Praises for The Miracle of Fasting and The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
These are just a few of the thousands of testimonies we receive yearly, praising fasting for the rejuvenation benefits they reap – physically, mentally and spiritually. We hope in time to also receive one from you.
Your fasting book has renewed my youth. I am 58 years young and feel 18. I can outrun 18 year olds! Through your fasting plan and healthy lifestyle, I lost over 86 pounds and feel a sense of rejuvenated youthfulness and happiness. – Donald Daigh, Florida
When I was a young gymnastics coach at Stanford University, Paul Bragg's words and example inspired me to live a healthy lifestyle. I was twenty-three then; now I'm over sixty two, and my own health and fitness serves as a living testimonial to Bragg's wisdom, carried on by Patricia, his dedicated health crusading daughter. – Dan Millman, Author "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" - www.danmillman.com
Paul Bragg saved my life at 15 when I attended the Bragg Health Crusade in Oakland. I thank Bragg Healthy Lifestyle for my long, happy life, sharing health with everyone! – Jack LaLanne, Bragg follower, 96 1/2 years young
The Bragg book "Miracle of Fasting" inspired me to become healthy, trim and fit. I've finished 8 Boston Marathons. I was an unhealthy 350 lbs. and now a healthy 150 lbs, lean, trim and now also a health crusader. – Dick Gregory
Fasting has helped me clean out my sick body and brain. I feel like a new person. I'm reborn thanks to fasting! – Joe Scavens, South Carolina
A fast with distilled water can help you heal with greater speed; cleanse your liver, kidneys and colon; purify your blood; help you lose excess weight and bloating; flush out toxins; clear the eyes, tongue, and cleanse the breath. Thanks to the Bragg Books for my conversion to the healthy way. – James Balch, M.D., Co-Author, Prescription for Nutritional Healing
I've known the wonderful Bragg Health Books for over 25 years. They are a blessing to me and my family and to all who read them to help make this a healthier world. – Pastor Mike Macintosh, Horizon Christian Fellowship, San Diego
I've been reading Bragg Books since high school days. I'm thankful for my healthy lifestyle I learned from them and admire their health crusading to make this a healthier world! – Steve Jobs, Creator & CEO – Apple Computer/iPods
Thanks to Bragg Fasting Book & Healthy Lifestyle, we are healthy, fit and singing better and staying younger than ever! – The Beach Boys - www.beachboysfanclub.com
Our lives have completely turned around! Our family is feeling so healthy and good, we must tell you about it. – Gene & Joan Zollner, Parents of 11, Washington
I am truly thrilled by what I've read. I am excited and confident of my now newer ways to keep super healthy. – Ken Cooper, D.C., Narrabi, NSW, Australia
I found your Vinegar book in a health food store. I bought it, read it and gave copies to several friends, including my doctor. I am faithfully following The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle. I can honestly say that of all the books I have read, Bragg Health Books have benefitted me the most! – Reiner Rothe, Vancouver, Canada.
I love the Bragg Health Books and The Miracle of Fasting. They are so popular and loved in Russia and the Ukraine. I give thanks for my health and energy. I won the famous Honolulu Marathon with the all–time women's record! – Lyubov Morgunova, Champion Runner, Moscow, Russia
Paul Bragg and daughter Patricia were my early guiding inspiration to my health education and my career. – Jeffery Bland, Ph.D., Famous Food Scientist
Thank you Patricia for our first meeting in London in 1968. You gave me your Fasting Book – it got me exercising, brisk walking and wisely eating more healthy. You were a blessing God-sent! – Reverend Billy Graham
Your dad, Dr. Paul Bragg IS the FATHER of the natural health industry and the entire natural health movement. Everything that has been done in natural health and physical culture since has been based on the pioneering vision and principles articulated by Dr. Bragg. He gave us all our direction! – Dr. William Wong, Texas
In Medical School I read Dr. Bragg's Health Books and they changed my thinking and the path of my life. I founded the Omega Institute located in Rhinebeck, New York. – Dr. Steven Rechtschaffen - www.eomega.org
As a youth I had a learning disability and was told I would never read, write or communicate normally. At 14 I dropped out of school and at 17 ended up in Hawaii surfing. My road to recovery led me to Dr. Paul Bragg who changed my life by giving me one simple affirmation to repeat: "I am a genius and I apply my wisdom." Dr. Bragg inspired me to live a healthy lifestyle and go back to school and get my education and from there miracles happened. I've authored 54 training programs and 14 books and love to health crusade around the world thanks to Bragg. – Dr. John Demartini, Dynamic Crusader - www.drdemartini.com
I give thanks to Health Crusaders Paul Bragg and daughter Patricia for their dedicated years of service spreading health. It's made a difference in my life and millions worldwide. – Pat Robertson, Host CBN "700" Club
I could hardly put it down. The Miracle of Fasting has thoroughly stirred me physically, mentally and spiritually. – Evangelist Richard Sego, Georgia
I want to say I thank God for you and the health crusading you do. I have to say exactly one week ago I couldn't walk without having unbearable pain, to the point of having tears in my eyes. I'm only 32 years old, but my body felt like 80. My mom suggested Bragg Vinegar tonic. I started taking it and in four days I had no pain. The stiffness was gone and I could walk. My energy level has skyrocketed. I can keep up with my five year old. The Vinegar tonic has truly changed my life in so many ways. You have touched my life and I feel I am alive again. – Carla, Michigan
