How long should I fast?
Beginners should not overdo it with fasting despite initial overmotivation. Here it comes particularly fast to sometimes severe side effects. The recommendations vary depending upon concept of the welfare-chamfered, are recommended usually between four and twelve days, maximally two weeks.
Who is already practiced and knows its body well and in addition to that can fall back to sufficient resources, a chamfered phase can pull quite into the length. A condition is here naturally always the individual situation. One should be advised or even accompanied before its project best medically. Many hospitals, monasteries or mechanisms offer entrance seminars, weekends or stays, with which is informed in detail about chamfered, the entrance is facilitated and the execution is accompanied.
Side effects of therapeutic fasting
Particularly in the first days of the chamfering cure participants have to fight with among other things strong side effects. The “sugar deprivation”, which is experienced with most cures, manifests itself most frequently with headache.Performance slumps, concentration problems and dizziness can also occur, in addition many people suffer from severe irritability and reduced drive. It is important to pay attention in the context of the welfare chamfering cures to the sufficient drinking quantity.
Exercise in the fresh air can also alleviate the symptoms, but strenuous sporting activity can be too much of a burden and should be avoided. A further point of criticism: During a chamfering cure dinners or celebrations in the enterprise are to be gotten over only with difficulty. Many take themselves for chamfered also a purposeful time-out of everyday life and occupation and visit seminars or select special chamfering hospitals for the execution of the welfare-chamfered.
Particularly in the first days of the welfare-chamfered it comes by the withdrawal of sugar in each form frequently to physical complaints. In addition belong headache, dizziness, achievement bends and capriciousness. Physical activity or activities in everyday life and at work can be limited, and the well-being can suffer. A healthy person with sufficient reserves tolerates the renouncement of solid food more or less long, nevertheless the body should not be overstrained particularly with the first time chamfered. Who nourishes itself beyond the recommended chamfering time strongly niedrigkalorisch and unbalanced, risks thereby also health consequences for example by lack of nutrients.
