Show FASTING THE PROPER THETO THING TO PRACTICE No Food Cure Recommended By Ey ByS S lipton Upton Sinclair Creates a aS S Furore S Special Cable to S London Loudon April lS Much discussion dl has been arouse amuse arou e damo g the medical profession slon sion and ana general public by bythe the no food tood cure recommended by Upton Sinclair the American novelist Many any well known medical experts ad admit admit admit mit that there are benefits to be derived from fasting if it is ia practiced Dr Wallace of qt a physical tui ul UI ture tura magazine says Fasting is most efficacious as a a cure I 1 have known it to work remarkable cures In II my own experience The person undergoing the no flo food cure should take nothing but distilled wa we water water ter and should hould exercise caution The Thc weight w should be bo taken before starting the tile fast and if It is below the normal food should be taken In reasonable rea quan quantities quantities until the patient is the right weight and ready to undertake the complete fast talltA A fast should net nt be started in cold weather for that takes away much of or the th heat and energy of ot the organism m but in III warm there ia Is not this disadvantage disadvantage disadvantage S vantage In my own experience I have known a patient to fast toe for fifteen days davs an d derive rie only advantage from the ordeal The patient was wasa a young y U Spaniard living lI lb fn a London boarding house hawse He had suffered from serious internal trouble since boyhood and he came to tome tt tome me to ask uk advice about the fruit diet I 1 He was very ve y dark and I this I 1 at first put dow to his foreign birth and he looked very vory ill m illI mI I 1 said to him The tasting fasting cure would do you good and I explained to him hire When hen I saw him again many weeks later laterI lat r rI I 1 hardly recognized him He was the picture ot Df f health He lie held himself upright and his step was alert and vigorous His eyes were bringht hi hl a good color and his pulse pule pu normal S But the most moat surprising thing was wu that his skin was waa much taker fairer and be lie laugh laughingly laughIngly laughIngly said to me Perhaps all Spaniards are re not really dark If f they only fasted I 1 learned to my surprise for fOt I 1 had paver never Intended he should go so O Ions l ng ag with without without without out solid food that he had fasted for fifteen days taking only distilled water during all that time And it certainly cured him |