Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

by Jimmy Moore and Jason Fung

Book Overview

The ultimate resource on intermittent fasting, the incredibly effective therapeutic approach to feeling better and losing weight that produces life-changing results.

Whether you're new to intermittent fasting or you want to fine-tune your fasting plan, this is the intermittent fasting manual to help you build the right fasting program for the best results. Whether your goal is to lose weight, improve your body's insulin response, sharpen your mental faculties, turn down depression or anxiety, or slow the aging process, The Complete Guide to Fasting is the best companion for your journey.

Here you'll find everything you need to get you through your first fast, including a 7-Day Kick-Start Fasting Plan and 20 healing recipes. Get the guidance you need to make intermittent fasting work for you

You will learn:
- How intermittent fasting works, and how you can successfully combine it with diets and eating preferences such as keto, low carb and low sugar
- How intermittent fasting amplifies weight loss and improves many other health conditions, such as pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hypertension and heart health
- Which fluids are allowed and can even aid fasting, and which will break your fast
- What should you expect when you start fasting, and how to avoid potential negative effects
- How to manage hunger and create the right mindset
- What are the different fasting types and protocols, including 16:8, 20:4, alternate day fasting, and other extended fast

Forget about starving yourself or diets with complicated rules--intermittent fasting has never been easier

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628600012
• ISBN13: 9781628600018
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fasting to health

This is a good guide book to fasting, with the intention to reverse Type II Diabetes so as to heal the body through alternate day and extended fasting. All major world religions practice some form of fasting to clear the mind. It gives some historic background and offers a practical way from fasting a few hours to days. It is sound advice back to basic to restore health. The Tao of health is to maintain a good balance –eating too much, such as buffet is detrimental to health!

Very good book that explains fasting and the benifits

This book is very clear about the direct benefits of intermittent fasting. It walks the reader through the research and patient case studies. Then give direct guide lines on how and what to do. Makes the topic accessible to anyone.