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PROVEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY
For Physical, Mental and Spiritual Rejuvenation
THE "FAST"FASTING WAY TO HOLISTIC HEALTH
TEN HEALTH COMMANDMENTS
Thou shall respect thy body as the high-
est manifestation of Life.
Thou shall abstain from all unnatural,
devitalized food and stimulating
beverages.
Thou shall nourish thy body with only
Natural, unprocessed, "live" food,
—that
Thou shall extend thy years in health
for loving, charitable service.
Thou shall regenerate thy body by the
right balance of activity and rest.
Thou shall purify thy cells, tissue and
blood with pure fresh air and sun-
shine.
Thou shall abstain from ALL food when
out of sorts in mind or body.
Thou shall keep thy thoughts, words and
emotions, pure, calm and uplifting.
Thou shall increase thy knowledge of
Nature's laws, abide therewith,
and enjoy the fruits pf thy life's
labor.
Thou shall lift up thyself and thy brother
man with thine own obedience to
ALL
Nature's laws.
BRAGG BLESSINGS FROM OUR HOME
From the Bragg home to vour home we share our years ofhealth
knowledge—yearsoflivingcloseto GodandNatureandwhatjoysof
fruitful, radiant living this produces—this my Father and I share
with you and your loved ones.
With blessings for Health
and Happiness,
NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT AN OLD MIRACLE-
THE "FAST" FASTING WAY TO HEALTH
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FOR AGELESSHESS-PHYSICAL, MENTAL &
SPIRITUAL REJUVENATIOH
By Paul C. Bragg, N.D., Ph.D.
LIFE EXTENSION SPECIALIST
with
Patricia Bragg,Ph.D.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CONSULTANT
Publishedby
HEALTH SCIENCE
Box 7, Santa Barbara, California 93102 U.S.A.
THE MIRACLE OF FASTING
By
PAULC.BRAGG,N.D.,Ph.D.
LifeExtensionSpecialist
with
PATRICIABRAGG,Ph.D.
HealthandBeautyConsultant
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IDedicatethis BooktoEightMenofGreatWisdom — men
whomIowemyHealthandmyLongVigorous, Happy Life.
Dr. AugustRolher, M.D. —
FatherofHehotheraphy SunshineTheraphy
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Bemarr Macfadden
Fatherand FounderofthePhysical
Culture Movement.
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Prof. Arnold Ehret
Originatorof the MucuslessDietHealing
System.
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Dr. St. LouisEstes, D.D.S.
Oneofthegreatestandmostdynamic
speakersfor Natural Nutrition.
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Dr. Benedict Lust, M.D.
Fatherand FounderofNaturopathyinAmerica.
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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
For60yearstheDirectorofthe Famous
BattleCreekSanitarium in Battle Creek,
Michigan.
Dr. Henry Lindlahr, M.D. —
FamousDrugless Physician, whopioneeredfor
thereturnto Natural Methodoftreatment.
Dr. JohnT. Tilden, M.D.
GreatNatural Healer
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MEDICALSCIENCE REDISCOVERSFASTING
WITH REMARKABLE RESULTS
..As the last quarter of the 20th century approaches, medical science in
both the USA and the USSR is rediscovering Nature's
original healing method...Fasting...with results often hailed as
sensational".
Called the "hunger cure" in Russia, distilled water fasts up to 45 days
have been reported by Soviet doctors as successful treatment for a wide
varietyofdisorders...includingthose of the skin and metabolism, bronchial
asthma, hypertension, gallstones, tumors, pancreatitis, early forms of
artery hardening, andarthritis.
The most spectacular results of "controlled hunger" treatment were
reported in 1972 by Dr. Yuri Nikolayev of the Moscow Research Instituteof
Psychiatry, where some 7.000 patients with psychic disorders, primarily
sluggish forms of schizophrenia, have responded positively to fasting.
Stressing that such treatment should be undertaken only under carefully
controlled conditions. Dr. Nikolayev said. "The hunger treatmentgives the
entire nervous system and the brain a rest. The body is cleaned of poisons
and the tissues and glands renovated. Resting the brain forms the basis for
thetreatmentofneuropsychicdisorders."
Fasting is also being used in psychiatric treatment in the United States.
Seriously ill schzophrenics were treated in a hospital on distilled water
fasts of 16 to 81 days by a Northern California psychiatrist, according to a
1972report.
Fasting is also being used in the treatment of various disorders at the
Philadelphia General Hospital. Veterans Hospitals and other leading
medical institutions throughout the country. Watch tor reports on the
results.
Paul C. Bragg, who has supervised fasts for many thousands of people
during the past 60-odd years ..with results that are frequently termed
miraculous" ...finds it "encouraging and gratifying that medical science
isat last rediscovering the treatment prescribedby the fatherofmedicine.
Hippocrates...Naturesownprescription...the Miracleot F'astingI
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CONTENTS
"Topreservehealthisamoralandreligiousduty, forhealth is thebasisforallsocial
virtues. Weconnolongerbeusefulwhennot well."
