Publication details
The importance of fast for a modern individual
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Řehulka, E. (ed.). SCHOOL AND HEALTH 21 Health Education: Contexts and Inspiration |
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| Field | Other medical specializations |
| Keywords | starvation; the famous people of medicine |
| Description | Term beneficial starvation or fasting is not used in the expert or popular literature very frequently. Even many doctors and other medically educated professionals dont comment on the issue very often. Fast or a long-term starvation, perceived as a voluntary rejection of any meals, even the juices is one of the most important, but at the same time currently the least accepted way of retaining and restoring health. Fast is recommended and practiced by all widely spread religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Starvation was practiced and used to treat patients, by various influential physicians or personages of scientific field in the past. We can refer to, for example, Hippocrates, the founder of a rational and dynamic medicine, dubbed "the father of medicine",Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdallah ibn Sína(Avicenna), Pythagoras, Socrates, Platon, then the founder of a rational hygiene Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, or an American writer and the Pulitzer prize laureate Upton Beall Sinclair. Contemporary western medicine has lost the idea of fasting, because in its opinion it only observes purely religious purposes of a soul absolution, but doesnt deliver any benefi ts to the body. The facts, however, prove this idea wrong. In the published writings, we can even fi nd the cases, in which some fatal diseases were cured by the means of fast. It is up to the contemporary medicine itself to rediscover the benefi cial infl uence of fast on human organism and to begin seriously setting up a research of relevancy of its indications regarding various diseases. |
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