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Title: Wonderful Book
Review: Perhaps the most authoritative book on fasting written. It is comprehensive, detailed, and well documented. Therapeutic fasting is well presented as an alternative regimen to drug therapy. However, appropriate caveats are given about care of a physician for fasts lasting longer than 3 days. Also, recommendations about optimal diet to accompany the fast are presented. The author favors a low protein, low fat, high fiber vegetarian diet as a precursor to the fast. All in all, a solid book. I think that the book would have benefited from more detail on how a patient can recognize and distinguish healthful symptoms of fasting from harmful ones. Doctors hide the ball all too often (though Dr. Fuhrman is less guilty of this than most physicians)instead of empowering patient to diagnose and treat their own conditions.
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