Neufeld says most adults need about 2,000 calories a day. Those calories make energy, or glycogen. Neufeld says it doesn't hurt — it might even help the body — to fast or stop eating for short periods of time, say 24 hours once a week, as long as you drink water.

An irregular eating cycle worked for ancient humans. Small studies show benefits in such calorie restriction.

A study in Utah, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is based, found that people who skipped meals once a month were about 40 percent less likely to be diagnosed with clogged arteries than those who did not regularly fast.

When health begins to decline, usually the first thing people try are supplements. When one supplement doesn't work, then a person usually tries another. And on and on it goes - the supplement roller coaster. Each supplement is supposedly more "miraculous" than the other. This supplement worked for Auntie Mae, or this one worked for cousin George. In a random fashion, people often compose a health program such as this for themselves. These often fail. Meanwhile, the truly powerful healing techniques such as juice fasting are ignored. In my clinical practice, what I have found is that juice fasting is THE quickest, most effective way to heal from almost any health issue. Doing a juicing program makes every other natural method work faster: massage therapy works faster for fibromyalgia, acupuncture works faster for pain, energy healing is accelerated, herbs work better, etc. It's so easy, you can do it in the privacy of your own home, or even take juices to work with you.

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