After 5 trips to the Emergency room and a weekend stay in the hospital, I was getting sick and tired of being sick and tired! An endless parade of physicians with their prescriptions of. . . you name it, they had me on it! I knew this pain and suffering wasn't in my head. So there I was overmedicated, vomiting, dizzy, unable to eat, drink, sleep and breathe normally. Rapidly I was becoming a non-functioning participant in the lives of my husband and children, 8 and 10. In the middle of the night, during one nasty episode, I dragged myself crying to the computer and sat down and typed in all my symptoms and info. The search engine brought up similar case scenarios and directed me to a site where people were praising the "Bragg's Organic Vinegar with the Mother Enzyme" and the almost unbelievable results they received from it. Until the break of dawn, I read story after story. . .thinking, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't". But at this point I had nothing to lose. I found some miracle Bragg's Vinegar at my local health store. I mixed 1 teaspoon in about 4 ounces of water and drank it down. Literally, in 20 minutes, I felt like doing cartwheels! Over the next 24 hours, I stopped ALL medications and started using Braggs 3 times a day. I have not had another symptom since! In fact, for the first time in almost 10 years, I slept through the night. I am elated! Never once, did any doctor hint of a natural cure or relief from my symptoms. I have a lot of life to catch up on. Spring is in the air and seems fitting I get to experience my own "re-birth". Thank you! – Laurie Prouty, Connecticut
Bragg Vinegar and Fasting Books helped me lose 75 pounds and has increased my regularity and energy. I have the Bragg Vinegar Drink 3 times daily, plus before I sing. It clears the rapines in my throat. I have acquired a taste for the vinegar and honey mix and love it! It's pretty amazing! – Nonie Hilgesen, Music Teacher, Calvary Chapel Christian School, California
I am 91 years young, and not on any medication, nor ever have been. I am as healthy as can be. I have been using Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar for over 45 years. I tell every person I meet of the great health benefits of your health product. – Joseph Hurwitz, Nevada
The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle with Fasting has changed my life! I lost weight and my energy levels went through the roof. I look forward to "Fasting" days. I think better and am a better husband and father. Thank you Patricia, this has been a great blessing in my life. Also, thank you for your sharing The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle at our "AOL" Conference. – Byron H. Elton, VP Entertainment, Time Warner AOL
Dr. Patricia Bragg is a dedicated Health Crusader and she shared her Bragg Healthy Lifestyle with millions of our radio listeners. I take the Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vinegar faithfully every day for the last 2 years. Thank you Patricia. – Host George Noory - www.coasttocoastam.com
I bought and have read through the Miracle of Fasting ebook twice (plan to read it many more times). I feel so blessed to have found your website, ebooks and the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle. I have done 2 successful 36 hour fasts and now look forward to more, then my first 3 day fast. I plan to buy all of your ebooks within the next week and I love your organic vinegar and amino acids. Thank you so much. – Rick, CA
Read more testimonials pages 248 – 253
We get letters daily at our Santa Barbara headquarters. We would love to receive testimonials from you on any blessings and healings you experienced after following The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle with Fasting. It's all within your grasp to be in top health. By following this book, you can reap Super Health and a happy, long, vital life! It's never too late to begin – see (page 185) the study they did even with people in their 80s and 90s and the amazing results that were obtained! You can receive miracles with nutrition, exercise and fasting! Start now
Daily our prayers & love go out to you, your heart, mind & soul.
Miracles can happen every day through guidance and prayer! – Patricia Bragg
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Thanks for The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle that you shared with me and are sharing with millions of others world-wide. – John Gray, Ph.D., Author
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In Medical School I read Dr. Bragg's Health Books, they changed my way of thinking & the path of my life. I founded Omega Institute. – Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D. www.eomega.org - famous since 1977
Thanks to Paul Bragg & Daughter Patricia for my easy-to-follow Health Program. You make my days healthy. – Clint Eastwood Bragg Follower over 55 years
Paul Bragg with Actress Gloria Swanson who became a Bragg devotee when 18. She often health crusaded with Bragg.
I'd like to thank you for teaching me how to take control of my health! I lost 55 pounds and I feel "great"! Bragg books have showed me vitality, happiness and being close to Mother Nature. You both are real "Crusaders for Health for the World". Thanks. – Leonard Amato
I lost 102 lbs. with Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar and The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle and have kept it off for over 15 years, staying away from white flour, sugar and processed foods. – Dee McCaffrey, Chemist & Diet Counselor, Tempe, Arizona
Paul Bragg with Duke Kahanamoku, the Olympic swimmer who taught Paul how to surf. His beautiful wife Nadine was Patricia's godmother.
PAUL BRAGG STAYING HEALTHY & FIT!
The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle teaches us all to be healthy, fit and ageless. – Mark Victor Hansen, Co-Producer "Chicken Soup for the Soul" Series
Paul Bragg owes his powerful body and superb health to living exclusively on live, vital, healthy, organic rich foods.
Paul Bragg in Tahiti (1925) gathering tropical papaya fruit.
Paul C. Bragg and daughter Patricia were my early guiding inspiration to my health education and health career. – Jeffery Bland, Ph.D., Famous Food Scientist
Bernarr Macfadden & Paul Bragg
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Paul C. Bragg at Regent's Park, London
PAUL & PATRICIA BRAGG HEALTH CRUSADING
Patricia and father, Paul on world trip in 1950's, during stop in Tahiti.
During the 40-plus years Patricia worked with her father, she was right there beside him, assisting him on the Bragg Health Crusades world-wide. They were a team, when you looked at them, you would see only two people headed in the same direction.
Our lives have completely turned around! Our family is feeling so very healthy, we must tell you about it. – Gene & Joan Zollner, parents of 11, Washington
Paul C. Bragg with daughter, celebrating here over 50 years of Bragg Health Products, Books & Crusading world-wide, spreading Health around the world.
Paul & daughter Patricia, Royal Hawaiian, Honolulu
PATRICIA BRAGG CONTINUING THE HEALTH CRUSADE!
Patricia Bragg with Bill Galt inspired by Bragg Books and founded Good Earth Restaurants
Patricia Bragg with Actress Jane Russell.
