Greetings from Russell's Remnant:

Russell once looked at one of his overweight chelas and said, "Boy, if I ate what you eat, I'd be dead." He also stated "If you want to live, you must eat live food. If you want to die, eat dead food." He believed that fasting saved his life on at least two occasions. Fasting is a drastic discipline, but is needed in drastic health conditions. The following are some interesting comments about health and fasting. Please do not attempt a long fast (over three days) unless under the guidance of someone with fasting experience. Even if you plan to fast one to three days, it would be a good idea to read a good book on fasting. One of Russell's chelas fasted on strickly water for 26 days. It can be done. In fact Russell visited with Dick Gregory when Dick was on one of his long fasts for doctors while here in New Orleans. The doctors were amazed at Mr. Gregory who then left and hiked to the state capitol eighty miles away - feeling great.

No matter how far away you may have traveled, Mother Nature is always waiting for your return! DG 23

The mental attitude is an important factor. When a person chooses to go on a fast, the mind is at ease because the person knows exactly why he or she is refraining from eating. DG 88

Fasting is so beautiful, in a way it is like putting yourself on spiritual trial - Dick Gregory. LGF i

Discipline is achieved through fasting. Unless disease is too far advanced, most plagued organisms are capable of experiencing a "new birth." LGF 5

Most human misery and suffering come out of the colon. LGF 16

Hippocrates said, "If a sick person is fed one feeds the disease." LGF 20

Detoxifying the system for a fast usually takes 12 to 21 days. LGF 29

Fasting has an accumulative effect. LGF 35

Fasting can solve medical problems, financial problems, lover's quarrels and even major wars. LGF 37

If you don't take enemas don't fast. LGF 41

During a fast it is not unusual to sleep two or three hours a night and wake up refreshed. LGF 50

Blood pressure goes down greatly while fasting. LGF 52

In a fast, all cells that contain toxins are either squeezed clean or destroyed and replaced. LGF 70

Obese people have colons that are impacted with as much as 35 pounds of decaying fecal matter. LGF 71

The body turns everything to efficient cleaning and weight loss when fasting. LGF 75

It does take perseverance to overcome food addiction. LGF 85

Constipation causes obesity. LGF 97

The mucusless diet is the only thorough and perfect cleanser that dissolves the dried mucus which sticks to the inner walls of the intestines and colon. RF 11

All diseases without exception are due to insufficient hygiene - by biologically wrong, unnatural foods and by each ounce of over-eating. RF 28

We are in a position to heal diseases which the school of medicine designates as incurable. RF 42

Nature teaches us through this example that there is basically only one disease, the one caused by overeating and eating of the wrong foods. It can be cured by but one remedy, namely by withholding from the body those very substances which normally will bring about disease. RF 70

How long should one fast? Nature answers the animals: "Fast until you are either healed or dead." RF 76

As nature cures all diseases by fasting, it must be that eating is the cause of them. RF 98

In the colon itself lies the basic cause of almost all human ailments. RF 156

To have a clean colon is the best health insurance we can have. CH 113

Bibliography: Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature edited by James R. McGraw, The Layman's Guide to Fasting and Losing Weight by Phillip Partee, Rational Fasting by Arnold Ehret, Colon Health: the Key to a Vibrant Life by Norman W. Walker