Shelton helped found the International Association of Professional Natural
Hygienists (IAPNH), which sets standards of practice for conducting therapeutic fasts, promotes
documentation, and encourages research into this beneficial process. IAPNH membership is open
to licensed primary care physicians (medical doctors, osteopaths, chiropractors and naturopaths).
IAPNH members can receive training and certification in the use of therapeutic fasting.
Dr. Shelton also helped found the American Natural Hygiene Society, an organization dedicated
to educating individuals about the principles of natural living. Since its inception in 1948, the
Society has grown dramatically and now has members around the world.
It is important for readers to remember that fasting is not a panacea for all that ails you. Fasting
11must be used as
part
 of a healthy lifestyle, not
instead
 of one; and in order to maintain the
beneficial results, one must continue with a healthy lifestyle afterwards.
Ronald G. Cridland, M.D.
Vice-President, International Association of Professional Natural Hygienists
12Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1
Fasting and You
2
Pounds that Slip Away
3
Living without Eating
4
Hunger versus Appetite
5
Four Reasons for Fasting
6
Gaining Strength
7
Can Fasting Kill?
8
Does Fasting Cure?
9
Fasting: Where and When?
10
What to Expect while Fasting
11
Nine Basic Steps
12
Breaking the Fast
13
Can Fasting Keep You Well?
14
Rejuvenation through Fasting
15
Fasting to Gain Weight
16
Should Children Fast?
17
Fasting in Acute Disease
18
Fasting in Chronic Disease
19
The Case of the Common Cold
20
Multiple Sclerosis
21
Asthma
22
Arthritis: Two Years or Twenty-eight?
23
Peptic Ulcer
24
Migraine
25
Hay Fever
26
High Blood Pressure
27
The Fast and the Heart
28
Colitis
29
Psoriasis and Eczema
30
Prostatic Enlargement
31
Gonorrhea
32
Paralysis Agitans
33
Nephritis
34
Gallstones
1335
Tumors of the Breast
36
Sterility in Women
37
Fasting in Pregnancy
One Closing Word
Index
14Preface to the Second Edition
Much water, much of it dirty, has passed under the bridge since the first edition of
Fasting Can
Save Your Life
 came from the press. Many newspaper and magazine articles and several books on
fasting have been published presenting such a wide variety of contradictory views and opinions
that the reading public is hopelessly confused. The greater part of this mass of contradictory
material has revolved about the propriety or impropriety of the use of the fast as a means of
reducing weight. A large part of it has stressed the largely imaginary dangers of fasting. Much of it
has emphasized the demand that any fast of more than three days’ duration should be done under
medical supervision, preferably in a hsopital. Some of the books and articles have presented the
reader with “just as good” or better substitutes for the fast. There is also much disagreement about
the proper conduct of the fast. When the experts disagree so widely what is the poor reader to do?
One “scientific” experimenter adds greatly to the confusion by his use, several times in the
course of a short article, of the phrase
starvation therapy.
 Several of the men of
science
 use the
terms
fasting
 and
starvation
 synonymously, whereas the simple truth is that if one is fasting, one is
not starving and if one is starving, one is not fasting. The loose use of the terms fasting and starving
as of identical meaning and the implied assumption that the two processes are identical, when this
is not done with the deliberate intent of arousing prejudice, is a reliable index of the confusion in
the mind of the writer.
The phrases “untoward side effects” and “adverse reactions” appear so often in the writings of
scientific experimenters that, when reading them, one easily gets the idea that one is reading about
drugs. When a fast is entered and the faster abstains from tea, coffee, alcohol, soda fountain slops,
condiments, spices, mustard, food additives and other irritating and stimulating substances which
he is accustomed to taking both with his meals and between meals, and discontinues dosing himself
at intervals with aspirin or other drugs, he experiences headache, dizziness, weakness, trembling,
pains in the abdomen, back, and joints; he may faint; and he may be nauseous and
 even vomit.
These “withdrawal symptoms” are not “side effects” of fasting, but are the extensions of the same
symptoms, with which he was annoyed while eating and which he smothered with frequent
cigarettes, cups of coffee, Turns or other popular drug-desserts. That these so-called “side effects”
of fasting are not caused by fasting, but by the habitual poisoning indulged in as a regular part of
his daily life, is shown by the fact that if the fast is continued the symptoms all clear up.
Another cause of “untoward side-effects” is the practice of the scientific experimenters of
encouraging fasters to supply their need for fluid (water) by drinking tea, coffee, soda fountain
slop, beer, wine, ale, and strained soups or broth. There are the additional practices of giving
drugs to suppress every discomfort that may arise and of permitting the continuance of smoking or
other drug taking.
