Comments on: Aris Latham on How to Break a Fast – The Renegade Health Show Episode #520

By: Anne Hunt

Anne Hunt — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:26:30 +0000

I really enjoyed this interview- Mr. Latham was very dynamic and informative. He instilled a desire in me to do a fast. Up until now I have never been interested in fasting at all….just the thought of going without food strikes horror in my heart… I eat every 2-3 hours maybe just a few bites but when I am awake I am eating…. this may be the answer to my eating dependency…? I would love to visit with this gentleman.:)

By: janell

janell — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:24:33 +0000

I love fasting seasonally or whenever else my body calls me to do. It frees my spirit mind and allows my body to heal, repair and restore. Most of the time, fasting is water or herbal tea combination or when fasting for the long term fasting is the master cleanse – that lemon is a powerful and wonderful fruit. My last fast was forty days – the energy and mental sharpness was amazing. After that fast, I was convinced that we really do not need much food to sustain our body (physical/mental/spiritual health)–I’m doing another one

By: Mys

Mys — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:18:01 +0000

Aris Latham, a man after my own heart. Have more of him. I love fasting, when I can do it. I love fruit. I love going to bed at eight and getting up at four. I love having the building foods later in the day. It makes you lean, strong, happier, and so on!

By: Dianne

Dianne — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:13:25 +0000

By: Suzanne Glasper

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:01:52 +0000

I have mixed views about fasting,it can be very beneficial so long as it is not done as an obsession.There seems to be alot of pressure in the raw foods movement to go on long fasts which may not be right for everyone.I think imposing something on yourself just because everyone else is doing it is a recipe for disaster.I think it can be problematic if you are extremely active or not in the right mind set to be fasting.
I dont believe people with eating disorders should be fasting because the intention behind it is not one of cleansing its one of self punishment which is not at all healthy
So many health related issues are focused just on what we are putting into our bodies but that is just a part of health and well being.Our thoughts can be as toxic to our body to what we actually put in there,health is about balance of mind body and spirit.
No one ever mentions how powerful breathing deeply is to releasing toxins and emotional patterns but if you take time to sit still and breath it can change alot
I myself have done some short fasts here and there anything from 1-5 days but I choose to follow what feels right for my body.I think that fasting effect highly sensitive people much more and can lead to becoming ungrounded and spaced out.I would always say that you should always follow what feels right for you

By: Jennifer Ayers-Gould

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:43:15 +0000

I used to fast regularly at least one day a week and sometimes a 3-day water fast. I went about a year eating only one meal a day, but that was when I was eating low-carb and still consuming dairy and animal products. I have been a raw vegan for about a year and haven’t done much, if any, fasting. I am a competitive/recreational runner, which I have been doing for about 2.5 years and I am afraid that if I fast, I won’t be able to keep up with my training and races. Any advice?

By the way, LOVED Aris and would like to hear more from him.

~*~Namasté~*~

By: Suzy

Suzy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:40:19 +0000

I DO fast. Actually I am about a week into a green juice fast now, preceded by a 3-day water fast. I juice-feasted for 92 days about a year ago and it had so many benefits besides the obvious physical ones…spiritual and emotional as well. I tend to overeat, and fasting takes away all the hunger and compulsion that goes along with that as well. I always think I don’t want to do it, and put it off, but once I’m 4 days or so into it, I get that aaaaahh feeling. I think it will always be a necessary component of my raw food lifestyle.

By: Greta

Greta — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:23:30 +0000

I have been fasting numerous times for several days and broken my fast as Aris Latham suggested.
I got the same information from the book “Fit for Life” by Harvey Diamond published in 1980 or so. He goes into great detail about eating fruit etc.

By: raw thing

raw thing — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:26:59 +0000

I did juice feast last year from 23rd January till 23 April.

This year I’m doing it again and today is my 22nd day. I use fast to clean my body, refresh my mind and to solve some things that I do not like in my diet. When I start to eat again, my diet is simplified and it gives me energy, not stealing it from me.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:34:56 +0000

Regarding the notion of “sunfired”, please look into our heliotropism. Y’know, like sunflowers that bow their heads in thru the night rising with and following the sun. Isn’t hibernation generally a mammalian trait? For us, I believe ideally, it would be a relative hibernation, longer winter episodes of sleep, than the overt full-bore hibernation of, say, bears.

Oops, before I meant each day in a vipassana retreat has about 6 hrs of seated meditation, broken into 45 minute sessions interspersed with 30 minute periods of walking meditation. & traditionally, solid food isn’t taken after noon. I wouldn’t suggest Goenka, BTW. They don’t include the walking aspect, which I believe integrates, segues what we cultivate on the meditation cushion gets gently carried into the daily ongoing living…grind, i was going to say. takes the grind out of life, i would say. Not that there’s not a general spillover effect, there is!