by Robert Dave Johnston

Created on: May 29, 2008

We live in a world that often tells us more is better. Fasting for weight loss, fitness and health may be good for the "holy" - some may say.

But the common perception appears to be that hunger - real or imagined - must be appeased at all times and without question.

Live to eat even if it kills you later. Immediate gratification. I want it all, and I want it NOW. This illusion is leading millions to an early grave.

Fasting for weight loss - or any change requiring sacrifice - is the last thing on most of their minds. At least until illness strikes. Then, in panic, they run to the hospitals and demand a "cure."

Food has in reality become a "drug" addiction just as destructive as cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine and heroin. Like the last days of the Roman Empire, excess is taking its victims in a nationwide carnage of obesity and food debauchery.

A Way Out

But there is a way out, and it is NOT just a DIET. From experience it has become vividly clear to me that juice, fruit and water fasting are amazing preventive "cures" many could benefit from.

Fasting for weight loss and fitness reverses years of toxic damage to the body. Fasting can also help rouse dormant motivation that can help you make permanent eating-habit changes. Fasting once only to return to gorging is not what we are talking about here. It is crucial to have a solid commitment to changing the way we view and relate to food - one day at a time.

Moreover, fasting for weight loss and fitness opens doors to insight and spiritual understanding that does not surface while overindulging on cheeseburgers and French fries. The ugly fact is this: Food truly can kill.

A Plague of Epidemic Proportions

Particularly in the US, obesity has become an epidemic - a true plague. The US, to some extent, has become what we shall call The Anti-Prevention Nation. Why?

Here is the alarming scenario:

Millions - young and old - are swarming to hospitals seeking to be "cured" yet doing little to prevent the illness from surfacing in the first place. Allowing themselves to become obese. Toxic. Sick.

Quality of life goes down, up go visits to the doctor, unnecessary gastric bypass surgeries and all sorts of other infirmities.

Prevention - A Radical Concept

If you do not believe me - or perhaps think me an extremist - take it then from a national medical authority.

Former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona recently went on the record to say that disease prevention is still a radical concept to most Americans.

According to Carmona, America's obesity

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