—
Dr.SamuelJohnson, FatherofDictionaries
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Chapters
1 Getting the Most Out of Life 1
2 The Miracle of Fasting 5
3 The Enemy Within Our Bodies 25
4 Toxic AcidCrystalsCan Cement YourMovable
Joints, Make You Stiff, and Fill You Full of Misery!
Fight Deadly Acid Crystalsby Fasting 33
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5 Scientific FastingExplained with Full Directions
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6 Why I Drink Distilled WaterExclusively 51
7 How LongShould One Fast? 55
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8 HowLongShould One Fastfor Best Benefits 59
9 HowtoBreak a 24-HourFast 63
10 I Fast 7 to 10 Days Four Times a Year 69
1 How to Break a Seven-Day Fast 75
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12 I Do Not Believe in the Enema Duringthe Fast 82
13 YourTongue Never Lies 83
14 Just Grin and Bear 86
15 Defeating Mucus by Rational Fasting 89
16 Fasting Helps Pounds Melt Away 95
Contents
Chapters
17 How to Gain Weight by a Scientific FastingProgram 101
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18 Fight the Sniffles and Winter Miseries with Fasting 105
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19 Outwitting Premature Aging with Fasting 109
20 Fastingto KeepArteries Young 113
YOU HAVE NINE DOCTORS
AT YOUR COMMAND
21 DoctorSunshine 118
22 Doctor Fresh Air 121
23 Doctor Pure Water 127
24 Doctor Good Natural Food 135
25 Doctor Fasting 145
26 DoctorExercise 147
27 Doctor Rest 155
28 Doctor Good Posture 163
29 Doctor Human Mind 167
30 The Scienceof EatingforSuperiorHealth 173
32 The Spiritual AspectsofFasting 191
33 FoodforThought 198
Fasting clears away the thousand little things which quickly ac-
cumulate and clutter the heart and mind. It cuts through the
corrosion, renewingourcontactwith God.
TheyministeredtotheLord, andfasted.
-Acts 13:2R.V.
GETTING
MOST
THE
OUT OF
LIFE
Every thinking person, must at one time or the other say to
himself, "Am I getting the most out of life"?
I credit the great comedian, Ed Wynn, with making a profound
remark, he said, "Without health, riches, possessions, and
fame are all mud. "
What is man without health, even though endowed with riches
and fame? Riches cannot buy happiness. Because a person
has achieved fame it does not follow that he is happy.
I do not discredit riches. 1 think money and possessions have
their place in our culture. Physical comforts and luxuries are
most important to many people. Take away a man's wealth
and give him only health and his first desire will be the return
of his riches.
But with both achieved a word remains which we hate to utter;
a thought we dread to contemplate; a thing which gives sorrow,
pain and grief. That word, that thought, that thing, is DEATH.
Even in cases where life appears a burden, how tenaciously
does man cling to itj How the spirit recoils from a struggle
with DEATHJ How fondly it retains its grasp on lifel Man's
great desire is for health and long life on earth; "Man clings
to the world as his home, and would want to live here forever,
if he had health and long-lasting youthfulness. "
LOVE LIFE AND WANT TO LIVE!
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At my health lectures I often sing my favorite song for my stu-
dents called, "I Love Life, and I Want to Live". These strong
words express the inner desires of each one of us. Life in
itself is a miracle. And you and I who have life are holding this
miracle in the palms of our hands.
Life is Precious. .It is the Treasure of Treasures
.
Since Adam and Eve lived in that historic Garden of Eden, the
prolongation of human life has been the most fascinating problem
that has challenged the attention of mankind. The Persian and
Greek sages, centuries before Christ summoned their intellectual
forces to solve it, but in vain.
The scholasticism of the Medieval Ages took it up zealously, but
with kindred results, and today, in this twentieth century, every
intelligent mind seeks, though often blindly, its solution.
No man since the dawn of creation has escaped Death; yet each
individual by barkening toHygienic and Dietetic truth, and bar-
,
ring accident, can live to an advanced age. Every person owes
it to himself, his relatives, his friends and to his country, to
care for his body, that its healthy action may make him a valued
citizen, that the years of his life may be extended to their nornnal
limit. 1 believe every person is entitled to his 120 years or more
of life as the Bible states.
Longevity may be defined as the duration of life that a healthy per-
son attains, under the most favorable conditions.
DAILY LIVING HABITS KILLING AMERICANS!
Man by his imprudence in diet, drink, and manifold excesses, dies
before one-half of his potential life has been lived.
Wild animals, undisturbed, live out their full term of life. Man
is the only exception. Of human kind, not more than 6ne in a
million lives out his natural limit. Animals in their wild, un-
trammeled state know by instinct how to live, and what to eat and
drink. They fast when they get hurt or sick.
By instinct, aninnals are led to eat what is wholesome for them,
but man eats and drinks anything and everything - consuming the
most indigestible concoctions, washes it down with poisonous
slops, and then wonders why he does not live to be a centenarian'.
In theory, we all desire long life - in practice, we abbreviate our
lives to the minimum. Does this make sense?
Why this marvelous mechanism of man - perfect in its minutest
organism, combining a God-like intelligence with a body which
sculptors have imitated but never equalled - should be ruthlessly
destroyed by himself, is one of the inexplicable wonders of our
creationi
