الفصل السابع الصيام الصحي أو حمية الصغر salutary fasting or the zero diet

Chapter Seven

Healthy Fasting or the Zero Diet

SALUTARY FASTING OR THE ZERO DIET

The ancient healthy fasting has been rediscovered to be a cure for diseases in the modern era.

Healthy fasting is considered one of the first and simplest means of treatment for humans and animals before there was something called medicine.

Despite the great scientific progress that modern medicine has achieved, medicine has not known a more comprehensive treatment method than healthy fasting. Healthy fasting is more than a treatment, but rather a process of purification and complete cleansing of the body, soul and mind in a wonderful way that has been well received and accepted by supporters of modern medicine to the point that new sanatoriums for fasting have been established in most scientifically advanced countries of the world, especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Specialist doctors have known the benefits of healthy fasting in light of modern scientific studies.

The peoples of the world with all their civilizations have also known the advantages of fasting and fasted for health and religious reasons. The Chinese, Babylonians, Persians, Hindus, Buddhists and even the indigenous people of South America have practiced fasting in their temples for a long time.

In the ancient Greek state, many ancient philosophers and teachers used to fast for long days every year in order to refine the soul and body. As for Hippocrates, the father of ancient Greek medicine, he said that fasting from food is the first possibility to get to know the soul, and you will not be able to see yourself unless you stay away from food and fast.
Healthy Fasting for Weight Loss

SALUTARY FASTING FOR REDUCING WEIGHT

Professor Meier, who lived near the Alps in Bavaria, was the first to establish a health fasting clinic to treat stomach diseases in the modern era. In 1875, Professor Meier began treating his patients in his clinic, which still exists today, and wrote a book called (Zero Diet). The zero diet means that a person does not consume any calories during his long fasting period except for pure water without anything with it for a period of no less than (15) days and a maximum of (30) days. At the end of the diet, the person will have lost about (700) grams of his weight per day. In the book Zero Diet, Professor Meier explained his method of supervising fasting patients and presented the results of his supervision for five years on patients who were treated under his supervision.

Professor Meier confirmed that during a period of five years he treated about 20,000 patients and he monitored and recorded each case of the disease. During all this time, not a single death occurred and each patient lost at least half a kilogram daily. In many cases, his patients obtained amazing and unexpected results, such as severe obesity, alcoholic diabetes, peptic ulcers, vasculitis, arteriosclerosis, skin diseases such as acne, eczema, all types of food allergies, asthma, gout, and spinal diseases. The recovery rate for all these diseases was about 80 percent. After the death of Professor Meier, Dr. Herbert Schmied continued the work of his teacher in the same clinic and wrote a new book called (Repair Fasting) in which he presented scientific evidence that a person will not die of hunger as long as he still carries fat reserves in his body. The patient Hans Wagner, who was 180 cm tall and weighed 130 kg, said that he fasted under the supervision of Dr. Schmied for 60 days and lost 59 kg at the end of the diet. He did not eat any type of food except 3 liters of mineral water daily with a vitamin tablet and effervescent mineral salts without sugar. He enjoyed abundant activity during the fasting period, following the basic rules of healthy fasting or the zero diet. The mechanism of healthy fasting or the ZERO diet

THE MECHANISM OF SALUTARY FASTING OR ZERO DIET

The human body works by a specific mechanism. The sugar reserves that the body stores in the liver and muscles in the form of glycogen are enough for the body for about half a day so that the body maintains a stable blood sugar level sufficient to provide the body with the necessary energy for a period of (12) hours. When the sugar reserves in the blood run out, the body burns its fat reserves in order to secure sufficient energy for the body, about (200) g in twenty-four hours.

The body also begins to burn part of its proteins to provide them in the form of glucose so that the blood sugar level remains constant. These proteins are primarily taken by the muscles, about (25) g every (24) hours, and through the burning of fatty acids, the ketone element is created here in the blood and urine, as is the case in the Dr. Atkins diet and the Scarsdale diet, except that the acidic ketone substance is excreted with the urine, and this is what is scientifically expressed as the mechanism of metabolism and rapid fat burning. In order to expel ketones from the body, a person must drink about three liters of water daily.