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Why we have all been doing the Fast Diet wrong

Since fruit and vegetables are the easiest food to digest, my plan centres mostly around these foods.

Photo credit: Pool

What you need to know:

  • Traditionally, fasting means going without any sort of food, and that is something I’m really not in favour of
  • Essentially you have created an artificial “emergency” situation and your body goes into survival mode

One thing I tell my patients is that their sick body is a lot like a car that’s been driven around quite roughly and then badly maintained. After a number of years, that car needs a considerable amount of work, most likely an overhaul.

So assuming you have the overhaul, what should you do be doing to maintain your body so that it doesn’t break down again? It’s not original, and it’s certainly not ground-breaking, but it is new to me. It’s fasting.