There is a great difference between a poisoned fast and an unpoisoned one. Not until the
scientific men test the unpoisoned fast will they be in a position to properly evaluate the results of
fasting. To put a very fat woman on a fast and continue it for over three hundred days all the while
supplying her fluid needs with tea and coffee, both of them containing the heart irritant caffeine,
and blaming the impairment of the heart upon the fast and not upon the caffeine, does not make
good sense. Likewise, dosing the faster with liberal quantities of synthetic vitamins and drug-store
minerals ruinously affects the whole experiment.
All together too much emphasis has been placed upon the dangers of protein deficiency, thus
15creating great fear of fasting. The evils of protein deficiencies conjured up out of the void have
frightened great numbers of people. There is no danger of protein deficiency developing in a fast
of ordinary duration. It is perhaps a possibility in a fast of two to three hundred days or more, but
the greatest danger in these extremely long fasts lies in the poisons taken as drink and as medicine.
It will be difficult to fully assess the physiological wreakage that results from the repeated
examinations and testing that constitute an important feature of the hospital-supervision of the fast.
The depressing effect of daily pulse-counting, blood-pressure taking, heart examination, blood and
urine sampling, checking the temperature and similar psychologically disturbing activities is
considerable. For best results, the faster needs calm, quiet, cheerful surroundings. The faster needs
to relax and take life easy. Too much officious meddling is


 for delicious baked vegetables will work with any assort
ment of vegetables except brussels sprouts, which tend to get bitter.
Vegetables simply baked in butter and their own juices have a unique
flavor that cannot be duplicated with other cooking methods.
202 • FIT FOR LIFE 1 cup carrots, cut into fine matchsticks
2 cups potatoes, peeled, quartered, and cut into '/4-inch slices or 1
small cauliflower, cut into '/2-inch florets
1 package frozen Fordhook lima beans
2 large zucchini, quartered and cut into 1-inch cubes
2 cups cabbage or bok choy greens, coarsely chopped
'/» cup butter
3 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced (optional)
'/» teaspoon Spike or salt-free seasoning
Vi teaspoon sea salt (optional)
Fresh ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place all vegetables in heavy oven-proof
casserole with lid. Dot with butter. Sprinkle with parsley, Spike, sea salt,
and pepper. Cover and place in oven for 35-40 minutes or until vegeta
bles are tender.
Toss with additional butter, if desired, and serve with salad. Can
also be added to salad to make the Spring Garden main-course salad.
Serves 4.
Freeze 2 cups cantaloupe wedges (V2 cantaloupe) in an airtight container for
tomorrow's Cantaloupe Ice before going to bed.
DAY TWENTY-ONE—SUNDAY
BREAKFAST:
Fresh juice and the fruit salad of your choice, or Blueberry-Cantaloupe
Supreme * and Cantaloupe Ice *
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
Cuke-a-tillas (see page 170), or Tabouli,' and/or Energy Salad (see page
149)
DINNER:
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail, if desired (see page 152)
Savory Cabbage Strudel," or Broiled Fish Steaks (see page 184)
Steamed Vegetables in Lemon Butter Sauce *
Dilled Cucumbers (see page 185), or Grandma's Coleslaw (see page
197)
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFESTYLE • 203 BLUEBERRY-CANTALOUPE SUPREME 10 Mia.
This is a delectable summer fruit salad. Mango can be substituted for the
cantaloupe. A ripe mango will be soft to pressure but not mushy. It should
be very red, yellow-orange, or yellow-green. True green on a mango indi
cates that it is not yet ripe and will be sour. Peel the mango, and cut the
fruit from the seed. Freeze summer fruits for winter enjoyment. To freeze
fruits, cut them into pieces. Quarters are most convenient for peaches,
nectarines, apricots, etc. Berries may be left whole. Melons should be cut
into two-inch chunks. Bananas can be frozen whole, but should be peeled
first. Papayas and mangos should be peeled and cut into pieces. Fruits
should be placed in airtight containers and frozen. All frozen fruits can be
turned into wonderful fruit freezes with a Champion or Oster juicer.
Yz cantaloupe, cut into bite-size cubes or in balls, or 1 mango, cut in
cubes
2 Babcock peaches, peeled and sliced
1 cup blueberries
1 small banana, cut into slices (optional)
Mix all fruits together. On a hot summer day, you might want to top this
salad with Cantaloupe Ice (see below) and serve it for brunch or lunch. It
also makes a beautiful first course for dinner.
CANTALOUPE ICE 3 Mia.
