during my decades of being disqualified from health insurance. I had read about the effect of fasting in a study in the 1940s and was surprised that it would knock a flare off in a few days.

At least a study now shows how it worked. They didn't have a clue in the 40s.

since they have serious fasting during Ramadan. I wonder if studies have been done on the medical benefits.

Various Muslim countries, I believe the fasting is only during the day, from sunrise to sun set. I'm sure one of our Muslim readers can correct me if I'm wrong about that. I wonder if this type of fasting works as well? I've been trying to fast at least twice a week. It helps with the weight control.

Lemon.

I have found that the better and purer the water, the easier it is to keep my appetite under control.

The fast has to be a couple of days for it to work.

The last one I did was a two day fast around a bowel prep and colonoscopy, it was just easier not to eat anything and just swig some homemade lemon soda until it was time to down the half gallon of loaded Gatorade. I have to admit I felt quite a bit better for the next couple of weeks.

Have always disliked doing it but now it looks like a necessity.

that mice who were kept always just barely on the
edge of starvation actually ended up living longer
and being more healthy overall than the mice who
ate their fill.

It just seemed that way to them.

but in fact, as I have been reminded, they did live
longer but were very cranky.

They lived longer, but were extremely cranky.

did one fast every week. I dont know if he still is though.

It took me two years to get there and I never felt better. Yes, I know that's radical, but then just plain vegetarian or lacto vegetarians is radical to some, I don't judge anyone. Eating is more than sustenance.

But a series of events got me to what for me is the S.A.D. (standard american diet) and it's been downhill ever since. Sadly, I had no real life support for it and a lot going against it, and I felt like an outlaw, LOL.

Another link there discussed excess animal proteins and immune issues, and while my vegan routine had drawbacks, they were exceeded by the benefits. I am using a lot of dairy and it doesn't agree with me. I don't preach to anyone, everyone is different, everyone is somone else's cra-cra.

But that piece has inspired me to return to whatever is as close to where I was a few years ago.

Also saw articles about the work of Fulbright scholars. Yes, the demise of the program has been greatly exaggerated, they haven't even lost funding, just shifted to different directions.

There were senior housing solutions and many other things, even an analysis of the ACA and Canadian systems:

Obamacare explained by USC Price professor

“One thing Canadians think distinguishes them in a favorable manner from the U.S. is that they can offer everybody what they think is an inalienable right,” Greenwald said of health insurance. “It’s a very big cultural distinction for them between the two countries.

The focus of his speeches was to set up two possible outcomes for health care in the United States following the implementation of the ACA. One possibility is that reform will lead to the sustainability of the current private sector system by ensuring access, improving the quality of care and controlling costs or the expansion of coverage will lead to a system so expensive that it will be necessary to change to a model more like Canada where it’s entirely publicly funded.

“This is either the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end,” Greenwald said. “We’ve started on a sustainable path or we’ve crossed the Rubicon to where expanding coverage and increasing expenditures will lead to major reforms that depart from the current system.”

http://news.usc.edu/62111/obamacare-as-explained-by-usc-price-professor/

Thanks again for the inspiration.

and lots of vegetables, beans and fruits

Seriously too many people eat way too much food

"[P]eriods of no food for two to four days at a time over the course of six months -- kill older and damaged immune cells and generate new ones, the research also has implications for chemotherapy tolerance and for those with a wide range of immune system deficiencies, including autoimmunity disorders."

to keep one another going.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

“More clinical studies are needed, and any such dietary intervention should be undertaken only under the guidance of a physician.”

I have been fasting one day a week for a couple of years now....need to extend it out a few more days I guess.

Very promising.

Very promising indeed