Jack LaLanne with Patricia Bragg
Patricia with Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Explorer & Environmentalist
Patricia in studio with famous Beach Boy Bruce Johnson, Bragg follower over 30 years. He played for her his latest records.
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Fasting – Cleanses, Renews and Rejuvenates
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THE MIRACLE OF FASTING
PROVEN THROUGH HISTORY For Physical, Mental and Spiritual Rejuvenation
PAUL C. BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D.
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THE MIRACLE OF FASTING
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - The Miracle of Fasting
Chapter 2 - What is the Miracle of Fasting
Chapter 3 - The Enemy Within Our Bodies
Chapter 4 - Fasting Fights Deadly Acid Crystals
Chapter 5 - Scientific Fasting Explained
Chapter 6 - Why I Drink Only Pure, Distilled Water!
Chapter 7 - How Long Should One Fast?
Chapter 8 - How to Break a 24 Hour Fast
Chapter 9 - I Fast 7 to 10 Days, 4 Times a Year
Chapter 10 - How to Break Long Fasts
Chapter 11 - Your Tongue Never Lies - It's Your Inside Magic Mirror
Chapter 12 - Just Grin and Bear It
Chapter 13 - Fasting Fights and Removes Mucus
Chapter 14 - Fasting Melts Away Pounds and Cleanses, Renews & Rejuvenates
Chapter 15 - How to Gain Weight Using a Scientific Fasting Program
Chapter 16 - Fasting Fights Winter Miseries
Chapter 17 - Outwit Premature Ageing
Chapter 18 - Fasting Keeps Arteries Youthful
Chapter 21 - Doctor Pure Water
Chapter 22 - Doctor Healthy Natural Food
Chapter 26 -Doctor Good Posture
Chapter 27 - Doctor Human Mind
Chapter 28 - Spiritual Aspects of Fasting
Chapter 29 - The Science of Eating for Super Health
Chapter 30 - Mother Nature Knows No Mercy
PAUL C. BRAGG, N.D., Ph.D. & Fasting Pioneer
Paul C. Bragg's daughter Patricia and their wonderful, healthy members of the Bragg Longer Life, Health and Happiness Club exercise daily on the beautiful Fort DeRussy lawn, at famous Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. View club exercising www.bragg.com. Membership is free and open to everyone to attend any morning – Monday through Saturday, from 9 to 10:30 am – for Bragg Super Power Breathing and Health and Fitness Exercises. On Saturday there are often health lectures on how to live a long, healthy life! The group averages 75 to 125 per day, depending on the season. From December to March it can go up to 150. Its dedicated leaders have been carrying on the class for over 30 years. Thousands have visited the club from around the world and carried the Bragg Health and Fitness Crusade to friends and relatives back home. When you visit Honolulu, Hawaii, Patricia invites you and your friends to join her and the club for wholesome, healthy fellowship. She also recommends visiting the outer Islands (Kauai, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai) for a fulfilling, healthy vacation.
To maintain good health, normal weight and increase the good life of radiant health, joy and happiness, the body must be exercised properly (stretching, walking, aerobics, jogging, running, biking, swimming, deep breathing, good posture, etc.) and nourished wisely with healthy foods. – Paul C. Bragg
DEDICATION
We dedicate this Book to 8 Great Pioneers of Health and Longevity and to You – Our Readers and Friends and all the Dedicated Health Professionals who believe in Nature's guiding Health and Wellness ability to Heal.
Dr.
August Rollier, M.D. –
Father of Heliotherapy (Sunshine
Therapy)
Bernarr
Macfadden –
Father and Founder of Physical Culture
Movement
Professor
Arnold Ehret –
Originator of the Mucusless Diet Healing
System
Dr.
St. Louis Estes, D.D.S. –
One of the greatest, dynamic
Nutrition Speakers
Dr.
Benedict Lust, M.D., N.D. –
Father and Founder of
Naturopathy in America
Dr.
John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. –
Director 60 years of Battle
Creek Health Sanitarium
Dr.
Henry Lindlahr, M.D. –
Famous Drugless Physician, who
pioneered the return to Natural Methods of Treatment
Dr.
John T. Tilden, M.D. –
Great Natural Healer and Health
Pioneer
Fasting Helps Keep You Healthy & Youthful
Fasting is an effective and safe method of detoxifying the body – a technique that wise men have used for centuries to heal the sick. Fast regularly and help the body heal itself and stay well. Give all of your organs a rest. Fasting can help reverse the ageing process, and if we use it correctly, we will live longer, happier lives. Just three days a month will do it. Each time you complete a fast, you will feel better. Your body will have a chance to heal and rebuild its immune system by regular fasting. You can fight off illness and the degenerative diseases so common in this chemically polluted environment we live in. When you feel a cold or any illness coming on, or are just depressed – it's best to fast! – James Balch, M.D., Co-Author Prescription for Nutritional Healing "Bragg books were my conversion to the healthy way."
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
With Your Support The Bragg Health Crusades Can Continue to Spread Paul C. Bragg's Teachings
For over 80 years we have been sharing Paul C. Bragg's teachings on healthy living worldwide! Millions have followed the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle principles and their lives have been changed forever! Everyday people send us letters, e-mails and call, saying – "Paul Bragg saved my life!"
Former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop said "Paul Bragg did more for the Health of America than any one person he knew of."
OUR MISSION: To spread health worldwide and inspire youth and people of all ages to achieve optimal health – physically, mentally and spiritually and live long, productive, caring, happy lives.
If your life has been touched and helped by Bragg Health Teachings, please help us carry on the Bragg Legacy into this 21st Century and beyond. Your tax deductible donation to the Bragg Health Institute will support our mission to continue the Bragg Message of Health worldwide and inspire future generations.