Vi cantaloupe, cut into cubes and frozen
Here's another incentive to purchase a juicer, which will not only enable
you to make your own fresh juices, but will also open the door to a
delicious ice cream alternative: FRESH FRUIT SOFT FREEZE! Soft freeze is
most easily prepared in a juicer. Push frozen fruit through, and out
comes a marvelous frozen dessert, with no chemicals, additives, dairy
products, or sugar! Any frozen fruit can be used: cantaloupe, banana,
strawberries, or whatever you like. They can be used in combination or
by themselves. If you don't have a juicer, soft freeze can be made in your
food processor or blender.
204 • FIT FOR LIFE
: TABOULI 4SMin.
1 cup cracked wheat (bulgur)
Wi-2 cups water
Vi cup fresh parsley, chopped
Vz tablespoon scallions, minced
2 tablespoons fresh mint, chopped (You may substitute 2
teaspoons dried mint if fresh is not available.)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Vi teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
Fresh ground black pepper (optional)
1 small tomato, chopped (optional)
Combine cracked wheat and water, and soak until wheat is hvdrated and
water is absorbed, from 30—60 minutes. Add parsley, scallions, mint,
olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper, if desired. Mix well. Add tomato
and mix gently. Serve at room temperature, or chill until ready to serve.
Serves 4.
SAVORY CABBAGE STRUDEL 1 Hi. 15 Min.
1 tablespoon butter
4 cups cabbage, finely shredded
2 cups bok choy greens, shredded
1 tablespoon currants (optional)
1 small onion, sliced thin
2 scallions, chopped
2 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried dill
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro or parsley, chopped
Vi teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
Prepare the filling.
Melt butter in large heavy saucepan. Add cabbage and bok choy greens,
currants, onion, and scallions. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring fre
quently, for 3-4 minutes or until greens begin to wilt. Add dill, cilantro,
and sea salt, and cook for 1 minute over high heat, stirring well to thor
oughly incorporate herbs into vegetables. Set aside.
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS UFE-STYLE • 205 1 tablespoon butter
Vi pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Prepare the mushrooms.
In separate large skillet, melt butter. Add mushrooms, and saute briefly
over high heat, stirring frequently, until they begin to soften. Remove
from heat, sprinkle with lemon juice, and add to vegetable mixture. Mix
well.
4 phyllo pastry sheets (available in frozen-food section of supermarket
or at food specialty shops)
2 tablespoons butter, melted
4 tablespoons dry whole-wheat bread crumbs
Assemble the strudel.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Strain mushroom-vegetable mixture in col
ander, catching liquid in small bowl. Reserve liquid to add to soup,
sauces, or gravy. Lightly butter cookie sheet. Place 1 phyllo sheet on
damp towel. Brush lightly with melted butter. Place second phyllo sheet
on top of first. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of bread crumbs on left-hand side
of phyllo. Fold right-hand side over to encase bread crumbs, making a
rectangle. Brush top lightly with melted butter. Spread Vi vegetable mix
ture along long edge, stopping 1 inch short of the short sides. Fold bor
ders in to encase vegetables. Roll as you would a jelly roll. Place seam
side down on buttered baking sheet. Brush roll with melted butter. Re
peat for second roll. Bake until golden, about 30 minutes. Cut each into
3 or 4 sections. Serves 3-4.
STEAMED VEGETABLES IN
LEMON BUTTER SAUCE 20 Min.
4-6 tender young carrots, cut into '/2-inch cubes
2 medium zucchini
2 medium yellow squash
2 tablespoons butter, melted
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Place carrots in vegetable steamer, covered, over boiling water for approx
imately 10 minutes. Add zucchini and squash, whole, and steam 5-7
206 • FIT FOR LIFE minutes or until just tender. Place vegetables in serving dish. Cut squash
into quarters, lengthwise, and then into '/2-inch cubes. Combine butter
and lemon juice in measuring cup, and pour over vegetables. Toss
gently. Serves 4.
ALL-FRUIT DAY
DAY TWENTY-TWO—MONDAY
BREAKFAST:
Fresh fruit juice
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit juice, fruit salad of your choice, or assorted pieces of fruit;
Cantaloupe Ice (see page 204), if desired
DINNER:
Fresh fruit
Date or Strawberry Shake (see page 194), if desired
The All-fruit Day is your best friend in the care, upkeep, and beautification of
your body. Once you have mastered this valuable tool for weight loss and
health, you are on your way to a new fitness life-style.
DAY TWENTY-THREE—TUESDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One.
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
Nuts and Cukes (see page 162), or Romain