The non-profit and philanthropic work of the Bragg Health Institute funds The Bragg Health Crusades, community health, school health education, lectures, seminars, and publications on healthy living. The Institute conducts health outreach to youth in schools, organic gardening teaching programs, and helps sponsor health science research and provides scholarships to worthy students pursuing the natural health science professions.
Please join us in sharing The Bragg Health Legacy!
Paul C. Bragg, ND, PhD. Originator of Health Stores Life Extension Specialist Health Crusader to the World
Bragg Outreach to Schools
Organic Gardening Teaching Programs
Bragg Scholarships
Patricia Bragg lecturing at Bragg Health Seminars
The Bragg Health Institute is located on a beautiful 120 acre Campus and Organic Farm on the coast of Santa Barbara, California. Patricia Bragg and the Directors of Bragg Health Institute have designated this as the future site of the greatest living tribute to the life of Paul C. Bragg. The new Bragg Health Institute will become a world center for organic and healthy lifestyle education and research. (See our Mission, Purpose and Vision for the Future video on bragghealthinstitute.org)
You can also be part of Paul Bragg's lasting legacy by having your name permanently inscribed upon one of the educational nature walks or inspirational walls that will enhance the natural beauty of the Bragg Health Institute Campus and Organic Farm. Or you may want to have your name inscribed in the Grand Entrance or one of the rooms in the Bragg Memorial Library or Health Education Center. Your name can be part of your own legacy, as you will be recognized for generations to come as a great Health Crusader because of your financial support of these wonderful health projects. When thousands of visitors see your name each year, they will know that you helped make a difference in the world.
Some Special Health Projects You Can Partner with us:
Healthy Lifestyle Teaching Videos
Paul Bragg Library & Rose Gardens
Organic Medicinal Herb Gardens
Scholarships for Future Health Doctors
Special Health Events & Programs
Organic Teaching Gardens
Health Teaching Kitchen
Health Eco Education Center
Bragg Nature & Farm Walks
Bragg Health Museum
For more info check out our web: www.bragghealthinstitute.org
Introduction to Fasting
Fasting Cleanses, Renews and Rejuvenates
Our bodies have a natural self-cleansing for maintaining a clean, healthy body and our "river of life" – our blood. It's essential we keep our entire body from head to toes healthy and in good working order so nothing breaks down!
Fasting is the best detoxifying method. It's most effective, safest way to increase elimination of waste buildups and enhance body's miraculous self-healing and self-repairing process that keeps you healthy and youthful.
If you prepare for a fast by eating a cleansing diet for 1 to 2 days, this can greatly facilitate the cleansing process. Fresh variety salads and organic vegetables, fruits and their juices, as well as fruit smoothies and green drinks (alfalfa, barley green, chlorella, spirulina, wheatgrass, etc.) stimulates waste elimination. Fresh foods and juices can literally pick up dead matter from your body and dispose of it. After pre-cleansing period, then start your fast.
Daily, even on most fast days, we take 1,000 to 3,000 mg. of mixed vitamin C powder (C concentrate, acerola, rosehips and bioflavonoids) in liquids. It's a potent antioxidant and flushes out deadly free radicals. It also promotes collagen production for new healthy tissues. It's also important if you are detoxifying from prescription drugs or alcohol overload.
A well planned distilled water fast is our favorite or the introductory fast of diluted fresh juice (35% distilled water). Both can cleanse your body of excess mucus, old fecal matter, trapped cellular, non-food wastes and help remove inorganic mineral deposits and sludge from pipes and joints.
Fasting works by self-digestion. During a cleansing fast your body intuitively will decompose and burn only the substances and tissues that are damaged, diseased or unneeded, such as abscesses, tumors, excess fat deposits, excess water and congestive wastes. Even a short fast (1 to 3 days) will accelerate elimination from your liver, kidneys, lungs, bloodstream and skin. Sometimes you will experience dramatic changes (cleansing and healing crisis) as accumulated wastes are expelled. With your first fasts you may temporarily have cleansing headaches, fatigue, body odor, bad breath, coated tongue, mouth sores and even diarrhea as your body is cleaning house. Please be patient with your body!
After a fast your body begins to healthfully rebalance when you faithfully follow The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle. Your weekly 24 hour fast removes toxins on a regular basis, so they don't accumulate. Your energy levels will rise and shine – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Your creativity expands. You will feel like a "new you" – which you are – you are being cleansed, purified and reborn. Fasting is a miracle!
You are what you eat, drink, breathe, think, say and do. –
Patricia Bragg
Dr. Schuller's Hour of Power Sermon
featured this Bragg saying on worldwide TV.
Today begin by eating God's food, drinking plenty of purified water, thinking positive thoughts, affirming aloud, & taking positive action! Then all your tomorrows will be healthier, happier & brighter than you ever dreamed possible! – www.RobertASchuller.blogspot.com
Fasting Brings Great Health Miracles!
Patricia Bragg is a 100% dedicated Health Crusader with a passion, like her father and a living example of The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle. She speaks on radio, TV and at conventions, prisons, schools, colleges, churches and seminars around the world.
Throughout history and in the Bible, fasting has long been promoted as a spiritual means for intensifying prayer and your faith. You can reap great spiritual blessings with your fasting and prayer. Those who knew the secrets and the great miracle benefits of fasting as a vital dimension in God include Jesus, Apostle Paul, early church leaders, Daniel, Elijah, Ezra, Esther, Job, David, Hannah, Isaiah, Zachariah and many others. Prominent fasters in Christian history include John Calvin, Martin Luther, John Knox, John Wesley, David Brainard, George Muller, and hundreds of church pioneers. They discovered abstaining from food not only freed them to focus upon God with fresh intensity, but also opened avenues of spiritual perception and understanding that were not available during routine living (gathering and preparation of food for mealtime, etc.). They found as they focused upon God with deliberate discipline and prayer, God focused upon them with clarity of direction and quickening of spirit. They could partake of God more easily when all else was set aside. Fasting Brings Great Spiritual, Mental, Emotional and Physical Health Miracles!
A teacher for the day can be a guiding light for a lifetime!
Bragg Books are silent health teachers – never tiring, ready night or day to help you help yourself to health! Our books are written with love and a deep desire to guide you to healthy lifestyle living. – Patricia Bragg, N.D., Ph.D., Health Crusader
The freedom and ease you experience during fasting enables you to discover new undreamed of depths to the meaning of life. – Herbert Shelton
With fasting the head is clearer, the health is better, the heart is lighter, the purse is heavier and the soul is renewed.– Scottish clergyman on fasting, circa 1800.
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TEN HEALTH COMMANDMENTS
Thou shall respect and protect thy body as the highest manifestation of thy life.
Thou shall abstain from all unnatural, devitalized foods and stimulating beverages.
Thou shall nourish thy body with only natural live foods, fruits, vegetables and whole grains that . . .
Thou shall extend thy years in health for loving, charitable service and sharing with others. Thou shall regenerate thy body by the right balance of activity, exercise and rest.
Thou shall purify thy cells, tissue and blood with healthy foods, pure water, clean air and sunshine.
Thou shall abstain from all food when out of sorts in mind or body.
Thou shall keep all thoughts, words and emotions pure, calm, good, loving and uplifting.
Thou shall increase thy knowledge of Nature's Laws, follow them, and enjoy the fruits of thy life's labor.
Thou shall lift up thyself, friends and family by obedience to Mother Nature's and God's Healthy, Natural Laws of Living.
Bragg Healthy Lifestyle Plan
Read, plan, plot, and follow through for supreme health and longevity.
Underline, highlight or dog-ear pages as you read important passages.
Organizing your lifestyle helps you identify what's important in your life.
Be faithful to your health goals everyday for a healthy, long, happy life.
Where space allows we include "words of wisdom" from great minds to motivate and inspire you. Please share your favorite sayings with us.
Do write us about your successes following The Miracle of Fasting.
Open your eyes so you may behold wondrous things out of Thy law. – Psalm 119:18
The Miracle of Fasting
Helps You Enjoy a Super Charged, Healthy, Happy, Long Life
Every thinking person must at one time or another say to himself, "Am I getting the most out of life?" The great comedian, Ed Wynn said, "Without your health, riches, possessions and fame are all mud." What is a man without health, even though endowed with riches and fame? Riches cannot buy health and happiness. Just because a person has achieved fame, it does not follow that he is healthy and happy! I do not discredit success and riches! I think money and possessions have a place in our lives. Physical comforts and luxuries are important to most people. Take away a man's wealth and give him only health and his first desire will be the return of his riches.
However with both achieved, a word remains which we hate to utter; a thought we dread to contemplate; a thing which gives sorrow, pain and grief. That word, that thought, that thing, is death! Even in cases where life appears a burden, how tenaciously does man cling to it! How the spirit recoils from a struggle with death! How fondly it retains its grasp on life! Man's great desire is for health and long life on earth; "Man clings to the world as his home, and would want to live here forever, if he had health and long-lasting youthfulness."
Bragg Motto – I Love Life & I Want to Live!
At our Bragg Health Crusade lectures, I often sing my favorite song – called "I Love Life, and I Want to Live" – for my students. These strong words express the inner desires of each one of us. Life in itself is a miracle! And you and I who have precious life are holding this miracle in the palms of our hands to treasure and protect.
Note: My father and I wrote this book together. However, because my father is both my mentor and the American Pioneer of Fasting – with long years of experience overseeing the fasting of thousands of students with miraculous results – this text is mostly presented in his voice. – Patricia Bragg
Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within. – Paracelsus, 15th Century Physician, father of body chemistry
Life is Precious – It's the Treasure of Treasures
Since Adam and Eve lived in that historic Garden of Eden, the prolongation of human life has been and still is mankind's biggest challenge! The Persian and Greek sages, in the centuries before Christ, summoned their intellectual forces to solve it in vain. The scholars of the Medieval Ages pursued it zealously, but again were stymied. Today, in this fast-paced space age, every intelligent person deep in their heart and soul wants to live a healthy, long life. Most lack the proper health knowledge – the true key to a long, active, healthy life!
By following my mentors – Mother Nature's and God's Natural Laws, I invented the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle. Follow it and you can live to a healthy, active, advanced age! Every person owes it to himself, his relatives, his friends and his country to take care of his health! This will make him a valued, active citizen, not a financial burden! I believe that every one is entitled to active lives of 120 years or more as the Bible states . . .
"Man's days shall be 120 years." – Genesis 6:3
Longevity may be defined as the maximum duration of life that a healthy person can attain under the most healthy, favorable conditions by living a healthy lifestyle.
Unhealthy Lifestyle Killing Millions Worldwide!
Most people – because of their unwise habits in diet, drink and excesses – die prematurely, long before fulfilling their potential. Wild animals, undisturbed, live out their full term. Man is the only exception. Sadly, not more than one in a million lives out his natural life.
Every patient carries his own doctor inside! – Albert Schweitzer, M.D., Pioneer Medical Missionary
I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to most humans! – Novelist Upton Sinclair, a frequent faster
Arthur Reed, from Oakland, CA lived to be almost 124 years old, the oldest person in the nation. His virtuous habits for longevity: "I let go of three vices in my life. I don't drink. I never smoked or chewed and a few years back I stopped gambling forever." He rode his bicycle to work everyday and retired from Phoenix Ironworks just before he turned 114 years old.
Sickness is a Crime Against Your Body – Don't Be a Health Criminal!
Animals in their wild habitat know by instinct how to live, and what to eat and drink. They know how to fast instinctively when they get hurt or sick. Naturally, animals are led to eat what is good for them. But man eats and drinks anything and everything– consuming the most indigestible concoctions, washing it down with poisonous slops– and then wonders why he is sickly and does not live to be a centenarian!
In theory, humans desire long life! Many shorten their lives to the minimum. Does this make sense? Why this marvelous mechanism of man – perfect in its minutest organism, combining a Godlike intelligence with a body which sculptors have imitated but never equalled – should be ruthlessly destroyed by its owner's unhealthy lifestyle is one of the inexplicable disgraces of our culture!
The world famous marble statue of Apollo that Patricia and I saw in the Vatican at Rome is not greater in the perfection of manly beauty than that possessed by thousands of young men in our midst today. This inanimate marble of Apollo is as tenderly cared for as a rare, priceless jewel. Meanwhile, living man – noble, intellectual, refined, with a miraculous physical structure and an eternal soul – gives his wonderful body less attention than he gives to his car, cat or dog.
All people of sound mentality naturally desire a long, healthy, pain-free, happy and useful life. With our natural intelligence – super health, happiness and longevity should be the rule instead of the exception.
In my early career, I was associated with the great Bernarr Macfadden, the Father and Founder of the Physical Culture movement. I was the associate Editor of the pioneer health magazine Physical Culture. These lines always appeared on the front cover of every issue:
"Sickness is a Crime – Don't Be a Criminal."
Old age is a highly toxic condition caused by nutritional deficiencies and an unhealthy lifestyle.
Men do not die, they kill themselves. – Seneca, Roman Philosopher
Physical weakness, flabbiness and sickness have always seemed criminal to me – a sacrilegious abuse of that miracle instrument, the human body. I regained my health after being a hopeless tuberculosis victim years ago, and since then I've made a religion of keeping in perfect health through conscientious care of my body. Adhering to a high ideal of stamina, vitality, health and endurance has paid me great dividends – so priceless that I call myself "A Health Billionaire!"
To Be a Health Billionaire and Enjoy the Glow of Ageless Health and Happiness, You Must Work and Earn It!
The "secret" of the glow of ageless health lies in maintaining internal cleanliness and regeneration. This requires eating natural, organically grown live foods, combined with other healthy practices such as fasting, drinking distilled water, exercising and deep breathing.
When you purify your body with systematic fasting and live foods, you crave daily exercise, and by exercising you sculpt your body to become the person you want to be. Just think, from this minute on you can mold your body to physical perfection. With the knowledge found in these pages you will find out how you can reap the most out of life, physically, mentally and spiritually!
The human race is a miracle unique study, and an intriguing one! But the natural laws which govern man are simple and understandable if one takes the time to learn and observe how he functions from day to day!
Life Can Be Happy, Healthy, Joyous Adventure
To know one's self seems like an endless task, but with crystal clear observation and the daily application of these simple but precise laws, life becomes not only a most exciting adventure, but a tremendous joy! Study and follow The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle throughout your life, and you will start to experience the day-by-day joys, happiness and truly great pleasures of a healthy body, mind and soul for a happy, long and vigorous life!
Exercise, along with healthy foods & some fasting helps maintain or restore a healthy physical balance & normal weight for a long, happy, vital life.
Freedom and progress rest in man's continual search for truth. Truth is the summit of being – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is The Miracle of Fasting?
What is the Most Significant Discovery of This Modern Age?
The finding of Dinosaur eggs on the plains of Mongolia, which scientists assert were laid some 10,000,000 years ago?
The unearthing of ancient tombs and cities, with their confirmations of the Scriptural stories, and their matchless specimens of bygone civilizations?
The radioactive time clock by which Professor Lane of Tufts University estimates the age of the earth as 1,250,000,000 years?
Jet airplanes? Space travel? Lasers? Television? Radio? Computers? Telephones? Cell phones? Automobiles?
None of the above compare with fasting . . .
The Greatest Discovery of Modern Times
In our opinion, the greatest discovery by modern man is the method to rejuvenate himself physically, mentally and spiritually by fasting. Man can create a quality of agelessness and with fasting it's possible to prevent premature ageing and a premature death!
The dread of "growing old" and becoming a burden to himself and others is one of man's greatest fears! The fear of becoming sick, senile, helpless and unable to care for one's self is rooted deep in every thinking person's mind. With the complete knowledge of fasting and The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, as outlined in this book, you can banish all your fears of premature ageing! With a 24 hour complete water fast weekly – setting aside 52 days and four 7 to 10 day fasts a year for body purification –you can keep the toxins removed and flush the rust and crystals from your moveable joints and muscles!
Don't procrastinate and keep waiting for "the right moment." Today – take action, plan, plot & follow through with your goals, dreams & healthy lifestyle living! You will be a winner in life when you Captain your life to success! – Patricia Bragg, ND, PhD., Health Crusader & Lifestyle Educator
Instead of medicine, fast for a day – Plutarch, Greek Philosopher
You must bear in mind it's the toxic debris and wastes of metabolism (from the biological process of converting food into living matter and that matter into energy) that brings on many physical ailments and premature ageing!
When the Vital Force of your body drops below normal, then all your physical problems – as well as your mental ones – begin! Read the Bragg Build Powerful Nerve Force Book. (See back pages for book list.) It details how to reduce stress, fear, anger and worry – these negative factors can destroy your precious Vital Force and life!
Fasting Conserves Energy – Your Vital Force
Let me explain. We eat food and as it passes through the body, it must be masticated, digested, assimilated and then the waste is eliminated. We have four great organs of elimination: the bowels, the kidneys, the lungs, and the skin. In order for these eliminative organs to work perfectly, the body must build a high Vital Life Force of healthy body energy reserves.
It takes a tremendous amount of Vital Force to pass a large meal through the gastrointestinal tract and also eliminate the waste via the 30 foot tube that runs from the mouth to the rectum. It takes the great power of Vital Force to pass liquids through the 2 million filters of the human kidneys. It takes Vital Force for the chemical power of the liver and the gallbladder to do their work in preparing food for your 70-100 trillion body cells. It takes great Vital Force for the lungs to deeply inhale up to 2 quarts of oxygen with each breath, to purify the entire bloodstream in your body and expel the toxins and the carbon dioxide. It takes great Vital Force for the skin (often called your third kidney) with its 96 million pores, to throw off body toxins in the form of skin rashes, pimples, sweat and foul body odors.
Our mental, physical & emotional diets determine our overall &well-being more than we realize. Every thought & feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our inner vital force energy reserves.
Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach. – Dr. Weir Mitchell
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. – Ben Franklin
Fasting is the oldest, fastest & most effective healing method known to man.
We Live in a Poisoned World
It is the duty of your Vital Force to supply the energy used to rid the body of any toxins created during the processing of food consumed. The Vital Force must also keep the body temperature at 98.6 degrees. When sick the body will often create a fever to burn up the toxins to flush them out! If it falls below this norm you are enervated and sick. In our modern civilization, the Vital Force is becoming so overburdened with toxic filth, pollution and toxins in foods that man keeps creating.
The Big, Filthy Sewer in the Sky Above Us
We are bombarded with noxious, harmful filth and dirt from our skies. Take New York City, roughly 60 tons of airborne dust particles fall monthly on each sq. mile. Think of all the airborne dirt (toxic aluminum and barium, etc.) the body must battle with to keep people in New York alive! No wonder there are so many hospitals and sick people in that poisoned city. See web: chemtrails911.com.
Scientists estimate that an inhabitant of an industrial city such as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Birmingham, Alabama stands a higher than average chance of contracting a deadly lung disease or suffering from heart trouble, just because of breathing polluted air. That special form of poisoned air known as "smog" regularly affects not only Los Angeles, but Phoenix, St. Louis, Kansas City, Washington, D.C., New York City and most big cities across America as well as around the world!
A grim mixture of soot and smoke from factories, incinerators and power plants; the gaseous by-products of industry; and the toxic exhaust from cars and trucks are making an ugly, unhealthy mess out of the air most Americans breathe. Air pollution is a real menace to our health and lives. Fasting is our best solution in helping to keep moving these filthy poisons out of our body!
Later in this book, we will explain how to examine your urine. After a few days of fasting, you will actually be able to see some of the poisons your body contained.
Our planet needs to be nurtured, guarded, loved and treasured and then it will thrive! – Paul C. Bragg, N.D., Ph.D. Originator of Health Stores who Pioneered Organic Gardening
Rivers, Lakes, Oceans Becoming Polluted
Not only does the air we breathe fill our bodies with poisons, but our water is so filthy that more strong toxic chemicals are used to make it "fit?" to drink. An inorganic mineral called chlorine is used to supposedly help purify our drinking water . . . along with alum and many other inorganic minerals. Remember, your body can only absorb organic minerals from living plant matter. Any inorganic minerals must be eliminated from the body by the Vital Force. If it's below normal and can't keep up the cleansing, then these inorganic chemicals become lodged in tissues and joints to cause future health problems!
Lake Erie is critically ill, and the symptoms are there for all to see. Beaches that once were gleaming with white sand are covered with odorous green slime. The lake's prize fish – walleye, blue pike, yellow perch, and whitefish – have all but disappeared. One Cleveland health student wrote to tell us that "Our lake is a wastebasket for factories. It is unfit for fish to live in, and for people to drink and use, because it's loaded with toxic, deadly chemicals." The major reason for the lake's terrible pollution is that most of its larger tributaries have been turned into little more than open sewers. Detroit alone pours 1.5 million gallons of waste a day into the Detroit River, which flows directly into Lake Erie.
The Cuyahoga River, which runs through the middle of Akron and Cleveland before spilling into the lake, is so clogged with logs, rotted pilings, chemicals, oil slicks and old tires that it has been labeled the filthiest water in America. Added to the scum and stench are thousands of dead fish that were smothered by the nasty pollution.
On a cruise up the Buffalo River last summer, Buffalo's mayor glided past islands of detergents, pools of grain dust and a general rainbow of dirty industrial discharge. "The odor was overpowering. Unbelievable! Disgusting!" he concluded. Hopefully, the Buffalo and Cuyahoga River environmental problems have now been corrected! We are citing only one water supply among the many that are completely contaminated. All across America we find water supplies polluted. They use lots of water heavily chemicalized and often it isn't fit to use!
Fasting – The Key to Internal Purification
Remember that all those inorganic chemicals must be passed out of your body or they can cause great damage. If the body's Vital Force drops too low then it can't force these inorganic chemicals through your eliminative systems. Then they remain in the body and can cause grave health damage and disease in the future! If we are to get these poisons out of our bodies we must fast! By fasting we give our bodies a physiological rest. This rest builds Vital Force (page 6) and the more you have, the more toxins are going to be eliminated from the body to help keep it clean, pure and healthy.
Poisons from Chemical Pesticides & Sprays
Tons of all varieties of deadly chemicals are not only sprayed in the air to kill insects, but tons are sprayed directly on commercially grown fruits and vegetables. Salads are healthy and appetizing, but often are made deadly because of the use of insecticide sprays. This year's crops have been exposed to more poisonous pesticide chemicals than ever before! Please be on guard and buy and eat organic non-irradiated produce for your health!
Beware of that salad! It may fill your body with deadly poisons! A convention group of women were having lunch at a Miami hotel and shortly afterwards, they were all seized with an attack of cramps. Nausea and dizziness soon followed. Sick, pale and shaken from vomiting, the women required medical aid. It didn't take a physician long to trace the source of this outbreak to food poisoning. The villain proved to be an appetizing salad bar, with salads, vegetables, dressings, etc. Stating the reasons for the illness, the doctor said, "The poisoning was caused by chemicals, 'stay fresh' stabilizer spray and pesticides on the restaurant's salads and vegetables."
Dangerous chemical pesticides, insecticides and fertilizers are used on crops. In America deadly DDT was banned due to deaths and health problems caused! Now these companies sell these poisons to unknowing farmers worldwide – so beware of foreign vegetables and fruits!
Avoid irradiated foods, they kill phytonutrients (pg. 235) in plants!
Food Crops Often Exposed to Toxic Poisons
Food shipments are often found exceeding the legal limits of toxic chemical pesticides and are seized. But this isn't the whole sad story of food poisoning. First of all, only shipments destined for interstate commerce are checked, and only a small fraction of the country's total produce ever comes under inspector scrutiny. Many tons and truckloads of lettuce, vegetables and fruits containing pesticide residues "in excess of legal tolerance" will stay within the state or area where they are grown and not be checked at all! On shipments across state lines, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration will be the first to admit that, because of limited manpower, only a fraction of fruit and vegetable shipments in interstate and foreign commerce are checked.
The frightening truth is that a high percentage of the field crops you are eating have been sprayed with a wide variety of deadly poisons! These include chlorinated hydrocarbons, pesticides, toxic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, and other phosphorus and toxic compounds that are used in growing. The contamination of salad vegetables doesn't stop with spraying the leafy portion of the plant. Medical researchers have discovered that many chemicals such as fertilizers and weed killers applied to the soil can remain there for a long time and are then absorbed by succeeding crops grown in the fields. The poison finally ends up in the pulp of the vegetable itself. It becomes part of it and cannot be washed off! Please start demanding organic produce!
No doubt it has occurred to you that if the vegetables in your salad are contaminated you should make some effort to get rid of this poisonous residue before you eat too much of it. You might feel that peeling off the skin of a tomato or removing the outer layer of the lettuce will do the job. It won't. Some of the residue will be removed, certainly, but there will be more in lower leaves and in the pulp itself. The chemicals cannot even be broken down by cooking! The poison is part of the plant and is there to stay. So eat organic and don't panic!
Sad Health Fact: USA is way down on global life expectations to 42nd place!
The Miracle of Fasting Aids in Flushing Deadly Poisons from the Body
When we fast (stop eating) all the Vital Force that has been used to convert food into energy and body tissue is now being used to flush poisons from the body! When Patricia and I travel throughout America and the world lecturing, we are fortunate to know health-minded people everywhere. We are usually well supplied with organically homegrown fruits and vegetables from their health gardens. But sometimes only commercially grown foods are available, which may have been sprayed with poisonous pesticides. So, we fast faithfully to cleanse toxins out, even when traveling, one 24 hour fast weekly!
I do four 7 to 10 day fasting periods yearly. When I go on a 7 to 10 day complete water fast, I take a specimen of my urine each morning upon arising. I put it in a small labeled bottle to let it cool and settle. In a few days, I can see little crystals forming in the urine. I have had my urine examined for chemicals, and the examiner has told me time and time again that traces of DDT and other deadly pesticide residues have appeared in my urine. On one occasion, I took a 21 day complete water fast. On the 19th day, I had terrible pains in my bladder. When I urinated it felt like red hot water passing through me. I had this urine examined and sure enough, it was filled with DDT and other pesticides and poisons!
A great feeling of energy flowed over my body when this poison had passed out of it. The whites of my eyes were as clear as new snow. My body took on a pink glow and my energy surged. Now, remember I had been fasting for 19 days. Yet, I drove from Pasadena, California to Mt. Wilson, which is six thousand feet high, and climbed the trail with absolutely no fatigue! I ran with ease most of the way down the winding trail. I felt that a tremendous burden had been lifted from my body! In my personal opinion, fasting is the only way to rid the body of the many commercial poisons found in foods!
Who's Eating Fast Foods? Americans – 30 Billion Times a
Year!
USA Today said 44% of junk food eaters are 35
years or older. Only 23% are youth under 17 years old. – These
Shocking Food Facts are Causing Health Problems.
Some students drink deeply at the fountain of knowledge – most only gargle.
Health Menace – Waxed Fruits & Veggies!
Top medical experts reveal another menace to the nation's health – a toxic wax on fruits and vegetables. Next time you eat an apple, green pepper or cucumber, etc. take a good look at its surface. Is it bright, smooth and have a glossy look? If so, beware! Chances are it's coated with a wax paraffin solution which is one of America's most serious health threats, according to medical experts! Scratch surface to check for wax. The wax coating seals fruits and vegetables with a protective layer which they claim retains the water and juices, preserving the taste and creating a false appearance of freshness. Beware! This toxic wax residue clogs the body!
What you are eating is a kind of wax that cannot be handled by your body – a paraffin wax which is a by-product of petroleum. There is no organ in your body, including the liver, that can process petroleum. This deadly wax therefore runs wild in the body. That is one reason doctors are so baffled by the many new diseases that American people are acquiring from eating foods contaminated by commercial food interests. Demand organic produce and unwaxed fruits and vegetables from all your produce markets - this helps get results!!!
This wax can cause damage if it remains in the body. You must stop eating waxed fruits and vegetables. If you must, then be sure to peel the skin. Your weekly 24 to 36 hour fast combined with longer fasts during the year will help rid your body of this wax, if you do eat some.
Fasting is a Miracle – It Cured My Asthma!